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Read more at: Two Cavendish Researchers awarded European Physical Society 2017 EPS Early Career Prizes
Two Cavendish Researchers awarded European Physical Society 2017 EPS Early Career Prizes

Two Cavendish Researchers awarded European Physical Society 2017 EPS Early Career Prizes

25 October 2017

The European Physical Society have announced that two members of the Cavendish Laboratory have been awarded the 2017 EPS Early Career Prizes: Dr Sam Stranks, a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Optoelectronics Group for his "for his seminal contributions to optical and electronic properties of hybrid...


Read more at: Cavendish III : A new era for physics at Cambridge
Cavendish III : A new era for physics at Cambridge

Cavendish III : A new era for physics at Cambridge

17 October 2017

Cavendish III A new era for physics at Cambridge Plans for the new Cavendish Laboratory – a new state-of-the-art facility for the University, the city and the country – are now well underway. Planning application for the new facility, which will be located on the West Cambridge site, has been submitted, and construction is...


Read more at: The Future of Medicine - a film by the University of Cambridge highlights research in the Nanophotonics Group

The Future of Medicine - a film by the University of Cambridge highlights research in the Nanophotonics Group

12 October 2017

The work of researchers in the Cavendish Nanophotonics group is included in in a University of Cambridge film "The Future of Medicine". Nanorobots that patrol our bodies, killer immune cells hunting and destroying cancer cells, biological scissors that cut out defective genes: these are just some of technologies that...


Read more at: Dr Lorenzo Di Michele awarded the IOP Liquids and Complex Fluids Group's Early Career Award
Dr Lorenzo Di Michele awarded the IOP Liquids and Complex Fluids Group's Early Career Award

Dr Lorenzo Di Michele awarded the IOP Liquids and Complex Fluids Group's Early Career Award

6 October 2017

Cavendish Researcher Dr Lorenzo Di Michele, a Royal Society University Researcher Fellow in the Biological and Soft Systems Sector, has been awarded the 2017 IOP Liquids and Complex Fluids Early Career Award. The IOP Liquids and Complex Fluids Early Career Award i s awarded biennially to an exceptional scientist, in the...


Read more at: Joachim Frank a former Cavendish Senior Researcher awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017

Joachim Frank a former Cavendish Senior Researcher awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017

5 October 2017

Cambridge alumnus Richard Henderson (Corpus Christi College, 1966) has been jointly awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry , along with former Cambridge University senior research associate Joachim Frank, and Jacques Dubochet from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Before transferring to the US, Prof Joachim Frank...


Read more at: Dr Sam Stranks selected as one of the top 35 Innovators under 35 by the MIT Tchnology Review
Dr Sam Stranks selected as one of the top 35 Innovators under 35  by the MIT Tchnology Review

Dr Sam Stranks selected as one of the top 35 Innovators under 35 by the MIT Tchnology Review

27 September 2017

Dr Sam Stranks, a Royal Society University Resarch Fellow in the Cavendish Laboratory's Optoelectronics Research group was recently selected as one of the 35 under 35 Innovators in Europe by the MIT Technology Review: https://innovatorsunder35.com/innovator/sam-stranks .


Read more at: Professor Mark Thomson leads the £65M UK investment in the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
Professor Mark Thomson leads the £65M UK investment in the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

Professor Mark Thomson leads the £65M UK investment in the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

25 September 2017

On the 21st September, UK Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson signed the agreement with the US Energy Department to invest the sum in the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). Mark Thomson is the scientific lead of this initiative and is also the overall co-...


Read more at: Professor Mark Thomson leads the £65M UK investment in the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
Professor Mark Thomson leads the £65M UK investment in the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

Professor Mark Thomson leads the £65M UK investment in the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

25 September 2017

On the 21st September, UK Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson signed the agreement with the US Energy Department to invest the sum in the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). Mark Thomson is the scientific lead of this initiative and is also the overall co-...


Read more at: U.S. Dept of Energy article showcases the research of Jacqueline Cole and her research team
U.S. Dept of Energy article showcases the research of Jacqueline Cole and her research team

U.S. Dept of Energy article showcases the research of Jacqueline Cole and her research team

14 September 2017

The US Department of Energy has published an article about Jacqueline Cole's Data Science project, which is funded by the 1851 Royal Commission of the Great Exhibition 2014 Design Fellowship and Argonne National Laboratory, USA . Cole and her collaborators use data-mining in order to discover new dyes for solar-powered...


Read more at: "Waterscope" Overall Winner of Vice-Chancellor’s Impact Awards 2017

"Waterscope" Overall Winner of Vice-Chancellor’s Impact Awards 2017

14 July 2017

WaterScope ( www.waterscope.org ), led by Dr. Alexander Patto, is a not-for-profit, impact driven company spun out of research conducted within the Department of Physics. Using an open-source flexure microscope ( http://www.waterscope.org/3d-printing/ ), developed by Dr Richard Bowman in Professor Jeremy Baumberg's...