25 August 2022
\n \n \n \nFollowing the award of three European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants to MPLS academics in April 2022, a fourth award has subsequently been made to Professor Jarvis in the Department of Physics.
\n \n\n \n \n24 August 2022
\n \n \n \nEach year, the Royal Society recognises exceptional research achievements through a series of prestigious medals and prizes named after great scientists of the past. This year eight Oxford University researchers, six of them from MPLS Division, have been honoured for their outstanding contributions to science and medicine.
\n \n\n \n \n11 August 2022
\n \n \n \nProfessor Henry Snaith has been awarded the University of Louisville\u2019s 2021 Leigh Ann Conn Prize for Renewable Energy. Awarded biennially, this award recognises outstanding ideas and achievements in research around the science, engineering, technology, and commercialisation of renewable energy.
\n \n\n \n \n4 August 2022
\n \n \n \nA multi-institutional project involving a team from Oxford\u2019s Department of Physics is one of 17 new projects to share in \u00a36 million of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) quantum technology funding, announced this week.
\n \n\n \n \n28 July 2022
\n \n \n \nNew research published in Nature explains how an international team of researchers have, for the first time, experimentally implemented a type of quantum cryptography considered to be the \u2018ultimate\u2019, \u2018bug-proof\u2019 means of communication.
\n \n\n \n \n11 July 2022
\n \n \n \nEleven MPLS researchers have been recognised in this year\u2019s MPLS Impact Awards, which showcase research impact across the division and help us to identify examples of impact excellence that will help us to prepare the ground for future Research Excellence Framework (REF) submissions and similar exercises.
\n \n\n \n \n7 July 2022
\n \n \n \nThe new investment in Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a spin-out company from the Department of Physics, will accelerate the company\u2019s research and development and fuel its expansion in the Asia-Pacific region. The Series A investment funding is the largest ever secured in the UK by a quantum computing start-up.
\n \n\n \n \n4 July 2022
\n \n \n \nTen years ago, on 4 July 2012, an international collaboration of particle physicists announced to the world that they had independently observed a new particle \u2013 the Higgs boson. Oxford physicists were key contributors to the discovery and have continued to play a leading role in Higgs-boson research ever since.
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\n \n \n \nThe Fellowships were announced by Science Minister George Freeman this morning, to help the UK\u2019s most promising science and research leaders to tackle major global issues and commercialise their innovations within the UK.
\n \n\n \n \n7 June 2022
\n \n \n \nFive individuals and two teams from the University of Oxford have won prestigious prizes at this year\u2019s Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Awards.
\n \n\n \n \n31 May 2022
\n \n \n \nNew research led by Professor Patrick Irwin in the Department of Physics suggests that a layer of haze that exists on both planets is behind the different hues of blue.
\n \n\n \n \n30 May 2022
\n \n \n \nAn international team of scientists, including Professor Rob Fender, Dr Ian Heywood and Dr Jakob van den Eijnden from the University of Oxford, have discovered a strange radio emitting neutron star, which rotates extremely slowly, completing one rotation every 76 seconds.
\n \n\n \n \n19 May 2022
\n \n \n \nThe 'Meat the Future' exhibition at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, which draws on research from LEAP, an interdisciplinary programme involving MPLS zoologists, ecologists and physicists, has won 'Partnership of the Year', while Oxford's History of Science Museum won the 'Visitor Welcome Award'.
\n \n\n \n \n10 May 2022
\n \n \n \nIn all, eight scientists from the University of Oxford have joined the Royal Society as Fellows. All but one are from departments in MPLS Division.
\n \n\n \n \n26 April 2022
\n \n \n \nFour \u2018excellent research leaders\u2019 at Oxford, three of them from MPLS Division, have today been awarded major European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants to fund boundary-pushing research projects in Biology, Linguistics, Mathematics and Physics.
\n \n\n \n \n12 April 2022
\n \n \n \nSix institutions, including the University of Oxford, are leading efforts to deliver computational systems that will enable the world\u2019s largest radio telescope
\n \n\n \n \n8 April 2022
\n \n \n \nAn international collaboration of scientists has performed the most precise measurement of the W boson yet \u2013 asking questions of the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
\n \n\n \n \n4 April 2022
\n \n \n \nProfessor Myles Allen, University of Oxford and Hugh Helferty, Queen's University Ontario discuss whether Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine makes it harder to stop climate change.
\n \n\n \n \n31 March 2022
\n \n \n \nResearch recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Oxford-led scientists suggests that Mother Nature plays favourites and that she believes in the elegance of simplicity.
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