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21AUG 2013
Department of Physics
FAU researcher Ana Smith receives ERC Starting Grant endowed with 1.5 million euros
Ana Smith, professor for Theoretical Physics at FAU, is to receive one of the most coveted prizes for young researchers for her research into cell membranes: an ERC Starting Grant. The Croatian-born scientist will thus have 1.5 million euros at her disposal with which to advance her research: in her project ‘MembranesAct’ she examines the […]
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20JUL 2013
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Quaking after a collision
What happens when two stars that were previously orbiting each other collide? How can such a huge explosion leave more than gas and radiation behind – and in fact even leave both partners intact, albeit in a different form? A team of astronomers1) from Great Britain, Germany and Spain is now hoping to find out […]
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19JUL 2013
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Magnetism experiment successful
Physicists from FAU and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have succeeded in an unusual experiment: they were able to prove that magnetism – commonly expressed in the force between two magnetised objects – also functions within an individual molecule. This discovery, which is of great importance to fundamental research, equips scientists with new tools […]
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11APR 2013
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Looking at the explosive past of the stars
Those who enter the archive of the Astronomical Institute of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) can see a little chapter of the history of the universe with their own eyes. At the Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory in Bamberg, 40,000 photographic plates are safely stored in steel cabinets, showing approximately five decades of the history of stars. A […]
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09AUG 2012
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Space–time symmetry renders optical systems invisible
For the first time ever, physicists from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have succeeded in proving that an optical system can be ‘invisible’ from one side and act like a mirror from the other side. The study has recently been published in the renowned journal ‘Nature’. The development of photonic materials and complex systems with new properties […]
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06AUG 2012
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Largest Cherenkov telescope ever sees first light
FAU scientists make substantial contribution to installation and data analysis With the H.E.S.S. II telescope in Namibia the largest Cherenkov telescope ever has now started operation. Physicists from the Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP) and the Physics Institute at FAU were part of the international group of scientists who achieved this breakthrough. The H.E.S.S. […]
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