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- FAU physicist Peter Hommelhoff receives the Leibniz Prize12. May 2022
On Thursday May 12, 2022, the physicist Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff from FAU is to receive the most prestigious research prize in Germany, also known as the German Nobel Prize: the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. The prize is worth 2.5 million euros, significantly more than the Nobel Prize. The funding...
- Explosion on a White Dwarf Observed12. May 2022
When stars like our Sun use up all their fuel, they shrink to form white dwarfs. Sometimes such dead stars flare back to life in a super hot explosion and produce a fireball of X-ray radiation. A research team led by FAU has now been able to observe such an...
- Cosmic particle accelerator at its limit22. March 2022
Novae are powerful eruptions on the surface of a white dwarf in a binary star system, in which a larger star and a smaller star orbit each other. A nova creates a shock wave that tears through the surrounding medium, pulling particles with it and accelerating them to extreme energies....
- Invitation to the Next Generation Solar Energy Conference (Dec. 6-8th, 2021)23. November 2021
The Chair of Physical Chemistry I (Prof. Dr. Dirk M. Guldi) and the Chair of Materials Science (Materials of Electronics and Energy Technology, Prof. Dr. Christoph Brabec) cordially invite all interested students and (junior) researchers to the Next Generation Solar Energy Conference, which will take place from December 6 –...
- Tracking glacial velocity online4. August 2021
Ice masses are in decline across the globe. The speed at which ice is transported into the valley is an indicator for the state of the glacier. Brief periods of acceleration known as surges can also be significant, however, for example if glacial streams become dammed and run the risk...