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Director General of CERN to Receive Honorary Degree

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Professor Rolf Dieter Heuer, the Director General of CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, will receive an honorary doctorate at a degree congregation at the University of Birmingham on Friday 16th December at 1.45pm.

Haul of 50 oscillating stars with orbiting planets found by Kepler Spacecraft

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Oscillations have been discovered in 50 stars with their own orbiting candidate planets (exo- or extrasolar planets) by an international team of scientists using data from the NASA Kepler Mission, according to an announcement made by one of the lead scientists, Professor Bill Chaplin from the UK's University of Birmingham, at a NASA conference in California (Friday 9th December, 2011).

Talks and seminars, School of Physics and Astronomy

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Talks and seminars in the next seven days in School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham

Astronomers reveal a rapidly spinning core inside ageing stars

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An international team of astronomers, including scientists from the University of Birmingham, has looked deep inside some old stars and discovered that their cores spin at least ten times as fast as their surfaces. The research, led by Leuven University in Belgium, is published today (7 December 2011) in the journal Nature.

A month in the USA

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A month in the USA with Professor Bill Chaplin

Birmingham ranks high in Guardian league tables

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The University of Birmingham's School of Physics and Astronomy has achieved a third-place ranking in the Guardian's 2012 university league tables.

Birmingham Physicists excited by hints of Higgs boson existence

Birmingham Physicists excited by hints of Higgs boson existence
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Birmingham particle physicists are today trawling through the data from particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider that could indicate the existence of the Higgs boson.

Week in CERN

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Dr David Evans Blog

Professor Yvonne Elsworth awarded IoP Payne-Gaposchkin prize

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News item: Professor Yvonne Elsworth has been awarded the Institute of Physics 2011 Payne-Gaposchkin Medal and Prize.

Physics at Birmingham ranked 3rd in the 2012 Guardian league table

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Physics teaching at the University of Birmingham has been ranked 3rd in the 2012 Guardian league table.

'Music of the stars' now louder

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The Kepler space telescope measures the sizes and ages of stars five times better than any other means - when it "listens" to the sounds they make.

Birmingham nuclear physicist wins national nuclear physics prize

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Professor Martin Freer of the University of Birmingham has won the 2010 Rutherford medal and prize for establishing the existence of nuclear configurations analogous to molecules and demonstrating the existence of nucleon-clustering in key light nuclei, a long-standing issue in the field.

A trick of the light: physicists develop invisibility cloak

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Scientists at Birmingham University have developed a device which can make small objects appear invisible.

Recent Birmingham successes in Nature and Science

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A selection of news stories detailing the University of Birmingham's recent successes in nature and science.

Physics at Birmingham ranked second in the Times league table released today (27th May 2010)

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Physics at the University of Birmingham has been ranked second in the Times League Table released 27 May 2010
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