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"J'ai une passion pour le soleil". C'est avec cette devise que Louise Harra intitule son compte Twitter. Effectivement, cette native d'Irlande du Nord a jusqu'à présent entièrement consacré sa vie de chercheuse à notre astre central. Depuis trois ans, l'astrophysicienne dirige l'Observatoire physico-météorologique de Davos (PMOD), une institution traditionnelle de recherche pour l'exploration du soleil et la détermination exacte du rayonnement solaire.
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Depuis le 1er janvier 2022, Julian Sonner (physique), Corinne Charbonnel (astronomie) et Philippe Jetzer (astronomie) sont les nouveaux membres de la présidence de la plateforme MAP.
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Ces dernières années, les femmes scientifiques se sont peu à peu établies au département de physique de l'Université de Bâle. Märta Tschudin est l'une d'entre elles. Dans le cadre de sa thèse de doctorat, elle étudie les champs magnétiques extrêmement faibles au «Quantum Sensing Lab». Il s’agit de matériaux très minces qui ne sont constituées que d'une seule couche atomique.
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BL4S (Beamline for Schools) is an interaction competition open to high-school students of age 16 and older who, if they win, are invited to CERN for a two weeks period to run their experiment using a particle beam.
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At the occasion of the virtual Swiss Geoscience meeting in Geneva in November 2021, the ACP Award for Atmospheric Research was presented to Kristýna Kantnerová for her PhD thesis “Analysis of clumped isotopes of nitrous oxide: method development and first applications”. Her work shows an impressive thematic depth, ranging from several essential instrumental and methodological developments in the field of greenhouse gas isotope analysis to the interpretation of fingerprints of major source / sink processes.
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Sous la devise "Encore 24 expériences jusqu'à Noël", 24 expériences de physique divertissantes à réaliser soi-même sont proposées, en version allemande et anglaise. Physique en ava(e)nt (PiA) est conçu pour les élèves de la cinquième à la dixième année scolaire, soit âgés de 11 à 18 ans.
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Découverte du plus ancien village de haute montagne connu, situé à près de 3 500 mètres d’altitude, et fonte des neiges et glaciers au Mont Rose : les jeunes chercheurs Alexander Groos et Enrico Mattea reçoivent le Prix de Quervain 2021 de la Commission de recherche polaire et de haute altitude des Académies suisses des sciences pour leurs excellents travaux de recherche dans le domaine de la haute montagne.
A premier at the European Research Center for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva-Meyrin: 24 teenagers and young adults from all over Switzerland spent over two weeks in October at CERN to learn and conduct experiments on site. The “Swiss High-School Students Internship Program 2021” (HSSIP) promotes the next generation of researchers in particle physics.
En novembre 1922, il a été annoncé qu'Einstein recevait le prix Nobel pour l'année 1921. Et notamment "pour ses mérites en physique théorique, et en particulier pour sa découverte de la loi de l'effet photoélectrique". Le symposium commence par rappeler le contexte historique avant de présenter les développements modernes de la photonique.
Ingo Sick, Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. of the University of Basel, passed away on 30 May 2021, two days after his 82nd birthday. During his postdoctoral period at Stanford University with Nobel Prize winner Robert Hofstadter, he experienced the beginnings of electron research with the world's best electron accelerator at the time, SLAC. This domain of research was to remain with him forever.
L’UNIGE a inauguré le 5 octobre son nouveau Scienscope. C'est le centre de médiation scientifique pour les classes du canton.
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Roland Engfer, Professor Emeritus for Experimental Physics at the University of Zurich, has died on October 18th at the age of 86 years Roland Engfer was a Professor of Experimental Physics at the Physics Institute of the University of Zurich from 1975 until his retirement in 2001.
Each issue of the new founded "SPS Focus" magazine of the Swiss Physical Society highlights a physics topic in an understandable way.
Der Nobelpreis für Physik 2021 wurde zur Hälfte an die beiden Klimawissenschaftler Syukuro Manabe und Klaus Hasselmann verliehen, «für das physikalische Modellieren des Klimas der Erde, die quantitative Analyse von Variationen und die zuverlässige Vorhersage der Erderwärmung», so die Jury. Die zweite Hälfte erhielt Giorgio Parisi «für die Entdeckung des Zusammenspiels von Unordnung und Fluktuationen physikalischer Systeme von der atomaren bis hin zur planetarischen Ebene». Was ist der Zusammenhang zwischen diesen beiden Teilen des Nobelpreises? Beide haben zu einem besseren Verständnis komplexer Systeme wie der Erde beigetragen.
Chaque numéro du magazine "SPS Focus" de la Société Suisse de Physique éclaire un sujet de physique d'une manière compréhensible. Le premier numéro est consacré à l'énergie nucléaire.
Le Nobel de physique 2021 a été attribué à deux experts de la modélisation physique du changement climatique, l'Américano-japonais Syukuro Manabe et l'Allemand Klaus Hasselmann, ainsi qu'à l'Italien Giorgio Parisi, théoricien des systèmes physiques complexes.
The organizing committee has started preparing for the International Day of Light 2022 on May 16. They are now welcoming registration of events for next year on their global calendar.
At first glance, particle physics appears to be a clearly defined sub-discipline of physics. On closer inspection, however, we see a differentiated research landscape with a broad spectrum of questions. The Swiss Institute for Particle Physics (CHIPP), the umbrella organisation for Swiss particle physics, has now drawn up a roadmap of the research priorities for the coming years and decades.
Anne Verhamme enseigne en tant que professeure assistante d'astronomie à l'Université de Genève et étudie comment les galaxies libèrent de l'énergie dans l'univers. La Française de 42 ans est également mère de trois adolescents et vit à Annecy. Cela semble être la preuve qu'une carrière scientifique et une famille sont compatibles aujourd'hui. Cependant, Anne Verhamme a dû surmonter quelques obstacles avant d'en arriver là.
La Société suisse de physique (SSP) a nominé le professeur Friedrich-Karl Thielemann membre d'honneur à l’Assemble Générale et souligne son engagement exceptionnellement large
Last year, Gabriel Cuomo successfully defended his PhD thesis in theoretical particle physics at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). For this academic achievement, the Sicilian-born physicist, who now lives and researches in New York, receives the Doctoral Students Award of the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP). The prize will be awarded at the beginning of September in Innsbruck on the occasion of the annual meeting of the Swiss Physical Society (SPS) together with the Austrian partner organisation.
To complete their research team the Research Group Snow Hydrology of the he WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF offers a two-year position starting on November 2021 as a PostDoc Snow Hydrology (80–100 %).
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Lors des Olympiades internationales de physique (IPhO), qui se sont déroulées du 17 au 24 juillet, des jeunes de plus de 70 pays ont résolu des épreuves portant sur les LED, les ondes sismiques ou encore la physique quantique. Les cinq participants suisses ont pris part au concours depuis Signau (BE) - et ont remporté une médaille de bronze et trois mentions honorables.
Hundreds of global researchers, including University of Zurich, are planning the most sensitive dark matter detector ever built.
The XENON/DARWIN and LUX-ZEPLIN collaborations have now joined forces to work together on the design, construction, and operation of a new, single, multi-tonne scale xenon observatory to explore dark matter. The detector will be highly sensitive to a wide range of proposed dark matter particles and their interactions with visible matter. Over the last 20+ years, experiments using liquefied xenon targets have delivered world-leading results in the global quest for direct dark matter detection. This next-generation detector aims to continue the pursuit.
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La recherche de la matière noire est l'un des "sujets brûlants" actuels de la physique des particules élémentaires. Récemment, de puissants détecteurs ont été mis au point, qui pourraient permettre de détecter expérimentalement les composants de cette matière "noire", invisible. Laura Baudis, professeur de physique à l'université de Zurich, a largement contribué au développement de cette infrastructure de recherche au cours des vingt dernières années.
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The newly opened Science Exploratorium of the University of Zurich hosts temporary exhibitions in which researchers share their enthusiasm for their research topics.
The European Research Centre for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva is currently working on making the measurement data from four large-scale experiments available to the public via internet. This form of 'open science' benefits particle physicists around the globe, but also students or high school students - for example in Switzerland.
The Trust Science pledge is a worldwide campaign to promote support for the scientific process and to acknowledge the many benefits of science for society.
At the beginning of April, the US research laboratory Fermilab published a new result for the magnetic dipole moment of the muon. The result caused a broad media response because it deviates from the theoretical predictions and thus questions the previous understanding of the laws of nature. Researchers from the Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC) at the University of Bern were involved in the theoretical predictions. Prof. Martin Hoferichter, theoretical physicist at the AEC, explains the background.
En Italie, les collégiennes terminant la maturité gymnasiale choisissent d'étudier la physique beaucoup plus naturellement que ce n'est actuellement le cas en Suisse. Ilaria Zardo fait partie de ces jeunes Italiennes qui se sont d'abord enthousiasmées pour les études de physique, puis pour la recherche universitaire. Aujourd'hui professeure à l'Université de Bâle, elle étudie avec son groupe de recherche les flux thermiques à l'échelle nanométrique.
When people talk about CERN, they inevitably think of the large-scale experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). But the European Laboratory for Particle Physics has even more to offer: A small but powerful experiment called FASER is currently being assembled at CERN, involving research teams led by Geneva physics professors Anna Sfyrla and Giuseppe Iacobucci and by Bern physics professor Akitaka Ariga. FASER proves: Even comparatively inexpensive experiments have the potential for groundbreaking scientific findings.
![Comparison between RK measurements. The measurements by the BaBar and Belle collaborations combine B+→K+ℓ+ℓ− and B0→KS0ℓ+ℓ− decays, where ℓ is a lepton. The previous LHCb measurements and the new result [4], which supersedes them, are also shown.](http://portal-cdn.scnat.ch/asset/40d25219-cf32-5d7f-a344-d4356ccc9252/Screenshot%202021-03-23%20at%2007.10.12.png?b=7f50075d-36d9-5913-bc44-fac8e7e34457&v=9bd7e834-a6a8-55b6-a09e-b7a43d64781f_100&s=ZXCr4RK3qEJY7uCaZs-9pRZZZ8OZ8EVj3Rtyhyf2-qP-evQun65d57tCLxGqXtaTEoil2Qpqb3qILXWzeagdRAk0VyPfdvD6i55sqpj1txNkByqDDgqtsu4QPc8YaVnoTVyp_QF8cXZ9TucqIpINFjwWWfLF-52KvErWu9a54Gs&t=168762a9-a047-48ef-8189-ae1810223337&sc=2 "Comparison between RK measurements. The measurements by the BaBar and Belle collaborations combine B+→K+ℓ+ℓ− and B0→KS0ℓ+ℓ− decays, where ℓ is a lepton. The previous LHCb measurements and the new result [4], which supersedes them, are also shown.")
Almost ten years ago, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) made headlines with the discovery of the Higgs particle. These days, the LHCb experiment at CERN has published results that also have the makings of a real scientific sensation: studies of the so-called beauty quark suggest that there could be a fifth, super-weak force in addition to the four known forces of nature (electromagnetism, gravitation, strong and weak interaction). However, CERN researchers still have a lot of work ahead of them to confirm this spectacular hypothesis. At the forefront: particle physicists from the University of Zurich and EPF Lausanne
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Until his retirement in 2017, Martin Pohl was a physics professor at the University of Geneva and worked on particle physics research projects for almost half a century. Drawing on this wealth of experience, a book has been written in which Pohl knowledgeably traces the developmental strands of this fundamental discipline. The culmination is the 'Standard Model' of particle physics - for Pohl a scientific highlight and a burden at the same time.
This community roadmap summarizes a survey of the Swiss large-scale infrastructure requirements in the broad field of photon science for the years 2025–2028, drawing from the current situation both in Switzerland and abroad. The Swiss Society for Photon Science (SSPh) collected the scientific visions and compiled the needs of the community of photon science, which encompasses all research areas that work to generate, manipulate and detect photons or use them to investigate or control complex assemblies of matter.
This community roadmap presents the visions for future research in particle and astroparticle physics in Switzerland and formulates the needs of these fields in terms of research infrastructure in the years 2025-2028 and beyond. It was established under the auspices of the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP), which issued its first roadmap already in 2004 and conducted dedicated roadmap-planning workshops in 2018 and 2020.
This community roadmap presents a broad overview of the current status of neutron science in Switzerland and derives a set of recommendations for future developments. It is the result of a community effort led by the Swiss Neutron Science Society (SNSS) with the main objectives to survey and analyse the unique contributions that neutron probes provide across scientific and technological fields and disciplines; and provisions needed to ensure continuing and sustainable success.
Swiss Particle Physics researchers are very proud to announce that UZH people worked directly on this measurement and had a leading role on this analysis, EPFL and UZH are very prominent in LHCb in both analysis and hardware.
L'UNESCO célèbre chaque année le 16 mai la Journée internationale de la lumière (IDL en anglais). Il s'agit d'une initiative mondiale annuelle pour l'appréciation de la lumière et du rôle qu'elle joue dans la science, la culture et l'art, l'éducation et le développement durable, ainsi que dans des domaines aussi divers que la médecine, les communications et l'énergie.
The workshop will be virtual and will include sessions with talks and discussions. A panel discussion will conclude the workshop.
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The technical know-how that physicists use in research could soon serve in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. An international team of scientists with strong Swiss participation has developed a ventilator in record time that could help in the future against lung diseases like Corona, especially in countries with a precarious medical infrastructure.
In the laboratories of modern physics the elementary components of matter are studied. To do this, scientists sometimes build artificial atoms to help them understand the laws of matter. A research team at the Paul Scherrer Institute (Villigen/AG) uses a specifically modified helium atom to determine the exact mass and other properties of pions. Pions could help to understand more precisely where atomic nuclei get their mass from.
Presents a novel combination of essays with contributors from big research organizations, funding agencies and experts in economics
In naher Zukunft möchten wir verschiedenste Jugendprojekte im Kanton Aargau umsetzen. Geplant sind zum Beispiel naturwissenschaftliche Praktika, Exkursionen, Vorträge oder Mentorate für schriftliche Arbeiten.
Ce document présente les résultats de l'enquête de la Plateforme Mathématiques, Astronomie et Physique, qui a recueilli en juin-juillet 2020 les diverses opinions des chercheuses et chercheurs actifs en Suisse sur la transition vers des données de recherche ouvertes.
Claudia Merlassino was born in Genoa, studied physics in Milan and completed her doctorate at the University of Bern in October 2019, since then she has been doing research at Oxford University in the UK. At the age of 28, the Italian experimental physicist has already made a remarkable journey as a researcher. She is now receiving the PhD prize in Swiss particle physics - among other things for her findings in the context of the most massive of all elementary particles.
Executive summary of an analysis prepared by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) for the European Physical Society (EPS)
On June 19th CERN Council adopted the update of the "European Strategy for Particle Physics 2020". This document updates an earlier strategy paper that was adopted by the Council in 2013, just after the Higgs discovery in 2012. It identifies the medium and long-term priorities of fundamental research in particle physics and thus forms an important basis for the construction of the European research infrastructure. The implications of this strategy update for Swiss particle physics are answered by Rainer Wallny, Professor of Particle Physics at ETH Zurich and President of the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP), the umbrella organisation of Swiss particle physics.
The delta+ is a type of baryon, the family of sub-atomic particles to which the more well-known proton and neutron belong. A team of physics enthusiasts at the International School of Geneva is working intensively on these extremely unstable elementary particles. In September they will travel to Hamburg for an experiment at the renowned particle physics research institute DESY. They owe this extraordinary research trip to winning this year's “Beamline for Schools” (BL4S) competition at CERN.
In dieser Folge haben wir uns mit Professor Ruedi Füchslin von der Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, kurz ZHAW, über Künstliche Intelligenz (Artificial Intelligence) unterhalten.
Cette année, 260 élèves de secondaire en provenance de 53 pays se sont penché∙es sur les épreuves de physique aux Olympiades européennes, EuPhO en abrégé. Le concours a eu du 21 au 26 juillet sous forme virtuelle.
Axions are elementary particles with extremely low mass. So far they exist only in the brains of theoretical physicists, nobody has observed them. Really? Measurement results at detector XENON1T in Italy make one sit up and take notice.
Teams of researchers from EPFL and University of Zurich are members of the LHCb collaboraiton and have made major contributions to the construction and operation of the detector
Claudia Merlassino was born in Genoa, studied physics in Milan and completed her doctorate at the University of Bern in October 2019, since then she has been doing research at Oxford University in the UK. At the age of 28, the Italian experimental physicist has already made a remarkable journey as a researcher. She is now receiving the PhD prize in Swiss particle physics - among other things for her findings in the context of the most massive of all elementary particles.
La finale des olympiades de physique aurait dû avoir lieu en mars. En raison de la pandémie du coronavirus, les examens ont été reportés au 6 juin et organisés en ligne. Les 24 finalistes ont testé leurs connaissances depuis la maison. Le suspense était à son comble lors de l’annonce des résultats le 27 juin.
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When analyzing data from the XENON1T detector for dark matter, a signal excess was observed. The UZH researchers do not yet know for sure where this unexpected signal comes from. They say the origins could be relatively banal, but they could also indicate the existence of new particles or hitherto unknown properties of neutrinos.
To recognise the International Day of Light 2020 and the 60th anniversary of the laser, the Swiss Physical Society (SPS) publishes a detailed report by René Salathé (EPFL) to record the development and milestones in laser science from 1960 to 1980 in Switzerland.
This media update is part of a series related to the 2020 Large Hadron Collider Physics conference, which took place from 25 to 30 May 2020. Originally planned to take place in Paris, the conference was held entirely online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ALICE, CMS and LHCb collaborations present new measurements that show how particles containing charm quarks can serve as “messengers” of hadrons and the quark–gluon plasma, carrying information about these forms of matter. This media update is part of a series related to the 2020 Large Hadron Collider Physics (LHCP2020) conference, taking place 25–30 May 2020.
Positron emission tomography (PET) helps medical doctors to detect cancer and many other diseases. A team of researchers led by ETH Professor Günther Dissertori is working on a new generation of PET scanners that could in future be of great use in pharmacological research and in the treatment of Alzheimer's patients. The technical innovation is based, among other things, on fundamental research at CERN.
FCC - these three letters stand for the vision of a new ring accelerator that could be built at the European particle physics laboratory CERN in Geneva. With this long-term goal in mind, Swiss physicists founded the CHART research initiative five years ago. Now the demonstrator of a powerful magnet is available. If the tests are successful, a very first step towards decisive progress in infrastructure for basic research, but also in applications such as, e.g., innovative instrumentation for medical therapies will be achieved.
Une équipe scientifique internationale a réussi à détecter une manifestation de la brisure de la symétrie fondamentale de la nature qui a permis à la matière de dominer l’Univers au détriment de l’antimatière.
Scientists at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) have spent around ten years building the Spectrometer / Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX). Since 10 February, the research instrument is travelling to the Sun. It will provide accurate measurements of the solar atmosphere and the solar wind and will also cover the polar regions of the Sun that cannot be observed from Earth.
With its European particle physics laboratory CERN, Geneva attracts many researchers to Switzerland. This was also the case with François Drielsma (28). In a doctoral thesis supervised by Prof. Alain Blondel (University of Geneva), the Belgian-born scientist investigated a completely new way to build a particle accelerator.
Particle physicists from all over Europe are currently discussing the future of European particle physics, when the current ring accelerator LHC will be decommissioned around 2035. Next May, the decision could be taken launch technical and financial feasibility studies for the construction of a new, even more powerful particle accelerator.
This week’s drafting session marks final discussions for the update of the European strategy for particle physics
Elementary particle physics and the large-scale CERN research facility have repeatedly inspired artists to engage with modern scientific research. The latest example is the movie 'Les Particules' by French-Swiss filmmaker Blaise Harrison (39). In this art piece scientific research serves as an escape and dream world for an adolescent.
Lesya Shchutska (pronounced: Schutska) is 33 years old and already Professor of Elementary Particle Physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). "At the moment I can't imagine doing anything other than physics," says the researcher, who deals with particles that so far only exist in the minds of theoretical physicists.
At the occasion of the Swiss Geoscience meeting in Fribourg in November 2019, the ACP Award for Atmospheric Research was presented to Daniele Nerini for his PhD thesis “Ensemble precipitation nowcasting: limits to prediction, localization and seamless blending”.
Sous la devise "encore 24 expériences jusqu'à Noël", 24 expériences de physique divertissantes sont proposées à faire soi-même, qui sont fournies en version allemande et anglaise.
In deep underground tunnels of former mines near the Japanese Alps, teams of scientists with Swiss participation are researching various types of elementary particles. Over the next few years, powerful research instruments will be put into operation with which scientists want to discover the nature of neutrinos. The hoped-for results could lead to solving of deep puzzles in our understanding of the universe.
Hardly any elementary particle occurs more frequently in the universe than the elusive neutrino. The investigation of the almost massless tiny particle is a focus of current elementary particle physics. Perhaps the most important contribution to the understanding of neutrino has been made over twenty years by the Japanese Super-Kamiokande detector, in which several Swiss research groups are involved. A visit to the Japanese mountains.
Pickel, Schaufel und Spatel gehören zwar noch immer zur archäologischen Feldausrüstung, immer öfter kommen aber bereits im Feld oder spätestens bei der Auswertung im Büro High-Tech Geräte zum Einsatz. Tragbare Röntgenfluoreszenz-Analysatoren sind ein Beispiel solcher Geräte, die zur grossen Freude archäologischer Konservatoren zerstörungsfreie Analysen ermöglichen.
Graben oder nicht graben? Das ist oft die Frage! Die Entscheidung müssen Archäologen aber nicht dem Zufall überlassen. Geophysikalische Prospektionen und die Fernerkundung erlauben sehr weit gehende Einsichten in den Untergrund, bevor die erste Schaufel Erdreich bewegt wird. Die dadurch gewonnenen digitalen Daten bilden die ideale Grundlage, um einen antiken Fundort durch gezieltes Anlegen von Grabungsschnitten möglichst detailliert zu erkunden.
Wollen Archäologen ohne zu graben den Untergrund erforschen, dann greifen sie zu geophysikalischen Methoden. Bei Luftbildauswertungen und elektrischen Widerstandsmessungen in Studen kam Erstaunliches zu Tage – aber auch die Erkenntnis, dass ein Grossteil des römischen Vicus undokumentiert dem Kiesabbau zum Opfer gefallen ist.
Neutrinos are ubiquitous yet elusive particles that could shed light on the early evolution of the universe. As one of the world’s major laboratories for neutrino physics, Fermilab partners with leading organizations around the globe to get a firmer grasp on these subtle particles.
Les deux chercheurs de l'Observatoire Astronomique de l'Université de Genève partagent cette extraordinaire distinction avec James Peebles, professeur émérite à l'Université de Princeton aux Etats-Unis. Le Prix Nobel récompense la découverte en 1995 par les scientifiques suisses de la première planète située en-dehors de notre système solaire.
Le Prix Nobel de physique a été décerné conjointement aux astrophysiciens genevois Michel Mayor et Didier Queloz ainsi qu'au Canado-Américain James Peebles. Ils sont distingués pour leur contribution à la compréhension de l'évolution de l'univers.
In 2025, the 'Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment' (DUNE) will be launched in the north of the USA, with which physicists want to learn more about neutrino - a still mysterious elementary particle. An important component of the DUNE experiment is currently being prepared by scientists from the University of Bern.
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Michał Rawlik, scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) is awarded the CHIPP Prize 2019. The 29-year-old researcher receives the award for his doctoral thesis on the electric dipole moment of the neutron. The experiment he co-developed could one day help answer the question of why there is much more matter in the universe than antimatter.
Les communications de la Société Suisse de Physique (SSP) paraissent trois fois par année et sont destinées avant tout aux membres de la société. Elles contiennent des informations sur la société, des annonces d'événements, mais aussi des séries d'articles sur divers thèmes: "Progrès récents en physique", "Anecdotes de la physique", "Physique et société", "Histoire de la physique" et "Evénements clé en physique".
The PhD Prize of the Swiss Society of Crystallography (SGK/SSCr) is awarded to Dr Luzia Germann for her thesis "Investigation of Solid State Reactions of Molecular Functional Materials by in situ X-ray Powder Diffraction". The award ceremony will take place during the society's Annual Meeting, Sept. 4, 2019 at EPFL Valais in Sion.
La semaine dernière, cinq jeunes en provenance de la Suisse ont participé aux Olympiades internationales de physique, qui se déroulaient du 7 au 15 juillet 2019 à Tel Aviv. Ils ont été récompensés par deux médailles de bronze et une mention honorifique.
The 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to physics just ended. We had a great week of vivid discussions between 39 Nobel Laureates and 580 young scientists from 89 countries most of them Physicists but not only.
Cinq lycéens suisses se sont glissés dans la peau d'un physicien. Après un examen expérimental et théorique, trois d'entre eux ont reçu une mention honorable.
Un labyrinthe de miroirs, un pot brillant, d’innombrables câbles et écrans numériques. Si vous rendez visite à Matteo Fadel sur son lieu de travail à l’Université de Bâle, il vous emmène tout d’abord au laboratoire dans lequel il étudie des phénomènes quantiques étranges. Quelque part au milieu de l’appareillage, plusieurs centaines d’atomes sont piégés et amenés dans un état qui cause encore beaucoup de maux de tête aux physiciens d’aujourd’hui.
Le contrôle de la quantité de phosphate dans les cellules, les processus impliqués dans les catalyseurs, l'utilisation des sols à Madagascar, ou encore un paradoxe de la physique quantique – Autant de sujets couronnés par Le Prix Schläfli 2019, décerné par l'Académie des sciences naturelles (SCNAT) aux quatre découvertes les plus importantes de jeunes chercheurs des universités suisses. Les lauréat-e-s sont Murielle Delley (chimie), Matteo Fadel (physique), Rebekka Wild (biologie) et Julie Zähringer (géosciences). Et une première : six des candidats au Prix Schläfli Physique ont été sélectionnés pour participer à la Conférence du Prix Nobel de Lindau.
Radioactive waste from nuclear power plants can take a long time to decay. For plutonium-239 the half-life - that is the time until half of the atoms of a sample have decayed - is no less than 24,000 years. But this is nothing compared to the half-life of the noble gas xenon-124, as an international research team with collaborators from the University of Zurich has now shown.
