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Award to Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
2009-11-19
Has been awarded this year’s Ebbe Munck Award in recognition of her outstanding contributions to science
Professor Jørn Dines becomes Knight of the Order of Dannebrog
2009-11-17
Jørn Dines Hansen has been awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Dannebrog based on his research in experimental physics
Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen receives 20 million kr. from EU
2009-10-29
The champagne corks are popping and the loud congratulations are breaking out in the Centre for Ice and Climate department at the Niels Bohr Institute. Professor of ice physics, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen has good news – she has received 20 million...
Klaus Mosegaard new Deputy Head of Institute
2009-10-08
Geophysicist Klaus Mosegaard has been appointed the Deputy Head of the Niels Bohr Institute and has at the same time been appointed Professor. ”The most important aspect of my new job as Deputy Head of Institute for Education is to ensure that...
Thomas Døssing retires as Deputy Head of Institute
2009-10-07
”It is a highly esteemed Deputy Head of Institute, who has chosen to step down from position where he has done an outstanding job”, says Head of Institute John Renner Hansen. For five years Thomas Døssing has been the Deputy Head of Institute for...
Nobel Laureate Aage Bohr has died
2009-09-10
A long and important life of physics has ended. Professor Aage Bohr of the Niels Bohr Institute has died at the age of 87. He received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1975. Aage Bohr was born in Copenhagen on June 19, 1922 as the fourth son of...
Tamara Davis receives prize for her hunt for dark energy
2009-08-27
Astrophysicist Tamara Davis received the L’Oréal Australia prize for “Women in Science” for her groundbreaking research on the Universe’s dark energy. “Now we know that stars, planets, galaxies and all that we can see make up just four...
Klaus Mosegaard receives large grant for oil project
2009-07-20
Geophysicist Klaus Mosegaard has received a grant of 5.3 million kroner from the Danish Research Council for Technology and Production Sciences (FTP) and 1 million kroner from DONG Energy & Production for a research project, which will create...
Stefania Xella receives money for frontline research and leading role
2009-07-03
’The New Frontier in Particle Physics’, is the title of the research project, for which particle physicist Stefania Xella has been awarded almost 6 million kroner from the Danish Council for Independent Research, Natural Sciences (FNU)...
Erik Høg receives Russian medal
2009-06-30
Associate Professor Emeritus Erik Høg has been awarded the Russian Struve Medal for his great contributions to the advancement of astrometry from the Earth and from space. Erik Høg was presented with the medal at a ceremony in...
The Amalienborg Award goes to Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
2009-06-19
”Two prominent professors from the University of Copenhagen receive the Amalienborg Award in appreciation of their -in the most literal sense - in depth research in Greenland, which has taught us much about the evolution of the...
Money for women in biophysics
2009-06-11
The biophysics group has been awarded almost 5 million kroner from the Danish Council for Independent Research in the Natural Sciences, FNU. The money consists of a Steno-stipend of 3,7 million kroner and 1,2 million kroner for new...
Troels C. Petersen receives 10 million kr. from the Lundbeck Foundation
2009-05-14
The prominent young physicist, Troels C. Petersen receives 10 million kr. from the Lundbeck Foundation for the research project 'Searching for Dark Matter at CERN's LHC accelerator'. Troels Petersen is a trained physicist from the Niels Bohr Institute at...
Anja Andersen honoured for sublime communication
2009-05-06
The Svend Bergsøe Foundation has awarded this year's Mediation Award to astrophysicist Anja C. Andersen for her unparalleled dissemination of knowledge about the universe to children, young people and the general public...
Japanese researcher makes the jump to NBI
2009-04-27
With a large smile Namiko Mitarai welcomes one into the little office which she is temporarily sharing with another until she receives her own office. Namiko Mitarai has made the jump from a permanent position as a physicist in Japan and...
Mathilde Prize to Anja Andersen-stars
2009-04-16
Two times Anja Andersen: the handball player and the astrophysicist - both big stars in their respective fields - the sports world and the world of science, receive this year's Mathilde Prize from the Danish...
Line Drube to International Space University
2009-02-09
Line Drube, who is a PhD student with the Mars Group at the Niels Bohr Institute, has been accepted into the International Space University’s course program for Space Studies. The course lasts two months, is very intensive, very expensive and...
Mr. X-ray receives award
2009-01-23
Professor emeritus Jens Als-Nielsen, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, receives the 2009 Velux Fonden’s Honour Award for his research in the field of neutron and X-ray scattering on Friday 23, 2009. The award is worth kr. 500.000...
Anja C. Andersen receives researchers’ own award
2008-11-10
Astrophysicist Anja Cetti Andersen, Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen receives The Danish Association of Masters and PhDs’ Research Award 2008. She receives the award for her unparalleled ability to combine...
Christoph Schär new adjunct professor of climate
2008-10-27
Christoph Schär has been appointed as adjunct professor at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. The appointment is part of the University of Copenhagen’s strategy to focus on climate research leading up to and following...
Apprenticeship prize to Troels Jeppesen
2008-10-03
Industrial technician Troels Jeppesen has received the Metal Industry´s Apprenticeship Prize for an especially well carried out final project and skill through the apprenticeship. The prize will be presented by the Minister for Education...
Astronomical amount to astronomer Sune Toft
2008-09-25
Astrophysicist Sune Toft has been granted 10 million crowns from the Lundbeck Foundation. It is the Foundation’s Junior Group Leader Fellowship, which is a 5-year grant awarded to ‘particularly promising young scientists’...
Nils Olsen new professor at the Niels Bohr Institute
2008-07-09
Nils Olsen has been appointed as adjunct professor of geomagnetism at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. Nils Olsen is a geophysicist and researches the Earth’s magnetic field, which protects the Earth from...
Christian Holm Christensen receives Ph.D prize
2008-07-07
Christian Holm Christensen, a Post.Doc. with the research group for experimental particle physics, HEHI at the Niels Bohr Institute and who works with the ALICE experiment at CERN has been crowned as the winner of 'BEST PH.D. THESIS AWARD for 2008’...
Researchers want to gain ultimate control over light
2008-07-01
In a new project at DTU and the University of Copenhagen, researchers will try to control the smallest components of light – photons. This can be used to develop the future’s supercomputers and to make codes that are completely unbreakable...
Professor Tscherning receives European medal
2008-04-23
Carl Christian Tscherning, Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen has been awarded the Vening Meinesz Medal by the European Geosciences Union. He has received the medal for his important scientific work in geodesy...
Swedish honour to ice core researcher Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
2008-04-22
Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Center for Ice and Climate at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, has joined the esteemed company of renowned polar researchers Scott, Nansen, Amundsen and Shackelton after being...