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Queen Mary Astronomer nominated for WIRED Audi Innovation Award
26 October 2016
Guillem Anglada Escudé of the School of Physics and Astronomy was one of the nominees for the prestigious WIRED Scientific Breakthrough award, one of the WIRED Audi Innovation Awards for 2016, for his discovery of a planet in orbit around the nearest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri.
LIGO’s Cosmological Revolution Heralds New Age for Queen Mary Physicists
11 February 2016
Today’s announcement from LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory) concerning gravitational waves has rekindled excitement in the amazing predictions of Einstein’s theory of general relativity.