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A team at Oxford are leading an international consortium to develop the Extremely Large Telescope's first light spectroscopic facility instrument known as HARMONI.

Professor Claire Gwenlan has been recognised in the Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Teaching Awards; the scheme celebrates success and recognises and rewards excellence in innovative teaching practice.

Alumnus Timothy Baker looks at Clarendon milestone, the first liquefaction of helium in Britain in 1933.

Professor Chris Lintott has been appointed Gresham Professor of Astronomy, one of the college’s ten professorships that are filled by leaders and pioneers in a range of artistic fields.

Dr Katherine Shirley has won the MPLS Public Engagement with Research Impact Award for her planetary research work.

The discovery of a rare type of spinning white dwarf star in a binary star system – only the second one known – provides a new understanding into the role of magnetic fields in stellar evolution.

Dr Andrew Mummery from Oxford’s Department of Physics has been recognised by the International Astronomical Union and the Royal Astronomical Society for his thesis.

Department of Physics alumnus, Dr David Hosking, has been awarded another two prizes for his University of Oxford thesis, ‘The decay of MHD turbulence and the primordial origin of magnetic fields in cosmic voids’.

Professor Timothy Palmer has been awarded the World Meteorological Organization’s top award, the IMO prize, for his outstanding contribution to meteorology, and in particular, for developing probabilistic ensemble prediction methods for forecasting.

A grassroots initiative of scientists from a range of disciplines across physics has published a document reflecting on the environmental impact of their collective work.

Researchers from Oxford’s Department of Physics, working alongside international collaborators, have identified a crystalline solid which satisfies the requirements to host an exotic axionic electrodynamic field.

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