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Knighthood for Roberto Maiolino

12 June 2018

The President of the Italian Republic has knighted Professor Roberto Maiolino, Director of the Kavli Institute and Professor of Experimental Astrophysics at the Cavendish Laboratory, in the Order of the Star of Italy. The honour was given in recognition of his achievements in multiple areas of astrophysics, his...

2018 Kavli Prizes announced

1 June 2018

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has announced the winners of the 2018 Kavli Prizes.

President of CETC visits Cambridge University

25 May 2018

The President of China Electronics Technology Corporation, CETC, led his team of 15 senior people including the Presidents of CETC38 and CETC54 on a highly successful visit to the Battcock Centre and the Kavli Institute to discuss specific opportunities for a strong, long term, collaboration with the University. The team...

2018 Gruber Cosmology Prize

18 May 2018

The 2018 Gruber Cosmology Prize has been awarded to the Planck Team, which includes several KICC researchers, and to Jean-Loup Puget (the Principal Investigator of the Planck High-Frequency Instrument) and Nazzareno Mandolesi (the Principal Investigator of the Low-Frequency Instrument). Planck was a satellite, launched in...

Prof Stephen Hawking's multiverse finale

4 May 2018

Prof Stephen Hawking's final research paper suggests that our Universe may be one of many similar to our own. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43976977

Prof Stephen Hawking's multiverse finale

4 May 2018

Prof Stephen Hawking's final research paper suggests that our Universe may be one of many similar to our own. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43976977

Stephen Hawking, 8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018

14 March 2018

On 14th March 2018 Professor Stephen Hawking died peacefully at his home in Cambridge at the age of 76. Stephen Hawking is widely recognised as one of the most influential theoretical physicists in modern times. He has made seminal contributions to several areas of astrophysics. In particular, his studies have provided...

Dr Renske Smit wins The 2018 MERAC Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Observational Astrophysics

22 February 2018

Dr Smit received the award in recognition of her research into the observational characterisation of the physical properties of the galaxies that formed in the first billion years of cosmic time. Renske Smit's doctoral research focused on the study of very distant galaxies, seen in the first few billion years of cosmic...

Donald Lynden-Bell, 5 April 1935 – 5 February 2018

7 February 2018

We are very saddened to report that Professor Donald Lynden-Bell died peacefully at home on the 5th February 2018. Donald Lynden-Bell was Professor of Astrophysics at the Institute of Astronomy from 1972-1997 and served several terms as Director. He was a pioneering figure in the field of stellar dynamics and made...

Earliest galaxies in the Universe’s history spun like the Milky Way

8 January 2018

Artist impression of rotation in a galaxy in the early Universe, credit: Institute of Astronomy, Amanda Smith. Astronomers have looked back to a time soon after the Big Bang, and have discovered swirling gas in some of the earliest galaxies to have formed in the Universe. These ‘newborns’ – observed as they appeared nearly...

Knighthood for Roberto Maiolino

2018 Kavli Prizes announced

President of CETC visits Cambridge University

2018 Gruber Cosmology Prize

Prof Stephen Hawking's multiverse finale

Prof Stephen Hawking's multiverse finale

Stephen Hawking, 8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018

Dr Renske Smit wins The 2018 MERAC Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Observational Astrophysics

Donald Lynden-Bell, 5 April 1935 – 5 February 2018

Earliest galaxies in the Universe’s history spun like the Milky Way

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