Physics Department News

Many Congratulations to Rachel Edwards on winning an Independent Researcher Grant of more than one million pounds from the European Research Council against fierce competition across Europe and in all subject areas. Her 5 yr fellowship for Rachel will also provide Research assistance and PhD studentships.

The recent discovery of three extrasolar planets by Peter Wheatley and
colleagues in the WASP (Wide Angle Search  for Planets) consortium  has been
rated in the top 10 science discoveries of 2007 by Time Magazine and CNN!
The three planets are about the size of Jupiter but are too hot to support
life because they orbit too close to their sun.

The Time Magazine account can be found at http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/top10/article/0,30583,1686204_1686252_1690945,00.html.

EPSRC have just announced a grant of £3.7M to our NMR group for 'A world-leading UK NMR facility'.  The consortium is led by Steven Brown and, as well as Mark Smith and Ray Dupree here at Warwick, there are 5 co-applicants from other universities.  The grant will provide a 850MHz NMR spectometer which will be housed in the Magnetic Resonance Centre in Millburn House.

This grant brings our curent EPSRC portfolio to just under £25M. Only three Physics departments in the UK have larger EPSRC portfolios.

Many congratulations to Steven Brown, Ray Dupree and Mark Smith.

If you would like to read the full press release, please visit: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/even_oxygen_to/.