: Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize for Sebastiaan Haffert
Sun 6 Apr 2025; The Breakthrough Prize – popularly known as the “Oscars® of Science” – was created to celebrate the wonders of our scientific age. This year’s New Horizons in Physics Prizes honor early-career researchers across a wide range of fields. In astronomy, Sebastiaan Haffert, Rebecca Jensen-Clem and Maaike van Kooten have designed and enabled novel techniques for extreme adaptive optics, which are systems that compensate for the effects of Earth’s atmosphere on light reaching terrestrial telescopes. Their work promises to enable the direct detection of the smallest exoplanets.
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