Benedetta Ciardi, a staff member of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, was one of 5 scientists awarded the prestigious Marie-Curie Excellence Award of the European Commission at a ceremony in Warsaw on November 7 2004. Benedetta was recognised for her work on the effect that the radiation of the first stars had on intergalactic gas in the Universe and on the process of galaxy formation.

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Marie Curie Award 2004
Marie Curie Week 2004 (Warsaw)
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