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The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation would like to extend its congratulations to the newly selected winners of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize! The ten researchers tapped to receive a 2023 Leibniz Prize from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG – German Research Foundation) include the Humboldtians Largus T. Angenent and Hartmut Rosa.
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The Humboldt Rankings 2023
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The Knowledge Avengers: The 2024 Humboldt Residency Cohort By Nandini Tanya Lallmon Rolling in the Deep: Wonder Women Bridging the Knowledge Divide Two women walk into a residency programme, armed wit
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
Kofi Yakpo was once a big shot in German rap. Today, he is a professor of linguistics, researching into the emergence of Creole languages and uncovering the colonial legacy of his subject along the way.
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
For years he had to justify why he was such a good friend to Germany. Today, Myles W. Jackson has to explain why he doesn’t want to work in Germany permanently despite having been offered a prestigious Humboldt Professorship.
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
Air, fuel and drugs – what about if they could all be produced on Mars? A drop of blue-green algae brought from Earth and cultivated on Mars could suffice, says astrobiologist Cyprien Verseux.
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
The Humboldt Foundation has a new President: in January, the neurophysiologist Hans-Christian Pape took over the helm of the Foundation from the chemist Helmut Schwarz.
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