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      The Humboldt Foundation congratulates two of its funding recipients upon being chosen to receive a Leibniz Prize

      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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    • Magazine Humboldt Kosmos

      The Linguist

      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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      The Linguist
    • Magazine Humboldt Kosmos

      The Lure of Germany

      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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      The Lure of Germany
    • Magazine Humboldt Kosmos

      The Martian

      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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      The Martian
    • Magazine Humboldt Kosmos

      The New President: Hans-Christian Pape

      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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      The New President: Hans-Christian Pape