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      Digital Advent Concert

      The Humboldt Foundation will hold its annual Advent concert on 10 December 2020 – this year as a livestream event. Viewers can look forward to live classical music and year-end reviews with Secretary General Enno Aufderheide.

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      New Alexander von Humboldt Professors selected

      Eight researchers from abroad have been selected to receive Germany’s most valuable international research award in 2021 and make the move to Aachen, Bonn, Cologne, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Göttingen, Marburg, Munich and Münster.

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      Japanese legal scholar receives Philipp Franz von Siebold Award

      The Japanese legal scholar Yuko Nishitani has been selected to receive the 2020 Philipp Franz von Siebold Award in recognition of her contributions to improving mutual understanding of Germany and Japan’s culture and society.

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      Nobel Prize for Humboldtian

      The Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to Humboldtian Emmanuelle Charpentier.

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    • History

      When the foundation was established in 1953, the moon landing was little more than a pipe dream, pacemakers and the contraceptive pill had not yet been invented, and smartphones and the Internet were at best science fiction. However, the fundamental idea underlying the Foundation is still relevant today.

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