Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
How stony was the path to mathematical heights, Ms Pyakurel?
Where we lived was completely cut off from the outside world. There was no electricity and no transport connections.
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
What can stop you, Mr Guck?
Recently, it was the 30th anniversary of my accident. I have now been in a wheelchair for almost twice as long as I was able to walk.
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In the USA, nobody asks where I come from
Dr Serge Alain Fobofou Tanemossu earned his doctorate in chemistry at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry in Halle and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
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#ProgressDiversity | Why science needs more diversity
Why science needs more diversity
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Silent night
The Corona pandemic forces us all to keep our distance and robs us of things that define what we are: human closeness and social interaction. German Chancellor Fellow Diana Raiselis is working on sustainable concepts for reviving nighttime culture.
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Focus areas in 2021
The Corona pandemic has changed the world. With its projects and focus areas in 2021, the Foundation want to better exploit its potential and create the preconditions for successful work in the future.
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Press Release
First Humboldt scouts in the Henriette Herz Scouting Programme selected
A total of 33 scientists and scholars have been chosen in the first selection round by an interdisciplinary committee of the Henriette Herz Scouting Programme. These “Humboldt scouts” are to recruit talented researchers from throughout the world for a Humboldt Fellowship.
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Humboldt Professor selected for Leibniz Prize
The Humboldtian Giuseppe Caire to receive one of the 2021 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizes valued at €2.5 million each.
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A name to conjure with
Few figures in history have had so many landmarks or discoveries named after them. The memory of Alexander von Humboldt is kept alive not only in his anniversary year of 2019 but also in atlases and encyclopaedias. His name even crops up in outer space.
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At the easternmost point of his life
At an age where most scientists would have settled for the odd conference, Alexander von Humboldt was still seeking adventure. In 1829 he set off on an expedition that took him to the court of the Russian Emperor and the border with China.
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