Word: gottingen
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...chance to study in Gottingen, West Germany, on a Fulbright grant may help Audrey Choi '88 decide whether to go into public service or become a scholar of comparative literature. While in Germany, she says she will study that country's feminism and its "inclusion of difference." And Schoor says she expects her experience in Japan will "add so much to my career...
...figure at the center of this debate was born into a Jewish family in Breslau, m,hGermany, in 1891. She studied philosophy at universities in Breslau and Gottingen. In 1922, after reading a biography of the 16th century mystic St. Teresa of Avila, Stein was baptized a Catholic. For eight years she taught at a convent school at Speyer, where she was known as an ascetic who rose early, wore patched linen clothes and knelt through three Masses a day. In 1934, after the Nazis banned Jews from academic posts, Edith Stein entered the Carmelite convent in Cologne...
...West German industries burn 3.5 million tons of coal a year, leading to heavy discharges of sulfur dioxide.) According to Professor Bernhard Ulrich, an expert on soil science at the University of Gottingen, acidic downpours can leach key nutrients, such as calcium and potassium, from the soil, or deposit toxic metals like aluminum. Acid rain might also prevent microorganisms in the soil from converting organic debris into fertilizer. Professor Peter Schiitt of the University of Munich believes that dry, airborne particles of metal are the culprits, along with acid rain. Says he: "What is shocking is that whole areas...
Born in Vienna in 1908, Weisskopf received his PhD at The University of Gottingen, Germany, in 1931 and conducted postgraduate research in Denmark and Switzerland. In 1937 he emigrated to the United States, a refugee of Nazi oppression...
...University recently offered a tenured position in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology to Klaus Raschke, a botanist at the University of Gottingen, West Germany...