Word: gottingen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Professor Caratheodory, now of the University of Munich, received his degree of Ph.D. from the University of Gottingen in 1904. In 1908 he became professor of mathematics in the Lechnische Hoehschule of Hanover and then of Breslan. Since 1913 he has been professor of mathematics at the University of Gottingen, Berlin, Smyrna where he was also director of the university. Athens and Munich. He will lecture here during the second half year on mathematics...
Composer Handel, martial, romantic, won fame for impressive oratorios, the best known among them being The Messiah, Samson, Judas Maccabaeus. Lately, led by the University of Gottingen, Germans have resurrected some of the operas their countryman used to compose, sometimes in a fortnight's time, for production at the Haymarket Theatre, in the London of Addison and Steele, Alexander Pope and George I, the music-loving Hanoverian...
...years ago, Dr. Millikan was born at Morrison, Ill. Later at Oberlin College, he attacked Greek and mathematics with zest, took his first degree, an A. B., at 23. The next year, a graduate student and tutor there, his enthusiasm turned to physics. He pursued it at Columbia, Berlin, Gottingen. From 1902 to 1921 he charmed physics students at the University of Chicago. Since 1921 he has been Director of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics at Pasadena, Calif...
...prize for Literature on Bernard Shaw, personified by the British Minister at Stockholm. Recipients of the other prizes were not so offish. One and all they came to Stockholm, received their medals and diplomas from the royal hand. Recipients: 1925 Physics prize shared between Professor James Franck, University of Gottingen, and Professor Gustav Hertz, of Halle University; 1926 Physics prize to Professor Jean B. Perrin, University of Paris; 1925 Chemistry prize to Dr. Richard Zsigmondy, University of Gottingen; 1926 chemistry prize to Professor Theodore Svedverg, University of Upsala...
...Ambassadorship to Germany Mr. Houghton achieved a notable reputation for discretion and even for a certain taciturnity. He knows the political ropes well, having been twice a Congressman and twice a presidential elector. As a Harvard man with an added background of post graduate work at Paris, Berlin and Gottingen, he is no blundering shirtsleeved unsophisticate. Therefore considerable interest was aroused by a rumor that his speech to the press was made at the direct instigation of the President...