The Darwin Badge of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina was awarded to the Swedish molecular biologist and palaeogeneticist Prof. Dr Svante Pääbo, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig, on the 25th of November. Leopoldina president Prof. ter Meulen presents the Darwin Badge to Prof. Dr Svante Pääbo Photo: Markus Scholz
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The transfer of the entire written estate of Otto Kleinschmidt (1870-1954), an important member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, was officially honoured on the 17th of November 2009 with a lecture event and the opening of an exhibition in the Academy buildings in Halle. Written estate of Otto Kleinschmidt Photo: Markus Scholz /
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On the initiative of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and generously supported by the Leopoldina Academy Circle of Friends reg. ass, a memorial stele in the inner courtyard of the Academy buildings in Halle (Saale) commemorates the Academy members who were killed in concentration camps during the National Socialist regime. The
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