In terms of content, these are essentially letters to the presidents of the Leopoldina in which the newly elected members first thanked them for the high honour of admission and submitted a curriculum vitae or a list of publications. Due to the binding and the fact that these are exclusively letters from senders with the
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The Leopoldina Academy Circle of Friends reg. ass. has supported a pilot project based at the Leopoldina Centre for Science Reseach with a substantial amount (duration: 1st of April to 30th of September 2014). Prof. Rüdiger von Bruch Prof. Gunnar Berg, Vice-President of the Leopoldina, Prof. Ruth Arnon, President of the Israeli Academy of Sciences,
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From the 19th to the 21st of September, the Leopoldina – Annual Assembly 2014 took place in Rostock with a wealth of lectures. Group photo in front of the University Rostock Photo: Markus Scholz View of the audience Photo: Markus Scholz Questions from the audience to the Leopoldina members Photo: Markus Scholz
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The new brochure summarises the history of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and its main building as well as its recent renovation. Its focus is on the description of the works of art located in and around the building. Here you can download the brochure “The Main Building of the National Academy of Sciences
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On the 1st of September, the Leopoldina Academy Circle of Friends awarded the “Johann Lorenz Bausch Advancement Award”, worth 5,000 euros, to an outstanding young scientist for the second time. From left to right: Prof. Gunnar Berg, Prof. Alfons Labisch, Katherina Kefalas, Prof. Jutta Schnitzer-Ungefug, Dietrich Kloevekorn-Norgall, Dr.-Ing. Horst Dietz, Photo: Markus Scholz
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Since its inauguration in autumn 2012, the Georg Forster International Meeting Centre (IBZ) has provided a home and contact point for foreign guest researchers from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Here, encounters from different cultural circles and scientific contexts are to take place and experiences are to be
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In the last decade of the GDR, her work provided the impetus for the arts and crafts to turn to free art. With her work in international steel symposia, Irmtraud Ohme contributed to an atmosphere of departure that was combined with the emergence of steel sculpture from the privacy of the studio into a lively
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