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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Leopoldina Academy Circle of Friends supports exhibition of the Leopoldina Centre for Science Research in cooperation with the Ernst – Haeckel – House of the Friedrich – Schiller – University Jena. Display cases with celestial globe (1875), lunarium (1885), metereological terrestrial globe (1907), electric globe clock (1930) and lunar globes (1963/1977). Photo: Markus Scholz Globe
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The year 2012 was marked by two anniversaries of the Leopoldina: the 360th anniversary of the founding of the Academy in 1652, and on the 7th of August 1687, 325 years ago, Emperor Leopold I. granted special privileges to the scholarly society and thus became the patron saint of the society, from there on known
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In a centuries-old tradition, all late presidents of the Leopoldina are portrayed by an important artist of their time. Ter Meulen’s portrait was painted by the artist Uwe Pfeifer Horst Dietz, Volker ter Meulen, Uwe Pfeifer and Jörg Hacker (from left). Photo: Markus Scholz.
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At the beginning of 2012, the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina moved into its new main building on the Jägerberg in Halle (Saale). Now the Leopoldina Academy Circle of Friends reg. ass. has donated a Kawai RX6 concert grand piano to the National Academy of Sciences Leopodina, which will be inaugurated on the 18th of
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On Sunday the 28th of October 2012, at 3 p.m., the joint exhibition of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the archive of the Academy’s founding city, Schweinfurt, “Salutem et Felicitatem!” will be opened. Head of the Leopoldina archive Danny Weber with Horst Dietz and Kloevekorn-Norgall (from left to right) Photo: Markus Scholz
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For the first time, aspiring leaders from the health sector had the opportunity to participate in a workshop on the “Young Physicians Leadership Programme” as part of the World Health Summit in 2011. Group photo of all participants of the YPLP
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On the occasion of the ceremonial inauguration of the new main building of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Professor Dr. h. c. mult. Berthold Beitz, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation, was awarded the Emperor Leopold I. Medal of the Leopoldina on the 25th of
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