Giessen

The University of Giessen (Gießen), officially called Justus Liebig-Universität Gießen after its most famous member, the founder of modern agricultural chemistry and inventor of artificial fertiliser. The University of Giessen was founded in 1607 as a Lutheran university in the city of Giessen in Hesse-Darmstadt because the all-Hessian Landesuniversität (the nearby University of Marburg (Philipps-Universität Marburg) in Marburg, Hesse-Kassel) had become Reformed (that is, Calvinist). It was then ...

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August Wilhelm von Hofmann (April 8, 1818 – May 5, 1892) was a German chemist. Hofmann was born at Giessen. Not intending originally to devote himself to physical science, he first took up the study of law and philology at Göttingen, and the general culture he thus gained stood him in good stead when he turned to chemistry, the study of which he began under Justus von Liebig. When, in 1845, a school of practical chemistry was started in London, under the style of the Royal College of Chemistry, Hofmann, largely through the i ...

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Chloral hydrate Chloral hydrate, also known as trichloroacetaldehyde monohydrate, 2,2,2-trichloro-1,1-ethanediol, and under the tradenames Aquachloral, Novo-Chlorhydrate, Somnos, Noctec, and Somnote, is a sedative and hypnotic drug as well as a chemical reagent and precursor. Its chemical formula is C2HCl3O · H2O. It is used for the short-term treatment of insomnia and as a sedative before minor medical or dental tr ...

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The first documentary mention of the place was in 1417 " in a sales document is called Heydenreich of our dear Mrs. Knecht on the Mergenheyde " (Documentary first namings of oberbergischer places v. Klaus Pampus). The manner of writing of the first naming was: Mergenheyde. On the altar lights of the old pilgrimage church a signed coat of arms of 1601 which carries the name "Mergenheyd" is to be seen. In an old brochure of the Catholic vicarage Marienheide one can read up: " The mercy place Marienheide leads back his orig ...

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U.S. 37th Armor Regiment - World War II. The 37th Armor was activated on April 15, 1941 at Pine Camp (now Fort Drum), New York. That evening, 600 officers and 3,200 enlisted men stood at attention while orders activating the 4th Armored Division were read. The United States was not yet at war, but ten months earlier a group of Generals leading Hitler's armies, in particular Guderian, Kleist, and Rommel, had demonstrated a new type of warfare which electrified the world. American journalists called their o ...

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Philipp Reis imagined that electricity could be propagated through space, as light can, without the aid of a material conductor, and he performed some experiments on the subject. The results were described in a paper, "On the Radiation of Electricity," which, in 1859, he posted to Professor Poggendorff; for insertion in the then well-known periodical, Annalen der Physik. The manuscript was declined, to the ...

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Founded by Sweden as part of colonial policy in just-conquered Livonia, the Academia Gustaviana was the second university founded in Swedish-ruled territory, following Uppsala University. A precursor to the academy had been a Jesuit grammar school, existing between 1583 and 1601, when Tartu (Dorpat) was under Polish rule. Struggling until 1710, after being relocated from Tartu to Pärnu for some years, the university was reopened only in 1802 by order of the reform-minded Emperor Alexan ...

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The University has signed cooperation agreements with 30 universities and research institutions abroad, and 140 contracts for international student and teacher exchange projects within the framework of the EU's "Erasmus programme". At present, nearly 400 foreign exchange students from 27 countries study at the University. The vast majority comes from Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Russia, the United States of America, and Germany. The University of Tartu has co-operation agreements with the following universities at the time. These co ...

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U.S. 37th Armor Regiment - Distinctive Unit Insignia. Description: A silver color metal and enamel device 1 1/8 inches (2.86cm) in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned: Argent, a wyvern glissant, sans legs, tail nowed Vert, langued, eyed and barbed Gules. Attached below the shield a silver motto scroll inscribed "COURAGE CONQUERS" in black letters. Symbolism: The shield is green and white (silver), the colors of the Armored Force. The wyvern is representative of the deadline ...

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The transport binding to the national road system is good. Connector (highway to Meinerzhagen of the federal motorway A45 removed 15 kilometers ( Sauerland line Dortmund - Giessen) can be arrived at about 15 minutes. Up to connector Wiehl/Gummersbach of the federal motorway A4 Cologne - Olpe) are to be put back 17 kilometers in about 20-minute running time. The town is crossed by the B 256. There consist the following bus lines: Line 336 after Gummersbach or about Wipperfürth after Remscheid - Lennep Line 320 af ...

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University of Tartu - Notable Lecturers & Professors. Wilhelm Ostwald, Nobel Prize in Chemistry Jüri Allik, psychologist Walter Anderson, folklorist Karl Bücher, economist and anthropologist Vladimir Dahl, lexicographer Wolfgang Drechsler, public administration scholar and political philosopher Gustav von Ewers, legal historian Lazar Gulkowitsch, Jewish Studies scholar, supported by Albert Einstein Theod ...

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At the University of Tartu, currently more than 3,300 scientific publications are produced every year. About half of all publications by Estonian scientists in journals (those covered by citation indexes like "SCI Expanded", "SSCI" or "A&HCI") are written by Tartu authors. According to the university administration, the most remarkable recent research achievements have been in the fields of molecular and cell biology, gene technology, immunology, pharmacology, laser medicine, materials science, laser spectroscopy, biochemistry, environment technology, ...

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Later, Philipp Reis confined his teaching and study to matters of science; but his bad health become a serious impediment. For several years it was only by the exercise of a strong will that he was able to carry on his duties. His voice began to fail as the disease gained upon his lungs, and in the summer of 1873 he was obliged to forsake tuition during several weeks. The autumn vacation strengthened his hopes of recovery, and he resumed his teaching with his wonted energy. But this was the last flicker of the expiring flame. It was announce ...

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Marienheide - In Marienheide born. Paul Lücke Federal Minister for house building and Federal Minister of the inside ...

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The University’s four museums, its Botanical Gardens, and sports facilities are, by and large, open to the general public. The University possesses some 150 buildings, 30 of which are outside of Tartu. 31 of its buildings decorate the city as architectural monuments. However, the current reforms include attempts to sell, or have the state co-sponsor, several of these buildings and monuments, as well as sports facilities, as they are not seen as part of the university's mission proper. At the same time, there are numerous recently constructed/renovated university buildings and student dormitories, such as th ...

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Philipp Reis' mother died while he was an infant, so he was raised by his paternal grandmother, a well-read, intelligent and religious woman. At the age of six Philipp Reis was sent to the common school of his home town of Gelnhausen, in Cassel. Here his talents attracted the notice of his instructors, who advised his father to extend his education at a higher college. His father died before his son was ten years old; but his grandmother and guardians placed him at Garnier's Institute, in Friedrichsdorf, where he showed a taste for la ...

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