Nobel Prize Winners and Inventors from Hessen - invest-in-hessen

› Numerous high-tech clusters and
technology networks
› Internationally acclaimed technical
universities and research institutes
› Home and workplace of world-famous
inventors and Nobel Prize winners
Where Ideas Come to Life
Throughout Hessen, “high-tech
clusters” have formed. In these
clusters, the know-how of scientifi c
institutions and research centers
fuses with the idea potential of
entrepreneurs and the willingness
of technology service providers to
invest. The open, modern educational
landscape and the intimate
cooperation between business and
science are among Hessen’s particular
strengths. Students and teachers
from all around the world
are drawn to the local educational
institutions. Universities with an
applied-science, and practical,
orientation join international research
institutes to form a network
in which all sciences are
represented.
At the individual universities, regional
focal areas have developed:
the Philipps-Universität in Marburg
has one of the richest traditions
among German universities and is
associated with the names of many
important scientists.
Famous scholars, such as the fi rst
winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine,
Emil von Behring, the chemist
Robert Bunsen as well as Karl-
Ferdinand Braun, the inventor of the
fi rst cathode ray (Braun’s tube), laid
the foundation for today’s scientifi c
research disciplines of chemistry
and medicine. The University in
Marburg is also a famous center for
language and cultural studies.
DID YOU KNOW …
› that the European Space Agency’s
(ESA) European Space Operations
Center (ESOC) is located in
Darmstadt?
› that ESA not only monitors closeorbit
satellites, it also sends interplanetary
missions such as “Mars
Express”? Mission “Rosetta”,
which started early 2004, will
reach a comet of the Jupiter
family in 2014.
› that in January 2005, the ESA
probe Huygens landed on the
surface of Saturn‘s largest moon,
Titan – 750 million miles from
earth?
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