Nobel Prize Winners and Inventors from Hessen - invest-in-hessen
Nobel Prize Winners and Inventors from Hessen - invest-in-hessen
Nobel Prize Winners and Inventors from Hessen - invest-in-hessen
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The second-largest university <strong>in</strong><br />
<strong>Hessen</strong> is the Justus-Liebig-Universität<br />
Giessen. In addition to a broad<br />
curriculum that <strong>in</strong>cludes the classic<br />
sciences, legal <strong>and</strong> bus<strong>in</strong>ess studies,<br />
social <strong>and</strong> educational studies, <strong>and</strong><br />
language <strong>and</strong> cultural studies, it also<br />
offers a range of discipl<strong>in</strong>es that is<br />
unique not just <strong>in</strong> <strong>Hessen</strong>: human<br />
<strong>and</strong> veter<strong>in</strong>ary medic<strong>in</strong>e, agricultural<br />
30<br />
Emil von Behr<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Inventor of diphtheria serum<br />
1901 Receives the <strong>Nobel</strong> <strong>Prize</strong> for<br />
Medic<strong>in</strong>e <strong>in</strong> Munich<br />
science, home economics, <strong>and</strong><br />
nutritional science. The profi le<br />
of Frankfurt´s Johann-Wolfgang-<br />
Goethe-Universität, the largest<br />
Hessian university, is marked primarily<br />
by liberal arts, social sciences,<br />
<strong>and</strong> economics. With the ”Biozentrum“<br />
<strong>and</strong> the ”Max-Planck-<br />
Institut für Biophysik“ <strong>in</strong> Frankfurt,<br />
the “life sciences” also have two<br />
Johann Philipp Reis<br />
1861 Philipp Reis <strong>in</strong>troduces<br />
the fi rst telephone.<br />
Otto Hahn<br />
The Frankfurt native w<strong>in</strong>s the <strong>Nobel</strong><br />
<strong>Prize</strong> for Chemistry for his work <strong>in</strong><br />
splitt<strong>in</strong>g the atom.<br />
extraord<strong>in</strong>ary research <strong>in</strong>stitutions,<br />
which promote valuable exchange<br />
<strong>in</strong> the areas of pharmacy, biochemistry,<br />
physics, <strong>and</strong> biology. For biotechnology<br />
companies, the Frankfurt<br />
Innovation Center for Biotechnology<br />
(FIZ) is of the greatest importance,<br />
because it supports cooperation<br />
between bus<strong>in</strong>ess <strong>and</strong> science.<br />
<strong>Nobel</strong> <strong>Prize</strong> <strong>W<strong>in</strong>ners</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Inventors</strong> <strong>from</strong> <strong>Hessen</strong><br />
Gerd B<strong>in</strong>nig<br />
1986 Receives the <strong>Nobel</strong> <strong>Prize</strong> for<br />
Physics for <strong>in</strong>vent<strong>in</strong>g a special<br />
microscope capable of unravell<strong>in</strong>g<br />
nanostructures
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