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…here it received the third-highest score in Germany. This category includes a range of indicators measuring the impact of research in the relation to the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs), as well as on national statistics about the outcomes for research and development, and the presence of research centres with a focus on ecological sustain…

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…era. The university experienced a boom in these years: In 1957, on the University of Freiburg’s 500th anniversary, a new constitution was approved. The reconstruction was almost completed by this time, ground had been broken for new buildings like university building II, and the university now had a total of 10,000 students. Not until 1968, when th…

…social, and institutional phenomena (with Gunnar Myrdal). 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Hans Adolf Krebs (*1900 – †1981) received the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the citric acid cycle. 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Hermann Staudinger (*1881 – †1965) received the Nobel Prize for his great contribution to the understanding of polyme…

Nikolaus Pfanner (*1956 Simmerberg im Allgäu) received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for his work in the area of Molecular Cell Biology. In the official statement justifying the selection of Professor Pfanner for the award, the DFG lauds his great contributions to improving our understanding of how proteins are imported into the compartments…

Ulrich Herbert (*1951 Düsseldorf) received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for his work in the area of Early Modern and Modern History. Upon completing a degree in history, German studies, and European ethnology, Ulrich initially worked for several years as a secondary school teacher before going on to earn his PhD in Essen in 1985 and his habi…

Joachim Ullrich (*1956 Edenkoben) received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for his work in the area of Experimental Physics. Joachim Ullrich studied experimental physics at the University of Frankfurt am Main, where he also went on to earn his PhD at the Institute of Nuclear Physics in 1987 and his habilitation in 1994. He was appointed to his…

Nikolaus Pfanner (*1956 Simmerberg im Allgäu) received the Max Planck Research Prize for his work in the area of Molecular Cell Biology. Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Pfanner, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, received the research prize for his seminal findings concerning the functioning of cells. The inside of cells, the smallest units of an…

Nikolaus Pfanner(*1956 Simmerberg im Allgäu) received the State Research Prize for his work in the area of Molecular Cell Biology. Professor Pfanner is the first scientist ever to decipher the composition of the power plants of the cell (mitochondria). In addition, he and his team gathered insights on how proteins, which are active in the power pla…

Peter Auer (*1954 Regensburg) received the State Research Prize for his work in the area of Linguistics. Peter Auer, linguistics professor at the University of Freiburg and co-director of the School of Language & Literature at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), received the 2011 Baden-Württemberg State Research Prize for his work…