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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…

…utes (E/D-Zug). (Information: Deutsche Bahn, Tel.: +49 761 19419 or +49 761 214-345, Mon – Fri 7:30 am – 8:00 pm, Sat 8:00 am – 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm – 6:30 pm). Freiburg – StraßburgBy train: one connection per hour Freiburg – Offenburg (change trains) – Strasbourg; duration: 1 hour 10 minutes (Information: Deutsche Bahn, Tel.: +49 761 19419 or +49 76…

1935 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Hans Spemann (*1869 – †1941) received the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development. Hans Spemann, born on 27 June 1869 in Stuttgart, initially followed in the footsteps of his father, publisher of a well-known series of children’s books called Neues Universum. In 1891…

1943 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Georg von Hevesy (*1885 – †1966) received the Nobel Prize for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes. Georg von Hevesy, born in 1885 in Budapest, studied at the universities of Budapest, Berlin, and Freiburg, where he received his PhD in 1908 with a dissertation on physical chemis…

Prof. Dr. Jörn Leonhard The historian Prof. Dr Jörn Leonhard, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History of Western Europe at the University of Freiburg, will receive the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2024, the German Research Foundation (DFG) announced on 7 December 2023. Leonhard is being honoured for his his work in the field of European and…

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…university buildings were heavily damaged or destroyed in 1945. The university was able to save 75% of the materials from the flames, mostly books. By the fall of the same year, the French occupation authorities had already granted their approval for the reconstruction and reopening of the University of Freiburg. Before matriculating, each student…

…rlin, Munich, and Heidelberg starting in 1905. OTTO STERN, 1943 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS Otto Stern (* 17 February 1888 in Sohrau, Upper Silesia; † 17 August 1969 in Berkeley) was a German physicist who immigrated to the USA in 1933. In 1943 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in recognition of his contribution to the development of the molecular r…

…Socialism and its rational implementation by the Nazi regime. This study is also regarded as a seminal work on the continuity problem before and after 1945 and the memory suppression policy of political and social elites in the early years of the Federal Republic of Germany….

Rolf Stürner (*1943 Stuttgart) received the State Research Prize for his work in the area of German and International Civil Procedure Law. Prof. Dr. Rolf Stürner from the Faculty of Law of the University of Freiburg has received the State Research Prize for fundamental research for his development of new international procedural principles. Globali…