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The Summer Campus of the Department of Computer Science received the State Teaching Award for work in the area of Computer Science. The Summer Campus of the Faculty of Engineering is a two-week summer school held during the break between summer and winter semester. The Summer Campus provides employees and students of the faculty as well as external…

Janina Kirsch received the State Teaching Award for her work in the area of Neurosciences. “Das menschliche Gehirn – Ein Mal- und Bastelkurs” Dr. Janina Kirsch, coordinator at the Bernstein Center and lecturer at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Freiburg, received the 2011 Baden-Württemberg State Teaching Award for her course “Das mensch…

Nikolaus Pfanner (*1956 Simmerberg im Allgäu) received the Hector Research Prize for his work in the area of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Prof. Dr. Pfanner is an expert on mitochondria, the so-called “cellular power plants.” They provide the energy the cell needs to maintain its life-sustaining functions. Pfanner was the first bioscientist i…

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1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Heinrich Otto Wieland (*1877 – †1957) received the Nobel Prize for his research on the constitution of the bile acids and related substances. Heinrich Wieland was born in Pforzheim and studied chemistry in Munich, Berlin, and Stuttgart. In 1901 he received his PhD at Adolf von Baeyer’s renowned State Laboratory, where…

1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Hermann Staudinger (*1881 – †1965) received the Nobel Prize for his great contribution to the understanding of polymers. Hermann Staudinger, born in Worms in 1881, studied chemistry in Halle, Darmstadt, and Munich and earned his PhD from the University of Halle in 1903. After completing his habilitation in Strasbourg i…

1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Hans Adolf Krebs (*1900 – †1981) received the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the citric acid cycle. Hans Adolf Krebs, son of a Jewish ear, nose, and throat doctor in Hildesheim, studied Medicine in Göttingen, Freiburg, Berlin, and Munich. He earned his doctorate in Hamburg in 1924 and worked as assistant…

1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Georg Wittig (*1897 – †1987) received the Nobel Prize for his discovery of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds in important reagents in organic synthesis. (with Herbert C. Brown) Georg Wittig was born in Berlin and grew up in Kassel. After completing secondary school, he studied chemistry at the universities of…

Constitution of the University of Freiburg Constitution of the University of Freiburg from 25 October 2022 (in German) Further statutes of the University of Freiburg may be viewed on the page Laws of the University of Freiburg (in German). State Higher Education Act The state law regulating public higher education institutions in Baden-Württemberg…

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