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Göttingen

American  
[gœt-ing-uhn] / ˈgœt ɪŋ ən /

noun

  1. a city in central Germany.


Göttingen British  
/ ˈɡœtɪŋən /

noun

  1. a city in central Germany, in Lower Saxony: important member of the Hanseatic League (14th century); university, founded in 1734 by George II of England. Pop: 122 883 (2003 est)

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“It is important to take care of these critters in particular because we know so little about them,” said Ina Schaefer, a soil invertebrate ecology researcher at the University of Göttingen in Germany.

From New York Times • May 24, 2024

The researchers plan to enroll 56 patients who are early in the course of prion disease in Cleveland and at study sites in Los Angeles; Barcelona, Spain; Boston; Göttingen, Germany; Edmonton, Canada; and elsewhere.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 21, 2024

Researchers from Göttingen and Hannover have now succeeded for the first time in visualising the copying machine of chloroplasts, the RNA polymerase PEP, in high-resolution 3D.

From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2024

An international research team led by the universities of Göttingen in Germany and Bogor in Indonesia brings these threads together in this study.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2024

He left Magdeburg in 1841 in order to increase his scientific knowledge at Göttingen, and there he studied chemistry and physics, with the view of becoming an engineer.

From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Cochrane, Robert

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