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Erlangen

American  
[er-lahng-uhn] / ˈɛr lɑŋ ən /

noun

  1. a city in Bavaria, S Germany.


Erlangen British  
/ ˈɛrlaŋən /

noun

  1. a town in central Germany, in Bavaria: university (1743). Pop: 102 449 (2003 est)

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For a time, he kept his prize at Ferris Barracks in Erlangen, the former German military base just north of the city that housed American occupation forces after the war.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024

A research team at the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin, Erlangen led by Professor Vahid Sandoghdar has now successfully shown how small molecules and single nanoparticles can be applied directly onto the surface of cells.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024

After the war, he quickly earned his high school diploma and went on to study literature and philosophy at universities in Freiburg, Hamburg, Paris and Erlangen, where he earned a doctorate in philosophy in 1955.

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2022

He worked as an interpreter for some of the country’s English-speaking occupiers, and studied literature and philosophy at the universities of Erlangen, Freiburg and Hamburg, as well as at the Sorbonne in Paris.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2022

From Bonn he went to Erlangen, at which university he graduated in 1821.

From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir

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