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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

Lars Vogt, a sensitive, communicative pianist whose warmth as a collaborator made him an outstanding chamber musician and a conductor of growing stature, died on Monday at a clinic in Erlangen, Germany.

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2022

In 2015, Peter Banzer of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen Germany tested Freund’s hypothesis that light could be twisted.

From Scientific American • Jan. 16, 2021

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

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

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