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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)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has demonstrated experimentally that electrons in naturally occurring double-layer graphene move like particles without any mass, in the same way that light travels.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 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

With extensive fieldwork, researchers from the University of Göttingen in Germany and Ben Gurion University in Israel investigated how freshly germinated grass dies inside the fairy circle.

From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2024

In 1876 eleven MSS. went some to private persons, others to Augsburg, Paris, Göttingen, Heidelberg, Cambridge: the book sent to Augsburg without bond, and without guarantee for publication, was one of Laud's Greek MSS.

From Remarks on the practice and policy of lending Bodleian printed books and manuscripts by Chandler, Henry W.

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