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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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Co-author Dr Uwe Kaulfuss, of the University of Göttingen in Germany and former postdoctoral fellow in the University of Otago's Department of Geology, discovered the tiny fossils during an excavation at Hindon earlier this year.

From Science Daily Dec. 2, 2024

A long-running experiment led by Göttingen University, Germany, and including the IPB University, Bogor and Jambi University in Indonesia, has investigated how ecological restoration promotes biodiversity recovery in oil palm plantations in Sumatra.

From Science Daily Nov. 18, 2024

“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

The English students at Göttingen, in order to advance their German conversation, arranged to pay a fine whenever they spoke in English in one another's company.

From Heroes of Science: Physicists by Garnett, William

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