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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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"The wavefunction is a fundamental quantity in quantum mechanics, yet it cannot be directly observed or measured," explains Professor Stefan Mathias at the University of Göttingen.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

"Our measurements clearly prove that 'Floquet effects' occur in the photoemission spectrum of graphene," says Dr. Marco Merboldt of the University of Göttingen, the study's first author.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2025

“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

A few incunabula and Aldines were purchased at Göttingen.

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by William Dunn Macray

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