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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- A city of southwest Germany on the Neckar River north-northwest of Stuttgart. First mentioned in the 12th century, it was the capital of the Palatinate until the early 18th century. Its university was established in 1386. Population: 145,000.
Wiktionary
- n. A city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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“Walter Withers, David Davies, Clara Southern, Tudor St George Tucker and a couple of other painters are almost always included in the title Heidelberg artists.”
“Meyerhof and his colleagues in Heidelberg worked out step after step of the glycolytic pathway.”
Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry
“It helped, of course, that Krehl knew Meyerhof personally from his earlier years in Heidelberg, but accepting a Nobel Prize winner as second choice was hardly a bitter pill for Krehl to swallow.”
Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry
“To his assistants and students in Heidelberg, he was both a mentor and true friend - an unusual practice, given the elevated stature of senior scientists and the formality of the time.”
Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry
“After Meyerhof arrived in Heidelberg, the identification of the individual reaction steps of the metabolic pathways in yeast and muscle glycolysis were increasingly coupled with the study of enzyme mechanisms.”
Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry
“More revealingly, Bothe accused Kuhn of taking over the de facto leadership of the KWImF without consulting his colleagues in Heidelberg and then shrewdly positioning himself with the KWG administration to obtain the official post.”
“Institute - was equally excited about having Kuhn as a potential collaborator in Heidelberg, especially since Kuhn had experience with carbohydrate chemistry and the involvement of lactic acid in muscle - central themes in Meyerhof's own research.”
Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms
“Both would play leading roles in Heidelberg during the 1930s.”
Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms
“He carefully avoided direct confrontation, preferring subtle criticism and a behind-the-scenes approach to his administration - both at KWImF in Heidelberg and in regard to external scientific politics.”
Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms
“Soon after Gentner arrived in Heidelberg, Bothe also recruited Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, who had done his doctorate with the Nobel Laureate James Franck.”
Walther Bothe and the Physics Institute: the Early Years of Nuclear Physics
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