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- A city of southwest Germany on the Neckar River north-northwest of Stuttgart. First mentioned in the 1100s, it was the capital of the Palatinate until the early 1700s. Its university was established in 1386.
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city inBaden-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.
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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.
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Both would play leading roles in Heidelberg during the 1930s.
Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms 2010
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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 2010
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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 2010
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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 2010
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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 2010
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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 2010
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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 2010
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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.
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