With his research, Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik makes it possible to develop high-precision materials and surfaces ...

They stealthily began to work their way back into the popular imagination in the 19th century, when they charmed explorers ...

Alexander von Humboldt was a naturalist and explorer whose books about his travels won legions of admirers, among them the young Charles Darwin. Andrea Wulf, who wrote the biography The Invention ...

The Gorgas Courses in Tropical Medicine are held at the Alexander von Humboldt Tropical Medicine Institute in Lima, located next to the Tropical Diseases Unit of the Cayetano Heredia Hospital, the ...

Victoria Stodden, statistician and associate professor at the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems ...

Alexander von Humboldt was born in September 1769. He was a child of the enlightenment and lived to the ripe old age of 89. We asked Dr Katrin Amian from the Humboldt Foundation in Bonn to tell us ...

The Gorgas Diploma Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine is a 9-week course taught in english in the Alexander von Humboldt Tropical Medicine Institute in Lima, Peru for a maximum of 38 participants.

His work is supported by an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship which comes with €5 million in funding. Dayan is the first recipient of this programme, but is not alone. By 2025 there will be ...

Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was a naturalist, explorer and philanthropist now well known for his multidisciplinary approach to science. First published in English in 1873, this two-volume ...