Word: ttingen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adolf Windaus, 82, Berlin-born chemist who won the 1928 Nobel Prize for converting the substance ergosterol to antirachitic vitamin D, was the first to crystallize a vitamin (D in 1931), contributed valuable research to the use of sex hormones and digitalis; of a heart attack; in Göttingen, Germany...
Uncertainty. Neither theory is anywhere near being tested. To avoid "sensation," Heisenberg will not even publicly release his equation until next month. But physicists look for much from Heisenberg, head of the famed Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, and often called Einstein's successor. In 1932 Heisenberg won the Nobel Prize for one of modern physics' key laws, "the uncertainty principle," which holds that subatomic events cannot be observed individually without changing them by the very act of observation...
From one of West Germany's principal nuclear-research centers, the Max Planck Institute of Physics in Göttingen, came an unexpected rejoinder. Led by four Nobel Prizewinners-among them 77-year-old Otto Hahn, the first man to split the uranium atom-18 scientists proclaimed their "great worry" over Adenauer's proposal. One hydrogen bomb, they warned, could render the whole Ruhr Valley "uninhabitable." Worse yet, "the entire West German Republic could be rubbed out" by spreading radioactivity. The hooker: all 18 pledged themselves not to help the West German government...
...German philosophy by reaffirming the existence of objective truth and of a knowable world, i.e., phenomena. Edith's friends teased her, in rhyme, for thinking only of Husserl while other Austrian girls were dreaming of Busserl (Austrian patois for kiss). At Breslau University and later at Göttingen, she made such a mark with the clarity and precision of her thought that Philosopher Husserl asked her to become his assistant at Freiburg. She soon took her place as an equal beside the city's distinguished philosophers...
...Protest. When his appointment was announced, the rector and his entire senate (some 20 professors) at the University of Göttingen resigned in shocked protest. Then followed one of the most heartfelt outbursts of democratic feeling in West Germany's brief history. Students all over Germany protested; Göttingen's 5,000 students remained off campus, educators and scientists flooded the state government with protests. The West German press blasted him with editorials, devoting more space to his case than to Khrushchev's visit to Belgrade. Said the respected Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Schl...