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History of modern science and technology, lives in chemistry & physics, autobiographies

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Vom Röntgenbild zur Reaktorkugel.
Von Hahn & Meitner bis Farm Hall.
Von Atomeuphorie bis Protest.
Anlässlich der Ausstellung ⚛️„Strahlende Zeiten!“ des Verlagsautors Michael Schaaf im Bomann-Museum Celle am 27. Juni 2026: unser Programm zum #Atomzeitalter
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Ausstellungseröffnung: https://t.co/d6aDCaOtDQ

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🌻Wir trauern um unseren Autor Wolfgang Beck, ein Mentor der Chemie an der LMU München für Generationen, der am 19. Januar verstarb. In seinem Buch mit 70 Biographien ihrer prägenden Köpfe https://t.co/zW5viKiXDT hat er all seine Erfahrungen gebündelt. https://t.co/h5WcwMW80c

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Advent calendar 2025—day 24: The Light

From Adolf Luther’s acrylic-glass lenses in Krefeld to microscopes and telescopes, lenses make light—and worlds from particles to galaxies visible. As this Advent calendar comes to a close, our gaze turns to the Star of Bethlehem.

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Advent calendar 2025—day 23: Kinetic lenses

From Zeiss’ 1846 workshop to kinetic light art, Jena’s lens culture links physics and aesthetics. Which German kinetic artist, famed for glass lenses and mirrors, died in 1990?

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Advent calendar 2025—day 22: Quantum art

From Planck to phones—and Munich’s “Seeing the Unseen” links quantum physics & art. Our riddle: which famous quantum theorist did Friedrich Hund team up with in Leipzig?

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Advent calendar 2025—day 21: Goblin Ore

From CoAl₂O₄ to “Kobold” (“Goblin”) mine spirits: why cobalt ore fooled silver miners in the Ore Mountains—and when did Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří become UNESCO World Heritage?

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Advent calendar 2025—day 20: Cobalt blue & IKB

From Yves Klein’s famous International Klein Blue process to Sabine Becker’s acrylic cobalt blue—discover why this intense hue glows and what mining secret hides in the name “cobalt blue”.

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Advent calendar 2025—day 19: Installations

Water is densest at 3.98°C (so lakes freeze from the top), and today’s riddle follows artist-physicist Peter Vogel—what was his first job as a graduate physicist?

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Advent calendar 2025—day 18: Pretty Dense

From Frei Otto’s acrylic Olympic roof to Clemens Hutter’s ice-warped steel, today’s quick quiz asks when water’s density starts dropping again above 0°C.

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Advent calendar 2025—day 17: The Plastic

1960 brought Maiman’s ruby laser (pulsed) and Javan/Bennett/Herriott’s gas laser (continuous)—now guess the iconic plastic architecture in Germany linked to 1972 and tell us in the comments.

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Advent calendar 2025—day 16: Laserblade

Lasers don’t just paint the night sky—they can slice 10-cm (4-in) steel, like Bernhard Müller-Feyen’s 1996 sculpture; can you guess the year the first laser was built?

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Advent calendar 2025—day 15: And there was light

Tagblatt Tower—Stuttgart’s 1927–28 New Objectivity high-rise, first exposed-concrete skyscraper, once glowed with Moore gas-discharge tubes; what light did Moore sneer was “too small, too hot, too red”?

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🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 14: Rising towers

From Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp chapel to Stuttgart’s pioneering TV tower and an earlier 1920s landmark: can you guess which structure changed tower design worldwide?

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🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 13: Jellyfish Concrete

Jellyfish lines & concrete dreams – from Ulrike Michaelis’s medusa drawings to a 1955 French icon where organic form, structure and function flow together; guess the UNESCO-listed building!

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🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 12: Jellyfish Art

Ernst Haeckel’s “Art Forms in Nature”: How microscopic sea life and jellyfish studies shaped 100 iconic plates that still inspire artists from Art Nouveau to today.

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„Aufgebrochen“: Wie Naturwissenschaftler Neuorientierung meistern
Buchbesprechung VDI-Nachrichten von heute

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🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 11: Art Forms in Nature

From Max Uhlig’s algae-like lines to Nathanael Pringsheim’s proof that algae reproduce sexually, today’s door asks: which Jena zoologist behind “Art Forms in Nature” inspired artists?

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🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 10: Dresden Painter

Physics meets art—who is the Dresden art student who started graphic design in 1955, later became painting professor in 1995, and painted the watercolor behind me?

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