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  Hermann von Helmholtz - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Helmholtz was the son of a gymnasium headmaster, Ferdinand Helmholtz, who had studied classical philology and philosophy, and who was a close friend of the publisher and philosoper Immanuel Hermann Fichte.
The sensory physiology of Helmholtz was the basis of the work of Wilhelm Wundt, a student of Helmholtz, who is considered one of the founders of experimental psychology.
Helmholtz had in his early refutal of the speculative early nineteenth century tradition of Naturphilosophie stressed the importance of materialism, and was focusing more on the unity of "mind" and body.
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 Hermann von Helmholtz Association of National Research Centres
As a scientific organisation, the HGF promotes the exchange of experience and information between its members as well as the co-ordination of research and development work, assumes tasks of common concern and represents the interests of the HGF to the outside world.
The Helmholtz centres are engaged in research and development in natural science, technology and biological medicine.
The Helmholtz centres receive 90 percent of their funds from the Federal Government and 10 percent from the respective host Federal State.
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 HERMANN VON HELMHOLTZ FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Helmholtz was the son of the Potsdam Gymnasium headmaster, Ferdinand Helmholtz, who had studied classical philology and philosophy, and who was a close friend of the publisher and philosopher Immanuel_Hermann_Fichte.
Helmholtz is thought to be the first person to put forward the idea of the heat_death_of_the_universe in 1854.
In 1851, Helmholtz revolutioned the field of ophthalmology with the invention the ophthalmoscope; an instrument used to examine the inside of the human eye.
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 Hermann von Helmholtz Article, HermannvonHelmholtz Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Helmholtz was the son of a gymnasium headmaster,Ferdinand Helmholtz, who had studied classical philology and philosophy, and who was a close friend of the publisher and philosoper Immanuel Hermann Fichte.
The sensory physiology of Helmholtz was the basis of the work of WilhelmWundt, a student of Helmholtz, who is considered one of the founders of experimental psychology.
Helmholtz had in his early refutal of the speculative early nineteenth centurytradition of Naturphilosophie stressed the importance of materialism, and was focusing more on the unity of "mind" and body.
www.anoca.org /he/physiology/hermann_von_helmholtz.html   (567 words)

  
 News, Publications, Ausländerbehörde, Award, scholar, scientist, fellowships, Alexander von Humboldt ...
This joint award, which the Helmholtz Association and the Humboldt Foundation are granting for the first time this year, recognizes renowned scientists and scholars from abroad.
Honouring outstanding researchers: this is the joint objective being pursued by the Helmholtz Association and the Humboldt Foundation in establishing the new Helmholtz Award-Winners' Programme.
Candidates for the Helmholtz Research Award may be nominated by the executive boards and leading academics at Helmholtz Centres as well as by institutions of higher education collaborating with them, and by former Helmholtz or Humboldt Research Award winners.
www.avh.de /en/aktuelles/presse/pn_archiv_2004/2004_10.htm   (612 words)

  
 Helmholtz Association
With its 15 research centres and annual budget of approx 2.2 billion euros the Helmholtz Association is Germany’s largest research institution.
The Helmholtz Association identifies and takes on the grand challenges of society, science and the economy, in particular through the investigation of highly complex systems.
The special programme jointly run by the Helmholtz Association and the DAAD is intended for highly-qualified foreign doctoral and postdoctoral students.
www.helmholtz.de   (409 words)

  
 EUROPA - Research - Headlines - German research science association taps young talent
The Helmholtz Association – a community of national scientific, technical and biomedical research centres – announced that it would be extending its successful Young Investigators programme which it launched last year.
Each group would be affiliated with one of the Helmholtz’s 15 associated research centres which include such prestigious names as the German Research Centre for Biotechnology in Braunschweig, the German Aerospace Centre in Cologne and the National Research Centre for Environment and Health in Neuherberg.
To make sure this ‘brain gain’ programme takes hold, the Association said the first batch of 20 research groups would be funded for a period of five years, and that there are plans to add 20 new groups to the roster each year for the next five years.
europa.eu.int /comm/research/headlines/news/article_04_08_27_en.html   (452 words)

  
 i-Newswire.com - Press Release And News Distribution - Brain Gain: Recruiting and keeping excellent young scientists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Association has succeeded in encouraging nine excellent German researchers working at renowned foreign institutions to return to Germany as well as in recruiting one British and one Brazilian scientist for the programme.
With its 15 Research Centres and a budget of around 2.2 billion euros, the Helmholtz Association is the largest scientific research organisation in Germany.
The Helmholtz Association identifies and addresses the grand challenges facing society, science and industry, in particular by researching systems of great complexity.
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At the end of 2004, the Helmholtz Association announced that it will allocate € 526 million per year (almost one third of its institutional funding) to research dedicated to key technologies and structure of matter.
This was the third and last stage in a reform process during which the Helmholtz Association introduced programme-oriented funding of research and promoted greater interdisciplinarity, competition, and cooperation among its 15 members.
The Helmholtz Association is a non-university research umbrella organisation for 15 research centres.
www.britischebotschaft.de /en/embassy/r&t/notes/rt-note05.1001(m)_helmholtz.htm   (608 words)

  
 Research & Technology Factsheet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Professor Walter Kröll, formerly Chairman of the Board of Directors of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) was elected President of the Helmholtz Association in September 2001.
As part of this, the association moved from institute-based towards programme-oriented funding in order to increase competition and the exploitation of synergies between the individual centres.
Some 80% of the Helmholtz Association's budget are spent on priority programmes, while the remaining 20% are allocated in the form of institutional funding.
www.britischebotschaft.de /en/embassy/r&t/notes/rt-fs006_Helmholtz.html   (1052 words)

  
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Developing new methods for the investigation of materials with synchrotron radiation, studying the effect of intense flashes of X-ray radiation on single atoms, exploring the properties of plasmas, or investigating the interplay between particle physics and cosmology — these are the objectives of four "Virtual Institutes" coordinated by the DESY research center in Hamburg.
By founding these institutes, which are run jointly by different centers of the Helmholtz Association as well as universities, the participating institutions intend to pool their know-how and focus their activities in these areas.
The President of the Helmholtz Association is equipped with an “Initiative and Networking Fund” amounting to 25 million Euro each year.
www.physorg.com /printnews.php?newsid=4448   (907 words)

  
 Helmholtz-DAAD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Helmholtz Association is Germany’s largest research organisation with an annual budget of around 2.2 billion euros and 24,000 staff concentrated in 15 research centres.
The Helmholtz Association works on solving the grand challenges which face society, science and industry and concentrates on researching systems of great complexity in the following six research fields: Earth and Environment, Energy, Health, Key Technologies,Structure of Matter and Transport and Space.
Direct applications to the Head Offices of the DAAD or the Helmholtz Association in Bonn, or to the Helmholtz Centres will not be accepted.
www.helmholtz.de /en/News/Helmholtz_Calls_for_Application/Helmholtz-DAAD.html;jsessionid=7FEEF213BE37FF3D519AEF4557A4AF15   (440 words)

  
 Young European Biotech Network (YEBN) Web Portal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In its mission statement, the Helmholtz Association defines the promotion of young scientists as one of its key objectives.
Its new strategy for junior researchers, approved by the Helmholtz Senate, recognises the central importance of junior researchers for internationally competitive research.
One element of the Helmholtz strategy for junior researchers is the establishment of independent Young Investigators Groups.
www.yebn.org /portal/print.php?sid=81   (300 words)

  
 Hermann_von_Helmholtz
Helmholtz was the son of a gymnasium headmaster, Ferdinand Helmholtz, who had studied classical philology and philosophy, and who was a close friend of the publisher and philosopher Immanuel Hermann Fichte.
Other students and research associates of Helmholtz at Berlin included Max Planck, Heinrich Kayser, Eugen Goldstein, Wilhelm Wien, Arthur König, Henry Augustus Rowland, A.
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 Press Releases Bonn, 4.08.2004 - HRK/41/04 HRK
This is why the HRK and the Helmholtz Association have adopted a number of joint key points "on cooperating together and on promoting young academics and researchers".
As from 2005, the universities and the Helmholtz Association plan to create special groups of highly-talented doctoral students from Germany and abroad which promise to provide particularly high-quality training.
The German Rectors' Conference and the Helmholtz Association agree that a system of structured training based on comparable and high standards should be established in the medium term for all jointly supervised doctoral students.
www.hrk.de /eng/presse/95_1491.php   (455 words)

  
 Helmholtz-EOS Main
Participants are among others the directors of the participating Helmholtz Centers and the speaker of the research areas.
Continued growth of the world’s population, the resulting intensified exploitation of our planet and its resources, and the increasing susceptibility of society to natural disasters all call for sustained and internationally agreed activity to preserve our living environment.
The Helmholtz Research Fields "Earth and Environment" and "Transport and Space" are being linked to create an "Integrated Earth Observing System.“ Its purpose is to concentrate expertise and share infrastructure and data, initially in three research programs: Ocean and Cryosphere, Disaster Management, and Land Surface Processes.
helmholtz-eos.dlr.de /start_en.htm   (501 words)

  
 Germany's engines of innovation: Top-notch research centres - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
The GSI and the DKFZ are two of the Helmholtz Association's 15 major research centres.
Helmholtz is the umbrella organisation for the high-tech 'supertankers' of scientific research in Germany, most of which are extremely big, extremely expensive and world-famous, like the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg or the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven.
Every year the Helmholtz institutes attract thousands of foreign researchers to use their globally unique installations for physical or medical experiments.
www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20041001T200000-0500_66938_OBS_GERMANY_S_ENGINES_OF_INNOVATION__TOP_NOTCH_RESEARCH_CENTRES.asp   (1588 words)

  
 Fuel Cell Works Supplemental News Page
Erlangen-- Siemens AG and the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers today signed an agreement in Erlangen on continuing, expanded exchange of know-how.
Siemens and the Helmholtz Association have a long-standing history of successful cooperation both in the field of basic and applied research.
With its 15 research centers and annual budget of approx 2.2 billion euros the Helmholtz Association is Germany’s largest research organisation.
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 DAAD - wandel durch austausch - change by exchange
The Helmholtz Association is Germany's largest research organisation with an annual budget of around 2.2 billion euros and 24,000 staff.
The Helmholtz Association works on solving the grand challenges which face society, science and industry and concentrates on researching systems of great complexity.
Further information on the Helmholtz Association is available from www.helmholtz.de.
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 German-Chinese scientific co-operation office opens in Beijing
This office is the only the association’s second outside Germany, with the other based in Brussels.
The main focus of the co-operation is upon long-term projects in the Helmholtz Association’s six research fields; energy, earth and environment, health, key technologies, structure of matter, and transport and space.
On this basis, our scientists at the Helmholtz Centres are researching highly complex systems together with their Chinese partners using large-scale facilities and scientific infrastructures.
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 campus-germany.de - News - Siemens to co-operate with the Helmholtz Association (03/23/2005)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Siemens plc and the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres have signed an agreement to intensify their continued co-operation.
The aim of the agreement is to be able to assess new fields of development and technology as soon as possible and to then draw up concrete objectives for their joint research projects.
Siemens and the Helmholtz Association already share a long and successful history of co-operation, both in the field of pure as well of applied research.
www.campus-germany.de /english/10.4977.1.html   (262 words)

  
 HGF Programmes
IFF is a department of Research Centre Jülich in the Hermann von Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (HGF).
The Helmholtz Association is Germany's largest research institution.
These are associated with two of the six research fields of HGF-key technologies and structure of matter.
www.fz-juelich.de /iff/index.php?path=e_iff_fevorhaben&index=105&portal=1   (114 words)

  
 Germany Info: Business & Technology: What's New?
A connection between the patterns of calcium concentration and intra-cellular signal transmission has long been apparent, but the work of the research team has for the first time revealed the relationship between the patterns and the behavior of cell components.
The interdisciplinary team was made up of Martin Falcke, a theoretical physicist at the Berlin Hahn-Meitner Institute of the Helmholtz Association, and biologists James D. Lechleiter and Patricia Camacho at the University of Texas in San Antonio.
The Erwin Schrödinger Prize, awarded with a 50,000 euro stipend by the Association of Foundations for German Science (Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft), will be presented to the researchers in October at the annual conference of the Helmholz Association, the largest scientific organization in Germany, in Hamburg.
www.germany-info.org /relaunch/business/new/bus_heimholtz_prize.html   (213 words)

  
 Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The guidelines have been forwarded to the Feinberg graduate school.
Helmholtz Fellowship - The special programme jointly run by the Helmholtz Association and the DAAD is intended for highly-qualified foreign doctoral and postdoctoral students.
Fellows do research in the fields of Earth and Environment, Health, Key Technologies, Structure of Matter, Transport and Space at a Helmholtz Association Research Center and can use the outstanding scientific infrastructure which the Helmholtz Centres maintain.
www.weizmann.ac.il /RGP_open/postdoc/DAAD.html   (247 words)

  
 kompetenznetze.de - Germany's largest research institute rewards nano discovery
The Helmholtz Association of National Research Centres in Germany has awarded its prestigious Erwin Schrödinger Prize for interdisciplinary research to a team of physicists and chemists who have developed a groundbreaking method to separate tiny carbon tubes in the field of nanotechnology.
Before the separation of the carbon tubes, the Karlsruhe team had 'succeeded in measuring the electric current through individual organic molecules' explained the Helmholtz Association in a statement.
The carbon tubes of the Karlsruhe researchers could then function as 'wires', and the organic molecules serve as a storage medium,' the association concluded.
www.kompetenznetze.de /navi/en/Services/nachrichten,did=90036.html   (399 words)

  
 German Cancer Research Center
The results of this basic research are expected to be developed into new approaches in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.
The German Cancer Research Center is a foundation under public law and a member of the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers (Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren).
In addition, the Center is part of the cooperative association of the Tumor Center Heidelberg/Mannheim.
www.dkfz.de   (97 words)

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