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From Automobile Nation to High-Tech Centre

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Photo: Deutscher ZukunftspreisAround 10% of all the Nobel Prizes ever awarded went to German scientists. In the past 15 years, the work of eight German researchers has been acknowledged in the form of a Nobel Prize. This places German third, behind the United States and Britain. A total of 27 German researchers have received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 22 in Physics, and 15 in Medicine respectively Physiology.


Germany enjoys a tradition of outstanding research and development. These roots begin with Johannes Gutenberg's book printing via Carl Friedrich Benz's automobile and Einstein's Theory of Relativity through to Karlheinz Brandenburg's MP3 format. Moreover, the invention of the refrigerator, the neon lamp, the tram, the glider or the smartcard all go back to the work of German scientists.

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Innovative Force and Strong Trade Marks

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Source: http://www.daad.de/deutschland/forschung/forschungslandschaft/04725.en.html
Date: 2008-11-20