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6 unusual facts about Austrian Academy of Sciences


29250 Helmutmoritz

It is named for Helmut Moritz, an Austrian professor of physical geodesy and member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Austrian Academy of Sciences

The Academy is also a learned society, and its past members have included Christian Doppler, Theodor Billroth, Anton Eiselsberg, Eduard Suess, Ludwig Boltzmann, Paul Kretschmer, Hans Horst Meyer, Roland Scholl, and the Nobel Prize winners Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Victor Hess, Erwin Schrödinger and Konrad Lorenz.

Baltimartyria

The first known fossil was originally studied and described by Hans Rebel of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria.

Erwin Schrödinger Prize

The Erwin Schrödinger Prize (German: Erwin Schrödinger-Preis) is an annual award presented by the Austrian Academy of Sciences for lifetime achievement by Austrians in the fields of mathematics and natural sciences.

Martin Gropius

In 1856 Gropius was appointed to a professorship at the Academy of Applied Art and was later a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities as well as the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Terence Mitford

He found many previously unknown inscriptions, assisting the work of the Austrian Academy of Sciences's Committee for the Archaeological Exploration of Asia Minor.


Fritz Pregl Prize

Fritz Pregl Prize is awarded annually since 1931 by the Austrian Academy of Sciences from the funds left at its disposal by the Nobel prize-winning chemist Fritz Pregl to an Austrian scientist for distinguished achievements in chemistry.

German School of Milan

Giulio Superti-Furga Scientific Director of the Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences


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