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Leipzig University is a public research university in Leipzig, Germany, founded in 1409 and among the oldest in the country. Gottfried Leibniz studied there, and Gustav Fechner, who founded psychophysics, and Wilhelm Ostwald, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, worked there. Werner Heisenberg also held a chair at Leipzig. The atlas links scientists to it where their cited articles say they studied or taught there, including under the name University of Leipzig.

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Leipzig University (German: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and Germany's second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence).
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The university was founded on 2 December 1409
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Svante Paabo (Wikipedia)
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Leipzig University Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology LMU Munich University of California, Berkeley University of Zurich
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Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (Wikipedia)
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    Leipzig University Institute for Advanced Study Tokyo University of Education RIKEN University of Tokyo
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    Leipzig University Institute for Advanced Study Tokyo University of Education RIKEN University of Tokyo
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Walther Nernst (Wikipedia)
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University of Göttingen Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin Leipzig University
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Wladimir Koppen (Wikipedia)
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University of Heidelberg, University of Leipzig
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Wikipedia: Ferdinand Zirkel
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University of Leipzig
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Gustav Ludwig Hertz (Wikipedia)
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