“Physics is much too hard for physicists ... The Nazis’ purge of Jewish faculty in German universities had a particularly dramatic effect on the mathematical world. One-third of the ...

In an earlier publication, the research group led by Professor Stefan Mathias from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Göttingen was able to show how these dark excitons are created in an ...

Professor Jörg Enderlein's research group at the University of Göttingen's Faculty of Physics has now been able to double this resolution again -- with the help of a highly sensitive detector ...

More than one-third of physics departments in the United States lack a single female faculty member. That figure has been cited by some as evidence of discrimination. With women making up just 13 ...

In the first part of the twentieth century, Göttingen was regarded as the centre of the mathematical world – a position it lost in 1933 when more than 50 of its faculty were forced to leave the ...