Portrait of Alexander von Humboldt, by Julius Schrader, 1859. Behind Humboldt are the mountains of Chimborazo and Cotopaxi in Ecuador. Humboldt’s exploration of these peaks shaped his view of nature ...
Translation of: Alexander von Humboldt : Bilder-Welten : die Zeichnungen aus den Amerikanischen Reisetagebüchern. ©2018. Images from Humboldt's Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent, ...
Andreas W. Daum, trans. from the German by Robert Savage. Princeton Univ, $24.95 (214p) ISBN 978-0-691-24736-6 This competent biography from Daum (Kennedy in Berlin), a history professor at SUNY ...
Who has a Brazilian river, Mexican mountain, glacier in Greenland, and crater on the Moon named after him—although today, he’s largely forgotten? Meet globe-trekking explorer, scientist, and ...
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The Humboldt Research Award is a prestigious honor conferred on internationally renowned scholars and scientists in recognition of their entire academic record to date. An academic at a German ...
Northwestern Engineering’s Randall Snurr has been awarded a Humboldt Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The Humboldt Research Award honors internationally recognized researchers ...
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