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From: "Almut Becker" <[log in to unmask]>
Leonor Michaelis Fellowship
The Leo Baeck Institute London is inviting applications for a
fellowship for doctoral or postdoctoral studies.
The Leonor Michaelis Fellowship of 1,200 euros per month (or £850) is
granted for a year. An extension is possible. Applicants should have
completed their studies in the humanities or sciences with an
outstanding degree and should have an interest in Jewish history. The
planned research should be related to the LBI project Jews in German
Academia, 19th and 20th Centuries and deal with developments in one of
the following disciplines: biology, chemistry, history, classical
philology, philosophy, physics, or theoretical medicine.
The Leo Baeck Institute London, founded in 1955, is the leading
research institution for studies devoted to German-speaking Jewry. It
publishes the well known LBI Year Book and Schriftenreihe. The
Institute is connected with the British university system in various
ways, e.g. by jointly organising the MA and PhD programme Modern
European Jewish History, Culture and Thought with the University of
Sussex.
Applications including CV, research proposal, and the names and contact
details of three referees should be submitted by 30 June 2007 to:
Leo Baeck Institute London
4 Devonshire Street
London W1W 5LB
Contact and further information: [log in to unmask]
Leonor Michaelis (1875-1949) from Berlin, founder of quantitative
enzymology, was one of the great figures of German biochemistry in the
beginning of the 20th century. He did not receive a position in German
academia because he was Jewish, held politically liberal views, and
distinguished himself by a scientific orientation which was unusual in
medical research at the time. In 1922 he emigrated to Japan and later
to the USA, where he became a member of the Rockefeller Institute for
Medicine in New York.
Almut Becker
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Leo Baeck Institute
4 Devonshire Street
London W1W 5LB
Tel 020 7580 3493
Fax 020 7436 8634
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