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🌻Wir trauern um unseren Autor Wolfgang Beck, ein Mentor der Chemie an der LMU München für Generationen, der am 19. Januar verstarb. In seinem Buch mit 70 Biographien ihrer prägenden Köpfe gnt-verlag.de/1141 hat er all seine Erfahrungen gebündelt. cup.uni-muenchen.de/de/aktuelles/n…

Advent calendar 2025—day 24: The Light From Adolf Luther’s acrylic-glass lenses in Krefeld to microscopes and telescopes, lenses make light—and worlds from particles to galaxies visible. As this Advent calendar comes to a close, our gaze turns to the Star of Bethlehem.

Advent calendar 2025—day 23: Kinetic lenses From Zeiss’ 1846 workshop to kinetic light art, Jena’s lens culture links physics and aesthetics. Which German kinetic artist, famed for glass lenses and mirrors, died in 1990? #ScienceArtTechAdvent

Advent calendar 2025—day 22: Quantum art From Planck to phones—and Munich’s “Seeing the Unseen” links quantum physics & art. Our riddle: which famous quantum theorist did Friedrich Hund team up with in Leipzig? #ScienceArtTechAdvent

Advent calendar 2025—day 21: Goblin Ore From CoAl₂O₄ to “Kobold” (“Goblin”) mine spirits: why cobalt ore fooled silver miners in the Ore Mountains—and when did Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří become UNESCO World Heritage? #ScienceArtTechAdvent

Advent calendar 2025—day 20: Cobalt blue & IKB From Yves Klein’s famous International Klein Blue process to Sabine Becker’s acrylic cobalt blue—discover why this intense hue glows and what mining secret hides in the name “cobalt blue”. #ScienceArtTechAdvent

Advent calendar 2025—day 19: Installations Water is densest at 3.98°C (so lakes freeze from the top), and today’s riddle follows artist-physicist Peter Vogel—what was his first job as a graduate physicist? #ScienceArtTechAdvent

Advent calendar 2025—day 18: Pretty Dense From Frei Otto’s acrylic Olympic roof to Clemens Hutter’s ice-warped steel, today’s quick quiz asks when water’s density starts dropping again above 0°C. #ScienceArtTechAdvent

Advent calendar 2025—day 17: The Plastic 1960 brought Maiman’s ruby laser (pulsed) and Javan/Bennett/Herriott’s gas laser (continuous)—now guess the iconic plastic architecture in Germany linked to 1972 and tell us in the comments. #ScienceArtTechAdvent

Advent calendar 2025—day 16: Laserblade Lasers don’t just paint the night sky—they can slice 10-cm (4-in) steel, like Bernhard Müller-Feyen’s 1996 sculpture; can you guess the year the first laser was built? #ScienceArtTechAdvent

Advent calendar 2025—day 15: And there was light Tagblatt Tower—Stuttgart’s 1927–28 New Objectivity high-rise, first exposed-concrete skyscraper, once glowed with Moore gas-discharge tubes; what light did Moore sneer was “too small, too hot, too red”? #ScienceArtTechAdvent

🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 14: Rising towers From Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp chapel to Stuttgart’s pioneering TV tower and an earlier 1920s landmark: can you guess which structure changed tower design worldwide? #ScienceArtTechAdvent #LeCorbusier #ConcreteTower #StructuralArt

🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 13: Jellyfish Concrete Jellyfish lines & concrete dreams – from Ulrike Michaelis’s medusa drawings to a 1955 French icon where organic form, structure and function flow together; guess the UNESCO-listed building! #ScienceArtTechAdvent

🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 12: Jellyfish Art Ernst Haeckel’s “Art Forms in Nature”: How microscopic sea life and jellyfish studies shaped 100 iconic plates that still inspire artists from Art Nouveau to today. #ScienceArtTechAdvent #ArtFormsInNature #ErnstHaeckel

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🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 11: Art Forms in Nature From Max Uhlig’s algae-like lines to Nathanael Pringsheim’s proof that algae reproduce sexually, today’s door asks: which Jena zoologist behind “Art Forms in Nature” inspired artists? #ScienceArtTechAdvent #Microscopy

🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 10: Dresden Painter Physics meets art—who is the Dresden art student who started graphic design in 1955, later became painting professor in 1995, and painted the watercolor behind me? #ScienceArtTechAdvent #EastGermanArt #ScienceAdventCalendar

🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 9: Trace of the East. Trace of the East—From Goethe’s Italy and the idea of the Urpflanze to lives reshaped after the fall of the Wall, a new book follows physicists from Jena as they reinvent their paths—with a small quiz. #ScienceArtTechAdvent

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🎄🔬🎨 Advent calendar 2025—day 8: Goethe’s Proto-Plant From Goethe’s Jena Botanical Garden lab to today’s science-art debates: where did his idea of the “#Urpflanze”, a primal plant of all plants, first take root? #ScienceArtTechAdvent #ScienceAdventCalendar #ArtAndScience