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The University of Vienna was founded in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and one of the largest in Central Europe. At present, about 91,000 students are enrolled in more than 180 courses at the University of Vienna. The University of Vienna is also the largest teaching and research institution in Austria with 9,400 employees, 6,700 of whom are scientists and academics.
News
Cancer therapy: The decisive factor
Manuela Baccarini and her group at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories have detected a new signal pathway mechanism and publish their results in "Molecular Cell".
2013-03-01
Similarity between the Compression of a Porous Material and Earthquakes
Wilfried Schranz of the Group Physics of Functional Materials at the University of Vienna published new findings on earthquakes in "Physical Review Letters".
2013-02-26
When cows burp
Scientists of the University of Vienna published about "Methylotrophic methanogenic Thermoplasmata implicated in reduced methane emissions from bovine rumen" in Nature Communications.
2013-02-13
Invisible tool enables new quantum experiments
Physicists around Philipp Haslinger and Markus Arndt have now succeeded in constructing a novel matter wave interferometer which enables new quantum studies with a broad class of particles.
2013-02-11
American Physical Society elected physicist Markus Aspelmeyer as a Fellow
Markus Aspelmeyer, Professor of Quantum Information on the Nanoscale at the University of Vienna, has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for his outstanding contributions.
2013-02-05