At 60, he daringly took a chair of economics at the newly liberated University of Leipzig, in Saxony.

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The Institute University of Leipzig, in Germany has a major genetic study called LIFE to examine disease in populations.

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"It's a wonderful contribution and another piece of the mosaic" supporting the out-of-Africa hypothesis, said Ekkehard Wolff, professor emeritus of African Languages and Linguistics at the University of Leipzig in Germany, who read the paper.

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Professor Werner Kirstein of the Institute for Geography at the University of Leipzig told MDR German Public Radio that sensational PR claims of the hottest year or hottest decade on record are just political spin, because they are based on year-to-year temperature data that differs by only a few hundredths of a degree.

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At No. 2, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany has a doctorate from Leipzig University.

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Three doctors have been suspended at the Leipzig University Clinic's organ transplant centre.

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