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Tübingen

American  
[too-bing-uhn, ty-bing-uhn] / ˈtu bɪŋ ən, ˈtü bɪŋ ən /

noun

  1. a city in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany, between the Neckar and Ammer rivers: known for a highly respected university.


Tübingen British  
/ ˈtjuːbɪŋən /

noun

  1. a town in SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: university (1477). Pop: 83 137 (2003 est)

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The initiative began at the University of Tübingen and later continued at the University of Passau at the Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics.

From Science Daily

Georg Schild, a history professor at Tübingen University, near Stuttgart, remembers watching annual exercises by the U.S. military every fall when he was growing up in West Germany in the 1960s.

From The Wall Street Journal

"The lagerpetid's brain already showed features linked to improved vision, including an enlarged optic lobe, an adaptation that may have later helped their pterosaur relatives take to the skies," says corresponding author Mario Bronzati, a researcher at University of Tübingen, Germany.

From Science Daily

Benesch’s childhood in Tübingen, a German city southwest of Stuttgart, may have been tube-deficient, but it wasn’t movie-free, and she became fascinated with how films were made.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s an important line of inquiry, says Patrick Schmidt, an archaeologist at the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen who was not involved with the study.

From Science Magazine