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Tobin Marks - The Prince of Asturias Award

Tobin Marks, Prince of Asturias prize for scientific and technical research, 2008, was presented today in the Week of Science and Innovation 2010....

by Alejandro Medina Guzmán in Mexico on 23/11/2010

The Ecological Education Center Foundation - the organizer of Earth Day 2010 in Poland is organizing  this year's festival on the Mokotow Field. Warszawa, Poland. 25/04/2010. Fot. iori De Windt

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Earth Day in Poland

The Ecological Education Center Foundation - the organizer of Earth Day 2010 in Poland is organizing this year's festival on the Mokotow Field...

by iori De Windt in Poland on 25/04/2010

The Sphinx Laboratory which belongs to the Sphinx AG Jungfraujoch, dedicated to providing the infrastructure and support for scientific research that must be carried out at an altitude of 3000-3500 meters above sea level or for which a high alpine climate and environment are necessary. Switzerland, 15/10/2009.

As an international organization, the Foundation is dedicated to providing the infrastructure and support for scientific research of international significance that must be carried out at an altitude of 3000-3500 meters above sea level or for which a high alpine climate and environment are necessary. The Research Station and Sphinx Laboratory at Jungfraujoch, together with the two astronomical observatories, Gornergrat South and Gornergrat North, are run for this purpose.

Scientists from universities, schools of technology, and research institutes of the member countries, and exceptionally from other countries, can carry out research in the laboratories and observatories provided by the Foundation. Administrative assistance and information are provided by the Foundation’s offices that are integrated in the University of Bern, Switzerland.
The Sphinx Laboratory is part of the Sphinx building and belongs to the Sphinx AG Jungfraujoch, a subsidiary company of the Jungfraubahn Holding AG. It is at the free disposal of the Foundation. It has an astronomical dome, two large and two small laboratories, a workshop, two terraces for scientific experiments, and a weather observation station. The observation instrument in the astronomical dome is a 76 cm telescope with Cassegrain and Coudé focus, and is part of the solar spectrometer of the Institut d’Astrophysique et de Géophysique de l’Université de Liège, Belgium, and the LIDAR experiment run by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

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High altitude laboratory at Jungfraujoch

The Sphinx Laboratory which belongs to the Sphinx AG Jungfraujoch, dedicated to providing the infrastructure and support for scientific research that...

by Anamitra Chakladar in Switzerland on 15/10/2009

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23/11/2010 - Tobin Marks - The Prince of Asturias Award - Mexico - Tobin Marks, Prince of Asturias prize...
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