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The article of the month in February 2025 is written by  Fritz Staudacher, Albert Einstein and Heinrich Wild: The Beginning of two Great Global Careers. A describing until now unknown relations between Nobel Price winner Albert Einstein and Heinrich Wild, the most important designer of geodetic and photogrammetric instruments of the last century. Read the article

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