In the mid-1970s it was more or less mandatory for Germans active in research to spend at least a few months in the US. After having returned to Germany, people were awarded with the title iAg (in Amerika gewesen - having stayed in America). It increased the reputation and facilitated the next step in the career. At this time the US were leading scientific progress in many areas, in particular in cosmochemistry, and a research stay in the US was absolutely necessary. Today this is certainly less important. For example, Thorsten Kleine, Carsten Münker and Andreas Pack (professors in Münster,...
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