Ebers: George

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) is a joint project of the University of Texas at Austin, the Pennsylvania State University, Stanford University, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Miinchen, and Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen. The HET is named in honor of its principal benefactors, William P. Hobby and Robert E. Eberly. 

Human cultures have always experimented with plant extracts in their search for food and medicines. The Ancient Egyptians left a record of their herbal knowledge in the form of a 1 by 68 foot scroll, discovered by Georg Ebers... 

Since ancient times, saffron Crocus sativus L., Mdaceae) has been widely used as a spice for flavoring and coloring food preparations and also as a perfume or a dye. In addition, saffron has been used in folklore medicine. Egyptians used this medicinal plant for the treatment of diseases as recorded in the George Ebers papyrus (1500 B.C.). 

As early as 1550 B.C., scurvy was described by the Egyptians on medical papyrus rolls (man s first writing paper, made by the Egyptians from the papyrus plant as early as 2400 B.C.), discovered in Thebes by George Moritz Ebers,... 

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