Germany national identity

Gadolin added to the university s reputation, and when offered a chair at the university of Gottingen in Germany, he declined. Gadolin took part in the collective life of his motherland. Johan Gadolin is part of the Finnish national identity, see also Erbium Gadolinium Lanthanides Minerals Scheele, Carl Yttrium. 

The postwar European people s car also became a mark of national identity. The small cars of the 1950s had some features in common but they were all distinctive and created for the roads that had to carry them, such as the efficient autobahns of Germany or less developed rural roads of France. Few cars moved across national borders in these years. A number of low-priced bubble cars appeared but many of these were less than stable. 

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