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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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What does VIA stand for here?
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Her grades in mathematics and physics were the highest awarded.[4] That year she fell seriously ill and decided to move to Switzerland, where on the 14th November she started at the "Girls High School" in Zurich.[5] In 1896, Maric passed her http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matura, and started studying medicine at the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Zurich for one semester.[5] In the autumn of 1896, Maric switched to the Zurich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETH (later Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETH)),[6] having passed the mathematics entrance examination with an average grade of 4.25 (scale 1-6).[7] She enrolled for the diploma course to teach physics and mathematics in secondary schools (section VIA) at the same time as Albert Einstein. She was the only woman in her group of six students, and only the fifth woman to enter that section.[5][8] She and Einstein became close friends quite soon.
Her grades in mathematics and physics were the highest awarded.[4] That year she fell seriously ill and decided to move to Switzerland, where on the 14th November she started at the "Girls High School" in Zurich.[5] In 1896, Maric passed her http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matura, and started studying medicine at the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Zurich for one semester.[5] In the autumn of 1896, Maric switched to the Zurich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETH (later Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETH)),[6] having passed the mathematics entrance examination with an average grade of 4.25 (scale 1-6).[7] She enrolled for the diploma course to teach physics and mathematics in secondary schools (section VIA) at the same time as Albert Einstein. She was the only woman in her group of six students, and only the fifth woman to enter that section.[5][8] She and Einstein became close friends quite soon.
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NL888 What does VIA stand for here? I don't know the section, but I suppose it is a Roman numeral 4A.
- NL888 What does VIA stand for here?
- I don't know the section, but I suppose it is a Roman numeral 4A.
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NL888 What does VIA stand for here?I don't know the section, but I suppose it is a Roman numeral 4A.
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I use Roman numerals so rarely now that I have to think about them when I see them.
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