What did Angela Merkel do to help the world?

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When hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing conflicts in SyriaAfghanistan, and elsewhere flocked to the European Union, Merkel advocated for the resettlement of large numbers of people in Germany. As a result, more than one million migrants entered Germany in 2015 alone, sparing them the danger of having to return to their war-torn countries.

Where was Angela Merkel educated?

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Merkel finished (1973) high school in Templin, East Germany, and received (1978) a bachelor’s degree in physics at Karl Marx University (now the University of Leipzig). She then worked at the Central Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences in East Berlin, earning (1986) a doctorate for her thesis on quantum chemistry.