List of Georg-August University of Göttingen people

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Among the people who have taught or studied at the Georg August University of Göttingen are the following:

Contents 1 Natural sciences and mathematics 2 Laws, economics and social sciences 3 Humanities and theology 4 Medicine

[edit] Natural sciences and mathematics

• Wilhelm Ackermann — Mathematics
• Friedrich Wilhelm Barkhausen — Mathematics
• Max Born — "mathematical Physics" — (Professor ordinarius) — (1882–1970, in Göttingen 1921–1933) — Nobel Prize in Physics 1954
• Bertram Brenig - Veterinary Medicine (Professor ordinarius) (development of a bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) ante mortem test)
• Adolf Butenandt — Chemistry — Nobel Prize Chemistry 1939
• Moritz Benedikt Cantor — Mathematics
• Constantin Carathéodory — Mathematics
• Richard Courant — Mathematics
• Peter Debye — "mathematische Physik" — (Professor ordinarius) — (1884–1966, in Göttingen 1914–1920) — Nobel Prize Chemie 1932
• Max Delbrück — Astronomy, Physics (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1969)
• Paul Dirac - Physics — Nobel Prize Physics 1933 (with Schrödinger)
• Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet — Mathematics
• Manfred Eigen — Biophysical Chemistry — Nobel prize Chemistry 1967 (with Norrish and Porter)
• Heinz Ellenberg — Biology, Botanics (Professor ordinarius) (1913–1997, in Göttingen 1966–1981 emeritus)
• William Feller — Mathematics
• James Franck — Physics (Nobel Prize in Physics 1926)
• Enrico Fermi — Physics (Nobel Prize in Physics 1938)
• Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs — Mathematics
• Carl Friedrich Gauß — Astronomy, geodesy, mathematics, physics (Professor ordinarius for astronomy)
• Gerhard Gentzen — Mathematics
• August Grisebach — Botanics
• Alfréd Haar — Mathematics
• Otto Hahn — Chemistry (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944)
• Georg Hamel — Mathematics
• Herbert Hawkes — Mathematics
• Walter Norman Haworth — Chemistry — Nobel Prize Chemistry 1937
• Helmut Hasse — Mathematics
• Heinrich Heesch — Mathematics
• Werner Heisenberg — Physics — (Professor ordinarius) — Nobel Prize in Physics 1932
• Ernst Hellinger — Mathematics
• Gerhard Herzberg — Chemistry — Nobel Prize Chemistry 1971
• David Hilbert — Mathematics — (Professor ordinarius)
• Heinz Hopf — Mathematics
• Fritz Houtermans — Physics
• Friedrich Hund — Mathematics
• Ernst Ising — Mathematics
• Abraham Gotthelf Kästner — Mathematics
• Felix Klein — Mathematics
• Carl Koldewey — Mathematics
• Wolfgang Krull — Mathematics
• Edmund Landau — Mathematics
• Irving Langmuir — Chemistry — Nobel Prize Chemistry 1932
• Max von Laue — Physics (Nobel Prize in Physics 1914)
• Georg Christoph Lichtenberg — Physics, Mathematics, Astronomy — (Student, Professor ordinarius)
• Walther Lietzmann — Mathematics
• Saunders Mac Lane — Mathematics
• Tobias Mayer — Mathematics
• Hermann Minkowski — Mathematics
• Leonard Nelson — Mathematics
• Walther Nernst — Physical Chemistry (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1920)
• Albert Niemann — First man to synthesize cocaine
• Emmy Noether — Mathematics
• Robert Oppenheimer — Physics (Ph.D.)
• Wolfgang Pauli — Physics (Nobel Prize in Physics 1945)
• Wilhelm Pfeffer — Botanics (stud.)
• Max Planck — Physics (Nobel Prize in Physics 1918)
• Johann Heinrich Moritz von Poppe — Mathematics
• Ludwig Prandtl — Physics — (Professor ordinarius)
• Richard Rado — Mathematics
• Johann Radon — Mathematics
• Kurt Reidemeister — Mathematics
• Theodore William Richards — Chemistry — Nobel Prize Chemistry 1914
• Frigyes Riesz — Mathematics
• Bernhard Riemann — Mathematics — (Professor ordinarius)
• Walter Ritz — Mathematics
• Carl Runge — Mathematics
• Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen — Geology
• Friedrich Schlegel
• August Wilhelm Schlegel
• Arthur Moritz Schönflies — Mathematics
• Hermann Amandus Schwarz — Mathematics
• Kurt Sethe — Egyptology (Professor ordinarius)
• Carl Ludwig Siegel — Mathematics — (Professor ordinarius)
• Hertha Sponer — Physics
• Moritz Abraham Stern — Mathematics (Professor ordinarius)
• Otto Stern — Physics (Nobel Prize in Physics 1943)
• Gustav Tammann — Anorganical und Physical Chemistry
• Edward Teller — Physics
• Otto Toeplitz — Mathematics
• Johann Georg Tralles — Mathematics
• Jürgen Troe — Physical Chemistry
• Otto Wallach — Chemistry — Nobel Prize Chemistry 1910
• Bartel Leendert van der Waerden — Mathematics
• Wilhelm Weber — Physics — (Professor ordinarius)
• Julius Weisbach — Mathematics
• Hermann Weyl — Mathematics
• Eugene Paul Wigner — Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics 1963
• Wilhelm Wien — Student — Nobel Prize in Physics 1911
• Norbert Wiener — Mathematics
• Adolf Windaus — Chemistry (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1928)
• Friedrich Wöhler — Chemistry, Pharmacy (Professor ordinarius)
• Ernst Zermelo — Mathematics
• Richard Adolf Zsigmondy — Chemistry — Nobel Prize Chemistry 1925

[edit] Laws, economics and social sciences

• Rudolf von Bennigsen — Laws — (Student)
• Otto von Bismarck — Laws — (Student)
• Wilhelm von Bode — Laws, Arts — (Student)
• Dieter Bohlen — Economics — (Student)
• Zhu De — Student (1922–1925) — Co-Founder of the People Liberation Army of China
• Georg Diederichs — Laws, Economics, Pharmacy — (Student)
• Uwe Diederichsen — Laws (Professor ordinarius)
• Georg Ebers — Laws (later famous Egyptologist) — (Student)
• Heinrich Heine — Laws — (Student, Ph.D.)
• Gustav von Hugo — Laws — Student — (Professor ordinarius)
• Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf — Laws- and Administrative Sciences — (Student)
• Peter Lösche — Political Sciences (Professor ordinarius)
• Angus Macdonald — Laws — (Erasmus Student)
• Georg Michaelis — Laws — (Ph.D.)
• John Pierpont Morgan — (Student)
• Helmuth Plessner — (Professor and university president)
• Georg Sartorius (von Waltershausen) — Economics and History
• Friedrich Carl von Savigny — Laws (Student)
• Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig — Laws — (scientific Assistant, Habilitand)
• Percy Ernst Schramm — History — (Professor 1929-1963)
• Gerhard Schröder — Laws — (Student, AStA-Chairman, Honorary Ph.D. of Natural Sciences)
• Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg — Laws (Vicitim of 20. Juli 1944) — (Student)
• Heinrich Friedrich Karl Freiherr vom Stein — Laws, Student (1773–1777)
• Bassam Tibi — International Relations — (Professor ordinarius)
• Jürgen Trittin — Social Sciences — (Student, AStA-Member)
• Richard von Weizsäcker — History, Laws — (Student, Ph.D.) — President of Germany

[edit] Humanities and theology

• Heinrich Brugsch — Egyptology — (Professor ordinarius) — (1827–1894, in Göttingen 1868–1870)
• Georg Bühler — Scholar of Indian languages and law
• Alexander Conze — Archaeology — (Student, Privatdozent)
• Rudolf Eucken — Philosopher — (Student, Nobel Prize in Literature 1908)
• Heinrich Ewald — Theology, Orientalistic — (Student, Professor ordinarius)
• Sigmar Gabriel — Teaching German, Sociology, Politics — (Student)
• Günter Grass — Nobel Prize for Literature 1999
• Georg Friedrich Grotefend — Philology — De-Cypherer of Cuneiform script
• Jacob Grimm — Linguistics and History of Literature — (Professor ordinarius, Bibliothekar)
• Wilhelm Grimm — Linguistics and History of Literature — (Professor ordinarius, Bibliothekar)
• Christian Gottlob Heyne — (Professor ordinarius) — Linguistics and History, Archaeology
• Nae Ionescu — Philosophy (Student)
• Adolf Muschg — Germanistics (Assistant)
• Ludwig Quidde — Student History, Philosophy, Economics — Nobel Prize for Peace 1927
• Arthur Schopenhauer
• Philipp Albert Stapfer — Theology — (Student)
• Friedrich Bouterwek — Philosopher, Professor
• Georg Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt — History of Arts — (Professor ordinarius)

[edit] Medicine

• Max Delbrück — Medicine — Nobel Prize Medicine 1969
• Paul Ehrlich, Professor ordinarius (1904–1914) — Nobel Prize 1908 (with Metschnikov)
• Albrecht von Haller, Prof. für Anatomy, Botanics und Surgery, (1708–1777, in Göttingen 1736–1753)
• Robert Koch — Medicine, Student and Ph.D. in Göttingen — Nobel Prize 1905
• Hans Adolf Krebs — Student Medicine — Nobel Prize Medicine 1953 (with Lipmann)
• Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Studies in Göttingen — Nobel Prize 1908 (with Ehrlich)
• Erwin Neher — Medicine — Nobel Prize Medicine 1991
• Thomas Young, Medicine, Physics, Linguistics (Ph.D. in Medicine)