List of University of Göttingen people

This is a list of people who have taught or studied at the Georg-August University of Göttingen:

Natural sciences and mathematics

Ernst Abbe — Optics
Wilhelm Ackermann — Mathematics
Friedrich Wilhelm Barkhausen — Mathematics
Paul Bernays — Mathematics, mathematical logic — (Student, later Professor extraordinarius)
Patrick Blackett — Physics — Nobel Prize in Physics 1948
Max Born — Mathematical Physics — (Professor ordinarius) — (1882–1970, in Göttingen 1921–1933) — Nobel Prize in Physics 1954
Walther Bothe — Physics — Nobel Prize in Physics 1954 together with Max Born
Bertram Brenig — Veterinary Medicine — (Professor ordinarius) — development of a bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) ante mortem test
Michael Buback — Chemistry
Adolf Butenandt — Chemistry — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939
Moritz Benedikt Cantor — Mathematics
Constantin Carathéodory — Mathematics
Richard Courant — Mathematics
Peter Debye — Mathematical Physics — (Professor ordinarius) — (1884–1966, in Göttingen 1914–1920) — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936
Richard Dedekind — Mathematics
Hans Georg Dehmelt — Nobel Prize in Physics 1989
Max Delbrück — Astronomy, Physics — Nobel Prize in Medicine 1969
Paul Dirac — Physics — Nobel Prize in Physics 1933 (with Erwin Schrödinger)
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet — Mathematics
Manfred Eigen — Biophysical Chemistry — Nobel prize in Chemistry 1967 (with Ronald G. W. Norrish and George Porter)
Albert Einstein — Physics — (Guest lecturer, 1915)
Heinz Ellenberg — Biology, Botany — (Professor ordinarius) (1913–1997, in Göttingen 1966–1981 emeritus)
William Feller — Mathematics
James Franck — Physics — Nobel Prize in Physics 1925 (with Gustav Hertz)
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
Kurt Gödel — Mathematical logic — (Guest lecturer, 1939)
Maria Goeppert-Mayer — Physics — Nobel Prize in Physics 1963
Hans Grauert — Mathematics
August Grisebach — Botany
Alfréd Haar — Mathematics
Otto Hahn — Chemistry — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944
Georg Hamel — Mathematics
Handley Arnold—Microscopy
Herbert Hawkes — Mathematics
Stefan W. Hell — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014
Walter Norman Haworth — Chemistry — Nobel Prize in 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 in 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
Herbert Kroemer — Physics — Nobel Prize in Physics 2000
Wolfgang Krull — Mathematics
Heinrich Gerhard Kuhn — Physics
Edmund Landau — Mathematics
Dieter Langbein — Theoretical physics
Irving Langmuir — Chemistry — Nobel Prize in 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
Robert Andrews Millikan — Physics — Nobel Prize in Physics 1923
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.)
Peter Simon Pallas — Zoology, Botany — (Student)
Wolfgang Pauli — Physics — Nobel Prize in Physics 1945
Wilhelm Pfeffer — Botany — (Student)
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 in Chemistry 1914
Frigyes Riesz — Mathematics
Bernhard Riemann — Mathematics — (Professor ordinarius)
Walther 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
Gabriel Sudan — Mathematics
Thoralf Skolem — Mathematics, mathematical logic — (Guest researcher)
Thomas A. Steitz — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009
Gustav Tammann — Inorganic and Physical Chemistry
Edward Teller — Physics
Le Van Thiem — Mathematics
Otto Toeplitz — Mathematics
Johann Georg Tralles — Mathematics
Jürgen Troe — Physical Chemistry
Otto Wallach — Chemistry — Nobel Prize in 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 in Chemistry 1925
Dr Edmund Freiherr von Berg - Science - 1820

Law, economics and social sciences

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs — Law and Theology, pioneer of the gay rights movement
Peter Badura — Law — (Professor ordinarius 1964–1970)
Dieter Bohlen — Economics — (Student)
Zhu De — (Student, 1922–1925) — Cofounder of the People's Liberation Army of China
Donald S. Detwiler - (Ph.D.) American professor of German History
Georg Diederichs — Law, Economics, Pharmacy — (Student)
Uwe Diederichsen — Law — (Professor ordinarius)
Georg Ebers — Law (later famous Egyptologist) — (Student)
Robert Goodfellow — Political Sciences — (Erasmus Student)
Heinrich Heine — Law — (Student, Ph.D.)
Klaus Kleinfeld — Business Administration — (Student)
Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf — Law and Administrative Sciences — (Student)
Karl Larenz — Law — (Ph.D.)
Peter Lösche — Political Sciences — (Professor ordinarius)
Hartmut Maurer — Law — (Ph.D.)
Georg Michaelis — Law — (Ph.D.)
John Pierpont Morgan — (Student)
Lassa Oppenheim — Law — (Ph.D.)
Andreas Paulus — Law — (Professor, Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Federal Republic of Germany)
Helmuth Plessner — (Professor and university president)
Ingrid Robeyns — Economics — (student)
Claus Roxin — Law — (Professor ordinarius1963–1971)
Johann Stephan Pütter — Law — (Professor ordinarius)
Georg Friedrich Sartorius (von Waltershausen) — Economics and History
Eberhard Schmidt-Aßmann — Law — (Ph.D.)
Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig — Law — (scientific Assistant, Habilitand)
Percy Ernst Schramm — History — (Professor 1929–1963)
Gerhard Schröder — Law — (Student, AStA-Chairman, Honorary Ph.D. of Natural Sciences) — former chancellor of Germany
Christian Starck— Law — (Professor ordinarius)
Bassam Tibi — International Relations — (Professor ordinarius)
Jürgen Trittin — Social Sciences — (Student, AStA-Member)
Rudolf von Bennigsen — Law — (Student)
Otto von Bismarck — Law — (Student) — iron chancellor of the second German Empire
Wilhelm von Bode — Law, Arts — (Student)
Gustav von Hugo — Law — (Student) — (Professor ordinarius)
Rudolf von Jhering — Law — (Student) — (Professor ordinarius)
Friedrich Carl von Savigny — Law — (Student)
Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg — Law (Victim of 20 July 1944) — (Student)
Heinrich Friedrich Karl Freiherr vom Stein — Law — (Student, 1773–1777)
Richard von Weizsäcker — History, Law — (Student, Ph.D.) — former President of Germany
Hans Julius Wolff — Law — (Ph.D.)
Gunther Heinrich Freiherr von Berg - 1793 - Professor Rechtswissenschaft
Karl Heinrich Ernst Freiherr von Berg - 1828–1832 - State Minister

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)
Karl Deichgräber — Philology — (Student, Professor)
Rudolf Eucken — Philosopher — (Student) — Nobel Prize in Literature 1908
Heinrich Ewald — Theology, Orientalistic — (Student) — (Professor ordinarius)
Sigmar Gabriel — Teaching German, Sociology, Politics — (Student)
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve — American Classicist
Günter Grass — Nobel Prize in Literature 1999
Georg Friedrich Grotefend — Philology — Decipherer of Cuneiform script
Jacob Grimm — Linguistics and History of Literature — (Professor ordinarius, Bibliothekar)
Wilhelm Grimm — Linguistics and History of Literature — (Professor ordinarius, Bibliothekar)
Jürgen Habermas
Rebekka Habermas, modern history
Nicolai Hartmann — Philosophy — (Professor)
Johann Friedrich Herbart — Philosophy, Pedagogy, Psychology; — (Professor)
Christian Gottlob Heyne — Linguistics and History, Archaeology — (Professor ordinarius)
Edmund Husserl — Philosophy
Nae Ionescu — Philosophy — (Student)
Reinhard Gregor Kratz, biblical scholar, historian of ancient Judaism
August Leskien — Linguistics — (Professor extraordinarius)
Gustav Meyer — Linguistics — (Assistant and later Professor)
Adolf Muschg — Germanistics — (Assistant)
Ludwig Quidde — History, Philosophy, Economics — (Student) — Nobel Peace Prize 1927 (with Ferdinand Buisson)
Dorothea von Rodde-Schlözer (1770 to 1825) Doctor of Philosophy. The first woman to be awarded a higher degree in Germany.
Ji Xianlin Linguist; (Phd student, Assistant)
Arthur Schopenhauer
Hermann Spieckermann, biblical scholar, historian of ancient Near Eastern religion
Philipp Albert Stapfer — Theology — (Student)
Friedrich Bouterwek — Philosopher — (Professor)
Georg Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt — History of Arts — (Professor ordinarius)
Max Weber
Julius Wellhausen— Biblical scholar and orientalist — (Professor)
Hermann von Grauert — History — (Student)
John Sadananda, Old Testament Scholar and Master of the Senate of Serampore College (University), India

Medicine

Gottlieb Burckhardt — Medicine (psychiatry) — (Student) — first physician to perform modern psychosurgery (1888)
Max Delbrück — Medicine — Nobel Prize in Medicine 1969
Paul Ehrlich — Professor ordinarius (1904–1914) — Nobel Prize in Medicine 1908 (with Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov)
Albrecht von Haller, Professor of Anatomy, Botanics and Surgery, (1708–1777, in Göttingen 1736–1753)
Robert Koch — Medicine — (Student and Ph.D. in Göttingen) — Nobel Prize in Medicine 1905
Hans Adolf Krebs — Medicine — (Student) — Nobel Prize in Medicine 1953
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Studies in Göttingen — Nobel Prize in Medicine 1908 (with Paul Ehrlich)
Erwin Neher — Medicine — Nobel Prize in Medicine 1991 (with Bert Sakmann)
Thomas Young, Medicine, Physics, Linguistics (Ph.D. in Medicine)

List of Nobel prize winners

Robert Koch
microbiologist
Max Born
physicist
Max Planck
physicist
Walther Nernst
chemist
Werner Heisenberg
physicist
Enrico Fermi
physicist
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist
Irving Langmuir
chemist / physicist
Max von Laue
physicist
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
physicist
Paul Dirac
physicist
Peter Debye
physicist

To date, 44 Nobel Prize laureates have studied, taught or made contributions here. Most of these prizes were given in the first half of the 20th century, which was called the "Göttingen Nobel prize wonder".^[1]

Affiliations	Graduate	Attendee or Researcher	Academic staff before or at the time of award	Academic staff after award
Georg August University of Göttingen
50 (official 44)^[2]	[Ph.] Hans G. Dehmelt [Ph.] Herbert Kroemer [Ph.] Maria Goeppert-Mayer [Ph.] Max von Laue [Ph.] Werner Heisenberg [Ch.] Adolf Butenandt [Ch.] Irving Langmuir [Ch.] Manfred Eigen [Ch.] Walter Haworth [PM] Max Delbrück [PM] Robert Koch [PM] Élie Metchnikoff [PM] Thomas C. Südhof [Pe.] Ludwig Quidde [Li.] Rudolf Eucken	[Ph.] Enrico Fermi [Ph.] Gustav Ludwig Hertz [Ph.] Paul Dirac [Ph.] Robert A. Millikan [Ch.] Gerhard Herzberg [Ch.] Theodore William Richards [Ch.] Thomas A. Steitz [PM] Carol Greider [PM] Hans Krebs	[Ph.] Albert Einstein [Ph.] Eugene P. Wigner [Ph.] James Franck [Ph.] Johannes Stark [Ph.] Manne Siegbahn [Ph.] Max Born [Ph.] Max Planck [Ph.] Otto Stern [Ph.] Niels Bohr [Ph.] Patrick Blackett [Ph.] Walther Bothe [Ph.] Wilhelm Wien [Ph.] Wolfgang Paul [Ph.] Wolfgang Pauli [Ch.] Adolf Windaus [Ch.] Otto Hahn [Ch.] Otto Wallach [Ch.] Peter Debye [Ch.] Richard Adolf Zsigmondy [Ch.] Stefan Hell [Ch.] Walther Nernst [PM] Bert Sakmann [PM] Erwin Neher [PM] Paul Ehrlich [Pe.] Nathan Söderblom	[Ph.] Hendrik Lorentz

References

↑ The "Göttingen Nobel prize wonder"; the 44 Nobel prize laureates affiliated with Göttingen
↑ "Göttingen". Retrieved 2011-06-11.

University of Göttingen
Leadership	President Ulrike Beisiegel Vice President Norbert Lossau
Faculties	Faculty of Agricultural Sciences Faculty of Biology and Psychology Faculty of Chemistry Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology Faculty of Geoscience and Geography Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty of Physics Faculty of Law Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Economic Sciences Faculty of Humanities Faculty of Theology Medical Center
Recognized institutes & centers	German Aerospace Center (DLR) German Primate Center Center for European Governance and Economic Development Research Göttingen Observatory Center for Retrospective Digitization Johann Sebastian Bach Institute
Partner institutions	Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Dieterich Publishing House Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research International Max Planck Research School for Molecular Biology International Max Planck Research School for Neurosciences
Holdings & collections	Göttingen State and University Library Paulinerkirche Göttingen manuscript Sammlung für Völkerkunde Forestry Botanical Garden and Arboretum New Botanic Garden of Göttingen University Old Botanical Garden of Göttingen University Theater im OP
Major academic projects	AnimalBase Germania Sacra New Bach Edition Deutsches Wörterbuch Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales
Affiliated movements & developments	Göttingen School of History History of religions school Ritschlianism Göttingen Manifesto Göttingen minipig Goettingen Journal of International Law Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages Zentralblatt MATH The Göttingen Circle Kaiser Wilhelm Society
Affiliated people	List of University of Göttingen people University of Göttingen alumni University of Göttingen faculty Göttingen Seven Göttingen Eighteen Akademische Orchestervereinigung Göttingen
Student associations	Corps Hannovera Göttingen

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