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:
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[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)
