List of Georg-August University of Göttingen people
Among the people who have taught or studied at the Georg-August University of Göttingen are the following:
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
- 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)
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)
See also
- Göttingen
- University of Göttingen
- Nobel laureates by university affiliation
- Category:University of Göttingen alumni
- Category:University of Göttingen faculty
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