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