The Göttingen Spirit

More than 40 Nobel Prize Laureates come from or have studied in Göttingen.

Stefan Hell and Manfred Eigen

The Georg-August-Universität is a stepstone in the CVs of more than forty Nobel Prize laureates. Fourteen of them have been awarded the Nobel prize for the research that they have conducted in Göttingen:

  • Max Born, Physics (1882 to 1970)
  • Adolf Butenandt, Chemistry (1903 to 1995)
  • Peter Debye, Chemistry (1884 to 1966)
  • Manfred Eigen, Chemistry (1927 to 2019)
  • James Franck, Physics (1882 to 1964)
  • Werner Heisenberg, Physics (1901 to 1976)
  • Stefan W. Hell, Chemistry (born 1962)
  • Erwin Neher, Medicine (born 1944)
  • Walther Hermann Nernst, Chemistry (1864 to 1941)
  • Bert Sakmann, Medicine (born 1942)
  • Johannes Stark, Physics (1874 to 1957)
  • Otto Wallach, Chemistry (1847 to 1931)