The Georg-August-Universität is a stepstone in the CVs of more than forty Nobel laureates. Fourteen of them have been awarded the Nobel prize for the research 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)