University of Göttingen: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Georg August University of Göttingen • Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen
Date	1737 - present
Notable Alumni	Max Born • Hermann Weyl • Adolf Butenandt • Constantin Carathéodory • Paul Isaak Bernays • Max Weber • Werner Heisenberg • Enrico Fermi • Ursula von der Leyen • Jürgen Habermas • Carl Friedrich Gauss • Robert Koch • Georg Cantor • Irving Langmuir • J. Robert Oppenheimer • Friedrich Karl von Savigny • J.P. Morgan • Hermann Kolbe • August Weismann • Karen Horney • Sir William Siemens • Klaus Hasselmann • Pascual Jordan • Edith Stein • Ludwig Leichhardt • Gerhard Schröder • Thomas C. Südhof • Lillien Jane Martin • Maria Goeppert Mayer • Robert Bunsen • James McKeen Cattell • Hans Georg Dehmelt • Bert Sakmann • Rudolf Christoph Eucken • Gustav Hertz • August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben • Herbert Kroemer • Sir Norman Haworth • Emil Artin • Max Delbrück • Manfred Eigen • Albert Hoyt Taylor • Maxime Bôcher • Stephen Moulton Babcock

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