Facts on University of Göttingen alumni

Max Born

Was a German-British mathematician and physicist.

10 facts about Max Born

Karl Friedrich Gauss

Was a German mathematician and physical scientist.

10 facts about Karl Friedrich Gauss

Robert Koch

Was a German-born physicist who was best known for studying and finding the diseases anthrax, tuberculosis and cholera

10 facts about Robert Koch

Max von Laue

Was a German physicist who won the 1914 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of X-ray crystallography which helps in determining the arrangement of atoms in some substances.

10 facts about Max von Laue

Max Delbruck

Was a biophysicist of German-American descent, known widely for his work on bacteria and other significant biological discoveries.

10 facts about Max Delbruck

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Was an American nuclear theoretical physicist and science administrator also known as the “father of the atomic bomb”.

10 facts about J. Robert Oppenheimer

Maria Goeppert-Mayer

A German born American theoretical physicist.

10 facts about Maria Goeppert-Mayer

Robert Bunsen

A German chemist who developed the Bunsen Burner.

10 facts about Robert Bunsen