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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 • Jürgen Habermas • Carl Friedrich Gauss • Irving Langmuir • Georg Cantor • J. Robert Oppenheimer • Friedrich Karl von Savigny • August Weismann • Hermann Kolbe • J.P. Morgan • Karen Horney • Sir William Siemens • Ursula von der Leyen • Pascual Jordan • Ludwig Leichhardt • Gerhard Schröder • Thomas C. Südhof • Maria Goeppert Mayer • Robert Bunsen • James McKeen Cattell • Rudolf Christoph Eucken • Hans Georg Dehmelt • Gustav Hertz • August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben • Bert Sakmann • Sir Norman Haworth • Herbert Kroemer • Max Delbrück • Emil Artin • Albert Hoyt Taylor • Manfred Eigen • Klaus Hasselmann • Maxime Bôcher • Stephen Moulton Babcock

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