Historical figures in University of Göttingen
The atlas holds 12 people and 25 moments here, from 1795 to 1968. The most recorded lives are Carl Friedrich Gauss, David Hilbert and Max Planck. Among them Writers, Educators and Jurists, across the Interwar Period and the Cold War.
Notable people
Alan Turing
in 1947
1 moment here
English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computing pioneer. Turing studied at Cambridge and Princeton, worked at Bletchley Park during the…
Arthur Schopenhauer
in 1809
1 moment here
German philosopher and writer, born in Danzig and dead in Frankfurt am Main. His documented movements included childhood residences in Hamburg and Le…
Carl Friedrich Gauss
from 1795 to 1855
6 moments here
German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist. Gauss was born in Brunswick, studied there and at Göttingen, worked privately in…
David Hilbert
from 1886 to 1943
6 moments here
German mathematician and philosopher of mathematics whose career began in Königsberg and was centered at the University of Göttingen from 1895 until…
Enrico Fermi
in 1923
1 moment here
Italian and naturalized-American physicist whose documented movements trace a path from Rome and Pisa through European study in Göttingen and Leiden,…
Heinrich Heine
from 1820 to 1824
2 moments here
German poet, essayist, journalist, and literary critic. Born in Düsseldorf, Heine studied in Bonn, Göttingen, and Berlin, traveled widely in Germany…
Lars Onsager
in 1968
1 moment here
Norwegian-American physical chemist and theoretical physicist whose career took him from Norway and Switzerland to major American universities.…
Max Planck
from 1945 to 1947
2 moments here
German theoretical physicist and originator of quantum theory. Planck’s documented life moved from Kiel to Munich, Berlin, Kiel again, and Berlin,…
Niels Bohr
in 1925
1 moment here
Danish theoretical physicist whose work on atomic structure and quantum theory earned the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics.…
Otto von Bismarck
in 1832
1 moment here
Otto von Bismarck was a Prussian and German statesman, diplomat, and the first chancellor of the German Empire.…
Satyendra Nath Bose
from 1926 to 1951
2 moments here
Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician whose 1924 work founded Bose-Einstein statistics.…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
in 1931
1 moment here
Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…
Moments
- 1795 Student residence on Gotmarstrasse Carl Friedrich Gauss
- 1795 University studies begin Carl Friedrich Gauss
- 1807 Arrival as Göttingen professor and observatory director Carl Friedrich Gauss
- 1809 Matriculation at Göttingen Arthur Schopenhauer
- 1810 Marriage to Minna Waldeck Carl Friedrich Gauss
- 1816 Move to the new Göttingen observatory Carl Friedrich Gauss
- 1820 Law studies at Göttingen Heinrich Heine
- 1824 Return to Göttingen Heinrich Heine
- 1832 Law studies at Göttingen Otto von Bismarck
- 1855 Death in Göttingen Carl Friedrich Gauss
- 1886 Visit to Göttingen en route home David Hilbert
- 1888 Mathematical tour: Göttingen David Hilbert
- 1895 Appointment to Göttingen chair David Hilbert
- 1915 Göttingen residence and professorship David Hilbert
- 1923 Study with Max Born Enrico Fermi
- 1925 Return meeting at Göttingen Niels Bohr
- 1926 Met Born and Hückel in Göttingen Satyendra Nath Bose
- 1930 Opening of the Mathematical Institute David Hilbert
- 1931 Summer research at Göttingen Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1943 Death David Hilbert
- 1945 Evacuation to Göttingen Max Planck
- 1947 Göttingen colloquium with Konrad Zuse Alan Turing
- 1947 Death in Göttingen Max Planck
- 1951 Visited Göttingen scientists Satyendra Nath Bose
- 1968 Visiting professor at Göttingen Lars Onsager