- Herbert Kroemer
Herbert Kroemer (born August 25, 1928) is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara, received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1952 from the University of Gottingen, Germany, with a dissertation on hot-electron effects in the then-new transistor, setting the stage for a career in research on the physics of semiconductor devices. - Alonzo Church
Alonzo Church was an American mathematician and logician who was responsible for some of the foundations of theoretical computer science. Born in Washington, DC, he received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1924, completing his Ph.D. there in 1927, under Oswald Veblen. After a post-doctoral fellowship at Göttingen, he taught at Princeton, 1929–1967, and at the University of California, Los Angeles, 1967–1990. - Haskell Curry
Haskell Brooks Curry was an American mathematician and logician. The son of educator Samuel Silas Curry, he was educated at Harvard University and received a Ph.D. from Göttingen in 1930, under the supervision of David Hilbert. While at Göttingen, Curry read the published version of Moses Schönfinkel's 1920 lecture introducing combinatory logic, the fateful event in his career. He then wrote his Ph.D. thesis on combinatory logic. - Henry Muhlenberg
Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, originally "Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg", was a German Lutheran clergyman who is viewed as a patriarch of the Lutheran Church in the United States. - Leonard Nelson
Leonard Nelson was a German mathematician and philosopher. He was part of the Neo-Friesian School and a friend of the mathematician David Hilbert, and devised the logical paradox which bears his name with Kurt Grelling. During his doctorate at Georg August University of Göttingen he was advised by Julius Baumann, and his dissertation was titled "Jakob Friedrich Fries und seine jüngsten Kritiker". He was critical of Hegel in his work, … - Nikolai Luzin
Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin, was a Soviet/Russian mathematician. He was noted for his work in descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology. He was the eponym of Luzitania, a loose grouping of young Moscow mathematicians in the first half of the 1920s. They adopted his set-theoretic orientation, and went on to apply it in other areas of mathematics. He started studying mathematics in 1901 at Moscow University, … - Yoshio Nishina
Yoshio Nishina was a Japanese physicist. He was a friend of Niels Bohr, and a close associate of Albert Einstein. Nishina was a world-class scientist with excellent leadership qualities. He co-authored the well-known Klein-Nishina Formula, and the Nishina crater on the moon is named in his honor. During World War II he was the head of the Japanese atomic program, which was alleged to have detonated a nuclear weapon during testing in 1945. - Günter Hotz
Günter Hotz is a German pioneer of computer science. His work includes formal languages, digital circuits and computational complexity theory. In 1987, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research. Hotz received his PhD in 1958 at Göttingen. His advisor was Kurt Reidemeister. - Julius Bartels
Julius Bartels was a German geophysicist and statistician. He was awarded his Ph.D. from Göttingen in 1923, then worked at the Potsdam magnetic observatory as a post-doctorate. In 1928 he was named professor at Eberswalde, teaching meteorology. He became full professor at Berlin University in 1936, and director of the Potsdam Geophysical Institute. From 1931 until the second year of World War II he was also a research associate at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. - George Nelson
George Driver "Pinky" Nelson (born July 13, 1950) is a former NASA astronaut. Nelson was born in Charles City, Iowa, but considers Willmar, Minnesota, to be his hometown. His wife Susie is from Alhambra, California. They have two daughters. Nelson enjoys playing golf, reading, swimming, running, and music. - Friedbert Pflüger
Friedbert Pflüger is a member of the German Bundestag. He was elected to the list of the Christian Democratic Union in Lower Saxony. After receiving his Abitur in Hannover, Pflüger studied political science and state law at the University of Göttingen, Bonn, and Harvard (US). In 1980 he received his master's degree at Bonn and in 1982 received his doctorate under Karl Dietrich Bracher with a thesis about US human rights policy in the 1970's. - Nae Ionescu
Nae Ionescu was a Romanian philosopher, logician, mathematician, professor, and journalist. Born in Brăila, Ionescu studied Letters at the University of Bucharest until 1912. Upon graduation, he was appointed a teacher at the Matei Basarab High School in Bucharest. When World War I began, he was in Germany for additional studies at the University of Göttingen. Romania's entry into the war on the Entente side side prevented him from returning, … - Pavel Alexandrov
Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov, sometimes romanized Aleksandroff or Aleksandrov (May 7, 1896-November 16, 1982) was a Russian mathematician. He wrote about three hundred papers, making important contributions to set theory and topology. He was made a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1953. Alexandrov went to a Moscow State University where he was a student of Dmitri Egorov and Nikolai Luzin. - Zhu De
Zhu De began to read about Marxism and Leninism in Shanghai. In the mid-1920s, he went to Europe, studying at Göttingen University in Germany from 1922 to 1925 at which point he was expelled from the country by the government for his role in a number of student protests. Around this time, he joined the Communist Party. Zhou Enlai was one of his sponsors. In July 1925, he traveled to the Soviet Union to study military affairs. - Jürgen Moser
Jürgen Moser was a German American mathematician who specialized in dynamical systems. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen in 1952. He emigrated to the United States in 1953. He became a professor at MIT and later New York University. After 1980 he was at ETH Zurich. - Karl Otto Pöhl
Karl Otto Pöhl is a German economist and a President of the Bundesbank and Chairman of its Central Bank Council from 1980 to 1991. Born in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Pöhl worked as a sports reporter to help pay his way through the Georg August University of Göttingen. A graduate economist, he became a Director at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich. - Wilhelm Lexis
Wilhelm Lexis was an eminent German statistician, economist, and social scientist and a founder of the interdisciplinary study of insurance. Born in Eschweiler as the son of a physician, Lexis obtained a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Heidelberg, where he was an assistant of the famous Chemist Robert Bunsen. He then worked as a Gymnasium teacher, librarian, and journalist, until in 1872 he became, until 1874, … - Emil Wiechert
Emil Johann Wiechert was a Prussian geophysicist. He was born in Tilsit, then in the northern part of the state of Prussia, the son of Johann and Emilie Wiechart. After his father died, Emilie moved to Königsberg so that Emil could study at the Albertus University. Due to economic difficulties he took longer than normal to complete his education, but he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1889. - Georg Sauerwein
Georg Julius Justus Sauerwein (born 15 January 1831 in Hannover, died 16 December 1904 in Christiania (now Oslo)) was a German publisher, polyglot, poet, and linguist. He was a supporter of the minority languages within the German Empire: Sorbian and Lithuanian. His poem "Lietuvninkais mes esam' gime" ("As Lithuanians we are borne", 1879) is still popular in Lithuania and considered a second national anthem. - Carl Hermann
Carl Hermann was a German professor of crystallography. With Charles-Victor Mauguin, he invented an international standard notation for crystallographic groups known as the Hermann-Mauguin notation or International notation. Born in the north German port town of Wesermünde to parents both of long-time ministerial families, he got his doctorate from Göttingen in 1923, as a pupil of Max Born and a fellow student with Werner Heisenberg. - Georg Bühler
Professor Johann Georg Bühler was a scholar of ancient Indian languages and law. Bühler was born to Rev. Johann G. Bühler in Borstel, Hanover, Germany, attended high school in Hanover where he mastered Greek and Latin, then university as a student of theology and philosophy at Göttingen, where he studied classical philology, Sanskrit, Zend, Persian, Armenian, and Arabic. - Erich Hecke
Erich Hecke was a German mathematician. He obtained his PhD in Göttingen under the supervision of David Hilbert. Kurt Reidemeister and Heinrich Behnke were among his students. Hecke was born in Buk, Posen, Germany (now Poznań, Poland), and died in Copenhagen, Denmark. His early work included establishing the functional equation for the Dedekind zeta function, with a proof based on theta functions. - L. F. L. Oppenheim
Lassa Francis Lawrence Oppenheim, was a renowned German jurist. He is regarded by many as the father of the discipline of international law. Born in Windecken near Frankfurt, Germany and educated at the Universities of Berlin, Göttingen, Heidelberg and Leipzig, he went to England in 1895 and lived there until his death. He first lectured at the London School of Economics and in 1908 became the Whewell Professor of International Law in the University of Cambridge. - Michael Buback
Michael Buback is a chemist and professor at Göttingen University. He is the son of Siegfried Buback, the former chief federal prosecutor of Germany who was assassinated by Red Army Fraction (RAF) terrorist group in the German Autumn 1977. - Johann Georg Tralles
Johann George Tralles was a German mathematician and physicist. He was born in Hamburg, Germany, and was educated at the University of Göttingen beginning in 1783. He became a professor at the University of Bern in 1785. In 1810 he became a professor of mathematics at the University of Berlin. In 1798 he served as the Swiss representative to the French metric convocation, and was a member of its committee on weights and measures. - Klaus Kleinfeld
Klaus Kleinfeld (born November 6 1957 in Bremen, Germany) was chief executive officer (CEO) of Siemens AG from 2005 till July 2007. On April 25, 2007, Siemens AG distributed a press release announcing that the supervisory board was not planning to renew Kleinfeld's contract, due to United States authorities' ongoing investigations of the Siemens corruption scandal. Displeased by this decision, Kleinfeld announced that he would leave his position by September 30, 2007. - George Haven Putnam
George Haven Putnam, A.M., Litt.D. was an American soldier, publisher, and author. The eldest son of publisher George Palmer Putnam and Victorine Haven Putnam, he was born in London, UK where his father had been living since 1841 while establishing a branch office for his New York City publishing company, Wiley & Putnam. In 1848 the family returned to the United States and George Haven Putnam was educated in New York. - Hubertus Strughold
Dr. Hubertus Strughold was born in Westphalia, Germany. He was educated at Göttingen and received a doctorate in 1922. He is the author of over 180 papers in the field of space medicine. For this reason, he has been called "The father of U.S. space medicine". Strughold was brought to the United States at the end of World War II as part of Operation Paperclip and subsequently played an important role in developing the pressure suit worn by early American astronauts. - Wilhelm von Bode
Wilhelm von Bode was a German art historian and curator. Born Arnold William Bode in Calvörde, he was ennobled in 1914. He was the creator and first curator of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, now called the Bode Museum in his honor, in 1904. Bode studied law at the Universities of Göttingen and Berlin, but took an interest in art during his university years. While practicing law in Braunschweig he systematically rearranged the ducal art collections, … - John Christian Frederick Heyer
John Christian Frederick Heyer (10 July 1793-November 7, 1873) was the first missionary sent abroad by Lutherans in the United States. He founded several Lutheran missions in India, including Guntur Mission. "Father Heyer" is commemorated as a missionary in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on November 7, along with Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg and Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen. Johann Christian Friedrich Heyer was born in Helmstedt, Lower Saxony, Prussia (now Germany), … - Edzard Reuter
Edzard Reuter was the CEO of Daimler-Benz from 1987 to 1995. Edzard Reuter was born in Berlin, his father was the popular social democratic politician and mayor of Berlin from 1948 to 1953, Ernst Reuter. His mother Hanna Reuter née Kleinert was a secretary at the party newspaper Vorwärts. After the Machtergreifung of the NSDAP, the family was forced to flee Germany and they found exile in Ankara, Turkey. So Reuter spent much of his childhood in Turkey. - John Murray Gibbon
John Murray Gibbon was a Scottish Canadian writer and cultural promoter. He was born in Ceylon and educated at Aberdeen, Oxford and Göttingen universities. Gibbon emigrated to Canada in 1913 to work for the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1921, he became founding president of the Canadian Authors Association. A long-time enthusiast of folk culture, Gibbon organized a series of folk and crafts festivals over the years. - Dietmar Moews
Dietmar Moews is a German sociologist, artist, and publisher. Moews studied hydraulic engineering and seaport and harbour-building in Minden in Bielefeld between 1968 and 1972, graduating with a Diploma of Engineering in 1972. He continued his studies at the University of Hanover in engineering and education between 1972 and 1974 and law at the Georg August University of Göttingen between 1974 and 1976. - Anthony de Rothschild
Sir Anthony Nathan de Rothschild was a British financier and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England. Born in New Court, St Swithin's Lane, in the City of London, Anthony de Rothschild was the third child and second son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild and Hanna Barent Cohen. Multilingual, he studied at the University of Göttingen in Germany and the University of Strasbourg in France. - Johann Christian August Heyse
Johann Christian August Heyse was a German grammarian and lexicographer, born at Nordhausen and educated at Göttingen. He taught at Oldenburg, Nordhausen, and Magdeburg. He wrote: * "Allgemeines Fremdwörterbuch" (seventeenth edition, 1892) * "Deutsche Schulgrammatik", under the new title, "Deutsche Grammatik" (twenty-sixth edition by Lyon, 1900) * "Leitfaden zum Unterricht in der deutschen Sprache" (twenty-seventh edition, 1904) - Frank Hugh Foster
Frank Hugh Foster, Ph. D., D.D. was an American clergyman of the Congregational church. He was born in Springfield, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1873. In his activities, he was assistant professor of mathematics in the United States Naval Academy, graduated at Andover Theological Seminary (1877), served as pastor at North Reading, Mass., studied at Göttingen and Leipzig (1979-82), and from 1882 to 1884 was professor of philosophy in Middlebury College. - Samuel Gottlieb Vogel
Samuel Gottlieb von Vogel was a German physician. He is seen as the founding father of German seaside resorts. Vogel started studying medical science in Göttingen at the age of 14. In 1771 he attained a doctorate and in 1776 he achieved habilitation. He first started working as a physician in Göttingen, later moving to Ratzeburg. In the meantime he published several medicinal science books. 1789 he became professor of medical faculty at the University of Rostock. - Arnold Kohlschütter
Ernst Arnold Kohlschütter was a German astronomer and astrophysicist. In 1908 he was awarded his Ph.D. from the Georg August University of Göttingen. In 1911 he began working at the Mount Wilson observatory, studying the spectra of the Sun and stars. In collaboration with Walter Sidney Adams, they discovered that the absolute luminosity of a star was proportional to the relative intensity of the lines in the spectrum. - August Kluckhohn
August Kluckhohn was a German historian, born at Bavenhausen. He studied at Heidelberg and Göttingen, and in 1858 went to Munich to become one of the editors of Sybel's "Historische Zeitschrift". In 1865 he was appointed professor of history at the Polytechnic School in Munich, and in 1883 he went to the University of Göttingen. His works include: * "Geschichte des Gottesfriedens" (1857) * "Wilhelm III., … - Karl Zell
Karl Zell (b. 8 April, 1793 at Mannheim - d. 24 January, 1873 d. at Freiburg) was a statesman, philologist, and defender of the rights of the Catholic Church.
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