University of Göttingen

The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen (German: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, also called Georgia Augusta), is a public research university in the city of Göttingen in Lower Saxony, Germany, founded in 1734 by the government of the Electorate of Hanover on the orders of King George II.哥廷根大学（University of Göttingen），正式名称为格奥尔格·奥古斯特·哥廷根大学（德文 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen，亦称 Georgia Augusta），是位于德国下萨克森州哥廷根市的一所公立研究型大学，1734 年由汉诺威选侯国政府在国王格奥尔格二世的授意下创办。

It opened to students in 1737 and is the oldest and largest university in Lower Saxony, associated by its own count with 47 Nobel Prize winners and long celebrated as a world centre of mathematics and physics.该校于 1737 年向学生开放，是下萨克森州历史最悠久、规模最大的大学；按校方自身统计，与其相关者中有 47 位诺贝尔奖得主，该校也长期被视为世界数学与物理学的重镇。

It is placed joint 261st in the QS World University Rankings 2027, joint 133rd in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, 187th in the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 and in the 151-200 band of the Shanghai ARWU 2026.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 261 位，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中并列第 133 位，在《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 最佳全球大学排名中位列第 187 位，在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列 151-200 区间。

History

• In 1734 George II, King of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover, instructed his privy councillor Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen to found a university in Göttingen in order to spread the ideals of the Enlightenment.1734 年，英国国王兼汉诺威选帝侯格奥尔格二世命其枢密顾问格拉克·阿道夫·冯·明希豪森在哥廷根创办一所大学，以弘扬启蒙时代的理念。
• The university opened in 1737 with the four classical faculties of theology, law, philosophy and medicine and quickly acquired a reputation for academic freedom, with particular weight given to the natural sciences and to law.该校于 1737 年开放，初设神学、法学、哲学与医学四大经典学科，并很快以学术自由著称，尤以自然科学与法学受到重视。
• By 1812 it had become a modern, internationally recognised university with a library of more than 200,000 volumes, and Napoleon is said to have called Göttingen the university of Europe.到 1812 年，它已成为一所获国际认可的现代大学，图书馆藏书逾 20 万册；据说拿破仑曾称哥廷根为「全欧洲的大学」。
• Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, one of the first scholars in Germany to hold a professorship devoted to experimental physics, taught at Göttingen from 1769 until 1799.格奥尔格·克里斯托夫·利希滕贝格是德国最早拥有实验物理学教席的学者之一，1769 至 1799 年间在哥廷根任教。
• The Faculty of Law was its early glory: Johann Stephan Pütter taught public law at Göttingen for half a century and drew students such as the later Austrian chancellor Klemens von Metternich and Wilhelm von Humboldt, founder of the University of Berlin.早期的法学使其声名远播：约翰·斯特凡·皮特在哥廷根讲授公法长达半个世纪，吸引了日后的奥地利首相克莱门斯·冯·梅特涅以及柏林大学创办者威廉·冯·洪堡等学生。
• The poet Heinrich Heine took his doctorate in law at Göttingen in 1825, and Otto von Bismarck, the future first Chancellor of the German Empire, studied law here in 1833 and lodged in a small house still known as the Bismarck Cottage.诗人海因里希·海涅 1825 年在哥廷根获法学博士学位；日后成为德意志帝国首任宰相的奥托·冯·俾斯麦 1833 年在此学习法律，住在一座至今被称为「俾斯麦小屋」的住宅中。
• By its centenary in 1837 the university was so dominated by legal studies that it was known as the university of law, law students often making up more than half of the entire student body.到 1837 年建校一百周年时，法学在校内占据绝对主导，以致被称为「法科大学」，法学院注册学生时常超过全校学生总数的一半。
• Political unrest depressed attendance to 860 students in 1834, and in 1837 seven professors, the Göttinger Sieben, were dismissed for protesting against King Ernest Augustus's revocation of the liberal constitution of 1833.政治动荡使在校生人数在 1834 年降至 860 人；1837 年，七位教授——即「哥廷根七君子」——因抗议汉诺威国王恩斯特·奥古斯特一世废除 1833 年自由主义宪法而被免职。
• The seven included the historians Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann and Georg Gottfried Gervinus, the orientalist Georg Heinrich August Ewald, the physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber and the philologists Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, whose expulsion damaged the reputation of both city and university.七人包括历史学家弗里德里希·克里斯托夫·达尔曼与格奥尔格·戈特弗里德·格维努斯、东方学家格奥尔格·海因里希·奥古斯特·埃瓦尔德、物理学家威廉·爱德华·韦伯以及语言学家雅各布与威廉·格林兄弟；他们的被逐损害了城市与大学的声誉。
• In the 19th century Gustav Hugo and Karl Friedrich Eichhorn taught here as pioneers of the German Historical School of Jurisprudence, and the civil-law scholar Rudolf von Jhering, author of the theory of culpa in contrahendo, remained a professor at Göttingen until his death.19 世纪，古斯塔夫·胡果与卡尔·弗里德里希·艾希霍恩在此任教，成为德国历史法学派的先驱；创立「缔约过失责任」理论的民法学家鲁道夫·冯·耶林则一直在哥廷根任教授直至去世。
• The tradition of mathematics began with Carl Friedrich Gauss, the Prince of Mathematicians, who taught here, after whom Dirichlet and Riemann held the chair, and by 1900 David Hilbert and Felix Klein had turned Göttingen into a leading centre of world mathematics.数学传统始于被誉为「数学王子」的卡尔·弗里德里希·高斯——他曾在哥廷根任教，其后狄利克雷与黎曼先后继任其教席；到 1900 年，大卫·希尔伯特与菲利克斯·克莱因已将哥廷根缔造为世界数学的中心。
• In 1903 the university counted 121 teaching staff and 1,529 students, yet it was already the undisputed world centre of mathematics, where students were urged to take their backpack and go to Göttingen.1903 年，全校教师为 121 人、学生 1,529 人，但它已是无可争议的世界数学中心，当时学子间流传的口号正是「打起背包，到哥廷根去」。
• Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology, taught here, Ludwig Prandtl joined in 1904 to build Göttingen into a leader in fluid mechanics and aerodynamics, and Max Born led its theoretical physics group from 1921 to 1933.现象学创始人埃德蒙德·胡塞尔曾在此任教；路德维希·普朗特 1904 年加盟，将哥廷根发展为流体力学与空气动力学的领先中心；马克斯·玻恩则在 1921 至 1933 年间主持其理论物理小组。
• In 1925 Ludwig Prandtl was appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Fluid Mechanics, having founded mathematical aerodynamics through his boundary-layer theory and his calculation of air flow.1925 年，路德维希·普朗特出任威廉皇帝流体力学研究所所长；他提出的边界层理论以及对气流的计算，奠定了数学空气动力学的基础。
• Göttingen exerted a profound influence on the United States: Edward Everett, later Secretary of State and President of Harvard, studied here for two years, George Ticknor spent two years on classics, John Lothrop Motley befriended Bismarck, and George Bancroft took his doctorate in 1820.哥廷根对美国产生了深远影响：后来任美国国务卿与哈佛大学校长的爱德华·埃弗里特在此求学两年，乔治·蒂克纳研习古典学两年，约翰·洛思罗普·莫特利在此与俾斯麦结为好友，乔治·班克罗夫特则于 1820 年获博士学位。
• Under the Nazi regime the university suffered a great purge in 1933, when academics such as Max Born, Victor Goldschmidt, James Franck, Eugene Wigner, Leó Szilárd, Edward Teller and the mathematician Emmy Noether were dismissed or driven into exile.在纳粹统治下，该校于 1933 年遭遇「大清洗」，马克斯·玻恩、维克多·戈德施密特、詹姆斯·弗兰克、尤金·维格纳、利奥·西拉德、爱德华·泰勒以及数学家埃米·诺特等学者被免职或被迫流亡。
• After the purge, in 1934, David Hilbert was asked by the Nazi education minister Bernhard Rust how mathematics at Göttingen was progressing now that it was free of Jewish influence, and Hilbert is said to have replied that there was no mathematics in Göttingen any more.清洗之后，纳粹教育部长伯恩哈德·鲁斯特于 1934 年问大卫·希尔伯特：哥廷根的数学在摆脱犹太人影响后进展如何？据说希尔伯特回答道：哥廷根已经没有数学了。
• In 1945 the University of Göttingen was the first university in the western occupation zones to reopen under British control, and it began a long process of academic reconstruction.1945 年，哥廷根大学成为西部占领区中第一所在英国管控下重新开课的大学，并由此开始了漫长的学术重建。
• Its postwar students included the philosopher Jürgen Habermas, the later German President Richard von Weizsäcker, who took his doctorate in law here, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, a graduate of its Faculty of Law, and Ursula von der Leyen, later President of the European Commission, who studied economics in Göttingen.其战后学生包括哲学家尤尔根·哈贝马斯、在此获法学博士学位的后任德国总统里夏德·冯·魏茨泽克、毕业于其法学院的德国总理格哈特·施罗德，以及日后任欧盟委员会主席、曾在哥廷根学习经济学的乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩。
• In the 2006-2007 German Universities Excellence Initiative the university won funding for its future concept Tradition, Innovation, Autonomy, its graduate school in Neurosciences and Molecular Biosciences and its research cluster Microscopy at the Nanometer Range.在 2006 至 2007 年的德国大学卓越计划中，该校凭借其未来方案「传统、创新、自主」、神经科学与分子生物科学研究生院以及「纳米尺度显微术」研究集群而获得资助。
• It won support again in the 2012 Excellence Initiative and in September 2018 gained funds for the Multiscale Bioimaging cluster under the successor Excellence Strategy, although that cluster lost its funding in the second round in 2025.该校在 2012 年卓越计划中再度获得支持，并于 2018 年 9 月在后续的卓越战略下为「多尺度生物成像」集群取得经费，尽管该集群在 2025 年第二轮评审中失去了资助。
• From October 2007 to May 2012 Göttingen was one of the nine universities selected in the second round of Germany's Excellence Initiative as an elite university.自 2007 年 10 月至 2012 年 5 月，哥廷根大学是德国卓越计划第二轮评选中入选的九所「精英大学」之一。

Academics

• The university comprises 13 faculties together with 38 additional centres and institutes, a structure that has grown since 1980, when the modern faculty system was introduced by subject.该校设有 13 个院系以及 38 个额外的研究中心与研究所；这一格局自 1980 年起逐步形成，当时按学科建立了现代的院系体系。
• Its faculties are theology, law, economics, the social sciences, philosophy, mathematics and computer science, physics, chemistry, geosciences, agricultural sciences, forest sciences, biology and psychology, and medicine.其院系包括神学、法学、经济学、社会学、哲学、数学与信息学、物理学、化学、地质学、农学、林学、生物与心理学以及医学。
• As of 2023 approximately 22,484 students were enrolled, taught by 535 professors and more than 4,000 academic staff, and supported by a technical and administrative staff of over 7,000.截至 2023 年，全校注册学生约 22,484 人，由 535 名教授与 4,000 余名教研人员施教，并辅以 7,000 余名技术与行政人员。
• Five Max Planck Institutes are based in Göttingen, covering religious and ethnic diversity, biophysical chemistry, experimental medicine, dynamics and self-organization and solar system research, all closely linked to the university.哥廷根市内设有五家马克斯·普朗克研究所，分别研究宗教与族群多样性、生物物理化学、实验医学、动力学与自组织以及太阳系，均与该校保持紧密的学科合作。
• Founded in 1751 by King George II, the Göttingen Academy of Sciences has long cooperated closely with the university, and its members head many of the university's more than 170 institutes.哥廷根科学院由国王格奥尔格二世创办于 1751 年，长期与该校密切合作，其成员主持着该校 170 多个研究所中的许多机构。
• The medical school is organised into 19 centres, among them a wide range of specialised clinics that work together with the regional hospital services.其医学院下设 19 个中心，其中包括各类与地区医疗服务协同运作的专科诊所。
• Its research strengths include neuroscience and molecular biosciences, microscopy at the nanometre scale and, more recently, multiscale bioimaging, each of which has been supported by Germany's excellence programmes.其研究强项包括神经科学与分子生物科学、纳米尺度显微术以及较晚近的多尺度生物成像，这些领域均获得德国卓越计划的资助。
• The Göttingen Campus links the university with the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, a Helmholtz centre, and with the German Primate Center, a Leibniz institute.哥廷根学术圈将该校与亥姆霍兹联合会的德国神经退行性疾病中心以及莱布尼茨联合会的德国灵长类动物中心联结在一起。
• The university maintains close cooperation with Nanjing University, with which it jointly runs a Sino-German Institute of Law, a Sino-German Institute of Intercultural German Studies and a Sino-German Institute of Social Computing.该校与南京大学保持密切合作，双方合办中德法学研究所、中德跨文化日耳曼文学研究所以及中德社会计算研究所。
• The Göttingen State and University Library serves both the university and the state of Lower Saxony, and with its extensive holdings of manuscripts and printed works it ranks among the largest academic libraries in Germany.下萨克森州州立暨哥廷根大学图书馆既服务该校，也服务下萨克森州；凭借丰富的手稿与印刷品收藏，它位列德国最大的学术图书馆之一。
• The university maintains three botanical gardens, the Old Botanical Garden, the New Botanical Garden and the Forest Botanical Garden and Plant-Geographical Arboretum.该校拥有三座植物园，即老植物园、新植物园以及森林植物园与植物地理树木园。
• It is a member of the U15 group of major German research universities and of the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities, the ENLIGHT alliance and the HeKKSaGOn network.该校是德国主要研究型大学 U15 联盟成员，并加入欧洲研究密集型大学协会（Guild）、ENLIGHT 联盟与 HeKKSaGOn 网络。
• As part of the European Union, Göttingen participates in the Erasmus Programme and also maintains exchanges with universities outside Europe, including Tsinghua, Peking and Fudan in China, Kyoto and Waseda in Japan, and Amherst College in the United States.作为欧盟成员国的大学，哥廷根参与伊拉斯谟计划，并与欧洲以外的大学保持交流，包括中国的清华大学、北京大学与复旦大学，日本的京都大学与早稻田大学，以及美国的阿默斯特学院。
• Within the Göttingen Campus it is interlinked with partners such as the European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, the Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience and the Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology.在哥廷根学术圈内，该校与哥廷根欧洲神经科学研究所、伯恩斯坦计算神经科学网络以及弗劳恩霍夫转化医学与药理学研究所等伙伴机构相互联结。
• The Göttingen Campus is a cooperation model linking the university with the neighbouring Max Planck, Leibniz, Fraunhofer and Helmholtz institutions in order to strengthen joint research and doctoral training.哥廷根学术圈是一种合作模式，将该校与周边的马克斯·普朗克、莱布尼茨、弗劳恩霍夫与亥姆霍兹机构联结起来，以加强联合研究与博士生培养。
• The medical faculty collaborates with the affiliated hospital services of Göttingen, so that clinical teaching and research are carried out in the city's university medicine institutions.医学院与哥廷根的附属医院服务协同运作，临床教学与研究均在当地的大学医学机构中开展。
• Doctoral candidates are trained within structured graduate programmes, several of them supported by the German Research Foundation and linked to the surrounding non-university research institutions.博士生在结构化的研究生项目中接受培养，其中若干项目由德国研究基金会资助，并与周边的非大学研究机构相衔接。

Campus

• The university is spread across several locations in Göttingen rather than gathered on a single campus, and the central university complex with the Central Library and Mensa lies right beside the inner city.该校分散于哥廷根市内多处，而非集中于单一校园；带有中央图书馆与食堂的中心教学区紧邻老城。
• That central area houses the faculties of theology, social sciences, law, economics and business administration and linguistics, with ancient history, classics, languages, psychology and philosophy nearby.该中心区域容纳神学、社会学、法学、经济学与工商管理以及语言学等院系，古代史、古典学、各类语言、心理学与哲学则在其附近。
• Elsewhere in the city are the departments of anthropology and educational sciences and the medical faculty together with its associated hospitals, which sit at the foot of the hill.市内其他位置则分布着人类学系、教育科学系，以及位于山脚下的医学院及其附属医院。
• Just north of the city a new scientific quarter was built after the Second World War, where most of the natural sciences, including chemistry, biology, physics, geology, agronomy and forestry, are now located.城市正北在二战后新建了一处科学区，化学、生物学、物理学、地质学、农学与林学等大部分自然科学如今均设于此。
• The northern quarter also contains the Göttingen Centre for Molecular Biosciences, while other institutes remain set around the inner city.北部科学区还设有哥廷根分子生物科学中心，其余研究所则仍散布在老城周边。
• The Göttingen State and University Library holds precious manuscripts and serves as the central library both for the university and for Lower Saxony, and the historic Paulinerkirche functions as its exhibition building.下萨克森州州立暨哥廷根大学图书馆收藏珍贵手稿，既是该校的中央图书馆，也是下萨克森州的州立中心图书馆；历史悠久的宝琳娜教堂则用作其展览场馆。
• Among its green spaces the university counts three botanical gardens and an arboretum, the oldest dating from the university's early years.在绿地设施方面，该校拥有三座植物园与一处树木园，其中最古老的一座可追溯至该校创建之初。
• The architecture of the old university survives in the Auditorium Maximum of 1826 and 1865 and the Great Hall of 1835 and 1837, both on Wilhelmsplatz.老大学时期的建筑至今犹存，包括 1826 年与 1865 年的礼堂（Auditorium Maximum）以及 1835 年与 1837 年的大礼堂，二者均位于威廉广场。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the University of Göttingen is placed joint 261st in the world.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，哥廷根大学位列世界并列第 261 位。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places it joint 133rd.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列为并列第 133 位。
• The U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 ranks it 187th in the world.《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 最佳全球大学排名将其列为世界第 187 位。
• In the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 it appears in the 151-200 band.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，该校位列 151-200 区间。
• Nationally, in the 2023 ARWU it was placed between sixth and ninth in Germany, and in the 2024 Times Higher Education ranking it was tenth in the country.在国内位次上，该校在 2023 年软科排名中位居德国第 6 至第 9 之间，在 2024 年泰晤士高等教育排名中则列德国第 10 位。
• The OpenAlex database credits the university with 200,928 scholarly works and 15,916,080 citations, evidence of a large and heavily cited research output.OpenAlex 数据库收录该校 200,928 篇学术成果与 15,916,080 次引用，彰显其庞大且被高度引用的科研产出。
• Göttingen is associated with 47 Nobel Prize winners by the university's own count, among them such recent laureates as Klaus Hasselmann in physics in 2021 and Stefan Hell in chemistry in 2014.按校方自身的统计，哥廷根大学关联的诺贝尔奖得主达 47 位，其中包括 2021 年物理学奖得主克劳斯·哈塞尔曼与 2014 年化学奖得主斯特凡·赫尔等近年得主。
• A 2017 study of the historical development of world universities, based on Wikipedia data in 24 languages, ranked Göttingen sixth in the world in its combined ranking, reflecting its influence across ten centuries.一项基于 24 种语言维基百科数据、研究世界大学历史发展的 2017 年排名，将哥廷根的综合名次列为世界第 6，反映出它跨越十个世纪的影响力。
• As of 2021 four of the sixteen serving justices of Germany's Federal Constitutional Court were affiliated with Göttingen, and Georg Nolte, a former professor there, took office as a judge of the International Court of Justice.截至 2021 年，德国联邦宪法法院 16 名在任大法官中有 4 位与哥廷根有关；曾任该校教授的格奥格·诺尔特则出任海牙国际法院法官。

Student life

• An old saying about life in Göttingen, still inscribed in Latin at the entrance to the Ratskeller restaurant in the old town hall basement, declares that outside Göttingen there is no life, and that even if there is life it is not like this.一句关于哥廷根生活的古老谚语至今仍以拉丁文刻在老市政厅地窖餐厅的入口处，大意为「哥廷根之外没有生活；即便有生活，亦非这般的生活」。
• The university has no formal motto in the modern sense, and the Ratskeller inscription has long served as an informal expression of Göttingen identity.该校没有现代意义上的正式校训，老市政厅地窖的那句铭文长期充当哥廷根身份认同的非正式表达。
• Its best-known tradition is that PhD candidates who have just passed their oral defence are drawn through the inner city in a decorated wagon to the Gänseliesel fountain, where they climb up and kiss the Goose Girl statue.该校最著名的传统是：刚通过口试答辩的博士生乘坐装饰一新的花车穿过老城，前往鹅女孩喷泉，爬上雕像亲吻这位「鹅女孩」。
• The Gänseliesel statue recalls a figure from the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, and because so many new doctors have kissed it the figure is sometimes called the most kissed girl in the world, the original now kept in a museum and a replica standing in its place.鹅女孩雕像源自格林童话中的人物；由于太多新科博士亲吻它，这位少女被戏称为「世界上被亲吻最多的女孩」，原作现已存入博物馆，原处矗立的则是一座复制品。
• The university runs eight snack shops and six Mensas that serve low-priced lunches for students, and one Mensa also provides dinner.该校经营八家小吃店与六处食堂（Mensa），为学生提供价格低廉的午餐，其中一处食堂还供应晚餐。
• Visiting scholars have long described Göttingen as a centre of intellectual life, and the American mathematician Saunders Mac Lane called it a genuine centre of intellectual activity, adding that while he had studied at Chicago and Yale, Göttingen came first.来访学者历来把哥廷根誉为思想生活的中心；美国数学家桑德斯·麦克兰恩称它是真正的智识活动中心，并说自己虽在芝加哥读研究生、在耶鲁读本科，哥廷根却首屈一指。
• The university is a classic university-town institution with no campus gates or walls, so that student life blends with the city of Göttingen itself.该校是典型的大学城机构，没有校门与围墙，因此学生生活与哥廷根这座城市融为一体。

Notable people

• Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen, the Hanoverian privy councillor who carried out George II's plan, was the effective founder of the university, giving it a constitution that guaranteed scholarly freedom.汉诺威枢密顾问格拉克·阿道夫·冯·明希豪森执行了格奥尔格二世创办大学的计划，是该校名副其实的创办人；他为其制定章程，保障了学术自由。
• Otto von Bismarck, the first Chancellor of the German Empire, was a law student at Göttingen in 1833, and his modest lodgings there are remembered as the Bismarck Cottage.德意志帝国首任宰相奥托·冯·俾斯麦 1833 年曾在哥廷根攻读法律，他在当地居住的简陋住所至今被称为「俾斯麦小屋」。
• Robert Koch, who studied in Göttingen, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1905.曾在哥廷根求学的罗伯特·科赫于 1905 年获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。
• Max Planck, the founder of quantum theory, was a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.量子理论奠基人马克斯·普朗克是哥廷根科学院成员，并于 1918 年获得诺贝尔物理学奖。
• Werner Heisenberg, a student and later professor at Göttingen, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 for his work on quantum mechanics.曾在哥廷根求学并任教授的沃纳·海森堡因量子力学方面的贡献获得 1932 年诺贝尔物理学奖。
• Emmy Noether, who taught at Göttingen as its first female professor of mathematics, fled Germany in 1933 and is remembered as one of the founders of modern abstract algebra.埃米·诺特是哥廷根大学数学系第一位女性教授，1933 年被迫离开德国，被视为现代抽象代数的奠基人之一。
• Max Born, who led Göttingen's theoretical physics from 1921 to 1933 before going into exile, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954.马克斯·玻恩在 1921 至 1933 年间主持哥廷根的理论物理，后流亡海外，并于 1954 年获得诺贝尔物理学奖。
• Klaus Hasselmann, who took his doctorate in physics at Göttingen in 1957, shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2021 for his work on climate modelling.克劳斯·哈塞尔曼 1957 年在哥廷根获物理学博士学位，因气候建模方面的研究分享 2021 年诺贝尔物理学奖。
• Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005, graduated from the Faculty of Law at Göttingen.1998 至 2005 年间任德国总理的格哈特·施罗德毕业于哥廷根大学法学院。
• Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission since 2019, studied economics at Göttingen, where she met her husband Heiko von der Leyen.自 2019 年起任欧盟委员会主席的乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩曾在哥廷根学习经济学，并在那里结识其丈夫海科·冯德莱恩。
• Ji Xianlin, the Chinese linguist and Indologist who later served as vice-president of Peking University, earned his doctorate at Göttingen.后来出任北京大学副校长的中国语言学家、印度学家季羡林在哥廷根获得博士学位。
• Hsu Tzong-li, who has served as President of the Judicial Yuan of Taiwan since 2016, earned his doctorate in law at Göttingen in 1986.自 2016 年起任台湾司法院院长的许宗力于 1986 年在哥廷根获法学博士学位。