Göttingen. It is a small town in the heart of Germany, with several lines of farms and a few small industries. But very few other places in the world have been home to such a stellar population. Many great personalities have been associated with The Georg-August University of Göttingen such as the Brothers Grimm, Heinrich Heine and Otto von Bismarck. The University was founded in 1737 by King George II of Great Britain (who was also the Elector of Hanover) and so far, 45 Nobel Laureates have studied, taught or worked at the University. (And of course, there have been many great Scientists who have graced the town in the pre-Nobel era. Giving Nobel or Fields medal to the likes of Gauss and Riemann would be an insult).
So when I was visiting my friends there for Easter, we decided to pay homage to the giants of academia that have graced the land of Göttingen.
House of Richard Courant (Mathematician):
House of Hermann Weyl (Mathematician and Theoretical Physicist):
House of Edmund Landau (Mathematician):
House of Carl Ludwig Siegel (Mathematician):
House of Hermann Minkowski (Mathematician):
House of Carld Freidrich Gauss (Mathematician & Physicist):
House of Ezequiel Uricoechea (Chemist, Linguist and Polymath):
The statue of Wilhelm Weber (Physicist) and Carl Freidrich Gauss:
Statue of Freidrich Wöhler (Chemist):
Tomb of Carl Freidrich Gauss:
House of Walther Nernst (Physical Chemist & Physicist)
The Institute of Theoretical Physics (Old Building):
Max Born was the head of the department
Victor Weisskoff (Physicist):
and Carl Freidrich von Weizsäcker
Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli also worked here for some time.
House of Max von Laue (Physicist):
House of Emmy Noether (Mathematician and Theoretical Physicist):
House of Bernhard Riemann (Mathematician):
