List of University of Freiburg people
This is a list of notable alumni and academics of the University of Freiburg . 22 Nobel laureates are associated with the university and 13 researchers have been honored with the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize since it was first awarded in 1986.
Humanities, social sciences, arts
Politics and law
Economics
Theology
Medicine and sciences
Commemorative plaque at the entrance of the anatomy institute of Freiburg University where Paul Ehrlich, as a medical student in the winter semester 1875/76, discovered the mast cells .
Ludwig Aschoff
Robert Bárány , student (Nobel Prize 1914, Physiology or Medicine)[ 3]
Erwin Baur
Theodor Bilharz
Korbinian Brodmann
Vincenz Czerny
Heinrich Anton de Bary
Paul du Bois-Reymond
Alexander Ecker
Herman Ehrenberg
Paul Ehrlich , student (Nobel Prize 1908, Physiology or Medicine)[ 4]
Hermann Emminghaus
Alice Ettinger
Sidney Farber
Eugen Fischer
Ulrich Förstermann
Otfrid Foerster
Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch
Felix Hausdorff
Harald zur Hausen , professor (Nobel Prize 2008, Physiology or Medicine)[ 5]
Alfred Hegar
Philip Hench , student (Nobel Prize 1950, Physiology or Medicine)[ 6]
Karl Herxheimer
George de Hevesy , student and professor (Nobel Prize 1943, Chemistry)[ 7]
Alfred Hoche
Karen Horney
Waldemar Hoven (1903–1948), German Nazi physician executed for war crimes
J. Hans D. Jensen , student (Nobel Prize 1963, Physics)[ 8]
Gustav Killian
Martin Kirschner
Magnus von Knebel Doeberitz
Georges J. F. Köhler , student and professor (Nobel Prize 1984, Physiology or Medicine)[ 9]
Otto Krayer
Hans Adolf Krebs , student and scientist (Nobel Prize 1953, Physiology or Medicine)[ 10]
Adolph Kussmaul
Cornelius Lanczos
Paul Langerhans
Theodore K. Lawless , American dermatologist, medical researcher, and philanthropist
Friedrich Wilhelm Levi
Kurt Lewin
Erich Lexer
Ferdinand von Lindemann
Hubert von Luschka
Rudolf Robert Maier
Frank Burr Mallory
Ernst Messerschmid
Otto Meyerhof , student (Nobel Prize 1922, Physiology or Medicine)[ 11]
Karin B. Michels
Gustav Mie
Woldemar Mobitz
Mario Molina , student (Nobel Prize 1995, Chemistry)[ 12]
Paul Morawitz
Hugo Münsterberg
Carl Nägeli
Max Nonne
Wilhelm Normann
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard , scientist (Nobel Prize 1995, Physiology or Medicine)[ 13]
Lorenz Oken
Georgios Papanikolaou
John Parkinson
Georg Perthes
Hagen Pfundner
Otto Friedrich Ranke , physiologist
Julius von Sachs
Bert Sakmann , student (Nobel Prize 1991, Physiology or Medicine)[ 14]
Christoph Scheiner
Otto Schirmer
Rudolph Schoenheimer
Hans Spemann , professor (Nobel Prize 1935, Physiology or Medicine)[ 15]
Otto Spiegelberg
Hermann Staudinger , professor (Nobel Prize 1953, Chemistry)[ 16]
Mikhail Stepanovich Voronin
Louis Stromeyer
Wilhelm Trendelenburg
Paul Uhlenhuth
Herbert E. Walter
Otto Heinrich Warburg , student (Nobel Prize 1931, Physiology or Medicine)".[ 17]
August Weismann
Stephan Westmann , professor of obstetrics
Robert Wiedersheim , professor of Anatomy between 1887 and 1918.[ 18]
Heinrich Otto Wieland , professor (Nobel Prize 1927, Chemistry)[ 19]
Adolf Windaus , student and scientist (Nobel Prize 1928, Chemistry)[ 20]
Georg Wittig , professor (Nobel Prize 1979, Chemistry)[ 21]
Ernst Zermelo , mathematician
Stephanie Zimmermann , physicist
Other
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