Göttingen

This time, I would like to stop talking about South Africa (I still have a lot of material to show) but in recent days another city has amazed me too and It's not because the Mexican soccer team stayed there to practice before each futboal match during the 2004 world cup.

Göttingen is Located in Lower Saxony, Germany. During the II world war, the city was almost not touched by the Allied bombing becasue there was an informal agreement that Germany wouldn't bomb Cambridge and Oxford while the Allies wouldn't bomb Heidelberg and Göttingen.

The city is an University town, the buildings of the faculties and offices are distributed in the town, so there is not a real campus like in most of the cases. It is possible to find a research center or an office pretty near to the main plaza for example. The Georg-August-Universität ( founded in 1737) was the most visited University in Europe. Some people like the Brothers Grim, Heinrich Ewlad have worked there, also Otto von Bismarck and Gerhard Schöder studied in Göttingen as well as the matematicians Carl Friedrich Gauss, Bernhard Riemann and David Hilbert were professors there.

Until today, 44 nobel prizes are linked to the University via their curriculum vitae, these nobel prizes are:

Physics

Patrick Blackett 1948
Max Born 1954
Walther Bothe 1954
Hans G. Dehmelt 1989
Paul A. M. Dirac 1933
Enrico Fermi 1938
James Franck 1925
M. Goeppert-Mayer 1963
Werner Heisenberg 1932
Gustav Hertz 1925
Herbert Kroemer 2000
Max von Laue 1914
Robert A. Millikan 1923
Wolfgang Paul 1989
Wolfgang Pauli 1945
Max Planck 1918
Karl M. Siegbahn 1924
Johannes Stark 1919
Otto Stern 1943
Wien Wilhelm 1911
Eugene P. Wigner 1963

Chemistry
Adolf Butenandt 1939
Peter J. W. Debye 1936
Manfred Eigen 1967
Otto Hahn 1944
Walter N. Haworth 1937
Gerhard Herzberg 1971
Irving Langmuir 1932
Walther H. Nernst 1920
Theodore Richards 1914
Otto Wallach 1910
Adolf Otto R. Windaus 1928
Richard A. Zsigmondy 1925

Medicine
Max Delbrück 1969
Paul Ehrlich 1908
Robert Koch 1905
Hans A. Krebs 1953
Ilya Metschnikow 1908
Erwin Neher 1991
Bert Sakmann 1991

Litheratur
Rudolf Eucken 1908
Günter Grass 1999

Peace
Ludwig Quidde 1927
Lars Söderblom 1930

For more information about the University, the history of the city or any Nobel Prize, this link is available.