Nobel Prize Laureates from Göttingen Our University is connected with more than forty Nobel prize winners. Fourteen of them have been awarded the Nobel prize for the very research conducted during their time in Göttingen: Max Born, Physics (1882 to 1970) Adolf Butenandt, Chemistry (1903 to 1995) Peter Debye, Chemistry (1884 to 1966) Manfred Eigen, Chemistry (1927 - 2019) James Franck, Physics (1882 to 1964) Werner Heisenberg, Physics (1901 to 1976) Stefan W. Hell, Chemistry (born 1962) Erwin Neher, Medicine (born 1944) Walther Hermann Nernst, Chemistry (1864 to 1941) Bert Sakmann, Medicine (born 1942) Johannes Stark, Physics (1874 to 1957) Otto Wallach, Chemistry (1847 to 1931) Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, Chemistry (1876 to 1959) Richard Zsigmondy, Chemistry (1865 to 1929)