page_title: Göttingen
section_title: Notable people who died in Göttingen
hierarchical_section_title: Göttingen / Notable people who died in Göttingen
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799), German scientist and writer
context_page_description: Göttingen is a university city in Lower Saxony, Germany, the capital of the eponymous district. It is run through by River Leine. At the start of 2017, the population was 134,212.
context_section_description: Max Born, (1882-1970), physicist, mathematician and Nobel laureate
  Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, (1805-1859), mathematician
  Manfred Eigen, (1927-2019), biophysical chemist and Nobel laureate 1967
  Carl Friedrich Gauss, (1777-1855), mathematician and scientist
  Friedrich August Grotefend, (1798-1836), philologist
  Otto Hahn, (1879-1968), chemist and Nobel laureate 1944
  David Hilbert, (1862-1943), mathematician
  Theodor Kaluza, (1885-1954), mathematician and physicist
  Felix Klein, (1849-1925), mathematician
  Hermann Minkowski, (1864-1909), mathematician
  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, (1742-1799), physicist
  Max Planck, (1858-1947), physicist and Nobel laureate 1918
  Helmuth Plessner, (1892-1985), philosopher and sociologist
  Ludwig Prandtl, (1875-1953), scientist
  Kurt Reidemeister, (1893-1971), mathematician
  Lou Andreas-Salomé, (1861-1937), psychoanalyst and author
  Carl Ludwig Siegel, (1896-1981), mathematician
  Wilhelm Eduard Weber, (1804-1891), physicist
  Conny Wessmann, (1965-1989), antifascist activist
  Friedrich Wöhler, (1800-1882), chemist
  Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, (1825-1929), chemist and Nobel laureate 1929
caption: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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