List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Humboldt University of Berlin
This list of Nobel laureates affiliated with Humboldt University of Berlin comprehensively shows the alumni, faculty members as well as researchers of Humboldt University of Berlin who were awarded the Nobel Prize or the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Nobel Prizes, established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, are awarded to individuals who make outstanding contributions in the fields of Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine.[1] An associated prize, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (commonly known as the Nobel Prize in Economics), was instituted by Sweden's central bank, Sveriges Riksbank, in 1968 and first awarded in 1969.[2]
As of October 2020, 57 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Humboldt University of Berlin. Among the 57 laureates, 49 are Nobel laureates in natural sciences;[lower-alpha 1] 32 are HU Berlin alumni (graduates and attendees) and 21 have been long-term academic members of the HU Berlin faculty or HU Berlin-affiliated research organisations; and subject-wise, 23 laureates have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, more than any other subject.[lower-alpha 2] This list considers Nobel laureates as equal individuals and does not consider their various prize shares or if they received the prize more than once.[3]
Inclusion criteria
The university affiliations in this list are all official academic affiliations such as degree programs and official academic employment. Non-academic affiliations such as advisory committee and administrative staff are generally excluded. The official academic affiliations fall into three categories: 1) Alumni (graduates and attendees), 2) Long-term Academic Staff, and 3) Short-term Academic Staff. Graduates are defined as those who hold Bachelor's, Master's, Doctorate, or equivalent degrees from the Humboldt University of Berlin, while attendees are those who formally enrolled in a degree program at HU Berlin but did not complete the program; thus, honorary degrees, posthumous degrees, summer attendees, exchange students, and auditing students are excluded. The category of "Long-term Academic Staff" consists of tenure/tenure-track and equivalent academic positions, while that of "Short-term Academic Staff" consists of lecturers (without tenure), postdoctoral researchers (postdocs), visiting professors/scholars (visitors), and equivalent academic positions. At HU Berlin, the specific academic title solely determines the type of affiliation, regardless of the actual time the position was held by a laureate.
Further explanations on "visitors" under "Short-term Academic Staff" are presented as follows. 1) All informal or personal visits are excluded from the list; 2) all employment-based visiting positions, which carry teaching/research duties, are included as affiliations in the list; 3) as for award/honor-based visiting positions, to minimise controversy this list takes a conservative view and includes the positions as affiliations only if the laureates were required to assume employment-level duty (teaching/research) or the laureates specifically classified the visiting positions as "affiliation" or similar in reliable sources such as their curriculum vita. In particular, attending meetings and giving public lectures, talks or non-curricular seminars at HU Berlin is not a form of employment-level duty. Finally, summer visitors are generally excluded from the list unless summer work yielded significant end products such as research publications and components of Nobel-winning work, since summer terms are not part of formal academic years.
The majority of "Honorary Professorships" in Germany are awards/honors without employment-level duties, and are thus excluded from the list, unless the laureates indicate that their positions are official academic affiliations/carry employment-level duties.
Name | Nobel Prize | Year | Role in Humboldt University of Berlin |
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Gerhard Ertl | Chemistry | 2007 | Honorary Professor (1996)[4] |
Emily Balch | Peace | 1946 | Studied one year at the University of Berlin, but she was only permitted to audit lectures and was not in any degree program[5][6] |
Hans Spemann | Physiology or Medicine | 1935 | Honorary Professor of Zoology (1914) while serving as the Associate Director at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Biology in Berlin (1914-1919)[7][8] |
Summary
All types of affiliations, namely alumni, long-term and short-term academic staff, count equally in the following table and throughout the whole page.[lower-alpha 3]
In the following list, the number following a person's name is the year they received the prize; in particular, a number with asterisk (*) means the person received the award while they were working at HU Berlin (including emeritus staff).[lower-alpha 4] A name underlined implies that this person has already been listed in a previous category (i.e., multiple affiliations).
Nobel laureates by category
Nobel laureates in Physics
No. | Name | Year | Affiliation with Humboldt University of Berlin |
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14 | Eugene Wigner | 1963 | Research Assistant (1926-1927) and Privatdozent (1928-1930)[9] |
13 | Walther Bothe | 1954 | PhD; Associate Professor (1925-1929)[10][11] |
12 | Max Born | 1954 | Extraordinarius/Associate Professor (1915)[12][13] |
11 | Erwin Schrödinger | 1933 | Professor and Chair for Theoretical Physics (1927-1933)[14] |
10 | Werner Heisenberg | 1932 | Professor of Physics and Chair for Theoretical Physics (1943-1945)[15][16] |
9 | Gustav Hertz | 1925 | PhD[17] |
8 | James Franck | 1925 | PhD; Associate Professor (1916-1918); Research Assistant (1906-1911) and Privatdozent (1911-1916)[18] |
7 | Albert Einstein | 1921 | Professor of Theoretical Physics (1914-1933)[19] |
6 | Max Planck | 1918 | Graduate attendee (1877-1878); Professor (1889-1926)[20][21] |
5 | Max Laue | 1914 | PhD (1903); Professor (1919-1943)[22] |
4 | Wilhelm Wien | 1911 | PhD[23] |
3 | Karl Ferdinand Braun | 1909 | PhD[24] |
2 | Albert Michelson | 1907 | Graduate attendee (1880), under Hermann von Helmholtz[25][26][27] |
1 | Philipp Lenard | 1905 | Graduate attendee, under Hermann von Helmholtz[28] |
Nobel laureates in Chemistry
No. | Name | Year | Affiliation with Humboldt University of Berlin |
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23 | Emmanuelle Charpentier | 2020 | Honorary Professor in research and teaching at the Department of Biology (2016-)[29][30] |
22 | Odd Hassel | 1969 | PhD[31] |
21 | Otto Diels | 1950 | PhD (1899); Professor (1906-1916); Research Assistant to Emil Fischer (1899-1904) and Lecturer (1904-1906)[32][33][34] |
20 | Kurt Alder | 1950 | Undergraduate attendee (1922-?)[35] |
19 | Otto Hahn | 1944 | Associate Professor (1910-1934); Lecturer (1907-1910) and Research Assistant to Emil Fischer (1906-1910)[36][37][38] |
18 | Adolf Butenandt | 1939 | Honorary Professor with teaching duty (1938-1944)[39][40][41] |
17 | Peter Debye | 1936 | Professor of Physics (1934-1940)[42][43] |
16 | Friedrich Bergius | 1931 | Postdoctoral Researcher (1907-1908, two terms) under Walther Nernst[44][45][46] |
15 | Hans Fischer | 1930 | Postdoctoral Researcher at the First Institute of Chemistry, under Emil Fischer[47][48] |
14 | Hans Euler-Chelpin | 1929 | PhD[49] |
13 | Adolf Windaus | 1928 | Undergraduate attendee (1895-1897); Research Assistant to Emil Fischer[50][51] |
12 | Heinrich Wieland | 1927 | Undergraduate attendee (1897)[52][53] |
11 | Richard Zsigmondy | 1925 | Research Assistant to August Kundt[54][55] |
10 | Fritz Pregl | 1923 | Visiting researcher (1904), under Emil Fischer[56][57] |
9 | Walther Nernst | 1920 | Undergraduate attendee; Professor[58] |
8 | Fritz Haber | 1918 | PhD[59] |
7 | Richard Willstätter | 1915 | Honorary Professor with teaching duty (1912-1916)[60][61][62] |
6 | Theodore W. Richards | 1914 | Exchange Professor (half a year, 1907)[63] |
5 | Otto Wallach | 1910 | Undergraduate attendee (one semester); research assistant to Hermann Wichelhaus (1869-1870)[64] |
4 | Eduard Buchner | 1907 | Habilitation (1900); Professor at the Agricultural University of Berlin (1898-1909), which became part of HU Berlin in 1934[65][66][67] |
3 | Adolf von Baeyer | 1905 | PhD[68] |
2 | Emil Fischer | 1902 | Professor (1892-1919)[69][70] |
1 | Jacobus Hoff | 1901 | Honorary Professor with teaching duty (1896-1911)[71][72][73][74] |
Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine
No. | Name | Year | Affiliation with Humboldt University of Berlin |
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12 | Bert Sakmann | 1991 | Medical student[75][76] |
11 | Werner Forssmann | 1956 | M.D[77][78] |
10 | Fritz Lipmann | 1953 | M.D, PhD[79] |
9 | Hans A. Krebs | 1953 | Medical student (Third Medical Clinic) and graduate attendee[80] |
8 | Walter R. Hess | 1949 | Medical student[81][82] |
7 | Ernst Chain | 1945 | B.S[83] |
6 | Otto H. Warburg | 1931 | PhD[84] |
5 | Otto Meyerhof | 1922 | Medical student[85][86] |
4 | Albrecht Kossel | 1910 | Director of the Chemical Division of the Institute of Physiology (1883-1895) and Extraordinary/Associate Professor (1887-1895)[87][88] |
3 | Paul Ehrlich | 1908 | Associate Professor; Privatdozent (1887-?) and Titular Professor (1882-1887)[89] |
2 | Robert Koch | 1905 | Professor of Hygiene and Head of the affiliated Institute of Hygiene (1885-1891), and Honorary Professor (1891-1910)[90][91][92] |
1 | Emil Behring | 1901 | Research assistant to Robert Koch at the Institute of Hygiene[93] |
Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economics
No. | Name | Year | Affiliation with Humboldt University of Berlin |
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1 | Wassily Leontief | 1973 | PhD (1928)[94][95] |
Nobel laureates in Literature
No. | Name | Year | Affiliation with Humboldt University of Berlin |
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4 | Gerhart Hauptmann | 1912 | Undergraduate attendee[96][97] |
3 | Paul Heyse | 1910 | Undergraduate attendee (two years)[98] |
2 | Rudolf Eucken | 1908 | Undergraduate attendee[99][100] |
1 | Theodor Mommsen | 1902 | Professor[101][102] |
Nobel Peace Prize laureates
No. | Name | Year | Affiliation with Humboldt University of Berlin |
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3 | Gustav Stresemann | 1926 | Undergraduate attendee[103][104] |
2 | Austen Chamberlain | 1925 | Graduate attendee (one year)[105][106] |
1 | Auguste Beernaert | 1909 | Visiting Fellow[107][108] |
See also
Notes
- The total number of laureates in natural sciences: Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology or Medicine.
- For verification, see "Summary".
- This is because, according to Wikipedia policies on no original research and objectivity/neutrality, it is not possible in Wikipedia to subjectively assign various weights to different types of affiliations.
- The table doesn't provide citations or details on entries; for citations and details, see "Nobel laureates by category".
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