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unusual facts about Göttingen University



Charles M. Olmsted

After Harvard, Olmsted attended Göttingen University and Wilhelm Institute in Bonn from 1902 to 1906, obtaining his PhD from the Kaiser.

Kathryn Whaler

She has undertaken a number of sabbaticals which have given her experience of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Harvard University, the University of California at San Diego (where she was a Green Scholar), Victoria University of Wellington, and Göttingen University (as Gauss Professor), funded by the Fulbright Foundation, NASA, the Cecil H and Ida M Green Foundation, and Göttingen Academy of Sciences.

PEGNet

PEGNet was founded in 2005 as a joint initiative of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), its implementing agencies GIZ and KfW Entwicklungsbank as well as the universities of Göttingen and Frankfurt.

Ruth B. Bottigheimer

In addition to her current position at Stony Brook University, Bottigheimer has also taught at Hollins College, the University of Innsbruck, Göttingen University, Princeton University, the University of California, and others.

Ulrich Willerding

Ulrich Willerding (born 1932 in Querfurt, Germany) is a professor emeritus of botany at the Göttingen University, Germany.


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Dorothea von Rodde-Schlözer

She was one of the so-called Universitätsmamsellen, a group of five academically active women during the 18th-and 19th century, daughters of academics on Göttingen University, alongside Meta Forkel-Liebeskind, Therese Huber, Philippine Engelhard, and Caroline Schelling.

Göttingen Observatory

In 1941, during World War II, Paul ten Bruggencate became the director of the Göttingen University Observatory.

Haußelberg

In 1820 King George IV of England tasked the Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory at Göttingen University, Carl Friedrich Gauss, to survey the Kingdom of Hanover.