Awards and Prizes

Researchers at Goethe University have earned international distinction, some winning the highest awards in their communities.

Nobel Prize Winners

Current members of the Goethe University community

  • Hartmut Michel (1988, Chemistry)  

Former members of the Goethe University community

  • Paul Ehrlich (1908, Physiology/Medicine)
  • Max von Laue (1914, Physics)
  • Otto Loewi (1936, Medicine)
  • Paul Karrer (1937, Chemistry)
  • Otto Stern (1943, Physics)
  • Otto Hahn (1944, Chemistry)
  • Max Born (1954, Physics)
  • Alexander Robert Todd (1957, Chemistry)
  • Karl Ziegler (1963, Chemistry)
  • Hans Bethe (1967, Physics)
  • Niels Kaj Jerne (1984, Physiology)
  • Gerd Binnig (1986, Physics)
  • Jean-Marie Lehn, visiting researcher (1987, Chemistry)
  • Reinhard Selten (1994, Economics)
  • Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1995, Physiology/Medicine)
  • Horst Ludwig Störmer (1998, Physics)
  • Günter Blobel (1999, Physiology/Medicine)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize Winners

Germany’s most prestigious prize for individual researchers, the German Research Foundation (DFG) provides winners with up to € 2.5 million for their work. The Liebniz Program should improve the working conditions for extraordinary scientists, increasing the scope of their research, relieve them of administrative duties, and make it easier for them to hire particularly well-qualified young researchers.

  • Jürgen Habermas (1986, Philosophy)
  • Hartmut Michel (1986, Chemistry)
  • Lothar Gall (1988, Modern and Contemporary History)
  • Reinhard Stock (1989, Experimental Nuclear Physics)
  • Michael Stolleis (1991, History of Law)
  • 1993: Claus-Peter Schnorr (Mathematics) with Johannes Buchmann (Computer Science)
  • 1994: Theo Geisel (Theoretical Physics)
  • 1998: Christian Griesinger (Organic Chemistry)
  • 1998: Volker Mosbrugger (Paleontology)
  • 2005: Stefanie Dimmeler (Molecular Cardiology)
  • 2007: Bernhard Jussen (Medieval History)
  • 2010: Roman Inderst (Economics)