EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Hamburg, Germany

Official Website:
http://www.uni-hamburg.de/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Gerd Albrecht	Conductor	19-Jun-1935	2-Feb-2014	Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, 1998-2007
Gordon W. Allport	Psychologist	11-Nov-1897	9-Oct-1967	Personality: A Psychological Interpretation
J. Michael Bishop	Scientist	22-Feb-1936		Genetic causes of cancer
Roland W. Burris	Politician	8-Aug-1937		US Senator from Illinois, 2009-10
Karl Carstens	Head of State	14-Dec-1914	30-May-1992	President of Germany, 1979-84
Gerhard Casper	Educator	25-Dec-1937		President of Stanford University, 1992-2000
Peter Coym	Business	c. 1942		Lehman Brothers Germany
Otto Robert Frisch	Physicist	1-Oct-1904	22-Sep-1979	Described fission
Michael S. Greve	Activist	c. 1958		Co-Founder, Center for Individual Rights
Arvid Harnack	Spy	24-May-1901	22-Dec-1942	Hanged by the Nazis for espionage
Harald zur Hausen	Scientist	11-Mar-1936		Papilloma virus
J. Hans D. Jensen	Physicist	25-Jun-1907	11-Feb-1973	Shell nuclear model
Hans Krebs	Scientist	25-Apr-1900	22-Nov-1981	Tricarboxylic acid cycle
Siegfried Lenz	Novelist	17-Mar-1926	7-Oct-2014	Deutschstunde
William A. Rugh	Diplomat	10-May-1936		US Ambassador to Yemen, 1984-87
Wolfgang Schäuble	Politician	18-Sep-1942		CDU Chairman, 1998-2000
Helmut Schmidt	Head of State	23-Dec-1918	10-Nov-2015	Chancellor of Germany, 1974-82
Emilio Segrè	Physicist	30-Jan-1905	22-Apr-1989	Co-Discoverer of the antiproton
Richard Sorge	Spy	4-Oct-1895	7-Nov-1944	Warned Stalin of Operation Barbarossa
Leo Strauss	Philosopher	20-Sep-1899	18-Oct-1973	Patron saint of Neoconservatism
Peter Struck	Government	24-Jan-1943	19-Dec-2012	German Defense Minister, 2002-05
Albert Szent-Györgyi	Scientist	16-Sep-1893	22-Oct-1986	Vitamins C and B2
Samuel C. C. Ting	Physicist	27-Jan-1936		Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson
Max Zorn	Mathematician	6-Jun-1906	9-Mar-1993	Zorn's Lemma

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Ludwig Biermann	Astronomer	13-Mar-1907	12-Jan-1986	Solar winds
Ernst Cassirer	Philosopher	28-Jul-1874	13-Apr-1945	The Myth of the State
Joel Dorius	Educator	4-Jan-1919	14-Feb-2006	Professor fired for gay porn arrest
Fritz Fischer	Historian	5-Mar-1908	1-Dec-1999	Blamed Germany for World War I
Otto Heckmann	Astronomer	23-Jun-1901	13-May-1983	Investigated cosmic expansion
Pascual Jordan	Physicist	18-Oct-1902	31-Jul-1980	Founder of Quantum Mechanics
Rudolph Minkowski	Astronomer	28-May-1895	4-Jan-1976	Galaxies in collision
Erwin Panofsky	Art Historian	30-Mar-1892	14-Mar-1968	Studies in Iconology
Wolfgang Pauli	Physicist	25-Apr-1900	15-Dec-1958	Pauli Exclusion Principle
Otto Stern	Physicist	17-Feb-1888	17-Aug-1969	Molecular beam experiment
John von Neumann	Mathematician	28-Dec-1903	8-Feb-1957	Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Otto Heckmann	Astronomer	23-Jun-1901	13-May-1983	Investigated cosmic expansion

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