This is a list of notable alumni and academics of the University of Freiburg. 22 Nobel laureates are associated with the university and 13 researchers have been honored with the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize since it was first awarded in 1986.
Humanities, social sciences, arts
Politics and law
Economics
Theology
Medicine and sciences
- Ludwig Aschoff
- Robert Bárány, student (Nobel Prize 1914, Physiology or Medicine)
- Erwin Baur
- Marianne Bielschowsky
- Theodor Bilharz
- Korbinian Brodmann
- Vincenz Czerny
- Heinrich Anton de Bary
- Paul du Bois-Reymond
- Alexander Ecker
- Herman Ehrenberg
- Paul Ehrlich, student (Nobel Prize 1908, Physiology or Medicine)
- Hermann Emminghaus
- Alice Ettinger
- Sidney Farber
- Eugen Fischer
- Ulrich Förstermann
- Otfrid Foerster
- Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch
- Felix Hausdorff
- Harald zur Hausen, professor (Nobel Prize 2008, Physiology or Medicine)
- Alfred Hegar
- Philip Hench, student (Nobel Prize 1950, Physiology or Medicine)
- Karl Herxheimer
- George de Hevesy, student and professor (Nobel Prize 1943, Chemistry)
- Alfred Hoche
- Karen Horney
- Waldemar Hoven (1903âÂÂ1948), German Nazi physician executed for war crimes
- J. Hans D. Jensen, student (Nobel Prize 1963, Physics)
- Gustav Killian
- Martin Kirschner
- Magnus von Knebel Doeberitz
- Georges J. F. Köhler, student and professor (Nobel Prize 1984, Physiology or Medicine)
- Otto Krayer
- Hans Adolf Krebs, student and scientist (Nobel Prize 1953, Physiology or Medicine)
- Adolph Kussmaul
- Cornelius Lanczos
- Paul Langerhans
- Theodore K. Lawless, American dermatologist, medical researcher, and philanthropist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Levi
- Kurt Lewin
- Erich Lexer
- Ferdinand von Lindemann
- Hubert von Luschka
- Rudolf Robert Maier
- Frank Burr Mallory
- Ernst Messerschmid
- Otto Meyerhof, student (Nobel Prize 1922, Physiology or Medicine)
- Karin B. Michels
- Gustav Mie
- Woldemar Mobitz
- Mario Molina, student (Nobel Prize 1995, Chemistry)
- Paul Morawitz
- Hugo Münsterberg
- Carl Nägeli
- Max Nonne
- Wilhelm Normann
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, scientist (Nobel Prize 1995, Physiology or Medicine)
- Lorenz Oken
- Georgios Papanikolaou
- John Parkinson
- Georg Perthes
- Hagen Pfundner
- Otto Friedrich Ranke, physiologist
- Julius von Sachs
- Bert Sakmann, student (Nobel Prize 1991, Physiology or Medicine)
- Christoph Scheiner
- Otto Schirmer
- Rudolph Schoenheimer
- Hans Spemann, professor (Nobel Prize 1935, Physiology or Medicine)
- Otto Spiegelberg
- Hermann Staudinger, professor (Nobel Prize 1953, Chemistry)
- Mikhail Stepanovich Voronin
- Louis Stromeyer
- Wilhelm Trendelenburg
- Paul Uhlenhuth
- Herbert E. Walter
- Otto Heinrich Warburg, student (Nobel Prize 1931, Physiology or Medicine)".
- August Weismann
- Stephan Westmann, professor of obstetrics
- Robert Wiedersheim, professor of Anatomy between 1887 and 1918.
- Heinrich Otto Wieland, professor (Nobel Prize 1927, Chemistry)
- Adolf Windaus, student and scientist (Nobel Prize 1928, Chemistry)
- Georg Wittig, professor (Nobel Prize 1979, Chemistry)
- Ernst Zermelo, mathematician
- Stephanie Zimmermann, physicist
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