There is no other place in the world where you can meet nine Nobel Prize winners at any given time. Only in Göttingen this is possible because so many Nobel Prize winners have studied or worked here. Some of them are even buried in the Göttingen City Cemetery. In their honour, the ‘Nobel Roundel’ was erected in 2006 to mark the 125th anniversary of the Göttingen City Cemetery. It is located in the southern part of the cemetery and it consists a red column in the middle, on which the face of Alfred Nobel can be seen. The memorial plaques of the Nobel Prize winners are arranged in a hexadecagon around the column. These are intended to commemorate their important work. When the memorial was erected, it honoured the work of eight laureates. Since then, however, there have been nine, as another Nobel Prize winner died in 2019: Manfred Eigen, who unveiled the roundel as an honorary citizen of Göttingen in 2006. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967. Other famous names immortalised there include Max Planck, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918 for the discovery of energy quanta, Max Born, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 for his fundamental research in quantum physics, and Otto Hahn, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for discovering the fission of heavy nuclei.
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Photo: Circle of Nobel Prize winners at the Göttingen City Cemetery. Credits: Wikipedia/Illustratedjc.
