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Memorial Plaques are one of different forms of public honouring Nobel Prize laureates.
The Göttinger Memorial Plaques
'A wish often vocalised: to furnish the houses in this town where famous men have lived with memorial plaques, I want to comply with, I take the liberty to undertake a voluntary collection with the remark that a memorial plaque with inscription will cost 5 Thaler'. This appeal by Göttingen's mayor Gustav Merkel formed in 1874 the starting point for a, in its sheer magnitude probably unique, still today growing memorial plaques city-wide memorial. The first marble plaque could already be unveiled in February of the same year for the antiquity scientist Karl Otfried Müller at his former residence Hospitalstraße 1 (today seat of the Junges Theater and the KAZ). When mayor Merkel reserved the decision to order plaques, today the council culture committee of the city of Göttingen is responsible after several changes of authority. Applications for memorial plaques usually come from private sectors, relatives, professional colleagues or academic students of the person to be honoured.
They are being examined by the state's archive that then recommends the affixing. Is the proposed person a scientist then the university's monument officer is being brought in. The culture committee determined guidelines in 1977, by which the following persons can be honoured with a plaque:
'1) Former students who became world-famous (Bismarck, Heine),
2) Persons, who have worked for decades in Göttingen and made a name in science
3) World-famous personalities, who have a relative loose connection with Göttingen but their stay here was an honour for Göttingen (Goethe, Max Planck),
4) Persons, who served Göttingen and became known beyond the city's borders (Merkel, Föge, Deneke, Honig).'
Basically, as already stated in the earlier resolution, twenty years have to pass after the death of a person to be hounoured with a memorial plaque.
Excerpt from Das Göttinger Nobelpreiswunder - 100 Jahre Nobelpreis
Published by Elmar Mittler inco-operation with Monique Zimon, Göttingen 2002
Article by Siegfried Schütz:"Öffentliche Ehrungen für Nobelpreisträger durch Stadt und Universität Göttingen"
The Göttingen Nobel Prize Laureates
Nobel Prize for Physics
1911 Wilhelm Wien
1914 Max von Laue
1918 Max Karl E. L. Planck
1919 Johannes Stark
1923 Robert Andrews Millikan
1924 Karl Manne Siegbahn
1925 James Franck and Gustav Hertz
1932 Werner Heisenberg
1933 Paul Adrien M. Dirac with Erwin Schrödinger
1938 Enrico Fermi
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry
1910 Otto Wallach
1914 Theodore William Richards
1920 Walther Hermann Nernst
1925 Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
1928 Adolf Otto R. Windaus
1932 Irving Langmuir
1936 Peter Joseph W. Debye
1937 Walter Norman Haworth
1939 Adolf Fr. J. Butenandt
1944 Otto Hahn
1967 Manfred Eigen with Ronald Norrish and Lord George Porter
1971 Gerhard Herzberg
The Nobel Prize for preis für Physiology or Medicine
1905 Robert Koch
1908 Ilja Metschnikow and Paul Ehrlich
1953 Sir Hans Adolf Krebs with Fritz Albert Lipmann
1969 Max Delbrück
1991 Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann
The Nobel Prize for Literature
1908 Rudolf Christoph Eucken
1999 Günter Grass
The Nobel Peace Prize
1927 Ludwig Quidde with Ferdinand Buisson
1930 Nathan Söderblom
