At the celebrations marking the one thousandth anniversary of Goettingen University, one of the high points was the granting of the University’s “honorary citizenship” to three distinguished Jewish scholars driven out of Germany when Hitler came to power.
The three former members of the Goettingen faculty, who came back to receive the awards from the city’s Mayor, are 1925 Nobel Prize winner James Franck, 71, now professor emeritus of physiological chemistry at the University of Chicago; Professor Richard Courant, born in Poland 65 years ago, teacher of mathematics at Goettingen from 1910 to 1933 and head of the Mathematics Department at New York University since 1934; and Max Born, 71, since 1936 Teit Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburg in Scotland.
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