page_title: University of Kiel
section_title: Nobel Prize Winners
hierarchical_section_title: University of Kiel / Notable people / Academics / Nobel Prize Winners
caption_attribution_description: English: Radiation Assessment Detector for Mars Science Laboratory Polski: Detektor oceny promieniowania dla Mars Science Laboratory
context_page_description: The University of Kiel, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the Academia Holsatorum Chiloniensis by Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and has approximately 27,000 students today. Kiel University is the largest, oldest, and most prestigious in the state of Schleswig-Holstein. Until 1864/66 it was not only the northernmost university in Germany but at the same time the 2nd largest university of Denmark. Faculty, alumni, and researchers of the Kiel University have won 12 Nobel Prizes. Kiel University has been a member of the German Universities Excellence Initiative since 2006. The Cluster of Excellence The Future Ocean, which was established in cooperation with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in 2006, is internationally recognized. The second Cluster of Excellence "Inflammation at Interfaces" deals with chronic inflammatory diseases. The Kiel Institute for the World Economy is also affiliated with Kiel University. The university has a great reputation for its focus on public international law.
context_section_description: There are several Nobel Prize Winners affiliated with the University of Kiel, including:
  1902 Theodor Mommsen (Literature)
  1905 Philipp Lenard (Physics)
  1907 Eduard Buchner (Chemistry)
  1918 Max Planck (Physics)
  1922 Otto Meyerhof (Medicine)
  1939 Gerhard Domagk (Medicine)
  1950 Kurt Alder and Otto Diels (Chemistry).
caption: The University of Kiel helped develop this radiation detector for a Mars probe.[7]
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