Can one class have two future Nobel Prize laureates? Yes, it can - scientists Richard Kuhn and Wolfgang Pauli were schoolmates for eight years. Kuhn was awarded the 1938 chemistry prize and Pauli was awarded the 1945 physics prize. Photo: A school class photo with Wolfgang Pauli (second row, far left) and Richard Kuhn (to Pauli's right) in 1918 from Gymnasium Döbling, Vienna.
Just as impressive is the graduating class from the Evangelical High School (Gymnasium 19) in Budapest probably the same time. Eugene Wigner, physics Nobel 1963; Johnny von Neumann, probably the greatest mathematician of the 20th century; Edward Teller of H-Bomb fame; along with several others just as well known. More than once, I asked Wigner, “What as I the water?” His response each time was to point at three portraits hanging in his office at Princeton. Two of the photos were immediately recognizable— an engraving of Newton and a photographic portrait of Einstein, who became a good older friend to him. The third portrait featured Lazslo Ratz, the mathematics teacher who taught and inspired those boys at the gymnasium.
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Schools are much more diluted these days. There were probably only a few gymnasiums in Vienna at the time. You had to be very clever and work excessively hard to make it into a gymnasium. Nowadays far more people are accepted and the level is no longer what it used to be. So, the chance of finding two future Nobel laureates in one class is virtually nil.
Wow... Who was their science teacher?!?!
Wow! The 1918 photo should be high-school graduation photo where both were 17-18 years old. What a genius youth!
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