With around 28,000 students, Leibniz University Hannover is the largest university in Lower Saxony. Offering approximately 90 subjects and more than 180 degree programmes and partial study programmes, Leibniz University provides a very wide range of study options. The spectrum ranges from natural sciences and engineering to humanities and social sciences, to economics and law. Interdisciplinary and international focal points are continuously being expanded in the research areas of mechanical engineering, physics and biomedicine.
Leibniz University covers a wide range of subjects in both teaching and research, whereby it has a particularly long tradition of expertise in all technical subjects. Research activities focus on production engineering, quantum optics/gravitational physics and biomedical engineering. Students can also specialise in these areas. Another focus at Leibniz University is teacher training, featuring its "Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung", an initiative to improve the quality of teacher training, and the newly established Leibniz School of Education.
The predecessor of Leibniz University Hannover started in 1831 with 64 students. The subsequent College of Technology became the University of Hannover in 1978. In 2006, it was given the name "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover". Several important scientists studied or conducted research here, including the chemical scientist Gerhard Ertl (Nobel Prize winner in 2007), the first German female with a Diplom in engineering Ilse Knott ter-Meer, and Fritz Strassmann, who was the first to prove nuclear fission. In 2016, the physicist Karsten Danzmann and his team were instrumental in providing evidence of gravitational waves for the first time.
In 2013, Leibniz University became one of the settings in the "cookie monster detective story". Unknown perpetrators had stolen a 20-kilogram brass Leibniz biscuit from the façade of the Bahlsen building in Hannover. They demanded the donation of biscuits to a children's hospital and monetary donations to an animal shelter. The biscuit finally turned up again – suspended from the neck of the Saxon Steed statue in front of the university.
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