Membership
Three quarters of the members are from German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and one quarter from about 30 other nations. The election to membership of the Leopoldina is the highest academic honour awarded by an institution in Germany.
As of 2007, a total of 157 Nobel prize laureates are fellows of the Leopoldina.
Among the most noted of fellows are for instance:
- Christian Ludwig Brehm
- Charles Darwin
- Albert Einstein (excluded 1933 for being Jewish)
- Gerhard Ertl
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Otto Hahn
- Theodor W. Hänsch
- Wilhelm Ostwald
- Max Planck
- Ernest Rutherford
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