Friedrich Göppert

Friedrich Göppert (25 October 1870 – 9 February 1927) was a German paediatrician who worked at the University of Göttingen from 1910 to 1927.

His grandfather was the botanist and palaeontologist Heinrich Göppert; his father was a notable lawyer and an advisor to the Prussian Minister of Culture.

[1] He was the father of Maria Goeppert Mayer, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963.

[3] Other papers described calcium therapy and treatments for dysentery, and he wrote a book on diphtheria.

[1] Göppert died on 9 February 1927, in Berlin, where he had gone to a sanatorium to recover from a persistent weakness that he was feeling.