Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich: Students/Graduates



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Peter Debye

Peter Joseph William Debye (March 24, 1884 – November 2, 1966) was a Dutch physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry. Born Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije in Maastricht, Netherlands, Debye attended the Aachen University of...

Max von Laue

Max Theodor Felix von Laue (9 October 1879 – 24 April 1960) was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals. In addition to his scientific endeavors with contributions in...

Wolfgang Pauli

Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (April 25, 1900 – December 15, 1958) was an Austrian theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics. In 1945, after being nominated by Albert Einstein, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive...

Hans Bethe

Hans Albrecht Bethe (German pronunciation: [ˈhans ˈalbʀɛçt ˈbeːtə]; July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005) was a German-American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. A versatile theoretical physicist...

Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg (5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a German theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to quantum mechanics and is best known for asserting the uncertainty principle of quantum theory. In addition, he also made...

Ivar Karl Ugi

Ivar Karl Ugi (Sep 9, 1930 in Saaremaa, Estonia - 29 September 2005 Munich) was a German chemist who made major contributions to organic chemistry. He is known for the research on multicomponent reactions, yielding the Ugi reaction. After he went to...

Johannes Stark

Johannes Stark (15 April 1874 – 21 June 1957) was a German physicist, and Physics Nobel Prize laureate who was closely involved with the Deutsche Physik movement under the Nazi regime. Born in Schickenhof, Kingdom of Bavaria, (now Freihung), Stark...

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 – January 1, 1894) was a German physicist who clarified and expanded the electromagnetic theory of light that had been put forth by Maxwell. He was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of...

Ludwig Prandtl

Ludwig Prandtl (4 February 1875 – 15 August 1953) was a German scientist. He was a pioneer in the development of rigorous systematic mathematical analyses which he used to underlay the science of aerodynamics, which have come to form the basis of...

Max Planck

Max Planck (April 23, 1858 – October 4, 1947) was a German physicist. He is considered to be the founder of the quantum theory, and thus one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century. Planck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in...

Christian Ude

Christian Ude (born October 26, 1947 in Munich) is the current mayor of Munich. He is a member of the German Social Democratic Party. Additionally, he is a member of the board of directors of the football (AE: soccer) club TSV 1860 München. After...

Degree:

Jurist

Start Date:

1969

Maximilian Schich

Major/Field Of Study:

Art history

End Date:

Mar 2001

Degree:

M.A.

Start Date:

Sep 1995

Humberto Fernández Morán

Humberto Fernández-Morán (February 18, 1924 - March 17, 1999) was a Venezuelan research scientist born in Maracaibo, Venezuela. He founded the Venezuelan Institute for Neurological and Brain Studies, the predecessor of the current Venezuelan...

Rolf Huisgen

Rolf Huisgen (June 13, 1920 ) is a German chemist. He was born in Gerolstein and studied in Munich under the supervision of Heinrich Otto Wieland. After completing his Ph.D. in 1943 and his habilitation in 1947, he became professor at the University...

Edmund Knowles Muspratt

Edmund Knowles Muspratt (6 November 1833 – 1 September 1923) was an English chemical industrialist. Edmund Knowles Muspratt was born in Seaforth, near Liverpool, England, the fourth and youngest son of James Muspratt and his wife Julia Josephine née...

Georgios Papanikolaou

Georgios Nicholas Papanikolaou (or George Papanicolaou; Greek: Γεώργιος Παπανικολάου) (born on May 13, 1883, at Kimi on the island of Evia, in Greece, died on February 19, 1962) was a pioneer in cytology and early cancer detection. He studied at the...

Walter Heitler

Walter Heinrich Heitler (2 January 1904 – 15 November 1981) was a German physicist who made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory. He brought chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding. In...

Eduard Buchner

Eduard Buchner (20 May 1860 – 13 August 1917) was a German chemist and zymologist, the winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on fermentation. Buchner was born in Munich to a physician and Doctor Extraordinary of Forensic Medicine....

Herbert Fröhlich

Herbert Fröhlich (9 December 1905 in Rexingen, Germany – 23 January 1991 in Liverpool, England) was a German-born British physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society. Fröhlich was the son of Fanny Frida (née Schwarz) and Jakob Julius Fröhlich,...

Bernhard Witkop

Bernhard Witkop (b. May 9, 1917, Freiburg, Baden) is a German-born American organic chemist.

Heinrich Otto Wieland

Heinrich Otto Wieland (4 June 1877 – 5 August 1957) was a German chemist. He won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the bile acids. In 1901 Wieland received his doctorate at the University of Munich while studying under...

William Henry Perkin Jr.

William Henry Perkin, Jr. (1860-1929) was an English organic chemist who was primarily known for his groundbreaking research work on the degradation of naturally occurring organic compounds. He was the eldest son of Sir William Henry Perkin who had...

Richard Willstätter

Richard Martin Willstätter (August 13, 1872 – August 3, 1942) was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Willstätter invented paper chromatography...

Walter Reppe

Walter Julius Reppe (29 July 1892 in Göringen – 26 July 1969 in Heidelberg) was a German chemist. He is notable for his contributions to the chemistry of acetylene. Walter Reppe began his study of the natural sciences University of Jena in 1911....

Konrad Adenauer

Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer (German pronunciation: [ˈkɔnʁaːt ˈhɛɐman ˈjozɛf ˈaːdenaʊɐ]), 5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967) was a German statesman. Although his political career spanned sixty years, beginning as early as 1906, he is most noted for...

Wilhelm Traube

Wilhelm Traube (10 January 1866 – 28 September 1942) was a German chemist. Traube was born at Ratibor (Racibórz) in Prussian Silesia, a son of the famous private scholar Moritz Traube. After studying law for a short time, he studied chemistry in...

Max Rubner

Max Rubner [ru:bner] (June 2, 1854, Munich – April 27, 1932, Berlin) was a German physiologist and hygienist. He studied at the University of Munich under Adolf von Baeyer (1835-1917) and Carl von Voit (1831-1908). Afterwards he taught as a...

Ernst Guillemin

Ernst Adolf Guillemin (May 8, 1898 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin – April 1, 1970) was an American electrical engineer and computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who spent his career extending the art and science of linear network...

Jakob Meisenheimer

Jakob Meisenheimer (14 June 1876 – 2 December 1934) was a German chemist. He made numerous contributions to organic chemistry, the most famous being his proposed structure for a group of compounds now named Meisenheimer complex.. He also proposed...

Eduard Zintl

Eduard Zintl (January 21, 1898–January 17, 1941) was a German chemist. After his family moved from Weiden and Bayreuth to Munich and after he had finished school he was drafted for military service during World War I. At the age of 21 he started...

John Ulric Nef

John Ulric Nef (Johann Ulrich Nef; June 14, 1862 – August 13, 1915) was a Swiss-born American chemist and the discoverer of the Nef reaction. His parents emigrated from Switzerland to the United states where Nef studied chemistry at Harvard...

Victor Villiger

Victor Villiger (1 September 1868 – 10 June 1934) was a Swiss-born German chemist and the discoverer of the Baeyer-Villiger oxidation. He studied at University of Geneva and, following his graduation, with Adolf von Baeyer at the University of...

Walter Dieckmann

Walter Dieckmann was a German chemist. Dieckmann studied at the University of Munich and became assisatant of Adolf von Baeyer.

Rudolf Hess

Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (written Heß in Germany) (26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987) was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany, acting as Adolf Hitler's Deputy in the Nazi Party. On the eve of war with the Soviet Union, he flew solo to Scotland in an...

Frederick Kipping

Professor Frederick Stanley Kipping FRS (1863-1949) was an English chemist who was born near Manchester, England. He studied under William Henry Perkin, Jr. at Munich University in Germany, in the laboratories of Adolf von Baeyer. Back in England,...

Dora Bakoyannis

Dora Bakoyannis is the incumbent Minister of Foreign affairs of Greece since 2006. She was also the former Mayor of Athens. She is the first woman to hold these positions and as Foreign Minister, this is the highest government position held by a...

Major/Field Of Study:

Political Science

Start Date:

1972

Heinz A. Lowenstam

Heinz Adolf Lowenstam (October 9, 1912 - June 7, 1993) was German-born, Jewish-American paleoecologist celebrated for his discoveries in biomineralization: that living organisms manufacture substances such as the iron-containing mineral magnetite...

Johann Mulzer

Johann Hermann Wolfgang Mulzer is a German organic chemist. He received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 1994.

Chuang Kuo-jung

Chuang Kuo-jung (traditional Chinese: 莊國榮; pinyin: Zhuāng Guóróng; Wade-Giles: Chuāng Kuó-júng; born 1960) is a former Secretary-General of the Ministry of Education in Taiwan. He served under Minister Tu Cheng-sheng. Chuang earned his bachelor's...

Markus Greiner

Markus Greiner is a German physicist. He studied under the 2005 Nobel Laureate Theodor Hänsch at the Ludwig-Maximilians University and at the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, where he received his diploma in physics. The diploma thesis was...

Anton Vilsmeier

Anton Vilsmeier (June 12, 1894 – February 12, 1962) was a German chemist who together with Erich Haack discovered the Vilsmeier-Haack reaction. Anton Vilsmeier was born to the mill owner, Wolfgang Vilsmeier, and his wife, Philomena, in Burgweinting,...

Eugen Bamberger

Eugen Bamberger was a German chemist and discoverer of the Bamberger rearrangement. Bamberger started studying medicine in 1875 at the University of Berlin, but changed his subject and university after one year, starting his studies of science at...

Carl von Voit

Carl von Voit (October 31, 1831 - January 31, 1908) was a German physiologist and dietitian. Von Voit was born in Amberg. From 1848 to 1854 he studied medicine in Munich and Würzburg; habilitation in 1857 at the University of Munich, professor of...

Paul Friedländer

Paul Friedländer (August 29, 1857, Königsberg - September 4, 1923, Darmstadt) was a German chemist. Friedländer studied chemistry in Königsberg, Strasbourg and Munich where he assisted Adolf von Baeyer. As a university lecturer in Darmstadt his main...

Rudolf Jaenisch

Rudolf Jaenisch (1942- ) is a German pioneer of transgenic science, in which an animal’s genetic makeup is altered. Jaenisch has focused on creating transgenic mice to study cancer and neurological diseases. Jaenisch’s first breakthrough occurred in...

Friedrich L. Bauer

Friedrich Ludwig Bauer (born June 10, 1924 in Regensburg) is a German computer scientist and professor emeritus at Technical University of Munich. Bauer earned his Abitur in 1942 and served in the Wehrmacht (German armed forces) from 1943 to 1945....

Paul Kirchhof

Paul Kirchhof (born February 21, 1943 in Osnabrück) is a German jurist and tax law expert. He is also a professor of law, member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and a former judge in the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ...

Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski

Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski (28 October 1845 – 16 April 16 1888) was a Polish physicist and chemist. Wróblewski was born in Grodno (Russian Empire, now in Belarus). He studied at Kiev University. After a six-year exile for participating in the...

Roman Herzog

Roman Herzog (born April 5, 1934) is a German politician (CDU) and was the President of Germany from 1994 to 1999. He was the first President of the Federal Republic of Germany to be elected to office after the reunification of Germany that took...

Andy Mattes

Andy Mattes is senior vice president of Applications Services for EDS, an HP company. He is responsible for the group's more than $8.4 billion global applications outsourcing business, which includes applications development, management,...

Major/Field Of Study:

Management

Degree:

Bachelor of Science

Gerhard Ertl

Gerhard Ertl (born 10 October 1936) is a German physicist and a Professor emeritus at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Germany. He won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Ertl was born...

End Date:

1959

Start Date:

1958

Wilhelm Frick

Wilhelm Frick (12 March 1877 – 16 October 1946) was a prominent Nazi official, serving as Minister of the Interior of the Third Reich. After the end of World War II, he was executed for war crimes. Frick was born in Alsenz, Bavaria, Germany, the...

Georg Gänswein

Reverend Monsignor Georg Gänswein, JCD (born July 30, 1956 in Riedern am Wald, Waldshut, Baden-Württemberg) is a German priest of the Roman Catholic Church, and the personal secretary of Pope Benedict XVI. Known to Italians as "Padre Georg" or, due...

William Francis Ganong

William Francis Ganong, M.A., Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S.C., (19 February 1864 - 7 September 1941) was a Canadian botanist, historian and cartographer. His botany career was spent mainly as a professor at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. In his...