List of University of Bonn people
Among the people who have taught or studied at the University of Bonn are the following:
Nobel laureates
- Harald zur Hausen - 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Reinhard Selten - 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics
- "for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games"
- Wolfgang Paul - 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics
- "for the development of the ion trap technique"
- Luigi Pirandello - 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature
- "for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art"
- Otto Wallach - 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- "in recognition of his services to organic chemistry and the chemical industry by his pioneer work in the field of alicyclic compounds"
- Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse - 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature
- "as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories"
- Philipp Lenard - 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics
- "for his work on cathode rays"
Fields Medalists
- Gerd Faltings - 1986 Fields Medal
- "for his proof of the Mordell Conjecture"
- Maxim Kontsevich - 1998 Fields Medal
Notable faculty
- Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (1799–1875), Astronomy
- Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), History
- Karl Barth (1886–1968), Theology
- Bruno Bauer (1809–1882) Theology
- Carl Heinrich Becker (1876–1933), Oriental Philology
- Karl Dietrich Bracher (* 1922), Political Science
- Franz Bücheler (1837–1908), Classics
- Constantin Carathéodory, (1873-1850) Mathematics
- Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (1822–1888), Physics
- Ernst Robert Curtius (1886–1956), Romance Literature
- Friedrich Christian Diez (1794–1876), Philology
- Udo di Fabio (*1954), member of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany since 1999, Law
- Gerd Faltings (*1954), Mathematics
- Heinrich Geißler (1814–1879), Physics
- Felix Hausdorff (1868–1942), Mathematics
- Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), Medicine and Physics
- Georg Hermes (1775–1831), Theology
- Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), Physics
- Werner Hildenbrand (*1936), Economics
- Friedrich Hirzebruch (*1927), Mathematics
- Manfred Hutter (*1957), Religious studies
- Marek Karpinski (*1948), Computer Science, Mathematics
- Gottfried Kinkel (1815–1882), History
- Wilhelm Krelle (1916–2004), Economics
- Christian Lassen (1800–1876), Oriental Philology
- Maria von Linden, (1869-1936), first woman Professor
- Rudolf Lipschitz, (1832–1903), Mathematics
- Werner Meyer-Eppler (1913–1960), Phonetics
- Barthold Georg Niebuhr, (1776–1831) History
- Martin Noth (1902–1968), Theology
- Felix Otto (* 1966), Mathematics
- Wolfgang Paul (1913–1993), Physics
- Carl Adam Petri (*1926), Mathematics
- Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845–1920), Botany
- Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger (1829–1910), Physiology
- Alfred Philippson (1864–1953), Geology
- Julius Plücker (1801–1868), Mathematics and Physics
- Joseph Ratzinger (* 1927), Pope since 2005, Theology
- Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833–1905), Geology
- Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl (1806–1876), Classics
- Walter Schellenberg (*1929), Law
- Annemarie Schimmel (1922–2003), Oriental Philology
- August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767–1845), Philosophy
- Johannes Schmidt (1843–1901), Linguistics
- Carl Schmitt (1888–1985), Law
- Arnold Schönhage (*1934), Mathematics
- Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950), Economics
- Reinhard Selten (*1930), Economics
- Karl Simrock (1802–1872), German Literature
- Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg (1905–1946), Economics
- Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (1829–1896), Chemistry
- Eduard Strasburger (1844–1912), Botany
- Heinrich von Sybel (1817–1895), History
- Otto Toeplitz (1881–1940), Mathematics
- Carl Troll (1899–1975), Geography
- Hermann Karl Usener (1834–1905), Classics
- Otto Wallach, (1847–1931), Chemistry
- Axel A. Weber (*1957), President of the Deutsche Bundesbank since 2004, Economics
- Walter Weizel (1901–1982), Physics
- Ernst August Weiß (1900–1942), Mathematics
Notable alumni
- Konrad Adenauer, Law
- Mary Agria, journalist/author
- Syed Mujtaba Ali, Comparative Religious Studies
- Margaret Altmann, biologist
- Norbert Blüm, Philosophy, German Literature, History and Theology
- Heinrich Brüning, Economics
- Karl Bücher, History and Philology
- Pierre Colas, Anthropology (PhD 2004)
- Konrad Duden, Philology
- Max Ernst, Art History
- Frederick III, German Emperor
- Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Carl Remigius Fresenius, Chemistry
- Johann Carl Fuhlrott, Theology and Biology
- Emanuel Geibel, Theology and Classics
- Abraham Geiger, Arabic Language
- Joseph Goebbels, German Literature, Philosophy and Art History
- Willi Graf, Medicine
- Jürgen Habermas, Philosophy, History and Psychology
- G. Stanley Hall, Philosophy and Psychology
- Heinrich Heine, Law
- August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German Literature
- Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, Medicine
- Paul Heyse, Classics
- Oskar Lafontaine, Physics
- Arnold von Lasaulx, Mineralogy, Petrography
- Karl Marx, Law, History and Philosophy
- Wilhelm Marx, Law
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosophy and Theology
- Luigi Pirandello, Romance Languages
- Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Philosophy
- Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
- Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia
- August Schleicher, Classics
- Robert Schuman, Law
- Carl Schurz, Philology and History
- Karlheinz Stockhausen, Phonetics and Communication Science
- Sebastian Thrun, Artificial Intelligence
- Karl Weierstraß, Law and Economics
- Guido Westerwelle, Law
- William II, German Emperor
- Friedrich Wolf, Medicine, Philosophy and Art History
- Udny Yule, Experimental Physics
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