July 4th 1881 - March 31st 1945
Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich from 1921 till 1945
Dean of the faculty of general sciences from 1930 till 1936
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1930 "for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of haemin".
January 31st 1929 - September 14th 2011
TUM Alumnus
Study of Physics 1949 - 1954 Doctorate 1958 at Professor Heinz Maier-Leibnitz
Professor of Physics at the Technical University of Munich from 1965 till 1972 and from 1977 till 1997
Nobel Prize in Physics 1961 "for his researches concerning the resonance absorption of gamma radiation and his discovery in this connection of the effect which bears his name”
January 21st 1912 - October 15th 2000
TUM Alumnus Study of Chemistry and Engineering 1930-1934
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1964 (together with Professor Feodor Lynen) "for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism"
November 10th 1918 - July 23rd 2007
TUM Alumnus Study of Chemistry 1941 - 1942 and 1946 – 1949 Doctorate 1952 at Professor Walter Hieber
Professor of Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich from 1964 till 1985
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1973 (together with Professor Geoffrey Wilkinson) "for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds"
*February 20th 1937
TUM Alumnus Study of Chemistry 1956 - 1960 Doctorate at Professor G. Scheibe and Professor W. Hoppe 1963 Habilitation 1968
Honorary Professor at the Technical University of Munich since 1976
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988 (together with Professor Johann Deisenhofer and Professor Hartmut Michel) "for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre"
*September 30th 1943
TUM Alumnus Study of Physics 1965 - 1971 1987 Habilitation
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988 (together with Professor Robert Huber and Professor Hartmut Michel) "for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre"
*March 20th 1944
TUM Alumnus Study of Physics 1963 - 1966 Doctorate at Professor H. Gerischer 1970
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicin 1991 (together with Professor Bert Sackmann) "for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells"
*October 21st 1957
TUM Alumnus Study of Physics 1978 - 1982
Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 (together with Eric A. Cornell and Carl E. Wieman) "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"
*October 10th 1936
TUM-Alumnus Doctorate 1965 at Professor H. Gerischer Habilitation 1967 Till 1968 assistent and lecturer at the Physical-Chemical Institute of the Technical University of Munich
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 "for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces"