19 Notable alumni of
Graz University of Technology
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The Graz University of Technology is 1987th in the world, 664th in Europe, and 15th in Austria by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 19 notable alumni from the Graz University of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Nikola Tesla
- Enrolled in the Graz University of Technology
- Studied in 1875-1878
- Occupations
- inventorphysicistfuturistelectrical engineerelectrician
- Biography
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Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
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Karl von Terzaghi
- Occupations
- inventoruniversity teachergeologist
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Karl von Terzaghi was an Austrian mechanical engineer, geotechnical engineer, and geologist known as the "father of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering".
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Roland Gumpert
- Occupations
- automotive engineer
- Biography
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Roland Gumpert is a German engineer and founder of the sports car manufacturer Apollo Automobil. Gumpert is currently the managing director of the sports car manufacturer Gumpert Aiways Automobile, which he also founded.
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Lisa Kaltenegger
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- university teacherastrophysicistastronomerphysicist
- Biography
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Lisa Kaltenegger is an Austrian astronomer specialising in the modeling and characterization of exoplanets and the search for life. On July 1, 2014, she was appointed Associate Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University. Previously, she held a joint position at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg where she was the Emmy Noether Research Group Leader for the "Super-Earths and Life" group, and at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian in Cambridge, MA. She was appointed Lecturer in 2008 at Harvard University and 2011 at University of Heidelberg.
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Wilhelm Blaschke
- Enrolled in the Graz University of Technology
- Studied in 1904-1906
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Wilhelm Johann Eugen Blaschke was an Austrian mathematician working in the fields of differential and integral geometry.
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Gerhard Woeginger
- Occupations
- computer scientistmathematician
- Biography
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Gerhard J. Woeginger was an Austrian mathematician and computer scientist who worked in Germany as a professor at RWTH Aachen University, where he chaired the algorithms and complexity group in the department of computer science.
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Herbert Edelsbrunner
- Occupations
- university teachercomputer scientistmathematician
- Biography
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Herbert Edelsbrunner is a computer scientist working in the field of computational geometry, the Arts & Science Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Duke University, Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), and the co-founder of Geomagic, Inc. He was the first of only three computer scientists to win the National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award.
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Gerald Teschl
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teachermathematician
- Biography
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Gerald Teschl is an Austrian mathematical physicist and professor of mathematics. He works in the area of mathematical physics; in particular direct and inverse spectral theory with application to completely integrable partial differential equations (soliton equations).
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Vjekoslav Heinzel
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Vjekoslav Heinzel was the Mayor of Zagreb from 1920 to 1928. He is best remembered for great development projects of the 1920s that significantly expanded the city.
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Ladislaus von Rabcewicz
- Occupations
- university teachercivil engineer
- Biography
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Ladislaus von Rabcewicz was an Austrian engineer and university professor at the Vienna University of Technology. He is notable for being one of three men who developed the new Austrian tunneling method (NATM).
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Lajos Petrik
- Enrolled in the Graz University of Technology
- Studied in 1874
- Occupations
- editing staffceramicistchemist
- Biography
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Lajos Petrik was a Hungarian chemist, ceramist and teacher of inorganic chemical technology in Hungarian Royal Public Secondary Industrial School and the predecessor of today's Petrik Lajos Bilingual Vocational School of Chemistry, Environmental Protection and Information Technology. Later in his career, he was the principal of that school.
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Gustav von Escherich
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Gustav Ritter von Escherich was an Austrian mathematician.
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Franz Pacher
- Occupations
- engineeruniversity teachercivil engineer
- Biography
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Franz Pacher was an Austrian civil engineer and a pioneer of modern tunneling. He is one of three men who are considered to be the chief developers of the new Austrian tunneling method (NATM).
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Helmut Moritz
- Occupations
- university teachersurveyor
- Biography
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Helmut Moritz was an Austrian physical geodesist. He became internationally known for his fundamental work on error propagation in geodesy. He was a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and many other international academies and societies. From 1991 to 1995, he was president of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG).
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Felicitas Pauss
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Felicitas Pauss is an Austrian physicist. She was elected Professor for Experimental Particle physics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 1993. Her research activities concentrated on two main research fields: particle physics at the high-energy frontier and astroparticle physics, addressing fundamental open questions about the structure of the Universe and the underlying mechanisms that govern its evolution.
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Friedrich Emich
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Friedrich Emich was an Austrian chemist. Emich is recognized as the founder of microchemistry and worked at Graz University of Technology. Together with his colleague from the University of Graz, Fritz Pregl he perfected the work in small scales analysis. Fritz Pregl was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1923 for his work on microanalysis.
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Leopold von Pebal
- Occupations
- university teacherchemist
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Leopold von Pebal was an Austrian chemist.
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Anthony N. Michel
- Years
- 1935-2020 (aged 85)
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Anthony N. Michel, a life fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, was an American engineering educator. His expertise was in qualitative analysis of dynamical systems with emphasis on stability theory and applications.
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Gerhard A. Holzapfel
- Enrolled in the Graz University of Technology
- Studied in 1990
- Occupations
- engineeruniversity teacheracademic
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Gerhard Alfred Holzapfel is an Austrian scientist, (bio)mechanician. He is currently a professor of Biomechanics and Head of the Institute of Biomechanics at Graz University of Technology, Austria, since 2007. He is also the International Chair of Biomechanics (adjunct professorship) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and a visiting professor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow, Scotland. He was a professor of biomechanics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, for 9 years (7 years as an adjunct professor) until 2013. He is the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the international scientific journal Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology by Springer Nature since the first issue published in June 2002.
