78 Notable alumni of
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is 839th in the world, 289th in Europe, and 37th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 78 notable alumni from Karlsruhe Institute 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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Dietmar Hopp
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Dietmar Hopp is a German software engineer and billionaire businessman. He was one of the founders of SAP SE in 1972 with other former IBM employees Hans Werner Hector, Klaus Tschira, Claus Wellenreuther and Hasso Plattner and owner of Bundesliga football club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.
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Dieter Zetsche
- Enrolled in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- 1971-1976 studied electrical engineering
- Occupations
- entrepreneurchief executive officerbusinesspersonmerchantengineer
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Dieter Zetsche is a German engineer and business executive. He is the chairman of TUI AG. He was the chairman of the board of management of Daimler AG and head of Mercedes-Benz until 22 May 2019, a role he had held since 2006, in addition to being a member of the company's board since 1998.
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Alexander Gerst
- Occupations
- geophysicistastronautvolcanologist
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Alexander Gerst is a German European Space Agency astronaut and geophysicist, who was selected in 2009 to take part in space training. He was part of the International Space Station Expedition 40 and 41 from May to November 2014. Gerst returned to space on 6 June 2018, as part of Expedition 56/57. He was the Commander of the International Space Station. He returned to Earth on 20 December 2018. After the end of his second mission and before being surpassed by Luca Parmitano in 2020, he held the record for most time in space of any active ESA astronaut (362 days), succeeding Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli, and German ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter, who formally held the record for the longest time in space for any active or retired ESA astronaut.
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Stefan Quandt
- Enrolled in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Graduated with Diplom in industrial engineer
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Stefan Quandt is a German billionaire heir, engineer and industrialist. As of October 2021, his net worth is estimated at US$23.2 billion and ranked at number 89 on Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
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Hasso Plattner
- Enrolled in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- In 1963 studied telecommunications engineering
- Occupations
- entrepreneurbusiness informaticianmanagerengineerphilanthropist
- Biography
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Hasso Plattner is a German businessman. A co-founder of SAP SE software company, he has been chairman of the supervisory board of SAP SE since May 2003. As of August 2020, Forbes reported that he possessed a net worth of US$17.9 billion.
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Carsten Spohr
- Enrolled in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Studied industrial engineering and management
- Occupations
- aerospace engineermanagement engineerinternational forum participantmanageraircraft pilot
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Carsten Spohr is a German airline executive. Since May 2014 he has been the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Lufthansa.
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Ole Scheeren
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Ole Scheeren is a German architect, urbanist and principal of Büro Ole Scheeren with offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Berlin and Bangkok and was a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong from January 2010.
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Leopold Ružička
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- chemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Leopold Ružička was a Croatian-Swiss scientist and joint winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes" "including the first chemical synthesis of male sex hormones." He worked most of his life in Switzerland, and received eight doctorates honoris causa in science, medicine, and law; seven prizes and medals; and twenty-four honorary memberships in chemical, biochemical, and other scientific societies.
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Klaus Tschira
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- physicistentrepreneur
- Biography
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Klaus Tschira was a German billionaire entrepreneur and the co-founder of the German software company SAP AG.
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Emil Škoda
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- entrepreneurpoliticianuniversity teacherengineermechanical engineer
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Emil Ritter von Škoda was a Bohemian engineer and industrialist, founder of Škoda Works, the predecessor of today's Škoda Auto and Škoda Transportation.
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Roland Mack
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Roland Mack is a German entrepreneur. Mack grew up as a son of the entrepreneur Franz Mack, in Waldkirch. In 1975, he became the founder of Europa-Park in Germany.
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August Thyssen
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- industrialistpoliticianentrepreneur
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August Thyssen was a German industrialist, founder and controlling shareholder of Thyssen & Co (presently ThyssenKrupp). He was a prominent member of the Thyssen family.
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Johann Jakob Balmer
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- university teacherphysicistmathematician
- Biography
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Johann Jakob Balmer was a Swiss mathematician best known for his work in physics, the Balmer series of hydrogen atom.
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Martin Brudermüller
- Occupations
- international forum participantchemist
- Biography
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Martin Brudermüller is a German businessman, and the CEO of BASF since 2018.
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Volker Quaschning
- Occupations
- university teacherengineer
- Biography
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Volker Quaschning is a German engineer and professor of renewable energy systems at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, Germany.
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Charles Frédéric Gerhardt
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- chemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Charles Frédéric Gerhardt was a French chemist, born in Alsace and active in Paris, Montpellier, and his native Strasbourg.
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Adolf Mayer
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- university teachersoldierchemistmilitary personnelbotanist
- Biography
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Adolf Eduard Mayer was a German agricultural biologist whose work on tobacco mosaic disease played an important role in the discovery of tobacco mosaic virus and viruses in general.
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David Gardiner Tyler
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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David Gardiner Tyler was an American politician and the ninth child and fourth son of John Tyler, the tenth president of the United States.
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Franz Reuleaux
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- university teacherengineer
- Biography
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Franz Reuleaux, was a German mechanical engineer and a lecturer of the Berlin Royal Technical Academy, later appointed as the president of the academy. He was often called the father of kinematics. He was a leader in his profession, contributing to many important domains of science and knowledge.
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Axel Fischer
- Enrolled in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Graduated with Diplom
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Axel Eduard Fischer is a German politician. He is a member of the CDU and has been a member of the German parliament from 1998 to October 2021, representing Karlsruhe-Land since 2002.
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Tobias Lindner
- Enrolled in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- 2002-2007 studied general economics
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Tobias Lindner is a German economist and politician of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen who has been serving as member of the Bundestag since 2011, as a list member for Rhineland-Palatinate. Since December 8, 2021, he has been Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office.
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Franz Josef Radermacher
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- economistcomputer scientistmathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Franz Josef Radermacher is a German mathematician and economist. He is Professor of Informatics at Ulm University. He is one of the co-founders of the Global Marshall Plan Initiative that suggests a socio-ecological plan to eradicate poverty, increasing global wealth while protecting natural resources.
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Albert Vögler
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- metallurgistpolitician
- Biography
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Albert Vögler was a German politician, industrialist and entrepreneur. He was a co-founder of the German People's Party, and an important executive in the munitions industry during World War II.
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Daniel Caspary
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Daniel Caspary is a German politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2004. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), part of the European People's Party (EPP). Daniel Caspary is now in the fourth legislature of the European Parliament. Daniel Caspary lives in Weingarten. He is married and has five children.
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Juan Carlos Latorre
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- politicianmathematician
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Juan Carlos Latorre Carmona is a Chilean politician who served as member of the Chamber of Deputies, representing the former District 35 of the O'Higgins Region.
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Leopold Skulski
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- pharmacistpoliticianchemistdiplomat
- Biography
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Leopold Skulski pronounced [lɛˈɔpɔlt ˈskulskʲi]; served as prime minister of Poland for six months from 13 December 1919 until 9 June 1920 in the interim Legislative Sejm during the formation of sovereign Second Polish Republic following World War I.
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Amel Karboul
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
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Amel Karboul is a Tunisian author, speaker, politician, philanthropist, and business leader. Karboul was the first woman in history to occupy Tunisia's Minister of Tourism position as the youngest member of the Mehdi Jomaa government from January 2014 to February 2015.
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Rolf Widerøe
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Rolf Widerøe was a Norwegian accelerator physicist who was the originator of many particle acceleration concepts, including the resonance accelerator and the betatron accelerator.
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Andreas Weigend
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- university teachercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Andreas Sebastian Weigend is the author of the book Data for the People (Basic Books, 2017). He was a member of Germany's Digital Council under Merkel, Digitalrat.
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Peter Andreas Blix
- Occupations
- architectengineer
- Biography
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Peter Andreas Blix was a Norwegian architect and engineer best known for designing railway stations and villas in Swiss chalet style. He was also occupied with the conservation of Norwegian stave churches and the construction of canals in 19th century Norway.
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Carl Culmann
- Occupations
- university teachercivil engineeressayist
- Biography
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Carl Culmann was a German structural engineer.
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Otto Rudolf Salvisberg
- Occupations
- architectuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Otto Rudolf Salvisberg was a Swiss architect.
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Reinhard Brandl
- Enrolled in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1997-2003
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dr. Reinhard Brandl is a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 2009, representing Ingolstadt.
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Ernst von Ihne
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- architect
- Biography
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Ernst Eberhard von Ihne was a German architect. He served as official architect to the German Emperor Frederick III and to his son and successor Wilhelm II. Among his best known works are the Prussian Royal Library building (today House 1 of the Berlin State Library), the Neuer Marstall, and the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum (today the Bode Museum). He was born in Elberfeld and died in Berlin.
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Carl Gräbe
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- chemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Carl Graebe was a German industrial and academic chemist from Frankfurt am Main who held professorships in his field at Leipzig, Königsberg, and Geneva. He is known for the first synthesis of the economically important dye, alizarin, with Liebermann, and for contributing to the fundamental nomenclature of organic chemistry.
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Robert Gerwig
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- engineerrailway engineercivil engineerpolitician
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Robert Gerwig was a German civil engineer.
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Otto Bütschli
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- naturalistuniversity teachermicrobiologistbotanistentomologist
- Biography
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Johann Adam Otto Bütschli was a German zoologist and professor at the University of Heidelberg. He specialized in invertebrates and insect development. Many of the groups of protists were first recognized by him.
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Georg Hamel
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- cryptographeruniversity teachermathematician
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Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel was a German mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory.
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Albert Schickedanz
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- architectpainter
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Albert Schickedanz was an Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style.
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Ludwig Levy
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- architectuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Ludwig Levy was a German Jewish architect of the Historicist school. He designed a number of synagogues, amongst which was the huge Neue Synagoge in Strasbourg, as well as official buildings such as the ministries of Alsace-Lorraine on the Kaiserplatz in that same town.
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Carl Rudolph Sohn
- Enrolled in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1863-1866
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Karl Friedrich Rudolf Sohn was a German portrait painter in the Academic style.
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Oliver Günther
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- computer scientistuniversity teacherbusiness informatician
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Oliver Günther is president of the University of Potsdam and former president of the German Informatics Society (GI).
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Franz Dischinger
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- civil engineeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Franz Dischinger was a pioneering German civil and structural engineer, responsible for the development of the modern cable-stayed bridge. He was also a pioneer of the use of prestressed concrete, patenting the technique of external prestressing (where the prestressing bars or tendons are not encased in the concrete) in 1934.
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Carl Engler
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- chemistuniversity teacherpolitician
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Carl Oswald Victor Engler was a German chemist, academic and politician. He wrote a Handbook of Industrial Chemistry in 1872. He is remembered for his early work in indigo.
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Hanns Hopp
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- university teacherpoliticianarchitect
- Biography
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Hanns Hopp was a German architect.
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Cyriac Roeding
- Occupations
- international forum participantbusinessperson
- Biography
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Cyriac Roeding is a Silicon Valley-based German-American entrepreneur and investor. He serves as the co-founder and CEO of Earli, an early cancer detection and treatment firm based in Redwood City, California. Earli is based on Synthetic Biopsy technology from Stanford University, and is funded by Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, Perceptive Advisors, Casdin Capital, Sands Capital, Menlo Ventures, ZhenFund (China) and Marc Benioff. Roeding is also a co-founder and chairman of the board of Rewind Co., a diabetes type 2 reversal company. Roeding's venture investing focuses on AI, brain-to-machine interfaces, consumer businesses, biology meeting software and engineering, and consumer robotics. He served as EVP at Paramount Global / CBS (NASDAQ: PARA), where he started the division CBS Mobile and brought it to profitability, and as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Kleiner Perkins and its iFund with Apple Inc., where he co-founded and led mobile shopping app shopkick with $22M of venture capital to a $250M cash acquisition by SK Telecom/SK Planet (Fortune 100 from South Korea) and 20 million users. Shopkick rewards users for just walking into retail stores such as Target Corporation, Best Buy, Macy's and Walmart and engaging with products from Procter & Gamble, Pepsi, L'Oreal etc., driving over $1B in sales annually for its partners. Fast Company ranked shopkick one of the world's 10 Most Innovative Companies In Retail, alongside Apple and Starbucks, and Entrepreneur Magazine placed Roeding on its cover.
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Adolf Dahm-Petersen
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- music teachersingeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Adolf Dahm-Petersen was a Norwegian voice specialist and singing teacher.
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Armin B. Cremers
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- computer scientistmathematicianuniversity teacherartificial intelligence researcher
- Biography
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Armin Bernd Cremers is a German mathematician and computer scientist. He is a professor in the computer science institute at the University of Bonn, Germany. He is most notable for his contributions to several fields of discrete mathematics including formal languages and automata theory. In more recent years he has been recognized for his work in artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics as well as in geoinformatics and deductive databases.
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Fritz Beblo
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- architectpainter
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Friedrich Karl Ewald Beblo was a German city planner, architect and painter.
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Anurag Sharma
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- physicist
- Biography
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Anurag Sharma is an Indian physicist and a professor at the department of physics of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He is known for his pioneering researches on optoelectronics and optical communications and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and National Academy of Sciences, India as well as Indian National Academy of Engineering. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 1998.
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Karl Ludwig Lautenschlaeger
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- physicianuniversity teacherpharmacologistchemist
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Carl Ludwig Lautenschläger was a German chemist and physician. He was tried during the IG Farben Trial but was acquitted.
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Hermann Hummel
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- chemistpolitician
- Biography
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Hermann Hummel was a German chemist and politician in the Republic of Baden. He was a member of the DDP.
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Stefanie Petermichl
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Stefanie Petermichl is a German mathematical analyst who works as a professor at the University of Toulouse, in France. Topics of her research include harmonic analysis, several complex variables, stochastic control, and elliptic partial differential equations.
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Otto Lueger
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Otto Lueger was a German civil engineer, university teacher, and author of an encyclopedia of technology.
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Elizabeth Salguero
- Occupations
- journalistwriterpoliticiandiplomat
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Elizabeth Cristina Salguero Carrillo is a Bolivian diplomat, journalist, politician, and women's rights activist who served as minister of cultures from 2011 to 2012. A member of the Movement for Socialism, she previously served as a party-list member of the Chamber of Deputies from La Paz from 2006 to 2009. In 2009, she was elected as a substitute party-list member of the Chamber of Deputies from La Paz but resigned before taking office in order to launch an ultimately unsuccessful La Paz mayoral campaign. From 2012 to 2015, she served as ambassador of Bolivia to Germany, and since then has worked as an international expert in strategic planning at UN Women.
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Matthias Böttger
- Occupations
- architectuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Matthias Böttger is a German architect and curator.
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Denny Vrandečić
- Enrolled in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- 2004-2010 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- computer scientistWikimedian in residenceWikipedianprogrammerWikimedian
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Zdenko "Denny" Vrandečić is a Croatian computer scientist. He was a co-developer of Semantic MediaWiki and Wikidata, the lead developer of the Wikifunctions project, and an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation as a Head of Special Projects, Structured Content. He published modules for the German role-playing game The Dark Eye.
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Mihailo Valtrović
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- university teacherhistorianediting staffarchaeologistacademic
- Biography
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Mihailo Valtrović was a Serbian architect, professor of archeology, one of the first pioneers of art history in Serbia, and key representative of the Historismus along with architect Dragutin Dragiša Milutinović. Valtrović was the first professor of archeology in Serbia, the initiator and founder of Serbian Archeology and founder and first president of the Serbian Archaeological Society. He designed a number of state orders and decorations.
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Sven Erik Jørgensen
- Occupations
- chemistuniversity teacherecologist
- Biography
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Sven Erik Jørgensen was an ecologist and chemist from Denmark.
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Dimitrije Nešić
- Occupations
- education ministeracademicmathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Dimitrije Nešić was a Serbian mathematician, professor at the Lyceum of the Principality of Serbia and president of the Serbian Royal Academy.
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Israel Zinberg
- Occupations
- literary scholarliterary historianopinion journalistchemist
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Israel Zinberg was a Russian-Jewish chemist and a historian of Jewish literature born in Rivne. His works are considered significant in European Jewish Yiddish scholarship. He was not a professional historian by background or training, but worked as a chemical engineer in Petrograd and pursued literary history as an "avocation." He was a member of the St. Petersburg school of Jewish scholars along with Simon Dubnow. He drew on the works of Moritz Steinschneider and Ber Borokhov as well as Solomon Birnbaum, Maks Erik, and Max Weinreich.
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Petar Bajalović
- Occupations
- architectuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Petar Bajalović was a Serbian architect who lived and worked during the latter part of Belle Epoque and the Interwar period. He was one of the representatives of architectural modernism in Serbia.
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Michael Waidner
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teachermathematician
- Biography
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Michael Waidner is a German computer scientist. He is director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology and ATHENE, the largest research institute for IT security in Europe. He is also professor of security in information technology at the department of computer science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt.
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Gunter Malle
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Gunter Malle is a German mathematician, specializing in group theory, representation theory of finite groups, and number theory.
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Simone Schürle-Finke
- Occupations
- biomedical engineer
- Biography
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Simone Schürle-Finke is a German biomedical engineer, assistant professor, and Principal Investigator for the Responsive Biomedical Systems Laboratory in Switzerland. Schürle is a pioneer in nanorobotic and magnetic servoing technologies.
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Eduardo Dockendorff
- Occupations
- politicianarchitect
- Biography
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Eduardo Arturo Dockendorff Vallejos is a Chilean architect and politician who served as minister during Ricardo Lagos' government (2000–2006).
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Kay Axhausen
- Occupations
- university teacherengineer
- Biography
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Kay W. Axhausen is Professor and chair of transportation planning at the ETH Zurich, where he leads its Institute for Transport Planning and Systems. Before working at ETH, he worked at the University of Innsbruck, the Imperial College London and the University of Oxford. He holds Master of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison as well as Ph.D. in civil engineering from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
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Hermann Schussler
- Occupations
- civil engineerengineer
- Biography
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Hermann Schüssler or Schussler was a German civil engineer and designer of dams, famous for designing the Crystal Springs Dam and the Comstock water system.
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Carl L. Nippert
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Carl Louis Nippert was a German-American engineer and politician, who served as the 26th lieutenant governor of Ohio in 1902.
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Siegfried Popper
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Siegfried Popper was a naval architect in late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century middle Europe.
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Marlis Hochbruck
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Marlis Hochbruck is a German applied mathematician and numerical analyst known for her research on matrix exponentials, exponential integrators, and their applications to the numerical solution of differential equations. She is a professor in the Institute for Applied and Numerical Mathematics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
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Charles Anthony Schott
- Occupations
- meteorologist
- Biography
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Charles Anthony Schott was a German-American scientist.
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Tanja Schultz
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Tanja Schultz is a German computer scientist specializing in speech processing. She is professor of computer science at the University of Bremen and the former president of the International Speech Communication Association.
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Albert Hilger
- Occupations
- chemistpharmacologist
- Biography
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Albert Hilger was a German pharmacologist and chemist, known for his work in the field of food chemistry.
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Friedrich Blochmann
- Occupations
- university teacherzoologistbotanist
- Biography
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Friedrich Johann Wilhelm Blochmann was a German zoologist. He was a son-in-law to historian Eduard Winkelmann (1838–1896).
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Stefan Decker
- Occupations
- university teachermanagerprofessor
- Biography
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Stefan Decker is a computer scientist, Full Professor for Database and Information Systems at RWTH Aachen University, and managing director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology. He specializes in the Semantic Web. As of 25 January 2020, his research reached 21,206 Google Scholar Citations, making him one of the most influential Semantic Web researchers.
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Hartmut K. Lichtenthaler
- Occupations
- botanistphysiologist
- Biography
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Hartmut K. Lichtenthaler is a German botanist, plant physiologist and university professor.
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Edward Barton
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Edward Gustavus Campbell Barton was an electrical engineer and a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
