74 Notable alumni of
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is 885th in the world, 313th in Europe, and 37th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 74 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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Dhruv Rathee
- Occupations
- television producerpodcasterYouTubervlogger
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Dhruv Rathee is an Indian influencer and social media activist based in Berlin, Germany. He is known for his YouTube videos on social, political, and environmental issues. As of June 2025, he has over 36 million subscribers and 7 billion views across all of his channels.
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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 December 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$21.6 billion, ranked at number 89 on Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
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Carsten Spohr
- Enrolled in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Studied industrial engineering and management
- Occupations
- management engineerchief executive officermilitary flight engineeraircraft pilotmanager
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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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Leopold Ružička
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- university teacherchemist
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Leopold Ružička ForMemRS 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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Ole Scheeren
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- 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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Klaus Tschira
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- entrepreneurphysicist
- 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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Roland Mack
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- 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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Emil Škoda
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- entrepreneurtechnicianindustrialistuniversity teachermechanical engineer
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Emil Ritter von Škoda was a Czech engineer and industrialist, founder of Škoda Works, the predecessor of today's Škoda Auto and Škoda Transportation.
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August Thyssen
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- industrialistentrepreneurpolitician
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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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Fernando Carro
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- manager
- Biography
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Fernando Carro de Prada is a Spanish football director who is the CEO of Bayer Leverkusen. He was appointed chairman and CEO of the Arvato AG from 2015 to 2017.
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Martin Brudermüller
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- chemist
- Biography
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Martin Brudermüller is a German businessman who was the CEO of BASF from 2018 to 2024.
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Volker Quaschning
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- engineeruniversity teacher
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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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Johann Jakob Balmer
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- university teachermathematicianphysicist
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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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Nicolae Malaxa
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- railway engineerengineer
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Nicolae Malaxa was a Romanian engineer and industrialist.
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Charles Frédéric Gerhardt
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- university teacherchemist
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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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- virologistmilitary personnelchemistbotanistuniversity teacher
- 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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- lawyerjudgepolitician
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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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- engineeruniversity teacher
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Franz Reuleaux was a German mechanical engineer and a lecturer at Technische Hochschule Berlin (today Technische Universität Berlin), 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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Tobias Lindner
- Enrolled in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- 2002-2007 studied general economics
- Occupations
- political economisteconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Tobias Lindner is a German economist and politician of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen who served as member of the Bundestag from 2011 to 2025, 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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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 was a member of the Bundestag from 1998 to October 2021, representing Karlsruhe-Land since 2002. In early 2026 he was found guilty by a court in Munich of having accepted payments in order to campaign for the Azerbaijani government during his involvement with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
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Franz Josef Radermacher
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- computer scientisteconomistuniversity teachermathematician
- 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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- politicianmetallurgist
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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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- mathematicianpolitician
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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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Rolf Widerøe
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- 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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Amel Karboul
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- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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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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Peter Andreas Blix
- Occupations
- engineerarchitect
- 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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Andreas Weigend
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teacher
- 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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Otto Rudolf Salvisberg
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- university teacherarchitect
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Otto Rudolf Salvisberg was a Swiss architect.
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Carl Culmann
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- essayistcivil engineerexecutiveuniversity teacher
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Carl Culmann was a German structural engineer.
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Ernst von Ihne
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- architect
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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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Robert Gerwig
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- engineerpoliticiancivil engineerrailway engineer
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Robert Gerwig was a German civil engineer.
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Carl Gräbe
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- university teacherchemist
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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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Otto Bütschli
- Enrolled in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1866
- Occupations
- entomologistbotanistmicrobiologistuniversity teachernaturalist
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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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- cryptographermathematicianuniversity teacher
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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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- painterarchitect
- Biography
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Albert Schickedanz was an Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style.
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Oliver Günther
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- computer scientistbusiness informaticianuniversity teacher
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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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Ludwig Levy
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- university teacherarchitect
- 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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Franz Dischinger
- Occupations
- university teachercivil engineer
- 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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Hanns Hopp
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- university teacherarchitectpolitician
- Biography
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Hanns Hopp was a German architect.
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Carl Engler
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- university teacherchemistpolitician
- Biography
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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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Adolf Dahm-Petersen
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- singermusic educatoruniversity 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 scientistartificial intelligence researcheruniversity teachermathematician
- 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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- painterarchitect
- Biography
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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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- physicianchemistpharmacologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- politicianchemist
- 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 55)
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- 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
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- 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
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- writerjournalistdiplomatpolitician
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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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Mihailo Valtrović
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- editing staffhistorianuniversity teacherart criticarchitect
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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, as well as a long-time member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He designed a number of state insignia, including the royal crown and sceptre for King Peter I.
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Matthias Böttger
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- university teacherarchitect
- Biography
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Matthias Böttger is a German architect and curator.
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Simone Schürle-Finke
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- biomedical engineer
- Biography
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Simone Schürle-Finke is a German biomedical engineer, 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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Sven Erik Jørgensen
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- university teacherchemistecologist
- Biography
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Sven Erik Jørgensen was an ecologist and chemist from Denmark.
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Dimitrije Nešić
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- mathematicianacademiceducation ministeruniversity 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
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- literary historianliterary scholarchemistopinion journalist
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Israel Zinberg was a Russian-Jewish chemist and a historian of Jewish literature. His work is significant in the field of Yiddish literature and Jewish literary history.
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Petar Bajalović
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- university teacherarchitect
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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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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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Michael Waidner
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- computer scientistmathematicianuniversity teacher
- 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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Kay Axhausen
- Occupations
- engineeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Kay W. Axhausen was 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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Stefan Przanowski
- Occupations
- mechanical engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Stefan Przanowski was a Polish engineer and politician who served as Minister of Provisions from 1917 to 1920 and Minister of Industry and Trade from 1920 to 1921. He was also disputed prime minister of Poland in 1922.
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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 in Austria-Hungary.
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Eduardo Dockendorff
- Occupations
- architectpolitician
- 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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Hermann Schussler
- Occupations
- engineercivil engineer
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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
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- lawyerjudgepolitician
- 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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Marlis Hochbruck
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- 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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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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Charles Anthony Schott
- Occupations
- meteorologist
- Biography
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Charles Anthony Schott was a German-American scientist.
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Stefan Decker
- Occupations
- manageruniversity teacher
- 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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Albert Hilger
- Occupations
- pharmacologistchemist
- 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
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- university teacherbotanistzoologist
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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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Hartmut K. Lichtenthaler
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- physiologistbotanist
- 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.
