100 Notable alumni of
Technical University of Berlin
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The Technical University of Berlin is 312th in the world, 108th in Europe, and 19th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Technical University of Berlin sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Berlin
- 1906-1908 graduated with Diplom in engineering
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- philosopherteachermathematicianarchitectural theoreticianprofessor
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Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.
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Fritz Haber
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Berlin
- Studied in 1886-1891
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- engineerchemistacademicuniversity teacherphysicist
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Fritz Haber was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. This invention is important for the large-scale synthesis of fertilizers and explosives. It is estimated that a third of annual global food production uses ammonia from the Haber–Bosch process, and that this food supports nearly half the world's population. For this work, Haber has been called one of the most important scientists and industrial chemists in human history. Haber also, along with Max Born, proposed the Born–Haber cycle as a method for evaluating the lattice energy of an ionic solid.
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Konrad Zuse
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Berlin
- Studied in 1927-1935
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- inventorcivil engineerentrepreneurcomputer scientistengineer
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Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Thanks to this machine and its predecessors, Zuse is regarded by some as the inventor and father of the modern computer.
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Chaim Weizmann
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Berlin
- In 1894 studied chemistry
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- pedagoguechemistuniversity teacherpoliticianautobiographer
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Chaim Azriel Weizmann was a Russian-born Israeli statesman, biochemist, and Zionist leader who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel. He was elected on 16 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952. Weizmann was instrumental in obtaining the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and convincing the United States government to recognize the newly formed State of Israel in 1948.
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Leó Szilárd
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- nuclear physicistscientistscience fiction writerphysicistuniversity teacher
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Leo Szilard was a Hungarian-born physicist, biologist and inventor who made numerous important discoveries in nuclear physics and the biological sciences. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea in 1936. In late 1939 he wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb, and then in 1944 wrote the Szilard petition asking President Truman to demonstrate the bomb without dropping it on civilians. According to György Marx, he was one of the Hungarian scientists known as The Martians.
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Alfred Stieglitz
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- photographerexhibition curatorphotography criticpublisher
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Alfred Stieglitz HonFRPS was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. In addition to his photography, Stieglitz was known for the New York art galleries that he ran in the early part of the 20th century, where he introduced many avant-garde European artists to the U.S. He was married to painter Georgia O'Keeffe.
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Wolfram von Richthofen
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- aircraft pilotmilitary officer
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Wolfram Karl Ludwig Moritz Hermann Freiherr von Richthofen was a German World War I flying ace who rose to the rank of Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) in the Luftwaffe during World War II.
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Eugene Wigner
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Berlin
- Studied in 1920-1925
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- university teacherphysicisttheoretical physicistmathematiciannuclear physicist
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Eugene Paul Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who also contributed to mathematical physics. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles".
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Carl Bosch
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- inventorchemistacademicscientific collectorengineer
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Carl Bosch was a German chemist and engineer and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. He was a pioneer in the field of high-pressure industrial chemistry and founder of IG Farben, at one point the world's largest chemical company.
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Henri Coandă
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- inventorphysicistmilitary flight engineeraircraft pilotengineer
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Henri Marie Coandă was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer, and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910, which never flew. He invented a great number of devices, designed a "flying saucer" and discovered the Coandă effect of fluid dynamics.
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Sascha Lobo
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Berlin
- Studied biotechnology
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- writerbloggercopywriterjournalist
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Sascha Lobo is a German blogger, writer, journalist, Audiobook-narrator and copywriter. Lobo's work is primarily concerned with the Internet and with the social effects of new technology.
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Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu
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- inventorteacherengineer
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Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu was a Romanian engineer who was one of the first women to obtain a degree in engineering. She was born in the Romanian town of Galați but qualified in Berlin. During World War I she managed a hospital in Romania.
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Kurt Tank
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- engineerscientistuniversity teachertest pilotmilitary flight engineer
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Kurt Waldemar Tank was a German aeronautical engineer and test pilot who led the design department at Focke-Wulf from 1931 to 1945. He was responsible for the creation of several important Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II, including the Fw 190 fighter aircraft, the Ta 152 fighter-interceptor and the Fw 200 Condor airliner. After the war, Tank spent two decades designing aircraft abroad, working first in Argentina and then in India, before returning to West Germany in the late 1960s to work as a consultant for Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB).
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Lev Sedov
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- politicianediting staffpublisher
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Lev Lvovich Sedov was the first son of Soviet communist leader Leon Trotsky and his second wife, Natalia Sedova. He was born when his father was in prison facing life imprisonment for participating in the Revolution of 1905.
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Hugo Junkers
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- university teachermilitary flight engineerengineerinventor
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Hugo Junkers was a German aircraft engineer and aircraft designer who pioneered the design of all-metal airplanes and flying wings. His company, Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG (Junkers Aircraft and Motor Works), was one of the mainstays of the German aircraft industry in the years between World War I and World War II. His multi-engined, all-metal passenger- and freight planes helped establish airlines in Germany and around the world.
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Dennis Gabor
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Berlin
- In 1927 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
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- inventorholographeracademicuniversity teacherphysicist
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Dennis Gabor was a Hungarian-British physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971 for his invention of holography. He obtained British citizenship in 1946 and spent most of his life in England.
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Samih Sawiris
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Berlin
- Studied in 1976-1980
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- entrepreneurbusinessperson
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Samih Onsi Sawiris is an Egyptian-born Montenegrin businessman, investor and billionaire and the second of three sons of Onsi Sawiris, the other two being Naguib Sawiris and Nassef Sawiris. He is the former executive chairman of the board of directors and CEO of Orascom Development Holding AG.
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Philipp Mißfelder
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- politician
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Philipp Mißfelder was a German politician and a member of the German Bundestag. From January through March 2014, he served in the German government as the Coordinator for Transatlantic Cooperation in the Field of Intersocietal Relations, Cultural and Information Policy.
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Wojciech Korfanty
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- journalistpolitician
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Wojciech Korfanty was a Polish activist, journalist and politician, who served as a member of the German parliaments, the Reichstag and the Prussian Landtag, and later, in the Polish Sejm. Briefly, he also was a paramilitary leader, known for organizing the Polish Silesian Uprisings in Upper Silesia, which after World War I was contested by Germany and Poland. Korfanty fought to protect Poles from discrimination and the policies of Germanisation in Upper Silesia before the war and sought to join Silesia to Poland after Poland regained its independence.
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George de Hevesy
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- university teacherchemist
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George Charles de Hevesy was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study chemical processes such as in the metabolism of animals. He also co-discovered the element hafnium.
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Erich Mendelsohn
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- photographerarchitect
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Erich Mendelsohn; 21 March 1887 – 15 September 1953) was a German-British architect, known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s, as well as for developing a dynamic functionalism in his projects for department stores and cinemas. Mendelsohn was a pioneer of the Art Deco and Streamline Moderne architecture, notably with his 1921 Mossehaus design.
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Hamid Samandarian
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- screenwritertheatrical directortranslatorfilm director
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Hamid Samandarian Persian: حمید سمندریان; May 6, 1931 – July 12, 2012) was an Iranian film and theater director and translator. He staged numerous dramas including No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre, Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and Marriage of Mr. Mississippi by Friedrich Durrenmatt.
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Konstantinos Carathéodory
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Berlin
- In 1900 studied mathematics
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Constantin Carathéodory was a Greek mathematician who spent most of his professional career in Germany. He made significant contributions to real and complex analysis, the calculus of variations, and measure theory. He also created an axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics. Carathéodory is considered one of the greatest mathematicians of his era and the most renowned Greek mathematician since antiquity.
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Hugo Stinnes
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- industrialistpolitician
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Hugo Adolf Eugen Victor Stinnes commonly known as Hugo Stinnes was a German industrialist and politician who served as a member of Reichstag from 1920 to 1924 (his death). During the late era of the German Empire and early Weimar Republic, he was considered to be one of the most influential entrepreneurs in Europe.
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Diébédo Francis Kéré
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Berlin
- In 2004 graduated with Diplom
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- architect
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Diébédo Francis Kéré is a Burkinabé-German architect, recognized for creating innovative works that are often sustainable and collaborative in nature. In 2022, he became the first native African to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Educated at Technische Universität Berlin, he has lived in Berlin since 1985. Parallel to his studies, he established the Kéré Foundation (formerly Schulbausteine für Gando), and in 2005 he founded Kéré Architecture. His architectural practice has been recognized internationally with awards including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2004) for his first building, the Gando Primary School in Burkina Faso, and the Global Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction (2012 Gold).
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Kenneth Nichols
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- civil engineermilitary engineerarmy officer
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Kenneth David Nichols CBE was an officer in the United States Army, and a civil engineer who worked on the secret Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb during World War II. He served as Deputy District Engineer to James C. Marshall, and from 13 August 1943 as the District Engineer of the Manhattan Engineer District. Nichols led both the uranium production facility at the Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the plutonium production facility at Hanford Engineer Works in Washington state.
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Hans Scharoun
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- university teacherurban plannerdesignerarchitect
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Bernhard Hans Henry Scharoun was a German architect best known for designing the Berliner Philharmonie (home to the Berlin Philharmonic) and the Schminke House in Löbau, Saxony. He was an important exponent of organic and expressionist architecture.
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Jan Czochralski
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- inventorchemistuniversity teachermetallurgistengineer
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Jan Czochralski was a Polish chemist who invented the Czochralski method, which is used for growing single crystals and in the production of semiconductor wafers. It is still used in over 90 percent of all electronics in the world that use semiconductors. He is the most cited Polish scholar.
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Hartmut Mehdorn
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Berlin
- 1961-1966 graduated with Diplom in mechanical engineering
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- business executive
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Hartmut Mehdorn is a German manager and mechanical engineer. Until May 2009 he was CEO of Deutsche Bahn, Germany's biggest railway company. He was CEO of Germany's second largest airline Air Berlin until he stepped down in January 2013. In March 2013 he assumed a CEO position at Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH (FBB), the owner and future operator of Berlin Brandenburg Airport, until March 2015.
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Helmut Gröttrup
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- inventorphysicistmilitary flight engineer
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Helmut Gröttrup was a German engineer, rocket scientist and inventor of the smart card. During World War II, he worked in the German V-2 rocket program under Wernher von Braun. From 1946 to 1950 he headed a group of 170 German scientists who were forced to work for the Soviet rocketry program under Sergei Korolev. After returning to West Germany in December 1953, he developed data processing systems, contributed to early commercial applications of computer science and coined the German term "Informatik". In 1967 Gröttrup invented the smart card as a "forgery-proof key" for secure identification and access control (ID card) or storage of a secure key, also including inductive coupling for near-field communication (NFC). From 1970 he headed a start-up division of Giesecke+Devrient for the development of banknote processing systems and machine-readable security features.
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Hans Poelzig
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- painterarchitectconstruction officerdesigneruniversity teacher
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Hans Poelzig was a German architect, painter and set designer.
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Mimar Kemaleddin Bey
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- architect
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Ahmed Kemaleddin, widely known as Mimar Kemaleddin (Architect Kemaleddin) was a Turkish architect, and one of the leading figures of the First National architectural movement, alongside Vedat Tek.
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Dilek Kalayci
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- politician
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Dilek Kalayci is a Turkish-German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as State Minister for Health, Care and Equality (2016–2021) and as Deputy Governing Mayor of Berlin and State Minister for Labour, Integration and Women (2014–2016) in the government of Mayor Michael Müller.
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Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis
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- politicianurban plannerarchitect
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Constantinos A. Doxiadis, often cited as C. A. Doxiadis, was a Greek architect and urban planner. During the 1960s, he was the lead architect and planner of Islamabad, which was to serve as the new capital city of Pakistan. He was later known as the father of ekistics, which concerns the multi-aspect science of human settlements.
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Taqi Arani
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- journalist
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Taqi Arani, was a professor of chemistry, left-wing Iranian political activist and theorist as well as the founder and editor of the Marxist magazine Donya (The World).
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Werner March
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- university teacherarchitect
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Werner Julius March was a German architect, son of Otto March (1845–1913), and brother of Walter March, both also well-known German architects. Werner March designed Germany's 1936 Olympic stadium. Werner March was born in Charlottenburg and died in Berlin.
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Rudolf Mössbauer
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- physicistuniversity teachernuclear physicist
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Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer was a German physicist best known for his 1957 discovery of 'recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence', for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics. This effect, called the Mössbauer effect, is the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy.
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Hermann Schwarz
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Karl Hermann Amandus Schwarz was a German mathematician, known for his work in complex analysis.
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Edward Lasker
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- non-fiction writer
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Edward Lasker was a German-American chess and Go player. He was awarded the title of International Master of chess by FIDE. Lasker was an engineer by profession, and an author of books on Go, chess and checkers. Born in Prussia, he emigrated to the United States in 1914. He was distantly related to World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker with whom he is sometimes confused.
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Michael Grätzel
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- university teacherchemist
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Michael Grätzel is a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne where he directs the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces. He pioneered research on energy and electron transfer reactions in mesoscopic-materials and their optoelectronic applications. He co-invented with Brian O'Regan the Grätzel cell in 1988.
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Ursula Franklin
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- engineerphysicistuniversity teacherpeace activistwomen's rights activist
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Ursula Martius Franklin CC OOnt FRSC was a Canadian metallurgist, activist, research physicist, author, and educator who taught at the University of Toronto for more than 40 years. Franklin is best known for her writings on the political and social effects of technology. She was the author of The Real World of Technology, which is based on her 1989 Massey Lectures; The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map, a collection of her papers, interviews, and talks; and Ursula Franklin Speaks: Thoughts and Afterthoughts, containing 22 of her speeches and five interviews between 1986 and 2012. Franklin was a practising Quaker and actively worked on behalf of pacifist and feminist causes. She wrote and spoke extensively about the futility of war and the connection between peace and social justice. Franklin received numerous honours and awards, including the Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case for promoting the equality of girls and women in Canada and the Pearson Medal of Peace for her work in advancing human rights. In 2012, she was inducted into the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame. A Toronto high school, Ursula Franklin Academy, as well as Ursula Franklin Street on the University of Toronto campus, have been named in her honor.
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Heinrich Nordhoff
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- university teacherengineerindustrialistentrepreneur
- Biography
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Heinz Heinrich Nordhoff was a German engineer who led the rebuilding of Volkswagen (VW) after World War II. He was featured on the cover of Time magazine on Feb. 15, 1954.
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Ida Noddack
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- physicistchemist
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Ida Noddack, née Tacke, was a German chemist and physicist. In 1934 she was the first to mention the idea later named nuclear fission. With her husband Walter Noddack, and Otto Berg, she discovered element 75, rhenium. She was nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Hellmuth Walter
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- military flight engineer
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Hellmuth Walter was a German engineer who pioneered research into rocket engines and gas turbines. His most noteworthy contributions were rocket motors for the Messerschmitt Me 163 and Bachem Ba 349 interceptor aircraft, so-called Starthilfe jettisonable rocket propulsion units used for a variety of Luftwaffe aircraft during World War II, and a revolutionary new propulsion system for submarines known as air-independent propulsion (AIP).
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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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Cansel Kızıltepe
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Berlin
- In 2001 studied national economy
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- politicianeconomist
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Cansel Kiziltepe is a German economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as State Minister (Senator) for Labour, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination in the government of Governing Mayor Kai Wegner since 2023.
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Johann-Dietrich Wörner
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- civil engineer
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Johann-Dietrich "Jan" Wörner is a German civil engineer, university professor and former president of Technische Universität Darmstadt. He served as chairman of the executive board of the German Aerospace Center DLR from 1 March 2007 to 30 June 2015. On 1 July 2015, he succeeded Jean-Jacques Dordain as Director General of the European Space Agency.
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Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach
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- politician
- Biography
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Peter Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach was Reich Postal Minister (Reichspostminister) and Reich Minister of Transport (Reichsminister für Verkehr) of Germany between 1932 and 1937.
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Fritz Sennheiser
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- university teacherengineerentrepreneurelectrical engineer
- Biography
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Fritz Sennheiser was a German inventor and entrepreneur who founded and served as chairman of Sennheiser Electronic, a manufacturer of audio equipment.
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Ernst Herzfeld
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- art historianarchaeologistiranologistorientalistanthropologist
- Biography
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Ernst Emil Herzfeld was a German archaeologist and Iranologist.
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Philipp Lengsfeld
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- physicistpolitician
- Biography
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Philipp Lengsfeld is a German politician, formerly of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
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Wilhelm Kreis
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- university teacherarchitect
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Wilhelm Kreis was a prominent German architect and professor of architecture, active through four political systems in German history: the Wilhelmine era, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the foundation of the Federal Republic.
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Hans-Christoph Seebohm
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- politician
- Biography
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Hans-Christoph Seebohm was a German politician of the national conservative German Party (Deutsche Partei, DP) and after 1960 the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He was the minister of Transport for 17 years and the vice chancellor of West Germany in 1966.
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Tania Singer
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Berlin
- Graduated with Diplom
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- neuroscientistpsychologist
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Tania Singer is a German psychologist and social neuroscientist and the scientific director of the Max Planck Society's Social Neuroscience Lab in Berlin, Germany. Between 2007 and 2010, she became the inaugural chair of social neuroscience and neuroeconomics at the University of Zurich and was the co-director of the Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research in Zurich. Her research focuses on the developmental, neuronal, and hormonal mechanisms underlying human social behavior and social emotions such as compassion and empathy. She is founder and principal investigator of the ReSource project, one of the largest longitudinal studies on the effects of mental training on brain plasticity as well as mental and physical health, co-funded by the European Research Council. She also collaborates with the macro-economist Dennis Snower on research on caring economics. Singer's Caring Economics: Conversations on Altruism and Compassion, Between Scientists, Economists, and the Dalai Lama was published in 2015. She is the daughter of the neuroscientist Wolf Singer.
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Hans Koenigsmann
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- military flight engineer
- Biography
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Hans-Jörg Königsmann is a German aerospace engineer who was Vice President of Flight Reliability for SpaceX until his retirement in 2021.
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Kristin Brinker
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Berlin
- 1994-2005 graduated with doctorate in architecture
- Occupations
- architectpolitician
- Biography
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Kristin Brinker is a German politician. A member of the Alternative for Germany (AFD) party, Brinker has been a member of the Berlin House of Representatives since 2016. Brinker has been state chair of the Berlin AfD since March 2021.
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István Friedrich
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- association football playerpoliticianmechanical engineerassociation football referee
- Biography
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István Friedrich was a Hungarian politician, footballer and factory owner who served as prime minister of Hungary for three months between August and November in 1919. His tenure coincided with a period of political instability in Hungary immediately after World War I, during which several successive governments ruled the country.
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Max Berg
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- urban plannerarchitect
- Biography
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Max Berg was a German architect and urban planner.
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Ion Gigurtu
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- mining engineerpoliticianbankerdiplomat
- Biography
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Ion Gigurtu was a far-right Romanian politician, Land Forces officer, engineer and industrialist who served a brief term as Prime Minister from 4 July to 4 September 1940, under the personal regime of King Carol II. A specialist in mining and veteran of both the Second Balkan War and World War I, he made a fortune in interwar Greater Romania. Gigurtu began his career in politics with the People's Party (PP) and the National Agrarian Party, moving closer to the far right during the 1930s, and serving as Minister of Industry and Commerce in the cabinet of Octavian Goga. Shortly after the start of World War II, Gigurtu was affiliated with King Carol's National Renaissance Front, serving as Public Works and Communications Minister and Foreign Minister under Premier Gheorghe Tătărescu, before the territorial losses incurred by Romania in front of the Soviet Union propelled him as Tătărescu's replacement.
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Karl Heinrich Emil Becker
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- engineerchemistmilitary personneluniversity teachersoldier
- Biography
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Karl Heinrich Emil Becker was a German weapons engineer and artillery general. He advocated and implemented close ties of the military to science for purposes of advanced weapons development. He was the head of the Army Ordnance Office, Senator of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, first president of the Reich Research Council, the first general officer to be a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, as well as being a professor at both the University of Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin.
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Günter M. Ziegler
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Günter Matthias Ziegler is a German mathematician who has been serving as president of the Free University of Berlin since 2018. Ziegler is known for his research in discrete mathematics and geometry, and particularly on the combinatorics of polytopes.
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Ludwig Bölkow
- Occupations
- inventormilitary flight engineerengineer
- Biography
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Ludwig Bölkow was one of the aeronautical pioneers of Germany.
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Paul Nemenyi
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Berlin
- 1912-1922 graduated with Doktoringenieur in civil engineering
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teachermathematician
- Biography
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Paul Felix Neményi was a Hungarian mathematician and physicist who specialized in continuum mechanics. He was known for using what he called the inverse or semi-inverse approach, which applied vector field analysis, to obtain numerous exact solutions of the nonlinear equations of gas dynamics, many of them representing rotational flows of nonuniform total energy. His work applied geometrical solutions to fluid dynamics. In continuum mechanics, "Neményi's theorem" proves that, given any net of isothermal curves, there exists a five parameter family of plane stress systems for which these curves are stress trajectories.
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Diana Golze
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Diana Hertha Golze is a German politician from Die Linke. She was a Member of the Bundestag from 2005 to 2014.
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Ku Cheng-kang
- Years
- 1902-1993 (aged 91)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ku Cheng-kang or Gu Zhenggang was a Chinese politician, scholar and ranking member of the Kuomintang in service to the Republic of China.
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Walther Meissner
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- engineerphysicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Fritz Walther Meißner was a German technical physicist.
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Ernst Alexanderson
- Occupations
- inventorelectrical engineerelectrician
- Biography
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Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson was a Swedish-American electrical engineer and inventor who was a pioneer in radio development. He invented the Alexanderson alternator, an early radio transmitter used between 1906 and the 1930s for longwave long distance radio transmission. Alexanderson also created the amplidyne, a direct current amplifier used during the Second World War for controlling anti-aircraft guns.
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Fritz Houtermans
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicistastrophysicisttheoretical physicistnuclear physicist
- Biography
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Friedrich Georg "Fritz" Houtermans was a Dutch-Austrian-German atomic and nuclear physicist and Communist born in Zoppot (now Sopot) near Danzig (now Gdańsk), West Prussia to a Dutch father, who was a wealthy banker. He was brought up in Vienna, where he was educated, and moved to Göttingen when he was 18 to study. It was in Göttingen where he obtained his Ph.D. under James Franck.
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He Zehui
- Occupations
- nuclear physicistphysicist
- Biography
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Professor He Zehui or Ho Zah-wei was a Chinese nuclear physicist who worked to develop and exploit nuclear physics in Germany and China.
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Tadeusz Marek
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Tadeusz "Tadek" Marek was a Polish automobile engineer, known for his Aston Martin engines.
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Sabina Jeschke
- Occupations
- engineerscientistuniversity teacherphysicistcomputer scientist
- Biography
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Sabina Jeschke is a German university professor for information sciences in mechanical engineering at the RWTH Aachen University. As of 10 November 2017, she was named member of the management board of Deutschen Bahn AG for digitalization and technology. She is also the director of the Cybernetics Lab IMA/ZLW & IfU. In the summer semester of 2017, she is on sabbatical leave to develop her research in the area of artificial consciousness (artificial / machine consciousness), and is involved in building a think tank "Strong Artificial Intelligence" at the Volvo Car Corporation in Göteborg. Since May 2015, Jeschke has been a member of the supervisory board of Körber AG, since April 2012 chairman of the board of VDI Aachen. Beginning of January 2023 she took on an additional position as a senior advisor at Arthur D. Little.
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Özcan Mutlu
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
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Özcan Mutlu in Kelkit, Gümüşhane Province, Turkey, is a Turkish-German former politician from the Green Party. In January 2025, he left the party because of "toxic power structures" in the Berlin regional association of the Greens.
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Chu Chia-hua
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Zhu Jiahua or Chu Chia-hua was a Chinese scientist, geologist and Kuomintang politician in the Republic of China. In the early 1930s he served as Minister of Communications for the Nationalist Government in Nanjing. He was the Vice Premier in 1949–1950. Zhu became acting president of Academia Sinica upon the death of Cai Yuanpei in 1940, and was responsible for organizing the relocation of its institutes from China to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War and a period of low monetary funds. Zhu repurposed funds originally set aside for Chinese students to study abroad. Although the Kuomintang government agreed with Zhu's actions when he first proposed them, Chiang Kai-shek later withdrew his approval and Zhu resigned as president of the Academia Sinica in 1957. Zhu was elected an academician of Academia Sinica in 1948. Following his death, Academia Sinica began hosting a lecture series in Zhu's honor.
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Georg von Arco
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- inventorphysicisttechnician
- Biography
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Georg Wilhelm Alexander Hans Graf von Arco was a German physicist, radio pioneer, and one of the joint founders of the "Society for Wireless Telegraphy" which became the Telefunken company. He was an engineer and the technical director of Telefunken. He was crucial in the development of wireless technology in Europe.
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Małgorzata Omilanowska
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- professoropinion journalistpoliticianhistorianart historian
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Małgorzata Omilanowska is a Polish art historian and politician. She served as Poland's Minister of Culture and National Heritage from July 2014 to November 2015.
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Joachim Milberg
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- entrepreneuruniversity teacherengineer
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Joachim Milberg is a German engineer and manager who was CEO of Bayerischen Motorenwerke AG (BMW). He was chairman of the Supervisory Board of BMW until July 2015.
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Anupama Kundoo
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Berlin
- Studied in 2008
- Occupations
- university teacherarchitect
- Biography
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Anupama Kundoo is an Indian architect.
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Heinrich Barkhausen
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- university teacherPrivatdozentengineerphysicist
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Heinrich Georg Barkhausen was a German physicist who established an influential research laboratory in Dresden. The phenomenon by which ferromagnetic domains align during magnetization and produce discrete acoustic changes due to rotations of the Weiss domains is named after his observations as the magnetic Barkhausen effect. He is also remembered in the Barkhausen criteria for electrical oscillators.
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Albert Betz
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- university teacherengineerinventorphysicist
- Biography
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Albert Betz was a German physicist and a pioneer of wind turbine technology.
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Farrah El-Dibany
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- opera singer
- Biography
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Farrah El-Dibany an Egyptian mezzo-soprano. She is the first Egyptian and African singer to join the Paris Opera Academy in 2016.
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Nasrollah Entezam
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- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Nasrollah Entezam was a diplomat, politician, and minister, as well as Iranian Ambassador to the United States and France. He was the first Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations from 1947 to 1950 and President of the UN General Assembly during its fifth session in 1950.
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James Hobrecht
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- engineersanitary engineerurban planner
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James Friedrich Ludolf Hobrecht was a Prussian director for urban planning. His development plan of 1862 for a million-sized Berlin was soon to be simply called the Hobrecht-Plan. His main focus was on modern sewer systems for which he was well known in the late 19th century.
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Krafft Arnold Ehricke
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- military flight engineer
- Biography
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Krafft Arnold Ehricke was a German rocket-propulsion engineer and advocate for space colonization. Ehricke is a co-designer of the first Centaur liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen upper stage.
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Bruno Ahrends
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- architect
- Biography
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Bruno Ahrends, born as Bruno Arons, was an internationally known German architect, who worked in Berlin, Germany. He was a representative of Berlin Modernism Housing Estates before World War I and during Weimar Republic (1910s to 1930s). Most of his creations today are under Cultural heritage management, some are part of a World Heritage Site.
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Klaus Riedel
- Occupations
- military flight engineer
- Biography
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Klaus Riedel was a German rocket pioneer. He was involved in many early liquid-fuelled rocket experiments, and eventually worked on the V-2 missile programme at Peenemünde Army Research Center. A lunar crater is named after him in recognition of his contributions to rocket research.
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Ursula Wyss
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- politicianeconomist
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Ursula Wyss is a Swiss politician, economist and urban planner. She represented the Canton of Bern in the Swiss National Council as member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) from 6 December 1999 to 3 March 2013. From January 2013 to December 2020 she was an executive member (Gemeinderätin) of the city of Bern.
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Horst Zuse
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- computer scientist
- Biography
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Horst Zuse is a German computer scientist.
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Ludwig Martens
- Occupations
- engineerpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Ludwig Christian Alexander Karl Martens was a Russian Marxist revolutionary, Soviet diplomat and engineer.
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Jörg Guido Hülsmann
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Berlin
- Graduated with Master of Science in economics
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teachereconomist
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Jörg Guido Hülsmann is a German-born economist who studies issues related to money, banking, monetary policy, macroeconomics, and financial markets. Hülsmann is professor of economics at the University of Angers’ School of Law, Economics, and Management.
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Alfred Grenander
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- architect
- Biography
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Alfred Frederik Elias Grenander was a Swedish architect, who became one of the most prominent engineers during the first building period of the Berlin U-Bahn network in the early twentieth century.
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Harald Uhlig
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- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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Harald Friedrich Hans Volker Sigmar Uhlig is a German macroeconomist and the Bruce Allen and Barbara Ritzenthaler Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he was the chairman of the Department of Economics from 2009 to 2012.
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Matthias Kollatz
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Berlin
- Studied general economics
- Occupations
- engineereconomistpoliticiannon-fiction writer
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Matthias Kollatz is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who served as State Minister of Finance in the government of Mayor Michael Müller of Berlin from 2014 to 2021.
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George Kessler
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- urban plannerlandscape architectarchitect
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George Edward Kessler was an American pioneer city planner and landscape architect.
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Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
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- curatorexhibition curator
- Biography
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Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung is a contemporary art curator and writer. He lives in Berlin.
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Jakub Karol Parnas
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- university teacherbiochemistscientist
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Jakub Karol Parnas, also known as Yakov Oskarovich Parnas was a prominent Polish–Soviet biochemist who contributed to the discovery of the Embden–Meyerhof–Parnas pathway, together with Otto Fritz Meyerhof and Gustav Embden. He became a Soviet activist after the annexation of Western Ukraine in 1939. He was arrested during the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee affair in 1949 and died in the prison, reportedly of heart attack.
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Adolf Martens
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- university teachermetallurgistengineerinventor
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Adolf Martens was a German metallurgist and the namesake of the steel structure martensite and the martensitic transformation, a type of diffusionless phase transition in the solid state. He also made significant contributions to the field of tribology. The functional relationship between the coefficient of friction and the product of sliding speed and viscosity divided by the normal load (well known as the Stribeck curve) was experimentally explored by Adolf Martens in 1888, long before Richard Stribeck made his pioneering measurements in 1902.
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Franz Grashof
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- university teachermechanical engineer
- Biography
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Franz Grashof was a German engineer. He was a professor of Applied Mechanics at the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe.
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Carl Hellmuth Hertz
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- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Carl Hellmuth Hertz was a German physicist known primarily for being involved in the development of inkjet technology and ultrasound technology. He was the son of Gustav Ludwig Hertz and great nephew of Heinrich Hertz.
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Bruno Möhring
- Years
- 1863-1929 (aged 66)
- Occupations
- university teacherarchitect
- Biography
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Bruno Möhring was a German architect, urban planner, designer and a professor in Berlin. He was one of the most important architects of the Jugendstil style in Germany. He received his education at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg.
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Adolf Slaby
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- university teacherpoliticianelectrotechnicianphysicist
- Biography
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Adolf Karl Heinrich Slaby was a German electronics pioneer and the first Professor of electro-technology at Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg (today Technische Universität Berlin, 1886).
