100 Notable alumni of
Technical University of Munich
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The Technical University of Munich is 290th in the world, 103rd in Europe, and 17th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Technical University of Munich sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 3 individuals affiliated with the Technical University of Munich won Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry.
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Thomas Mann
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- writershort story writerdiaristuniversity teachernovelist
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Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer.
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Rudolf Diesel
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- inventorengineerEsperantistentrepreneur
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Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was a German inventor and mechanical engineer who is famous for having invented the Diesel engine, which burns Diesel fuel; both are named after him.
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Heinrich Hertz
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- physicistinventoruniversity teacherphilosopher
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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism. The unit of frequency, cycle per second, was named the "hertz" in his honor.
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Maria Furtwängler
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- screenwritermanufacturerphysicianactorfilm producer
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Maria Furtwängler-Burda is a German physician and television actress.
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Samantha Cristoforetti
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- astronaut
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Samantha Cristoforetti is an Italian European Space Agency astronaut, former Italian Air Force pilot and engineer. She holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight by a European astronaut (199 days, 16 hours), and she held the record for the longest single space flight by a woman until this was broken by Peggy Whitson in June 2017, and later by Christina Koch. She is also the first Italian woman in space. She took command of ISS Expedition 68 on 28 September 2022.
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Walther Rathenau
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- entrepreneurwriterscience fiction writerpoliticianengineer
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Walther Rathenau was a German industrialist, writer and politician who served as foreign minister of Germany from February to June 1922.
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Wilhelm Busch
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- essayistpoetartistillustratorwriter
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Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch was a German humorist, poet, illustrator, and painter. He published wildly innovative illustrated tales that remain influential to this day.
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Edmund Stoiber
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Munich
- In 1962 studied political science
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerjurist
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Edmund Rüdiger Stoiber is a German politician who served as the 16th minister-president of the state of Bavaria between 1993 and 2007 and chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU) between 1999 and 2007. In 2002, he ran for the office of Chancellor of Germany in the federal election, and in one of the narrowest elections in German history lost against Gerhard Schröder. On 18 January 2007, he announced that he would step down as minister-president and as party chairman by 30 September, after having been under fire in his own party for weeks.
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Dorothee Bär
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Munich
- Studied political science
- Occupations
- politician
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Dorothee Gisela Renate Maria Bär is a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 2002. From 2014 to 2021, she served in various capacities in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Willy Messerschmitt
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- aerospace engineeruniversity teacheraeronautical engineerglider pilotengineer
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Wilhelm Emil "Willy" Messerschmitt was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer. In 1934, in collaboration with Walter Rethel, he designed the Messerschmitt Bf 109, which became the most important fighter aircraft in the Luftwaffe as Germany rearmed prior to World War II. It remains the second most-produced warplane in history, with some 34,000 built, behind the Soviet Ilyushin Il-2. Another Messerschmitt aircraft, first called "Bf 109R", purpose-built for record setting, but later redesignated Messerschmitt Me 209, broke the absolute world airspeed record and held the world speed record for propeller-driven aircraft until 1969. Messerschmitt's firm also produced the first jet-powered fighter to enter service – the Messerschmitt Me 262.
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Andy Bechtolsheim
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Munich
- Studied electrical engineering
- Occupations
- computer scientistelectrical engineerinventorbusinesspersonengineer
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Andreas Maria Maximilian Freiherr von Mauchenheim genannt Bechtolsheim is a German electrical engineer, entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and was its chief hardware designer. As of September 2023, his net worth is $11.2 billion.
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Aurel Vlaicu
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- aerospace engineerinventoraircraft pilot
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Aurel Vlaicu was a Romanian engineer, inventor, airplane constructor, and early pilot.
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Giovanni Battista Caproni
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- aerospace engineeraircraft pilotcivil engineerbusinessperson
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Giovanni Battista Caproni, 1st Count of Taliedo, known as "Gianni" Caproni, was an Italian aeronautical engineer, civil engineer, electrical engineer, and aircraft designer who founded the Caproni aircraft-manufacturing company.
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Carl von Linde
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- physicistengineeruniversity teacherentrepreneur
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Carl Paul Gottfried von Linde was a German scientist, engineer, and businessman. He discovered a refrigeration cycle and invented the first industrial-scale air separation and gas liquefaction processes, which led to the first reliable and efficient compressed-ammonia refrigerator in 1876. These breakthroughs laid the backbone for the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics that was awarded to Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. Linde was a member of scientific and engineering associations, including being on the board of trustees of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Linde was also the founder of what is now known as Linde plc but formerly known (variously) as the Linde division of Union Carbide, Linde, Linde Air Products, Praxair, and others. Linde is the world's largest producer of industrial gases and ushered in the creation of the global supply chain for industrial gases. He was knighted in 1897 as Ritter von Linde.
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Erich Mendelsohn
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- architectphotographer
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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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Andreas Seidl
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- engineer
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Andreas Seidl is a German motorsport engineer and manager. He is currently the chief executive officer of Sauber Motorsport, and previously team principal of the McLaren Formula One team and the hybrid Porsche LMP1 program.
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Jost Capito
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- racing driverbusiness executivemotorcycle racerracing automobile driver
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Jost Capito is a German former motorsport manager. Capito has been employed in various roles during his career, with his most successful role being Director of Motorsport at Volkswagen.
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Arthur Scherbius
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- engineermathematician
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Arthur Scherbius was a German electrical engineer who invented the mechanical cipher Enigma machine. He patented the invention and later sold the machine under the brand name Enigma.
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Gottfried Böhm
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- sculptoruniversity teacherarchitect
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Gottfried Böhm was a German architect and sculptor. His reputation is based on creating highly sculptural buildings made of concrete, steel, and glass. Böhm's first independent building was the Cologne chapel "Madonna in the Rubble" (now integrated into Peter Zumthor's design of the Kolumba museum renovation). The chapel was completed in 1949 where a medieval church once stood before it was destroyed during World War II. Böhm's most influential and recognized building is the Maria, Königin des Friedens pilgrimage church in Neviges.
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Jürgen Schmidhuber
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Munich
- In 1991 graduated with doctor rerum naturalium
- Occupations
- computer scientistartificial intelligence researcheruniversity teacherco-founder
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Jürgen Schmidhuber is a German computer scientist noted for his work in the field of artificial intelligence, specifically artificial neural networks. He is a scientific director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research in Switzerland. He is also director of the Artificial Intelligence Initiative and professor of the Computer Science program in the Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) division at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia.
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Naum Gabo
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- scenographerarchitectuniversity teacherprintmakerdrawer
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Naum Gabo, born Naum Neemia Pevsner was an influential sculptor, theorist, and key figure in Russia's post-Revolution avant-garde and the subsequent development of twentieth-century sculpture. His work combined geometric abstraction with a dynamic organization of form in small reliefs and constructions, monumental public sculpture and pioneering kinetic works that assimilated new materials such as nylon, wire, lucite and semi-transparent materials, glass and metal. Responding to the scientific and political revolutions of his age, Gabo led an eventful and peripatetic life, moving to Berlin, Paris, Oslo, Moscow, London, and finally the United States, and within the circles of the major avant-garde movements of the day, including Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, the Bauhaus, de Stijl and the Abstraction-Création group. Two preoccupations, unique to Gabo, were his interest in representing negative space—"released from any closed volume" or mass—and time. He famously explored the former idea in his Linear Construction works (1942-1971)—used nylon filament to create voids or interior spaces as "concrete" as the elements of solid mass—and the latter in his pioneering work, Kinetic Sculpture (Standing Waves) (1920), often considered the first kinetic work of art.
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Wolfgang Reitzle
- Occupations
- university teacherentrepreneurengineer
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Hans Wolfgang Reitzle is a German business executive.
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Ludwig Prandtl
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Munich
- Studied in 1894-1898
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicistengineer
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Ludwig Prandtl was a German fluid dynamicist, physicist and aerospace scientist. He was a pioneer in the development of rigorous systematic mathematical analyses which he used for underlying the science of aerodynamics, which have come to form the basis of the applied science of aeronautical engineering. In the 1920s, he developed the mathematical basis for the fundamental principles of subsonic aerodynamics in particular; and in general up to and including transonic velocities. His studies identified the boundary layer, thin-airfoils, and lifting-line theories. The Prandtl number was named after him.
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Ferdinand Hofer
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- 1993-.. (age 31)
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Ferdinand Hofer is a German actor.
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Petr Bystron
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- politician
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Petr Bystron is a German politician. He was a candidate for Munich North for the Bundestag during the German federal election in 2017 for the right-wing Alternative for Germany party.
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Claudius Dornier
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- aerospace engineeraeronautical engineerentrepreneur
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Claude Honoré Désiré Dornier (14 May 1884 – 5 December 1969) was a German-French airplane designer and founder of Dornier GmbH. His notable designs include the 12-engine Dornier Do X flying boat, for decades the world's largest and most powerful airplane. He also made several other successful aircraft.
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Paul Klinger
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- stage actorvoice actortelevision actorfilm actor
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Paul Karl Heinrich Klinksik was a German stage and film actor who also worked in radio drama and soundtrack dubbing.
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Norbert Reithofer
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- entrepreneur
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Norbert Reithofer is a German businessman and former chairman of the board of management (CEO) of BMW. He currently serves as chairman of the supervisory board.
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Eduard Buchner
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- biochemistuniversity teacherchemist
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Eduard Buchner was a German chemist and zymologist, awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on fermentation.
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Akis Tsochatzopoulos
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- politician
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Apostolos-Athanasios "Akis" Tsochatzopoulos was a Greek politician, engineer, and economist. He served as a minister in several Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) cabinets between 1981 and 2004 most notably Minister of the Interior three times and the Minister of National Defence during the Andreas Papandreou and Konstantinos Simitis governments respectively.
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Hans Fischer
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- internistuniversity teacherphysicianbiochemistchemist
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Hans Fischer was a German organic chemist and the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Chemistry "for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of haemin."
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Klaus von Klitzing
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- university teacherphysicist
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Klaus von Klitzing is a German physicist, known for discovery of the integer quantum Hall effect, for which he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Bernd Pischetsrieder
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- entrepreneurbusiness executiveindustrialistengineerinternational forum participant
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Bernd Peter Pischetsrieder is a German automobile engineer and manager.
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Joachim Frank
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- chemistbiophysicist
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Joachim Frank HonFRMS; born September 12, 1940) is a German-American biophysicist at Columbia University and a Nobel laureate. He is regarded as the founder of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Richard Henderson. He also made significant contributions to structure and function of the ribosome from bacteria and eukaryotes.
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Wolfgang Ketterle
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- physicistinternational forum participantuniversity teacherphysics teacher
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Wolfgang Ketterle is a German physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research has focused on experiments that trap and cool atoms to temperatures close to absolute zero, and he led one of the first groups to realize Bose–Einstein condensation in these systems in 1995. For this achievement, as well as early fundamental studies of condensates, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, together with Eric Allin Cornell and Carl Wieman.
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Gerhard Ertl
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Munich
- In 1965 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- chemistuniversity teacherphysicist
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Gerhard Ertl is a German physicist and a Professor emeritus at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Germany. Ertl's research laid the foundation of modern surface chemistry, which has helped explain how fuel cells produce energy without pollution, how catalytic converters clean up car exhausts and even why iron rusts, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
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Anne Haug
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- triathlete
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Anne Haug is a German professional triathlete, Ironman World Championship Champion 2019. National Duathlon Champion of the years 2008 and 2009, and vice Triathlon Champion of the year 2009. She represents the clubs TV 1848 Erlangen, Team Icehouse, and LG Stadtwerke München.
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Magnus von Braun
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- chemistaerospace engineerengineer
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Magnus "Mac" Freiherr von Braun was a German chemical engineer, Luftwaffe aviator, rocket scientist and business executive. In his 20s he worked as a rocket scientist at Peenemünde and the Mittelwerk.
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Ernst May
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- architect
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Ernst Georg May was a German architect and city planner.
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Ludwig Ganghofer
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- journalistwriterwar correspondentdramaturge
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Ludwig Ganghofer was a German writer. He has been called the "most-adapted author in the history of German cinema", as many of his novels were turned into films.
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Rudolf Mössbauer
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- nuclear physicistuniversity teacherphysicist
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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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Emil Erlenmeyer
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- chemistuniversity teacherpharmacist
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Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer, known simply as Emil Erlenmeyer, was a German chemist known for contributing to the early development of the theory of structure, formulating the Erlenmeyer rule, and designing the Erlenmeyer flask, a type of specialized flask, ubiquitous in chemistry laboratories, which is named after him.
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Werner Mang
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Munich
- In 1974 graduated with Doctor of Medicine in medicine
- Occupations
- physicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Werner Lothar Mang is a German businessman, plastic surgeon, and television personality. He founded Bodenseeklinik, a private plastic surgery clinic in Lindau, Germany. Additionally, Mang is the chairman of the Professor Mang Foundation, which actively performs surgery on children from socially weak backgrounds. He is also known as Restorator of Lake Constance investing and reviving historic buildings and venues through Professor Mang Family Foundation.
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Harrington Emerson
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- engineerbusinessperson
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Harrington Emerson was an American efficiency engineer and business theorist, who founded the management consultancy firm Emerson Institute in New York City in 1900. Known for his pioneering contributions to scientific management, Emerson may have done more than anyone else to popularize the topic: His public testimony in 1910 to the Interstate Commerce Commission that the railroads could save $1,000,000 a day started a nationwide interest in the subject of "efficiency".
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Herman Sörgel
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- architect
- Biography
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Herman Sörgel was a German architect from Bavaria. He was known for popularizing the Atlantropa project, a massive construction project which was conceived initially as a solution to Europe's economic and political problems during the early 20th century.
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Erwin Neher
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- biophysicistuniversity teacherchemist
- Biography
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Erwin Neher is a German biophysicist, specializing in the field of cell physiology. For significant contribution in the field, in 1991 he was awarded, along with Bert Sakmann, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells".
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Kathrin Lehmann
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- association football playerice hockey player
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Kathrin Margrit Lehmann is a Swiss ice hockey forward. She most recently played with ESC Planegg of the Deutsche Fraueneishockey-Liga (DFEL) in the 2019–20 season.
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Ernst Otto Fischer
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- chemistuniversity teacher
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Ernst Otto Fischer was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize for pioneering work in the area of organometallic chemistry.
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Gustav Otto
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- aerospace engineeraircraft pilotengineer
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Gustav Otto was a German aircraft and aircraft engine designer and manufacturer.
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Rudolf Uhlenhaut
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- engineer
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Rudolf Uhlenhaut was a British-German engineer, driving engineer for Mercedes-Benz, and the father of Mercedes-Benz 300 SL and 300 SLR. He had a long association with the Mercedes-Benz racing programme of the 1930s and 1950s, and is best known for his road legal Uhlenhaut Coupé version of the 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SLR race car.
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Jacobus Oud
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- urban plannerdesignerarchitect
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Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud was a Dutch architect. His fame began as a follower of the De Stijl movement.
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Robert Huber
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- biochemistuniversity teacherchemist
- Biography
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Robert Huber is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate. known for his work crystallizing an intramembrane protein important in photosynthesis and subsequently applying X-ray crystallography to elucidate the protein's structure.
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Oskar von Miller
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- engineerhistorian of technologypoliticiancivil engineer
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Oskar Franz Xaver Miller, since 1875 von Miller, was a German engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, a large museum of technology and science in Munich.
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Eugen Slutsky
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Munich
- Studied in 1902-1905
- Occupations
- economiststatisticianmathematician
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Evgeny "Eugen" Evgenievich Slutsky was a Russian and Soviet mathematical statistician, economist and political economist.
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Paul Bonatz
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- architectuniversity teacher
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Paul Bonatz was a German architect, member of the Stuttgart School and professor at the technical university in that city during part of World War II, and from 1954 until his death. He worked in many styles, but most often in a simplified neo-Romanesque, and designed important public buildings both in the Weimar Republic and under the Third Reich, including major bridges for the new autobahns. In 1943 he designed several buildings in Turkey, returning to Stuttgart in 1954.
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Manfred Schnelldorfer
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- figure skaterfilm actorsingeractor
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Manfred Schnelldorfer is a German former figure skater. He is the 1964 Olympic champion, the 1964 World champion, and an eight-time German national champion.
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Konrad Emil Bloch
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- chemistbiochemist
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Konrad Emil Bloch was a German-American biochemist. Bloch received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1964 (joint with Feodor Lynen) for discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.
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Sepp Hochreiter
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- computer scientistbioinformaticianartificial intelligence researcher
- Biography
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Josef "Sepp" Hochreiter is a German computer scientist. Since 2018 he has led the Institute for Machine Learning at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz after having led the Institute of Bioinformatics from 2006 to 2018. In 2017 he became the head of the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) AI Lab. Hochreiter is also a founding director of the Institute of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence (IARAI). Previously, he was at the Technical University of Berlin, at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and at the Technical University of Munich. He is a chair of the Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis (CAMDA) conference.
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Wilhelm Kreis
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- architectuniversity teacher
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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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Otto Bemberg
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- diplomatbankerbusinessperson
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Otto Bemberg was a German Argentine businessman prominent in the development of early Argentine industry. He is mostly notable for having been the founder of Cervecería y Maltería Quilmes, the largest brewery in the country.
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Natalie Grams
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- physician
- Biography
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Natalie Grams-Nobmann is a German physician and author. Formerly a practicing homeopath, she became known throughout Germany as a whistleblower for her 2015 debut book Homeopathy Reconsidered – What Really Helps Patients in which she criticized homeopathy. In 2016 she joined the Science Council of the Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences (GWUP – the German Sceptics Association). From January 2017 to April 2020 she served as Communications Manager for the GWUP. She also serves on the advisory board of the humanist Giordano Bruno Foundation since May 2017, and as vice president of the Humanist Press Foundation in Germany since October 2017. In October 2017 her second book, Gesundheit – A Book Not Without Side Effects, was published. It was followed by her third book, What really Works – Compass through the World of Gentle Medicine, in February 2020. In 2021, Natalie Grams was awarded the Fellowship of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. This award is given for "distingued contributions to science and skepticism and for commitment to rational inquiry and public education".
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Bernd Fabritius
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Munich
- 1989-1991 studied political science
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianlawyer
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Bernd Fabritius is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) who has served as a Member of the Bundestag from 2013 to 2017 and again in 2021.
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Julian Rosefeldt
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- university teacherscreenwriterfilm producerfilmmakerfilm director
- Biography
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Julian Rosefeldt is a German artist and film-maker. Rosefeldt's work consists primarily of elaborate, visually opulent film and video installations, often shown as panoramic multi-channel projections. His installations range in style from documentary to theatrical narrative.
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Johann Deisenhofer
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- biophysicistphysicistuniversity teacherbiochemistchemist
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Johann Deisenhofer is a German biochemist who, along with Hartmut Michel and Robert Huber, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988 for their determination of the first crystal structure of an integral membrane protein, a membrane-bound complex of proteins and co-factors that is essential to photosynthesis.
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Theodor Fischer
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- teacheruniversity teacherpedagogueurban plannerarchitect
- Biography
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Theodor Fischer was a German architect and teacher.
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Walther Meissner
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- university teacherphysicistengineer
- Biography
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Fritz Walther Meißner was a German technical physicist.
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Edward Wadsworth
- Occupations
- painterlithographerartistgraphic artistillustrator
- Biography
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Edward Alexander Wadsworth was a British artist initially associated with the Vorticism movement. In the First World War he was part of a team involved in the transfer of dazzle camouflage designs to ships for the Royal Navy. After the war his maritime landscapes and still-life compositions using tempera were infused with a surrealistic mood - although he never exhibited with the British surrealists. In the early thirties and in the early forties his work was mainly abstract. He made a significant contribution to the development of modern art in Britain in the inter-war years.
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Rudolf Hell
- Occupations
- entrepreneurinventorengineer
- Biography
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Rudolf Hell was a German inventor and engineer.
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Martin Wilhelm Kutta
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Munich
- Studied in 1891-1894
- Occupations
- university teacherengineermathematician
- Biography
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Martin Wilhelm Kutta was a German mathematician.
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Bernhard Kellermann
- Occupations
- science fiction writernovelistwriterpoliticianessayist
- Biography
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Bernhard Kellermann was a German author and poet.
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Norbert Singer
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Norbert Singer is a German automotive engineer. He has played a key role in every one of Porsche’s 16 overall race victories between 1970 and 1998 at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
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Simone Blum
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- event riderequestrian
- Biography
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Simone Blum is a German show jumper. In 2018, she won the individual gold medal at the 2018 World Equestrian Games on her horse DSP Alice.
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Franz Joseph Emil Fischer
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- chemist
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Franz Joseph Emil Fischer was a German chemist. He was the founder and first director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Coal Research. He is known for the discovery of the Fischer–Tropsch process.
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Kazimierz Fabrycy
- Occupations
- military officerengineer
- Biography
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Kazimierz Fabrycy was a Polish general.
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Joachim Milberg
- Occupations
- university teacherentrepreneurengineer
- Biography
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Joachim Milberg is a German engineer and manager who served as CEO of Bayerischen Motorenwerke AG (BMW). He was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BMW until July 2015.
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Kurt Maetzig
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- university teacherfilm directorscreenwriter
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Kurt Maetzig was a German film director who had a significant effect on the film industry in East Germany. He was one of the most respected filmmakers of the GDR. After his retirement he lived in Wildkuhl, Mecklenburg, and had three children.
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Walter Hohmann
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- aerospace engineerastronomercivil engineerengineerarchitect
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Walter Hohmann was a German engineer who made an important contribution to the understanding of orbital dynamics. In a book published in 1925, Hohmann demonstrated a fuel-efficient path to move a spacecraft between two different orbits, now called a Hohmann transfer orbit. He received his Ph.D. from the RWTH Aachen University in 1920.
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Richard Mollier
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- physicistengineerprofessor
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Richard Mollier was a German professor of Applied Physics and Mechanics in Göttingen and Dresden, a pioneer of experimental research in thermodynamics, particularly for water, steam, and moist air.
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Julius Meier-Graefe
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- art historianwriterliterary historian
- Biography
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Julius Meier-Graefe was a German art critic and novelist.
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Heinrich Barkhausen
- Occupations
- physicistengineerPrivatdozentuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Heinrich Georg Barkhausen, born in Bremen, was a German physicist.
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Josef Ertl
- Occupations
- politicianfarmer
- Biography
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Josef Ertl was a German politician who served as the minister of agriculture in different cabinets of Germany and was a member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP).
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Philipp Graf Lerchenfeld
- Occupations
- politicianfarmer
- Biography
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Philipp Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld was a German politician for the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). He was born into the ancient Lerchenfeld noble family, and was a member of the Landtag of Bavaria from 2003 to 2013, and then served as a member of the Bundestag from 2013 to 2017. He was elected to the local council of Köfering in 1990, and the district council of Regensburg in 2002. Outside of politics, he was a farmer, accountant and tax consultant.
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Marcus Hutter
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- physicistcomputer scientistartificial intelligence researcheruniversity teacher
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Marcus Hutter is a professor and artificial intelligence researcher. A Senior Scientist at DeepMind, he is researching the mathematical foundations of artificial general intelligence. He is on leave from his professorship at the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science of the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. Hutter studied physics and computer science at the Technical University of Munich. In 2000 he joined Jürgen Schmidhuber's group at the Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research) in Manno, Switzerland. He developed a mathematical theory of artificial general intelligence. His book Universal Artificial Intelligence: Sequential Decisions Based on Algorithmic Probability was published by Springer in 2005.
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Markus Ferber
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- politicianengineer
- Biography
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Markus Ferber is a German engineer and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1994. He is a member of the Christian Social Union, part of the European People's Party. In addition to his parliamentary work, Ferber has been serving as president of the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSS) since 2020.
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Paul Schmitthenner
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- university teacherprofessorarchitect
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Paul Schmitthenner was a German architect, city planner and Professor at the University of Stuttgart.
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Gabriel von Seidl
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- architect
- Biography
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Gabriel von Seidl was a German architect and a representative of the historicist style of architecture.
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David Gries
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Munich
- 1963-1965 graduated with doctorate
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- engineercomputer scientist
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David Gries is an American computer scientist at Cornell University, United States mainly known for his books The Science of Programming (1981) and A Logical Approach to Discrete Math (1993, with Fred B. Schneider).
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Harald Fritzsch
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- physicisttheoretical physicistuniversity teachernon-fiction writer
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Harald Fritzsch was a German theoretical physicist known for his contributions to the theory of quarks, the development of Quantum Chromodynamics and the great unification of the standard model of particle physics.
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Richard Kauffmann
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Munich
- Studied urban design
- Occupations
- architecturban planner
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Richard Kauffmann was a German-Jewish architect who migrated to Palestine in 1920. His architecture was influenced by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a proponent of the International Style, and was applied to the local landscape, laying the architectural groundwork for the nascent State of Israel and the White City, as Tel Aviv's International Style architecture became known.
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Costin Nenițescu
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- chemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Costin D. Neniţescu was a prominent Romanian chemist, and a professor at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. He was a member of the Romanian Academy, a corresponding member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, and a member of the Leopoldina Academy of Natural Scientists in Halle-Saale.
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Rudolf Nebel
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- aerospace engineeraircraft pilot
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Rudolf Nebel was a spaceflight advocate active in Germany's amateur rocket group, the Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR – "Spaceflight Society") in the 1930s and in rebuilding German rocketry following World War II.
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Hans Benno Bernoulli
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- urban planneruniversity teacherarchitectpolitician
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Hans Benno Bernoulli was a Swiss architect and city planner.
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Dolly Montoya Castaño
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- researcherchemistpharmacist
- Biography
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Dolly Montoya Castaño, also known as Dolly Montoya, is a Colombian university professor and scientist, and rector of the National University of Colombia. She was re-elected for the period 2021–2024, having already served in 2018–2021 when she became the first woman to hold the position.
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Cengiz Bektaş
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- architectwriter
- Biography
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Cengiz Bektaş was a Turkish architect, engineer, poet and writer for Evrensel newspaper.
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Martin Elsaesser
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- architectuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Martin Elsaesser was a German architect and professor of architecture. He is especially well known for the many churches he built.
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Holm Gero Hümmler
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- nuclear physicistauthorphysicist
- Biography
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Holm Gero Hümmler is a German nuclear physicist and skeptic, living in Bad Homburg, near Frankfurt am Main.
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Otto Rudolf Salvisberg
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- architectuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Otto Rudolf Salvisberg was a Swiss architect.
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Walter Kaufmann
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- chemistuniversity teacherphysicist
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Walter Kaufmann was a German physicist. He is best known for the first experimental proof of the velocity dependence of mass, which was an important contribution to the development of modern physics, including special relativity.
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Reinhard Brandl
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Munich
- Graduated with doctor rerum naturalium
- 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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Michael Suess
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- international forum participantmanager
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Michael Suess is a German manager. He currently serves as Executive Chairman of OC Oerlikon, a global technology Group listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange, and as First Deputy Chairman of the supervisory board of the Austrian electricity company, Verbund AG. From 2015 to 2016, he held the position as CEO of the GMH Group.
