Notable Alumni and Faculty Members
Many notable individuals have studied or taught at the University of Munich. As of 2010, 34 Nobel laureates are associated with the university.
The alumni of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich played a major role in the development of quantum mechanics. Max Planck, the founder of quantum theory and Nobel laureate in Physics in 1918, was an alumnus of the university. Founders of quantum mechanics such as Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, and others were associated with the university. Most recently, to honor the Nobel laureate in Chemistry Gerhard Ertl, who worked as a professor at the University of Munich from 1973–1986, the building of the Physical Chemistry was named after him.
The White Rose anti-Nazi resistance was based in this university.
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