University of Erlangen-Nuremberg - Notable Alumni and Professors

Notable Alumni and Professors

  • Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739–1810), naturalist, studied mammals.
  • Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), founder of homeopathy
  • Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), Geographer and Explorer, attended lectures in Chemistry and Physics.
  • Friedrich Rückert (1788 – 1866), orientalist and poet.
  • Georg Simon Ohm (1789–1854), physicist, Ohm's law, named after him.
  • Justus von Liebig (1803–1873), chemist, "father of the fertilizer industry".
  • Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804–1872), philosopher, associated with the Young Hegelians, an atheist.
  • Hermann Emil Fischer (1852-1919), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1902
  • Eduard Buchner (1860-1917), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1907
  • Emmy Noether (1882–1935), mathematician, Noether's theorem, named after her.
  • Hans Geiger (1882-1945), physicist, Geiger counter
  • Ludwig Erhard (1897-1977), Chancellor of Germany 1963-1966
  • Alma Adamkienė (1927-), First Lady of Lithuania 1998-2009
  • Harald zur Hausen (1936-), virologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008
  • Heinrich von Pierer (1941-), former CEO of Siemens AG (1992-2005).
  • Karlheinz Brandenburg (1954–), audio engineer, developer of the MP3 audio codec.

  • Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber

  • Samuel Hahnemann

  • Alexander von Humboldt

  • Friedrich Rückert

  • Georg Simon Ohm

  • Justus von Liebig

  • Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

  • Hermann Emil Fischer

  • Eduard Buchner

  • Emmy Noether

  • Hans Geiger

  • Ludwig Erhard

  • Alma Adamkienė

  • Harald zur Hausen

  • Heinrich von Pierer


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