Berlin Institute of Technology - Notable Alumni and Professors

Notable Alumni and Professors

• Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) Rocket Design Engineer.

• |Gustav Hertz (1887–1975),
  Nobel Prize in Physics 1925

• Konrad Zuse (1910–1995), student at Technische Universität Berlin, developed the first modern Computer and the first higher level language

• Eugene Paul Wigner (1902–1995), Nobel Prize in Physics 1963

• Carl Bosch (1874–1940), Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1931

• Bruno Taut (1880–1938), Urban Planner

(Including those of the Academies mentioned under History)

• August Borsig (1804–1854), businessman
• Carl Bosch (1874–1940), chemist, Nobel prize winner 1931
• Wernher von Braun (1912–1977), head of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket program, saved from prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials by Operation Paperclip, first director of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center, called the father of the U.S. space program
• Henri Marie Coandă (1886–1972), aircraft designer; discovered the Coandă Effect.
• Krafft Arnold Ehricke (1917–1984), rocket-propulsion engineer, worked for the NASA, chief designer of the D-1 Centaur, the world's first upper-stage-booster that used liquid hydrogen and oxygen.
• Gerhard Ertl (* 10. Oktober 1936 in Stuttgart) Physicist and Surface Chemist, Hon. Prof. and Nobel prize winner 2007
• Ernst Stuhlinger (1913–2008), member of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, director of the space science lab at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
• Heinz-Hermann Koelle(*1925) former director of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, member of the launch crew on Explorer I and later directed the NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center's involvement in Project Apollo.
• Klaus Riedel (1907–1944), German rocket pioneer, worked on the V-2 missile programme at Peenemünde.
• Arthur Rudolph (1906–1996) worked for the U.S. Army and NASA, developer of Pershing missile and the Saturn V Moon rocket.
• Walter Dornberger (1895–1980), developer of the Air Force-NASA X-20 Dyna-Soar project.
• Ottmar Edenhofer (born 1961), economist
• Wigbert Fehse (born 1937) German engineer and researcher in the area of automatic space navigation, guidance, control and docking/berthing.
• Fritz Gosslau (1898–1965), German engineer, known for his work at the V-1 flying bomb.
• Fritz Houtermans (1903–1966) atomic and nuclear physicist
• Hugo Junkers (1859–1935), former of Junkers & Co, a major German aircraft manufacturer.
• Walter Kaufmann (1871–1947), physicist, well known for his first experimental proof of the velocity dependence of mass.
• Philipp Mißfelder (*1979), German politician
• Ida Noddack (1896–1978), nominated three times for Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• Georg Hans Madelung (1889–1972), a German academic and aeronautical engineer.
• Franz Breisig (1868–1934), mathematician, inventor of the calibration wire and father of the term quadripole network in electrical engineering
• Wilhelm Cauer (1900–1945), mathematician, essential contributions to the design of filters
• Carl Dahlhaus (1928–1989), musicologist
• Dennis Gabor (1900–1971), physicist (holography), Nobel prize winner 1971
• Fritz Haber (1868–1934), chemist, Nobel prize winner 1918
• Sabine Hark (born 7 August 1962), sociologist and professor of gender studies
• Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887–1975), physicist, Nobel prize winner 1925
• George de Hevesy (1885–1966), chemist, Nobel prize winner 1943
• Franz Kruckenberg (1882–1965), designer of the first aerodynamic high-speed train 1931
• Karl Küpfmüller (1897–1977), electrical engineer, essential contributions to system theory
• Wassili Luckhardt (1889–1972), architect
• Herbert Franz Mataré (1912-2011), German physicist and Transistor-pionier
• Alexander Meissner (1883–1958), electrical engineer
• Ivan Stranski (1897–1979), chemist, considered the father of crystal growth research
• Adolf Slaby (1849–1913), German wireless pioneer
• Alois Riedler (1850–1936), vigorous proponent of practically-oriented engineering education
• Erwin Wilhelm Müller (1911–1977), physicist (field emission microscope, field ion microscope, atom probe)
• Jakob Karol Parnas (1884–1949), biochemist, Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway
• Wolfgang Paul (1913–1993), physicist, Nobel prize winner 1989
• Ernst Ruska (1906–1988), physicist (electron microscope), Nobel prize winner 1986
• Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), architect (at the predecessor Berlin Building Academy)
• Georg Schlesinger (1874–1949)
• Franz Reuleaux (1829–1905), mechanical engineer, often called the father of kinematics
• Albert Speer (1905–1981), architect, politician, Minister for Armaments during the Third Reich, was sentenced to 20 years prison in the Nuremberg trials
• Kurt Tank (1893–1983), head of design department of Focke-Wulf, designed the FW-190
• Wilhelm Heinrich Westphal (1882–1978), physicist
• Günter M. Ziegler (*1963), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2001)
• Hermann W. Vogel, (1834–1898) photo-chemist
• Eugene Wigner (1902–1995), physicist, discovered the Wigner-Ville-distribution, Nobel prize winner 1963
• Konrad Zuse (1910–1995), computer pioneer
• Abdul Qadeer Khan Pakistani nuclear scientist
• Stancho Belkovski (1891–1962), Bulgarian architect, head of Higher Technical School in Sofia and the department of public buildings.
• Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), philosopher
• Anatol Kagan (1913-2009), Russian-born Australian architect