People Associated With The Leipzig University
Leipzig University has produced many notable individuals. Some famous people affiliated with Leipzig include:
- C. F. W. Walther was the first President of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and its most influential theologian.
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe, German poet and polymath
- Michelle Bachelet, first female President of Chile between 2006 and 2010
- Angela Merkel, first female German Chancellor
- Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
- Gustav Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
- Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
- Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Paul Ehrlich, German doctor, Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Theodor Mommsen, German historian, Nobel Prize in Literature
- San-itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
- Nathan Söderblom, Swedish clergyman, Nobel Peace Prize
- Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, Jewish Austro-Hungarian Physicist, inventor of the transistor
- Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
- Richard Wagner, German composer
- Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist, founded the first formal laboratory for psychological research
- Gustav Theodor Fechner, German psychologist, founder of Psychophysics
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German philosopher and writer
- Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician, Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German polymath
- Ferdinand de Saussure, linguist, founder of structuralism
- Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Dutch mathematician
- Maximilian von Frey, physiologist, inventor of the esthesiometer
- Zhar Lestin, Russian mathematician
- Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher and rector of the university
- Rudolph Sohm, lawyer and Church historian
- Armin Scholz, a professional bodybuilder
- Cai Yuanpei, president of Peking University and leading thinker in the early Chinese communist movement
- Edgar Odell Lovett, American mathematician
- William Vermillion Houston, American physicist
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