Notable People
To date, seven Nobel prizes and two Fields Medals have been awarded to faculty and alumni of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn:
- Harald zur Hausen, alumni: physiology or medicine 2008
- Reinhard Selten, faculty member: economics 1994
- Wolfgang Paul, faculty member: physics 1989
- Luigi Pirandello, alumni: literature 1934
- Otto Wallach, faculty member: chemistry 1910
- Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, alumni: literature 1910
- Philipp Lenard, faculty member: physics 1905
- Gerd Faltings: Fields Medal 1986
- Maxim Kontsevich: Fields Medal 1998
Among its notable alumni and faculty are Pope Benedict XVI, Karl Marx, Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Hertz, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, Joseph Schumpeter, Konrad Adenauer, Max Ernst, Constantin Carathéodory, Karl Weierstrass, Karl Barth, Wolfgang Kaleck and Samson Raphael Hirsch.
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