RWTH Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni of RWTH

• Reinhard Genzel (1978) - Nobel Prize in Physics (2020) for his discoveries about the center of the Milky Way.
• Manfred Eigen (1951) - Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1967) for his work on fast chemical reactions.
• Wolfgang Paul (1939) - Nobel Prize in Physics (1989) for the development of the ion trap technique.
• Heinrich Hertz (1880) - Physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of electromagnetic waves.
• August Thyssen (1870) - Founder of ThyssenKrupp, a major industrial conglomerate.
• Karlheinz Brandenburg (1989) - Engineer and inventor of the MP3 format.
• Ernst Ruska (1933) - Nobel Prize in Physics (1986) for his fundamental work in electron optics.
• Hans Bethe (1928) - Nobel Prize in Physics (1967) for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions.