Heidelberg Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni of Heidelberg

• Max Weber (1899) - Renowned sociologist and political economist, known for his thesis on the 'Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism'.
• Hannah Arendt (1924) - Influential political theorist and philosopher, known for her works on totalitarianism and the nature of power.
• Carl Bosch (1898) - Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1931) for his contributions to the development of chemical high-pressure methods.
• Philipp Lenard (1886) - Nobel laureate in Physics (1905) for his research on cathode rays and the discovery of many of their properties.
• Wolfgang Ketterle (1986) - Nobel laureate in Physics (2001) for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates.