TUM Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni of TUM

• Rudolf Diesel (1870) - Inventor of the Diesel engine, studied at the Technical University of Munich.
• Carl von Linde (1868) - Inventor of the refrigeration cycle, alumnus of TUM.
• Walter Meißner (1907) - Physicist known for the Meißner effect, graduated from Technical University of Munich.
• Franz Josef Strauss (1939) - German politician and statesman, studied at TUM.
• Wolfgang Ketterle (1986) - Nobel Prize laureate in Physics, alumnus of Technical University of Munich.
• Thomas Gottschalk (1970s) - Prominent German television host, studied at TUM.