Gerhard Ertl (1965) - Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2007) for his studies on chemical processes on solid surfaces.
Kurt Wüthrich (1964) - Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2002) for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the 3D structure of biological macromolecules in solution.
Günter Blobel (1960) - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1999) for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell.
Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1953) - Former Foreign Minister of Germany, played a key role in the German reunification.
Angela Merkel (1986) - Former Chancellor of Germany, studied physics at Technische Universität Dresden.
