TUM Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni of TUM

• Rudolf Diesel (1880) - Inventor of the Diesel engine.
• Carl von Linde (1868) - Developed the first reliable refrigeration system.
• Wolfgang Ketterle (1986) - Nobel Prize in Physics (2001) for work on Bose-Einstein condensates.
• Franz Beckenbauer (1965) - Legendary football player and manager.
• Thomas Gottschalk (1972) - Prominent German television host.
• Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1947) - Influential social scientist and founder of the Allensbach Institute.
• Joachim Sauer (1967) - Chemist and husband of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
• Heinrich Otto Wieland (1904) - Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1927) for his research on bile acids.