List of University of Bonn people explained
This is a list of University of Bonn people including people who have taught or studied at the University of Bonn
Nobel laureates
Fields Medalists
- Maryna Viazovska - 2022 Fields Medal
- "for the proof that the E8 lattice provides the densest packing of identical spheres in 8 dimensions, and further contributions to related extremal problems and interpolation problems in Fourier analysis"
- Peter Scholze – 2018 Fields Medal
- "for transforming arithmetic algebraic geometry over p-adic fields through his introduction of perfectoid spaces, with application to Galois representations, and for the development of new cohomology theories"
- Maxim Kontsevich – 1998 Fields Medal
- "for his contributions to four problems of Geometry"
- Gerd Faltings – 1986 Fields Medal
- "for his proof of the Mordell Conjecture"
Faculty
- Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (1799–1875), Astronomy
- Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), History
- Karl Barth (1886–1968), Theology
- Bruno Bauer (1809–1882) Theology
- Carl Heinrich Becker (1876–1933), Oriental Philology
- Karl Dietrich Bracher (born 1922), Political Science
- Franz Bücheler (1837–1908), Classics
- Friedrich Calker (1790–1870), Philosophy
- Constantin Carathéodory, (1873–1850) Mathematics
- Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (1822–1888), Physics
- Ernst Robert Curtius (1886–1956), Romance Literature
- Friedrich Christian Diez (1794–1876), Philology
- Udo di Fabio (born 1954), member of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany since 1999, Law
- Gerd Faltings (born 1954), Mathematics
- Alexander Filippou (born 1958), Professor of Inorganic Chemistry
- Heinrich Geißler (1814–1879), Physics
- Felix Hausdorff (1868–1942), Mathematics
- Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), Medicine and Physics
- Georg Hermes (1775–1831), Theology
- Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), Physics
- Werner Hildenbrand (born 1936), Economics
- Friedrich Hirzebruch (born 1927), Mathematics
- Manfred Hutter (born 1957), Religious studies
- Marek Karpinski (born 1948), Computer Science, Mathematics
- Gottfried Kinkel (1815–1882), History
- Wilhelm Krelle (1916–2004), Economics
- Walther Kruse (1864–1943), Bacteriology
- Christian Lassen (1800–1876), Oriental Philology
- Maria von Linden, (1869–1936), first female Professor
- Rudolf Lipschitz, (1832–1903), Mathematics
- Werner Meyer-Eppler (1913–1960), Phonetics
- Barthold Georg Niebuhr, (1776–1831) History
- Martin Noth (1902–1968), Theology
- Felix Otto (born 1966), Mathematics
- Wolfgang Paul (1913–1993), Physics
- Carl Adam Petri (born 1926), Mathematics
- Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845–1920), Botany
- Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger (1829–1910), Physiology
- Alfred Philippson (1864–1953), Geology and Geography
- Julius Plücker (1801–1868), Mathematics and Physics
- Joseph Ratzinger (born 1927), Pope, Theology
- Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833–1905), Geology
- Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl (1806–1876), Classics
- Walter Schellenberg (born 1929), Law
- Rudolf Schieffer (1947–2018), Medieval history
- Annemarie Schimmel (1922–2003), Oriental Philology
- August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767–1845), Philosophy
- Bernhard Schlink (born 1944), Law
- Johannes Schmidt (1843–1901), Linguistics
- Carl Schmitt (1888–1985), Law
- Arnold Schönhage (born 1934), Mathematics
- Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950), Economics
- Reinhard Selten (born 1930), Economics
- Karl Simrock (1802–1872), German Studies
- Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg (1905–1946), Economics
- Ethelbert Stauffer (1902-1979), Theology
- Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (1829–1896), Chemistry
- Eduard Strasburger (1844–1912), Botany
- Heinrich von Sybel (1817–1895), History
- Otto Toeplitz (1881–1940), Mathematics
- Carl Troll (1899–1975), Geography
- Hermann Karl Usener (1834–1905), Classics
- Otto Wallach (1847–1931), Chemistry
- Axel A. Weber (born 1957), President of the Deutsche Bundesbank since 2004, Economics
- Walter Weizel (1901–1982), Physics
- Ernst August Weiß (1900–1942), Mathematics
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