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This is a list of people associated with
RWTH Aachen University in Germany.
Natural sciences and medicine
Hans Günther Aach –
botanist , former director of the Botanical Institute
Wil van der Aalst — computer scientist
Friedrich Asinger – chemist, former director of the Institute for Technical and Petrol Chemistry
Otto Blumenthal – mathematician
Martin Bojowald – physicist
Hans-Harald Bolt [
de ] – Director of the Max-Planck Institute for
Plasma Physics
Julius Bredt – organic chemist, discovered the
Bredt's rule
Nikolas Breuckmann – physicist, recipient of the
Maxwell Medal and Prize
Herbert Capellmann – theoretical physicist
Wolfgang Dahmen – mathematician
Volker Dohm [
de ] – physicist, recipient of the
Walter Schottky award
Ubbo Felderhof [
de ] – theoretical physicist
Gernot Güntherodt [
de ] – experimental physicist
Christian Haug – physician, psychiatrist
Friedrich Robert Helmert – mathematician and
geodesist
Ludwig Hopf – mathematician and theoretical physicist
Wilhelm Keim – chemist, former director of the Institute for Technical and Petrol Chemistry
Stefan Kuetter – physician, general practitioner
Martin Kutta – mathematician
Otto Lehmann – father of
liquid crystal research
Maria Lipp – organic chemist, first female doctoral student, and professor at the
RWTH Aachen University
Hans von Mangoldt – mathematician
Josef Meixner – physicist
Walter Metzner [
de ] – physicist, now CEO of the Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Renate Meyer (statistician) – Professor of statistics in New Zealand
Claus Müller [
de ] – mathematician
Horst Niemeyer [
de ] – mathematician
Dierk Raabe – Director of the Max-Planck Institute for Iron Research
Ulrich Rüdiger [
de ] – experimental physicist
Friedrich Schlögl [
de ] – theoretical physicist
Ulrich Schollwöck [
de ] – physicist
Jan Schroers — physicist
Rudolf Schulten (1923–1996) –
physicist and father of the
Pebble bed reactor
Walter Selke – theoretical physicist
Arnold Sommerfeld – professor of applied mathematics, 1900–1906; physicist
Arne Stahl – physicist
Thomas Thiemann [
de ] – theoretical physicist
Dieter Vollhardt – physicist, recipient of the
Max-Planck medal
Matthias Wuttig [
de ] – experimental physicist
Ranga Yogeshwar –
physicist and science journalist
Lu Yongxiang – President of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Helmut Zahn – chemist; first synthesis of
insulin
Hans Wilhelm Schlegel – astronaut