List of RWTH Aachen University people explained
This is a list of people associated with RWTH Aachen University in Germany.
Scientists
Engineering science
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
- – 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
- Catherine Disselhorst-Klug - biomechanist, Director of the Department of Rehabilitation and Prevention Engineering
- – physicist, recipient of the Walter Schottky award
- – theoretical physicist
- – 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
- – physicist, now CEO of the Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research
- – mathematician
- Dierk Raabe – Director of the Max-Planck Institute for Iron Research
- – experimental physicist
- – theoretical physicist
- – 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
- – theoretical physicist
- Dieter Vollhardt – physicist, recipient of the Max-Planck medal
- – experimental physicist
- Ranga Yogeshwar – physicist and science journalist
- Lu Yongxiang – President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Helmut Zahn – chemist; first synthesis of insulin
Humanities
Politicians and public figures
Politicians
Public figures
