Nobel Prize winners and pioneers in engineering

Notable lumanaries in the history of the University

Countless numbers of prominent scientists and researchers have studied and taught at Universität Karlsruhe:

		Ferdinand Redtenbacher (1809 - 1863) is considered one of the founding fathers of mechanical engineering in Germany.
		Carl Weltzien (1813 - 1870) initiated the construction of the first chemical laboratory, which was exemplary in its time. In 1860 he organized the first international Chemistry Congress in Karlsruhe.
		Mechanical engineering professor Franz Grashof (1826 - 1893) made major contributions to establishing the "Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI)" the Association of Engineers.
		Important contributions in the field of petroleum research came from chemist Carl Engler (1842 - 1925).
		Carl Benz (1844 - 1929), one of the pioneers of the automobile, studied in Karlsruhe and received an honorary doctorate from the University in 1914.
		Physicist Ferdinand Braun (1850 - 1918) developed the Braun tube in 1897, an invention that served as the picture tube in television sets, oscilloscopes and display units. In 1909 he and Guglielmo Marconi received the Nobel Prize for Physics for this work.
		Physics professor Otto Lehmann (1855 - 1922) invented the heating stage microscope and was a pioneer in researching liquid crystals.
		In 1887 Heinrich Hertz (1857 - 1894) "discovered" electromagnetic waves in Karlsruhe, thus establishing one of the principles of radio technology.
		Theodor Rehbock (1864 - 1950) was the most important hydraulics specialists of his day and founded one of the world's first river engineering laboratories in 1901.
		Nobel Prize winner Fritz Haber (1868 - 1934) was able to synthesize ammonia under high pressure in 1909.
		Wolfgang Gaede (1878 - 1945) developed vacuum technology.
		Wilhelm Nusselt (1882 - 1957) was one of the founders of technical thermodynamics.
		Architect and former Karlsruhe professor Egon Eiermann (1904 - 1970) designed important buildings in German and American metropolitan cities. His works include the new Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche in Berlin and the office building of the German embassy in Washington.