List of University of Bonn people

This is a list of University of Bonn people including people who have taught or studied at the University of Bonn

Nobel laureates

• Reinhard Genzel – 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
  • "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy"
• Harald zur Hausen – 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • "for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer"
• Reinhard Selten – 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics
  • "for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games"
• Wolfgang Paul – 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics
  • "for the development of the ion trap technique"
• Luigi Pirandello – 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature
  • "for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art"
• Otto Wallach – 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  • "in recognition of his services to organic chemistry and the chemical industry by his pioneer work in the field of alicyclic compounds"
• Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse – 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature
  • "as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories"
• Philipp Lenard – 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics
  • "for his work on cathode rays"

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

Alumni

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B

C

D

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G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

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• Nicolae Quintescu

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U

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W

Y

• Christos Yannaras

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