Humboldt University of Berlin Admitted Student Profiles & Alumni

Albert Einstein

Theoretical physicist; developed relativity; Nobel Prize in Physics

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Max Planck

Theoretical physicist; father of quantum theory; Nobel Prize in Physics (1918)

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Werner Heisenberg

Pioneer of quantum mechanics; Nobel Prize in Physics (1932)

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Erwin Schrödinger

Quantum physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics (1933)

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Otto Hahn

Chemist; discovered nuclear fission; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1944)

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Robert Koch

Physician and microbiologist; discovered tuberculosis and cholera agents

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Paul Ehrlich

Physician; developed treatments for syphilis; Nobel Prize in Medicine (1908)

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Theodor Mommsen

Historian and classical scholar; Nobel Prize in Literature (1902)

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Gustav Stresemann

Statesman; Nobel Peace Prize (1926)

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Austen Chamberlain

Statesman; Nobel Peace Prize (1925)

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Karl Marx

Philosopher, economist, revolutionary socialist author of The Communist Manifesto

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Friedrich Engels

Philosopher, social scientist, co-author with Marx

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Foundational philosopher in Western idealism

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G.W.F. Fichte

Philosopher; early German idealist

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Walter Benjamin

Philosopher and cultural critic

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Georg Simmel

Sociologist and philosopher

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Max Weber

Founder of sociology; influential social theorist

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W.E.B. Du Bois

Civil rights leader, historian, sociologist, academic

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Theologian, pastor, anti-Nazi dissident

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Angela Merkel

Former Chancellor of Germany

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Otto von Bismarck

First Chancellor of Germany

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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Composer during the Romantic period

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Alfred Wegener

Geophysicist; originated continental drift theory

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Heinrich Heine

Lyric poet and writer

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Jacob Grimm

Philologist and folklorist; co-author of Grimm’s Fairy Tales

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Wilhelm Grimm

Philologist and folklorist; co-author of Grimm’s Fairy Tales

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Emmanuelle Charpentier

Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2020); gene-editing pioneer

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Karl Liebknecht

Socialist politician and revolutionary figure

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