University of Vienna Admitted Student Profiles & Alumni

Elias Canetti

Nobel Prize in Literature

N/A

N/A

Sigmund Freud

Founder of psychoanalysis

N/A

N/A

Viktor Frankl

Psychiatrist, founder of logotherapy

N/A

N/A

Kurt Gödel

Pioneering logician and mathematician

PhD

N/A

Karl Popper

Influential philosopher of science

N/A

N/A

Joseph Schumpeter

Economist, “creative destruction” theory

N/A

N/A

Elfriede Jelinek

Nobel Prize in Literature

N/A

N/A

Friedrich von Hayek

Nobel Prize in Economics

PhD

N/A

Lise Meitner

Nuclear physicist, co-discovered nuclear fission

PhD

1906

Huldrych Zwingli

Reformer during the Protestant Reformation

N/A

N/A

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

Founding President of Czechoslovakia

N/A

N/A

Alcide De Gasperi

Italian statesman, post-war prime minister

N/A

N/A

Mihai Eminescu

Romania’s national poet, noted literary figure

N/A

N/A

Ignaz Semmelweis

Pioneer of antiseptic procedures (handwashing)

Medical studies

N/A

Johann Radon

Mathematician known for the Radon transform

PhD

1910

Hans Tuppy

Biochemist who helped sequence insulin; later rector of the university

PhD

1948

Johannes Hahn

European Commissioner (EU); former Austrian Minister for Science

N/A

N/A

Bruno Bettelheim

Psychologist and writer

N/A

N/A

Marie Jahoda

Prominent social psychologist and sociologist

PhD

N/A

Barbara Blaha

Writer, political activist, and founder of the Momentum Institute

BA (German)

2009