Famous researchers in the over 170-year history of today's Department of Physics (selection)
Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802-1870)
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894)
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824-1887)
Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894)
Max Planck (1858-1947), Nobel Prize in Physics 1918
Wilhelm Wien (1864-1928), Nobel Prize in Physics 1911
Walther Nernst (1864-1941), Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1920
Lise Meitner (1878–1968)
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), Nobel Prize in Physics 1921
Max von Laue (1879-1960), Nobel Prize in Physics 1914
Walter Bothe (1881-1957), Nobel Prize in Physics 1954
James Franck (1882-1964), Nobel Prize in Physics 1925
Max Born (1882-1970), Nobel Prize in Physics 1954
Peter Debye (1884-1966), Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936
Gustav Hertz (1887-1975), Nobel Prize in Physics 1925
Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), Nobel Prize in Physics 1933
Christian Gerthsen (1894-1956)
Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), Nobel Prize in Physics 1932