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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