page_title: Technische Universität Darmstadt
section_title: Nobel laureates
hierarchical_section_title: Technische Universität Darmstadt / Notable faculty and alumni / Nobel laureates
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Oliver Zipse (2019)
context_page_description: The Technische Universität Darmstadt, commonly known as TU Darmstadt, is a research university in the city of Darmstadt, Germany. It was founded in 1877 and received the right to award doctorates in 1899. In 1882, it was the first university in the world to set up a chair in electrical engineering. In 1883, the university founded the first faculty of electrical engineering and introduced the world's first degree course in electrical engineering. In 2004, it became the first German university to be declared as an autonomous university. TU Darmstadt has assumed a pioneering role in Germany. Computer science, electrical engineering, artificial intelligence, mechatronics, business informatics, political science and many more courses were introduced as scientific disciplines in Germany by Darmstadt faculty.
  TU Darmstadt founded the IT-Cluster Rhine-Main-Neckar, the "Silicon Valley of Germany". The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Technische Universität Darmstadt together form the Rhine-Main-Universities.
context_section_description: Nobel laureates, who studied, taught and researched at the TH/TU Darmstadt:
  Peter Grünberg, physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics (2007)
  Horst Ludwig Störmer, physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics (1988)
  Gerhard Herzberg, chemist, physicist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1971)
  Hermann Staudinger, chemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1953)
  Taught at TH/TU Darmstadt through Emanuel Merck Lectureship:
  Frances H. Arnold, chemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry (2018)
  Harold Kroto, chemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1996)
  Jean-Marie Lehn, chemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1987)
  Manfred Eigen, chemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1967)
  Other Nobel laureates are associated with the university:
  Gerhard Ertl, chemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry (2007)
  K. Alex Müller, physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics (1987)
  Karl Ziegler, chemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1963)
  Otto Hahn, chemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1944)
  Carl Bosch, chemist, engineer and Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1931)
  Richard Willstätter, chemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1915)
caption: Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG
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