page_title: Complutense University of Madrid
section_title: Maths and sciences
hierarchical_section_title: Complutense University of Madrid / Famous alumni / Maths and sciences
context_page_description: The Complutense University of Madrid or Complutensian University of Madrid is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293, it is one of the oldest universities in the world. It enrolls over 86,000 students, being the 3rd largest non-distance European university by enrollment, and consistently ranking among the top universities in Spain, together with the University of Barcelona, UAM and UAB. It is located on a sprawling campus that occupies the entirety of the Ciudad Universitaria district of Madrid, with annexes in the district of Somosaguas in the neighboring city of Pozuelo de Alarcón. It is named after the ancient Roman settlement of Complutum, now an archeological site in Alcalá de Henares, just east of Madrid.
  In recent years, the roster of alumni comprises recipients of the Nobel Prize, Prince of Asturias Awards, Miguel de Cervantes Prize, as well as European Commissioners, Presidents of the EU Parliament, European Council Secretary General, ECB Executive Board members, NATO Secretary General, UNESCO Director General, IMF Managing Director, and Heads of State.
context_section_description: Albert Einstein – Doctor of Science degree Honoris Causa (first one he accepted from a European University)
  Antonia Ferrín Moreiras mathematician, professor, and the first Galician woman astronomer
  Ángel Martín Municio – chemist/pharmacist/President of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences
  Antonio Luna – Philippine General, Commanding General of the Philippine Revolutionary Army (Philippine–American War), Doctorate in Pharmacy (1890)
  Blas Cabrera y Felipe – physicist/President of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, member of the Solvay Conference
  Bruno Brandão Fischer –  Brazilian professor
  Carlos Sánchez del Río – physicist/President of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences
  Eduardo Torroja Caballé – mathematician, disciple of Karl Georg Christian von Staudt, member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences
  Enrique Moles Ormella – physicist
  Federico Mayor Zaragoza – pharmacist/Director-General of UNESCO from 1987 to 1999
  Juan Manuel Rodríguez Parrondo – physicist
  José Cuatrecasas – botanist
  José Rodríguez Carracido – chemist/pharmacist/Dean at the Faculty of Pharmacy/Rector of the Complutense University of Madrid /President of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences
  Juan Luis Arsuaga – biologist/paleontologist
  Julio Rey Pastor – mathematician
  Margarita Salas – scientist/President of the Instituto de España
  Miguel Catalán Sañudo – scientist
  Sixto Ríos – mathematician/statistician
  Jesús Huerta de Soto – economist, law scholar
  Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain – quantum physicist, Wolf Prize in Physics 2013
  Vicente Lopez Ibor Mayor – solar energy
caption: Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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