EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Frankfurt, Germany

Founding Date:
1914

Enrollment:
36,000

Official Website:
http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Theodor Adorno	Philosopher	11-Sep-1903	6-Aug-1969	Dialectic of Enlightenment
Hans Bethe	Physicist	2-Jul-1906	6-Mar-2005	Atomic scientist
Gerd Binnig	Physicist	20-Jul-1947		Co-Inventor, scanning tunneling microscope
Günter Blobel	Scientist	21-May-1936		Protein signaling in cells
Henry Dale	Scientist	9-Jun-1875	23-Jul-1968	Acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter
Marion Dönhoff	Journalist	2-Dec-1909	11-Mar-2002	Die Zeit
Ludwig Erhard	Head of State	4-Feb-1897	5-May-1977	German Chancellor 1963-66
Alexander Kluge	Film Director	14-Feb-1932		Yesterday Girl
Leo Lowenthal	Sociologist	3-Nov-1900	21-Jan-1993	Literature and the Image of Man
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard	Scientist	20-Oct-1942		Embryonic development of fruit flies
Gerhard Schulmeyer	Business	1938		President of Siemens US, 1999-2001
Reinhard Selten	Economist	5-Oct-1930		Game theory
Horst L. Störmer	Physicist	6-Apr-1949		Fractional quantum Hall effect
Alexander R. Todd	Chemist	2-Oct-1907	10-Jan-1997	Studied nucleotides, ATP, etc

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Theodor Adorno	Philosopher	11-Sep-1903	6-Aug-1969	Dialectic of Enlightenment
Max Born	Physicist	11-Dec-1882	5-Jan-1970	Pioneer of quantum mechanics
Hans-Georg Gadamer	Philosopher	11-Feb-1900	13-Mar-2002	Truth and Method
Jürgen Habermas	Philosopher	18-Jun-1929		The Theory of Communicative Action
Friedrich Hund	Physicist	4-Feb-1896	31-Mar-1997	Quantum tunneling
Niels K. Jerne	Scientist	23-Dec-1911	7-Oct-1994	Immune theory (anti-antibody)
Max von Laue	Physicist	9-Oct-1879	23-Apr-1960	Diffraction of X-rays on crystals
Karl Mannheim	Sociologist	27-Mar-1893	9-Jan-1947	Ideology and Utopia
Hartmut Michel	Chemist	18-Jul-1948		Proteins of photosynthesis
Reinhard Selten	Economist	5-Oct-1930		Game theory
Otto Stern	Physicist	17-Feb-1888	17-Aug-1969	Molecular beam experiment
Karl Ziegler	Chemist	26-Nov-1898	12-Aug-1973	Researcher in plastics

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