Prize in Physics in 1925, together with James Franck Felix Klein, mathematician Werner Krauss, Romanist Karl Lamprecht, historian August Leskien, linguist Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, inventor of the transistor Wilhelm Maurenbrecher, historian August Ferdinand Möbius, astronomer and mathematician Theodor Mommsen, historian, 1848-1851 Professor of Law; Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902 for The History of Rome Petrus Mosellanus, Greek scholar Wilhelm Ostwald, chemist; 1887-1906 Chair of Physical Chemistry; Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 Svante Pääbo, Noble prize in Medicine, currently teaches molecular evolutionary biology at the university Martin Petzoldt, systematic theology; president of the Neue Bachgesellschaft Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, botanist Wilhelm Roscher, economist Carl Victor Ryssel, theologian Heinrich Simroth, zoologist Nathan Söderblom, religious historian; Director of the Religious Studies Institute 1912–1914; Nobel Peace Prize in 1930 Georg Steindorff, egyptologist Christian Thomasius, philosopher Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 Wolfgang Unger, director of university music Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, mathematician Ernst Heinrich Weber, physician Peter Wollny, musicologist Wilhelm Wundt, physician, psychologist Paul Zweifel, physician, physiologist Universitätsmusikdirektor Several persons held the official title of director of music at the university, some of them at the same time Thomaskantor, including: Werner Fabricius Johann Gottlieb Görner Hermann Grabner Johann Adam Hiller (Thomaskantor 1789–1800) Hermann Kretzschmar Johann Kuhnau (Thomaskantor 1701–1722) Max Pommer Friedrich Rabenschlag Max Reger Ernst Friedrich Richter (Thomaskantor 1868–1879) Hans-Joachim Rotzsch (Thomaskantor 1972–1991) Johann Schelle (Thomaskantor 1677–1701) Johann Gottfried Schicht (Thomaskantor 1811–1823) Friedrich Schneider Johann Philipp Christian Schulz David Timm Wolfgang Unger (Thomaskantor interim 1991–1992) Heinrich Zöllner References Leipzig Leipzig University