Collein, east German architect and town planner Wolfgang Rösch, vicar general of the Diocese of Limburg Franz-Josef Kemper, Olympic medalist Gerhard Hennige, Olympic medalist Josef Ganz, Jewish automotive engineer and father of the original "Volkswagen" Science Marc Alexa, computer scientist and winner of the 2003 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis Harald Rose, physicist and laureate of the Wolf Prize in Physics (2011) Maximilian Haider, physicist and laureate of the Wolf Prize in Physics (2011) Peter Grünberg, physicist and laureate of the Wolf Prize in Physics (2007) Georg Cantor, creator of set theory Ernst Schröder, mathematician and known for his monumental lectures on the algebra of logic Lothar Collatz, mathematician and known for the still unsolved 3x + 1 problem William Prager, mathematician and known for Drucker–Prager yield criterion Karl Hessenberg, known for the Hessenberg matrix Erwin Kreyszig, applied mathematician and distinguished author, having written the textbook Advanced Engineering Mathematics, the leading and most famous textbook for civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical engineering undergraduate engineering mathematics. Carl Adam Petri, mathematician and inventor of the Petri nets Sigurd Hofmann, physicist and discoverer of the chemical elements darmstadtium (Ds, atomic number 110), roentgenium (Rg, 111) and copernicium (Cn, 112) Peter Armbruster, physicist and discoverer of the elements 107 (bohrium), 108 (hassium), 109 (meitnerium), 110 (darmstadtium), 111 (roentgenium) and 112 (copernicium) Hans Busch, pioneer of electron optics and laid the theoretical basis for the electron microscope. Paolo Giubellino, Scientific Managing Director of the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research and the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research Wolfgang Bibel, one of the founders of the research area of artificial intelligence in Germany and Europe Ottmar Edenhofer, lead author of the reports published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (2007) Mohan Munasinghe, vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (2007) Andreas Dreizler, mechanical engineer and Leibniz Prize laureate (2014) Rainer Waser, electrical engineer and Leibniz Prize laureate (2014) Lutz Raphael, historian and Leibniz Prize laureate (2013) Jürgen Eckert, engineer and Leibniz Prize laureate (2009) Jürgen Rödel, material scientist and Leibniz Prize laureate (2009) Johannes Buchmann, computer scientist, mathematician and Leibniz Prize laureate (1993) Randolf Menzel, zoologist and Leibniz Prize laureate (1991) Thomas Weiland, physicist and Leibniz Prize laureate (1988) Wolfram Saenger, biochemist and Leibniz Prize laureate (1988) Bernd Giese, chemist and Leibniz Prize laureate (1987) Frank Steglich, physicist and Leibniz Prize