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) Economy John Tu, founder of Kingston Technology and billionaire Vikram Lal, founder of Eicher Motors and billionaire Peter Schnell, founder of Software AG Enis Ersü, founder of ISRA VISION AG Péter Horváth, founder of Horváth & Partners Detlev Riesner, founder of QIAGEN Hans Dieter Pötsch, Chairman of the Board of Management and Chairman of the supervisory board of Porsche SE Oliver Zipse, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG Christoph Franz, Chairman of Hoffmann-La Roche AG Carsten Kratz, Managing Director & Senior Partner of the Boston Consulting Group Marcus Kuhnert, Member of the Executive Board and Chief Financial Officer of Merck of Merck Kai Beckmann, Member of the Executive Board & CEO Performance Materials of Merck Tobias Meyer, Member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Post AG Nicolai Setzer, Member of the Executive Board of Continental AG Werner Steinmüller, Member of the Executive Board of Deutsche Bank Wolfgang Bernhard, former member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG Hans Demant, former Chairman of Adam Opel GmbH Karl-Friedrich Rausch, Member of the Executive Board of Deutsche Bahn AG Bert Rürup, former Chairman of the German Council of Economic Experts Udo Steffens, former President and CEO Frankfurt School of Finance & Management Klaus-Dieter Vöhringer, former CEO of DaimlerChrysler AG Andreas Georgi, former Member of the Board of Management of Dresdner Bank AG Historical personalities Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel Karl Plagge, recognized as one of the Righteous Among the Nations Jovanka Bončić-Katerinić, first woman to obtain an engineering degree in Germany Günter Behnisch, architect of the Olympiastadion (Munich) Edmund