Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, Germany's highest-endowed international research award, endowed with €3.5 million. In the year 2011, the second in a row, FAU communications engineer and researcher Prof. Dr.-Ing Robert Schober (born 1971) was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, entailed with €3.5 million, for an algorithm developed by him which is found in many modern phones today. In 2013, Prof. Oskar Painter received an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship as well. Prof. Painter is another new co-director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light. German Excellence Initiative The University of Erlangen-Nürnberg was successful within the German Universities Excellence Initiative in competing for a "cluster of excellence" and a graduate school. The Cluster of Excellence 'Engineering of Advanced Materials' (EAM)" focuses on interdisciplinary developing new materials, joining engineering and natural sciences. The Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies emphasizes a strong focus in optical and photonics technology in the natural sciences, in engineering and the medical sciences and aims for a concise doctoral education. It is supplemented with a Master's degree program in the same topics. After an in-depth evaluation, both programs were extended for the third phase of the German Excellence Initiative in 2012 until 2017. They contribute significantly to the research funding of the University, including five new research buildings, permanent new technical facilities and research and teaching staff. They also aim to increase the international perception of the contributing fields of research in Erlangen. Notable alumni and professors Louis Agassiz, biologist and geologist Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739–1810), naturalist, studied mammals. Robley Dunglison (1798-1869), personal physician to Thomas Jefferson, considered the "Father of American Physiology" Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843), founder of homeopathy Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), Geographer and Explorer, attended lectures in Chemistry and Physics. Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866), orientalist and poet. Georg Simon Ohm (1789–1854), physicist, Ohm's law, named after him. Justus von Liebig (1803–1873), chemist, "father of the fertilizer industry". Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804–1872), philosopher, associated with the Young Hegelians, an atheist. Karl von Hegel (1813–1901), historian, father-in-law to Felix Klein and son of the philosopher Hegel Felix Klein (1849–1925), Mathematician Hermann Emil Fischer (1852–1919), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1902 Eduard Buchner (1860–1917), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1907 Emanuel Lasker (1868–1941), world chess champion, mathematician, philosopher. Emmy Noether (1882–1935), mathematician, Noether's theorem, named after her. Hans Geiger (1882–1945), physicist, Geiger counter Ludwig Erhard (1897–1977), Chancellor of Germany 1963–1966 Otto Friedrich Ranke