Among the people who have taught or studied at the Braunschweig University of Technology or its precursor, the Collegium Carolinum, are the following: Natural sciences and mathematics Ewald Banse — Geography Ernst Otto Beckmann — Chemistry August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius — Zoology and Botany Johann Heinrich Blasius — Zoology Rudolf Blasius — Bacteriology Caesar Rudolf Boettger — Zoology Victor von Bruns — Medicine Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell — Chemistry and Metallurgy Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind — Mathematics Carl Georg Oscar Drude — Botany Manfred Eigen — Biophysical chemistry — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1967 Theodor Engelbrecht — Physiology Herbert Freundlich — Chemistry Robert Fricke — Mathematics Kurt Otto Friedrichs — Mathematics Karl Theophil Fries — Chemistry Gustav Gassner — Botany Carl Friedrich Gauß — Mathematics Karl Heinrich Gräffe — Mathematics Heiko Harborth — Mathematics Wolfgang Hahn — Mathematics Robert Hartig — Forestry Theodor Hartig — Forestry Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig — Entomology Adolph Henke — Pharmacology Wilhelm Henneberg — Chemistry Nikolaus Hofreiter — Mathematics Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger — Zoology Henning Kagermann — Physics Klaus von Klitzing — Physics — Nobel Prize in Physics 1985 Friedrich Ludwig Knapp — Chemistry August Wilhelm Knoch — Physics William F. Martin — Botany Rainer Moormann — Physical chemistry Justus Mühlenpfordt — Nuclear physics Adolph Nehrkorn — Ornithology Agnes Pockels — Chemistry Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels — Physics Mark Ronan — Mathematics Ferdinand Schneider — Chemistry Gerhard Schrader — Chemistry Kornelia Smalla — Chemistry Sami Solanki — Astronomy Hans Sommer — Mathematics Ferdinand Tiemann — Chemistry Heinrich Emil Timerding — Mathematics Julius Tröger — Chemistry Gerd Wedler — Chemistry Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann — Anatomy and Entomology Arend Friedrich Wiegmann — Botany Georg Wittig — Chemistry — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1979 Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann — Zoogeography Humanities and theology Johann Joachim Eschenburg — Literary history Ernst Ludwig Theodor Henke — Theology and Philosophy Christoph Luetge — Philosophy Willy Moog — Philosophy Neal R. Norrick — English Linguistics Werner Pöls — History Nina Ruge — German language and literature Gustav Anton von Seckendorff — Philosophy and Aesthetics Gerhard Vollmer — Philosophy Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae — Poetry Social sciences Theodor Geiger — Sociology Jakob Mauvillon — Military science Ulrich Menzel — Political science Alfred Vierkandt — Ethnology and Sociology Architecture, engineering sciences, and environmental sciences Oliver Blume — Mechanical engineering Adolf Busemann — Aerospace engineering Heinrich Büssing — Engineering Meinhard von