This is a list of University of Bonn people including people who have taught or studied at the University of Bonn Nobel laureates Reinhard Genzel – 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy" Harald zur Hausen – 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer" Reinhard Selten – 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics "for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games" Wolfgang Paul – 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the development of the ion trap technique" Luigi Pirandello – 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art" Otto Wallach – 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "in recognition of his services to organic chemistry and the chemical industry by his pioneer work in the field of alicyclic compounds" Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse – 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories" Philipp Lenard – 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his work on cathode rays" Fields Medalists Maryna Viazovska - 2022 Fields Medal "for the proof that the E8 lattice provides the densest packing of identical spheres in 8 dimensions, and further contributions to related extremal problems and interpolation problems in Fourier analysis" Peter Scholze – 2018 Fields Medal "for transforming arithmetic algebraic geometry over p-adic fields through his introduction of perfectoid spaces, with application to Galois representations, and for the development of new cohomology theories" Maxim Kontsevich – 1998 Fields Medal "for his contributions to four problems of Geometry" Gerd Faltings – 1986 Fields Medal "for his proof of the Mordell Conjecture" Faculty Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (1799–1875), Astronomy Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), History Karl Barth (1886–1968), Theology Bruno Bauer (1809–1882) Theology Carl Heinrich Becker (1876–1933), Oriental Philology Karl Dietrich Bracher (born 1922), Political Science Franz Bücheler (1837–1908), Classics Friedrich Calker (1790–1870), Philosophy Constantin Carathéodory, (1873–1850) Mathematics Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (1822–1888), Physics Ernst Robert Curtius (1886–1956), Romance Literature Friedrich Christian Diez (1794–1876), Philology Christian Drosten (born 1972), Head of the Charité Institute of Virology, Virology Benno Erdmann (1898–1909), Philosophy Udo di Fabio (born 1954), member of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany since 1999, Law Gerd