who co-invented the Wess–Zumino model, the Wess–Zumino–Witten model, the Wess–Zumino consistency condition, and the Thirring–Wess model, in the fields of supersymmetry, quantum field theory and conformal field theory Ulrich Lemmer (born 1964), a pioneer of organic semiconductors in Germany Alumni Johann Jakob Balmer (1825–1898), Swiss mathematician and mathematical physicist Karl Benz (1844–1929), the inventor of the automobile, a graduate who also received an honorary doctorate in 1914 Martin Brudermüller (born 1961), German businessman, CEO of BASF Franz Fehrenbach (born 1949), chairman of Robert Bosch GmbH Robert Gerwig (1820–1885), civil engineer responsible for the Black Forest Railway, the Gotthard Railway, and the Höllental Railway Hans Kollhoff (born 1946), Postmodernist and New Classical architect Ludwig Levy (1854–1907), Historicist architect Sergey Padyukov (1922–1993), architect Wilhelm Steinkopf (1879–1949), University of Karlsruhe alumni and professor, co-developer of a method for the mass production of mustard gas during World War I Edward Teller (1908–2003), who is known as the originator of the hydrogen bomb Roland Mack (born 1949), co-founder of Europa-Park, one of the most popular theme parks in Europe Oswald Mathias Ungers (1926–2007), rationalist architect Fritz Noether (1884–1941), mathematician and brother of Emmy Noether Hasso Plattner (born 1944), Dietmar Hopp (born 1940), Klaus Tschira (1940–2015), three of five co-founders of SAP Stefan Quandt (born 1966), businessman and major BMW shareholder Franz Reuleaux (1829–1905), a pioneer of kinematics and rector of the Berlin University of Technology Leopoldo Rother (1894–1978), architect who designed the campus of National University of Colombia in Bogotá Leopold Ružička (1887–1976), winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Peter Sanders (born 1967), computer scientist who won the Leibniz Prize in 2012 Amin Shokrollahi (born 1964), Iranian mathematician Emil Škoda (1839–1900), the founder of the industrial conglomerate Škoda Works Albert Speer (1905–1981), Adolf Hitler's chief architect Carsten Spohr (born 1966), CEO of Lufthansa Boudjemaa Talai (1952–2022), Algerian politician August Thyssen (1842–1926), industrialist who founded the steel producer Thyssen AG, a predecessor of ThyssenKrupp, and co-founded RWE, one of the largest German electric utilities companies today Ivan Vasilyov (1893–1979), architect of the Bulgarian National Bank headquarters and the Ministry of Defence Herbert Wetterauer (born 1957), painter, sculptor, and author Rolf Wideröe (1902–1996), Norwegian accelerator physicist Dieter Zetsche (born 1953), chairman of Daimler AG and head of Mercedes-Benz Cars Dhruv Rathee ( born 1994 ), Indian YouTuber Joachim Nagel (born 1966), economist and President of the Deutsche Bundesbank Alexander Gerst (born 1976), German European Space