Nobel Prize Winners and Inventors from Hessen - invest-in-hessen

The University of Kassel sets
nationwide standards for applicationoriented
research – above all with its
technical and scientifi c curricula.
The scientifi c fi ndings of the universities
fl ow directly into operational
practice as new developments,
especially in midsized companies.
Finally, one of the best technical
Karl Ferdinand Braun
1897 Karl Ferdinand Braun of Fulda
invents the electron tube, a component
of a television set.
Hartmut Michel
Director of Max-Planck-Institute for
Biophysics in Frankfurt wins the 1988
Nobel Prize for Chemistry, with two
other researchers, for explaining
the three-dimensional process of
photosynthesis.
universities in Germany is located
in Darmstadt. At the Technische
Universität Darmstadt, research
and teaching of natural, technological,
and engineering sciences
enjoy a close and practice-oriented
connection. The top level of Darmstadt
University is supported by
local research institutes of world
Konrad Zuse
1938 Konrad Zuse builds the fi rst programcontrolled
calculator in the world and thus
the precursor of the computer.
rank – above all, the two Fraunhofer
Institutes for Structural Durability
and Graphical Data Processing, the
European Organization for Meteorological
Satellites EUMETSAT, and
the European Space Operations
Center ESOC.
Horst Ludwig Störmer
Along with his colleagues Daniel
C. Tsui and Robert B. Laughlin, Horst
Ludwig Störmer is awarded the 1998
Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering
“a new form of quantum fl uid with
fractionally charged excitations“.
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