Technical University of Berlin

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Technical University of Berlin
Technische Universität Berlin
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Established	1770
Type	Public University
President	Prof. Dr. Kurt Kutzler
Staff	6.772 Professors: 329 Scientific Assistants: 1890
Students	27.890
Location	Berlin, Germany
Website	www.tu-berlin.de

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The Technical University of Berlin (TUB, TU Berlin, German: Technische Universität Berlin) is located in Berlin in Germany. It was founded in 1879 and has about 29,816 students. The TU Berlin is one of the largest technical universities in Germany. It also has a high proportion of foreign students, with 20% in the Summer Semester 2005, roughly 6,000 students.

1 History
2 Campus
3 Organization
4 Students
5 Faculty and staff
6 Library
7 Noted alumni and professors
8 See also
9 External links

[edit] History

The TU Berlin was formed in 1879 under the name Royal Technical College of Charlottenburg (later Berlin) by merging the preexisting Building Academy (established in 1799) and the Vocational Academy (est. 1829). Since 1916 it has included the former Mining Academy, which was founded in 1770. It was closed after World War II on April 20, 1945 and reestablished on April 9, 1946 under its current name.

[edit] Campus

The TU Berlin covers ca. 600,000 m², distributed over various locations in western Berlin. The main campus is located in the borough of Charlottenburg. The seven faculties have some 29,500 students enrolled in more than 50 subjects (8 Jun 2005).

[edit] Organization

Since April 4, 2005, the TU Berlin is divided into the following faculties:

Humanities
Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Process Sciences and Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Mechanical Engineering and Transport Systems
Merge of former faculties of "Civil Engineering and Applied Geosciences" and "Architecture - Environment - Society"
Merge with faculty 5 (see above)
Economics and Management

[edit] Students

With nearly 30,000 students, the TU Berlin is one of Germany's largest technical universities. It also holds the record of highest percentage of students from other countries—about 20%.

[edit] Faculty and staff

There are 6,721 people working at the university: 319 professors, 1,832 postgraduate researchers, and 2,089 personnel working in the administration, the workshops, and the central facilities. In addition there are 1,803 student assistants and 161 trainees (January 2006).

[edit] Library

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The new common main library of the Technical University of Berlin and of the Berlin University of the Arts was opened in 2004. The library building was sponsored by Volkswagen and is named Volkswagen Library. All former 17 libraries of the Technical University of Berlin and of the nearby University of the Arts were merged into the new library.

[edit] Noted alumni and professors

(Including those of the Academies mentioned under History)

August Borsig, businessman
Carl Bosch (1874–1940), chemist, Nobel prize winner 1931
Wernher von Braun (1912–1976), physicist (rocket science)
Franz Breisig (1868–1934), mathematician, inventor of the calibration wire and father of the term quadripole network in electrical engineering
Wilhelm Cauer (1900-1945), mathematician, essential contributions to the filter design of electronic filters
Carl Dahlhaus (1928-1989), musicologist
Dennis Gabor (1900–1971), physicist (holography), Nobel prize winner 1971
Fritz Haber (1868–1934), chemist, Nobel prize winner 1918
Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887–1975), physicist, Nobel prize winner 1925
George de Hevesy (1885–1966), chemist, Nobel prize winner 1943
Karl Küpfmüller (1897–1977), electrical engineer, essential contributions to system theory
Wassili Luckhardt (1889–1972), architect
Alexander Meissner (1883–1958), electrical engineer
Erwin Müller (1911–1977), physicist (field emission microscope, field ion microscope, atom probe)
Wolfgang Paul (1913–1993), physicist, Nobel prize winner 1989
Ernst Ruska (1906–1988), physicist (electron microscope), Nobel prize winner 1986
Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), architect
Georg Schlesinger (1874–1949)
Albert Speer (1905–1981), architect, politician, Minister for Armaments during the Third Reich, war criminal
Hermann W. Vogel (1834–1898) photo-chemist
Eugene Wigner (1902–1995),physicist, discovered the Wigner-Ville-distribution, Nobel prize winner 1963
Konrad Zuse (1910–1995), computer pioneer