Anton Zeilinger

Anton Zeilinger

male, 64 years old
King Faisal Prize, professor, quantum information theory, Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox, Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state, fullerene…Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, UniversityofVienna, Vienna University, professor of physics at Vienna University
Anton Zeilinger was born in 1945 in Ried/Innkreis, Austria. His family moved to Vienna, where Zeilinger went on to study physics and mathematics at...
Ludwig von Mises

Ludwig von Mises

male, deceased (1973)
Libertarian, Austrian School, Economist, minarchist, economics, Austrian School economist…Proponents of free trade, UniversityofVienna, still a small boy when his family moved to Vienna
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was a notable economist and a major influence on the modern libertarian movement. He has been called the...
Kurt Gödel

Kurt Gödel

male, deceased (1978)
Logician, incompleteness theorems, mathematician, mathematics, philosopher, Gödel numbering…Philosophy of mathematics, axioms of set theory, National Medal of Science recipient, Vienna Circle, Princeton University faculty
Kurt Gödel (April 28, 1906 Brünn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno, Czech Republic) - January 14, 1978 Princeton, New Jersey) was an Austrian American ma...
Konrad Lorenz

Konrad Lorenz

male, deceased (1989)
World War II prisoner of war, instinct, prisoner of war, Columbia University alumni, soviet, bird…Columbia University, Immanuel Kant University, UniversityofVienna, M.D. degree from the University of Vienna
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (November 7, 1903 in Vienna - February 27, 1989 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist, animal psychologist, and...
Carl Menger

Carl Menger

male, deceased (1921)
Austrian School, price determination, marginal utility, Austrian, galicia, krakow…jagiellonian university, labor theory of value, UniversityofVienna, Principles of Economics, Founder of the Austrian School
Carl Menger was the founder of the Austrian School of economics, famous for contributing to the development of the theory of marginal utility that...
Max Weber

Max Weber

male, deceased (1920)
political science, German philosopher, sociologist of religion, public administration, German, occident…treaty of versailles, UniversityofVienna, University of Munich, University of Heidelberg, Freiburg University
Maximilian Carl Emil Weber (April 21, 1864 - June 14, 1920) was a German political economist and sociologist who is considered one of the founders...
Moritz Schlick

Moritz Schlick

male, deceased (1936)
German, logic, logical positivism, Vienna Circle, philosophy of science, philosopher…special theory of relativity, UniversityofVienna, University of Berlin
Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. Schlick was born in Berlin to a...
Lise Meitner

Lise Meitner

female, deceased (1968)
Jewish, radioactivity, physicist, Enrico Fermi Award recipient, Nuclear physicist, 1878-1968…Discoverer of chemical elements, From Vienna, UniversityofVienna
I n 1945, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Otto Hahn for the discovery of nuclear fission, overlooking...
Karl Menger

Karl Menger

male, deceased (1985)
Duke University, Illinois Institute of Technology faculty, Duke University faculty, University of Illinois faculty, Erdős number 4, St. Petersburg Paradox…UniversityofVienna, University of Notre Dame, Vienna Circle, Illinois Institute Of Technology, University of Amsterdam
Karl Menger was a mathematician of great scope and depth. He was the son of the famous economist Carl Menger. He worked in mathematics on algebras,...
Manfred Nowak

Manfred Nowak

male
Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Special Rapporteurs to the United Nations, Human Rights, United Nations Special Rapporteur, Bad Aussee, Iraqi insurgency…UniversityofVienna
Manfred Nowak (b. Bad Aussee, 26 June 1950) is an Austrian human rights lawyer. Nowak is a Professor at the University of Vienna, where he is...