- Anton Zeilinger
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 the University of Vienna. In 1971, he completed his studies with his dissertation, and in 1979 he received his postdoctoral lecture qualification in neutron physics at the Vienna Technical University. - Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was a notable economist and a major influence on the modern libertarian movement. He has been called the "uncontested dean of the Austrian School of economics". The Ludwig von Mises Institute is named after him. - Kurt Gödel
Kurt Gödel (April 28, 1906 Brünn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno, Czech Republic) - January 14, 1978 Princeton, New Jersey) was an Austrian American mathematician and philosopher. One of the most significant logicians of all time, Gödel's work has had immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century, a time when many, such as Bertrand Russell, A. N. Whitehead and David Hilbert, … - Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (November 7, 1903 in Vienna - February 27, 1989 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist, animal psychologist, and ornithologist. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, developing an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth. Lorenz studied instinctive behavior in animals, especially in greylag geese and jackdaws. - Carl Menger
Carl Menger was the founder of the Austrian School of economics, famous for contributing to the development of the theory of marginal utility that refuted the labor theory of value developed by the classical economists Adam Smith and David Ricardo. Menger was born in Nowy Sącz, Poland (at that time Neu Sandec, Austrian Galicia). He was the son of a wealthy family of minor nobility; his father, Anton, was a lawyer. - Max Weber
Maximilian Carl Emil Weber (April 21, 1864 - June 14, 1920) was a German political economist and sociologist who is considered one of the founders of the modern study of sociology and public administration. He began his career at the University of Berlin, and later worked at Freiburg University, University of Heidelberg, University of Vienna and University of Munich. - Moritz Schlick
Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. Schlick was born in Berlin to a wealthy family. He studied physics at Heidelberg, Lausanne, and, ultimately, the University of Berlin under Max Planck. In 1904, he completed his dissertation essay, "Über die Reflexion des Lichts in einer inhomogenen Schicht" ("On the Reflection of Light in a Non-Homogeneous Medium"). - Lise Meitner
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 the physicist Lise Meitner , who collaborated with him in the discovery and gave the first theoretical explanation of the fission process. While Meitner was celebrated after World War II as "the mother of the atomic bomb," she had no role in it, and her true scientific contribution became, if anything, more obscure in subsequent years. - Karl Menger
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, curve and dimension theory, and geometries. Moreover, he contributed to game theory and social sciences. He was a student of Hans Hahn and received his PhD from the University of Vienna in 1924, L. E. J. Brouwer invited Menger to teach at the University of Amsterdam. - Manfred Nowak
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 Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights. Nowak was one of the judges of the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina between March 1996 and December 2003. He was also the vice president of the Chamber between December 1997 and December 1998. Nowak is currently the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, … - Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Eugen Ritter von Böhm-Bawerk was an Austrian economist who made important contributions to the development of Austrian economics. Trained in the University of Vienna as a lawyer where he read Carl Menger's "Principles of Economics." Though he never studied under Menger, he quickly became an adherent of his theories. - Josef Breuer
Josef Breuer was an Austrian physician whose works lay the foundation of psychoanalysis. Born in Vienna, his father, Leopold Breuer, taught religion in Vienna's Jewish community. Breuer's mother died when he was quite young, and he was raised by his maternal grandmother and educated by his father until the age of eight. He graduated from the Akademisches Gymnasium of Vienna in 1858 and then studied at the university for one year, … - Peter Schuster
Peter K. Schuster (born March 7, 1941) is a renowned biophysicist, known for his work with Manfred Eigen in developing the quasispecies model. Born in Vienna, Austria, his work has made great strides in the understanding of viruses and their replication, as well as theoretical mechanisms in the origin of life. He is full professor of theoretical chemistry at the University of Vienna, the founding director of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Jena, Germany, … - Fritz Machlup
Fritz Machlup (December 15, 1902 - January 30, 1983) was an Austrian-American economist. He was notable for being one of the first economists to examine knowledge as an economic resource. Born in Wiener-Neustadt, he earned his doctorate at the University of Vienna. He fled Nazi Germany for the United States in 1933 and became a US citizen in 1940. Machlup's key work was "The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States" (1962), … - Karl Renner
Karl Renner was an Austrian politician. He was born in Untertannowitz (Dolní Dunajovice) (Moravia) and died in Vienna. Renner was born the 18th child of a poor farmer but because of his intelligence he was allowed to go to high school. And from 1890 to 1896 he studied law at the University of Vienna - in 1895 he was one of the founding members of the Naturfreunde (i.e. friends of nature) and created their logo. - Heinz Fischer
Heinz Fischer (born 9 October 1938) is the federal president of Austria. He took office on 8 July 2004. Born in Graz, Styria, Fischer received a humanistic education, taking his "Matura" exams in 1956. He then studied law at the University of Vienna, earning a doctorate in 1961. Apart from being a politician, Fischer also pursued an academic career, and became a Professor of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck in 1993. - Seth Lloyd
Seth Lloyd is a Professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. He refers to himself as a "quantum mechanic". Lloyd was born on August 2, 1960, received his AB from Harvard College in 1982, his Math.Cert. and M.Phil. from Cambridge University in 1983 and 1984, and his Ph.D. from Rockefeller University in 1988 (advisor Heinz Pagels) for a thesis entitled "Black Holes, Demons, and the Loss of Coherence: How complex systems get information, … - Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner (June 14 1868 - June 26 1943), was an Austrian biologist and physician. He is noted for his development in 1901 of the modern system of classification of blood groups from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the blood, and in 1930 he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. With Alexander S. Wiener, he identified the Rh factor in 1937. He was awarded a Lasker Award in 1946 posthumously. - Erhard Busek
Former Austrian Vice Chancellor Erhard Busek assumed the position of Special Co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe on 1 January 2002. In 1963 he received a degree in law from the University of Vienna. He began his professional career in 1964, serving as legal advisor to the association of parliamentarians of the Austrian People's Party. - Herbert Feigl
Herbert Feigl (December 14, 1902 - June 1, 1988) was an Austrian philosopher and a member of the Vienna Circle. The son of a weaver, Feigl was born in Reichenberg (Liberec), Bohemia, and matriculated at the University of Vienna in 1922. He studied physics and philosophy under Moritz Schlick, the founder of the Vienna Circle, … - Otto Bauer
Otto Bauer was an Austrian Social Democrat who is considered one of the leading thinkers of the left socialist Austro-Marxist tendency. Bauer having studied at the University of Vienna, he finished his PhD in Law in 1906 and published his first book, "Die Sozialdemokratie und die Nationalitätenfrage", in 1907. Although he was politically active during his studies, his gradual rise in the Austrian Social Democratic Party began after he had finished his PhD. - Alfred Gusenbauer
Alfred Gusenbauer has been Chancellor of Austria since January 2007 and the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) since 2000. Gusenbauer was born in Sankt Pölten in the state of Lower Austria. He was educated at a high school in Wieselburg and studied political science, philosophy and jurisprudence at the University of Vienna, where he gained a doctorate in political science. He has spent his whole professional life in politics, … - Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke is with good certainty both Austria's most esteemed and most controversial active filmmaker. His feature Benny's Video (1992) shocked crowds with its restrained, antipsychological portrait of a teenager who kills a young girl to see how it is. Funny Games (1997) inspired a fierce debate on how one can interrogate violence in film. - Eric Voegelin
Eric Voegelin, born Erich Hermann Wilhelm Vögelin, (January 3, 1901 - January 19, 1985) was a political philosopher. He was born in Cologne, Germany, and educated in political science at the University of Vienna, where he was advised on his dissertation by Hans Kelsen and Othmar Spann. He became a teacher and then an associate professor of political science at the Faculty of Law. In 1938 he fled with his wife from Nazi Germany, emigrating to the United States, … - Johann Radon
Johann Karl August Radon was a mathematician born in Tetschen (now Děčín) in Bohemia, Austria, (now Czech Republic). He wrote a doctoral dissertation on calculus of variations in 1910, at the University of Vienna. He is known for a number of lasting contributions. These include * his part in the Radon-Nikodym theorem; * the Radon measure concept of measure as linear functional; * the Radon transform, in integral geometry, … - Michael Häupl
Michael Häupl is the mayor of Vienna. He is a member of the SPÖ. He is married to Helga Häupl and has two children. He studied Biology and Zoology at the University of Vienna and was an academic assistant at the Vienna Natural History Museum from 1975 to 1983. He was the State Chairman of the VSStÖ, the student organisation of the SPÖ from 1975 to 1978, a member of the Viennese Municipal Council from 1983 to 1988, and until 1994, … - Helga Nowotny
Helga Nowotny is Vice President of ERC Scientific Council and has been Professor for Social Studies of Science at ETH Zurich since 1996. From 1998 on she was also Director of the Collegium Helveticum. She has been founding director of the post-graduate fellowship programme based at ETH “Society in science: the Branco Weiss Fellowship” until 2004, when she returned to her native Vienna. She is now a Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Wien. - Adalbert Stifter
Adalbert Stifter was an Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue. He was especially notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing, and has long been popular in the German-speaking world, while almost entirely unknown to English readers. <br> <small>Adalbert Stifter</small> Born in Oberplan, in Bohemia (now Horní Planá, Czech Republic), he was the eldest son of Johann Stifter, a wealthy linen weaver, and his wife, Magdalena. - Fritjof Capra
Fritjof Capra (born February 1, 1939) is an Austrian-born American physicist. Born in Vienna, Austria, Capra earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna in 1966. He has done research on particle physics and systems theory, and has written popular books on the implications of science, notably "The Tao of Physics", subtitled "An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism". - Eduard Hanslick
Eduard Hanslick was a Bohemian-Austrian writer on music, perhaps the most influential music critic of the 19th century. Hanslick was born in Prague, the son of Joseph Adolph Hanslick, a bibliographer and music teacher from a German-speaking family, and one of his piano pupils, the daughter of a merchant from Vienna. At the age of 18 Hanslick went to study music with Tomášek, one of Prague's most important musicians. - Theodor Billroth
Christian Albert Theodor Billroth (born 26 August 1829 in Bergen auf Rügen, Germany; died 6 February 1894 in Opatija, Austria-Hungary, now Croatia), a German-born Austrian surgeon, is generally regarded as the founding father of modern abdominal surgery. Billroth worked from 1853-1860 at the Charité. He was apprenticed to Carl von Langenbuch and practiced surgery at Vienna, … - Friedrich Waismann
Friedrich Waismann (March 21, 1896 - November 4, 1959) was an Austrian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. He is best known for being a member of the Vienna Circle and one of the key theorists in logical positivism. Born in Vienna, Waismann was educated in mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna. In 1922, he began to study philosophy under the tutelage of Moritz Schlick, the founder of the Vienna Circle. He emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1938. - Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Julius Wagner Ritter von Jauregg, after the abolition of titles of nobility in Austria in 1919 Julius Wagner-Jauregg, (March 7, 1857 Wels, Upper Austria – September 27, 1940 Vienna) was an Austrian physician. He studied Medicine at the University of Vienna from 1874 to 1880, where he also studied with Salomon Stricker in the Institute of General and Experimental Pathology, obtaining his doctor's degree in 1880. - Elise Richter
Elise Richter (2 March, 1865 - 23 June, 1943) was a philologist. Born in Vienna to a middle-class Jewish family, the daughter of Dr. Maximilian (d. 1891) and Emelie Richter (d. 1889), sister of Helene Richter who wrote on and translated English literature and drama, she studied Philosophy at the University of Vienna and received a Doctorate in 1901. In 1905 she was the first woman to receive the Habilitation for her work on Romance languages. - Manfred Bietak
Manfred Bietak is an Austrian archaeologist. He is the current Professor of Egyptology at the University of Vienna and Director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Cairo "(Professor der Ägyptologie an der Universität Wien und Leiter des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Kairo)." He has been in 2004 a visiting professor at Harvard. - Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy was an Austrian-born biologist known as one of the founders of general systems theory. He finished his PhD thesis about physicist and philosopher Gustav Theodor Fechner in 1926. Von Bertalanffy was a professor at the University of Vienna from 1934–48, University of London (1948–49), Université de Montréal (1949), University of Ottawa (1950–54), University of Southern California (1955–58), the Menninger Foundation (1958–60), … - Henry Widdowson
Henry Widdowson (also H.G. Widdowson and sometimes Henry G. Widdowson) is an authority in the field of applied linguistics and language teaching, specifically English language learning and teaching. Widdowson is perhaps best known for his contribution to communicative language teaching. However, he has also published on other related subjects such as discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis, the global spread of English, … - Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke
Ernst Wilhelm Ritter von Brücke (b. "Ernst Wilhelm Brücke" on 6 July 1819 in Berlin, Germany; d. January 7, 1892 in Vienna, Austria) was a German physician and physiologist. He is noted for his influence on Sigmund Freud, one of his medical students, an influence that led to the development of the science of psychodynamics. - Eduard Suess
Eduard Suess (August 20, 1831 - April 26, 1914) was a geologist who was an expert on the geography of the Alps. He is responsible for discovering two of the Earth's major now-lost geographical features, the supercontinent Gondwana (proposed 1861) and the Tethys Ocean. Born in London to a Saxon merchant, when he was three his family relocated to Prague, then to Vienna when he was 14. Interested in geology at a young age, … - Othmar Spann
Othmar Spann was a conservative Austrian philosopher, sociologist and economist whose radical anti-liberal and anti-Socialist views, based on early 19th century Romantic ideas expressed by Adam Müller et al. and popularized in his books and lecture courses, helped antagonise political factions in Austria during the interwar years. Repeatedly, Spann tried to draw the ruling powers' attention to his authoritarian theory of a corporate state which, as he saw it, could, …
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