Milestones of history of medicine
Famous personalities and Nobel Prize winners at the Faculty of Medicine
Max von Pettenkofer
Max von Pettenkofer (1818-1901) set up the first hygiene institute and established medical hygiene as a subject.
Johann Nepomuk von Nußbaum
Johann Nepomuk von Nußbaum (1829-1890) developed a guide to antiseptic wound treatment.
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923) was the first scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. Röntgen received the prize primarily for his research into the X-rays named after him, which he discovered in 1895 while working at the University of Würzburg. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität from 1900 to 1920 and retired in 1920.
Alois Alzheimer
Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915) was the first to describe a dementia disorder, which was named Alzheimer's disease after him. He worked in Munich from 1903 to 1912, initially as a research assistant. He was not paid, but as a researcher he was free to dispose of his time as he wished. The large microscopy room and a room for microphotography were set up for him. Researchers from many countries soon came to work at Alzheimer's. The "Alzheimer's Microscopy Room" was a center of neurohistological research.
Adolf F. J. Butenandt
© Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Fotograf: Willy Pragher
Adolf F. J. Butenandt ( 1903-1995) conducted research in the field of sex hormones. In 1939, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research in the field of sex hormones. He shared the award with Leopold Ruzicka, a researcher at ETH Zurich. Butenandt was appointed to the Institute of Physiological Medicine at LMU in 1952. From 1955 until he took office as President of the Max Planck Society in 1960, Butenandt was both Director of the Institute of Physiological Chemistry at LMU and Director of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.
Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen
Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen ( 1911 -1979) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine together with Konrad Bloch for their discoveries on the mechanism and regulation of the metabolism of cholesterol and fatty acids. He remained loyal to Munich and LMU, where he was a full professor from 1953 until his retirement in 1979.