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5 unusual facts about Technical University of Berlin


Akademischer BC 1897 Charlottenburg

It is believed to have been made up of students from the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg (Technical College of Charlottenburg).

C-AKv coupler

At this time, the German railways, Faiveley and the Technical University of Berlin are developing possible transition scenarios for a general introduction of the C-AKv coupler.

Gillis Grafström

Grafström studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin (Technische Hochschule Berlin) and worked later as an architect.

Siegfried Popper

Kaiser Wilhelm II offered him a chair in Naval Architecture at the Technical University of Berlin at Charlottenburg, but Siegfried declined this offer.

Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism

At the time, it was the fourth university center for antisemitism to be established, following centers at the Technical University of Berlin, and Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University in Israel.


Egon Eiermann

Eiermann was born in Neuendorf, and studied at the Technical University of Berlin.

Fabio Rugge

He was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Technical University of Berlin (1986), Jemolo Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford (1996) and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2012).

Helmar Frank

Frank taught as a guest or honorary professor at the Technische Universität Berlin and the universities of Guangzhou, Nitra, Prague, Rosario, and Sibiu.

Horst Zuse

Horst Zuse (b. November 17, 1945 in Bad Hindelang) is a professor of Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin) and the son of the noted computer scientist Konrad Zuse.

Iris Runge

After 1945, she taught at the adult education center in Spandau and was a research assistant at the Technical University of Berlin.

Karl Heinrich Emil Becker

From autumn 1933, he was an ordentlicher Professor (ordinarius professor) of technical physics at the Technische Hochschule Berlin in Berlin Charlottenburg (later, the Technical University of Berlin).

Rainer Hertrich

He was born December 6, 1949 and studied business administration at the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Nuremberg after an apprenticeship at Siemens.

Smøla

Scientists of the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformationtechnique of the Technical University of Berlin were testing the antique maps of Ptolemy and recognized a pattern of calculation mistakes that occurred when one tried to convert the old coordinates from Ptolemy into modern cartographical maps.


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