RWTH Aachen Faculty of Mathematics, Computer science, and Natural sciences

It comprises five sections for mathematics, computer science, physics, chemistry and biology.

The faculty was founded in 1880 and produced several notable individuals like Arnold Sommerfeld and Nobel Prize laureates Philipp Lenard, Wilhelm Wien, Johannes Stark or Karl Ziegler.

Peter Debye studied physics at the RWTH Aachen and won the Nobel Prize in 1936.

Furthermore, Helmut Zahn and his team of the Institute for textile chemistry were the first who synthesised Insulin.

The faculty cooperates with Forschungszentrum Jülich and the 4 Fraunhofer Institutes in Aachen.

Institute for physical chemistry