PETER HANDKE (* 1942)
Studied at the University of Graz
Nobel Prize 2019 for Literature (for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience)
KARL v. FRISCH (1886 - 1982)
Professor of Zoology (1945 - 1950) at the University of Graz
Nobel Prize 1973 for Medicine (for comparative physiology and behavioral research)
IVO ANDRIC (1892-1975)
Vice Consul of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Nobel Prize 1961 for Literature
CARL FERDINAND CORI (1896 - 1984)
Assistant at the Chair of Pharmacology headed by Otto Loewi (from 1921) in Graz
Nobel Prize 1947 for Medicine together with his wife Gerty Theresa Cori (for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen)
OTTO LOEWI (1873-1961)
Professor of Pharmacology (1909 - 1938) at the University of Graz
Nobel Prize 1936 for Medicine (for the discovery of the chemical transmission of nerve impulses)
VIKTOR HESS (1883 - 1964)
Professor of experimental physics (1920 - 1931 and 1937 - 1938) at the University of Graz
Nobel Prize 1936 for physics (for the discovery of cosmic rays)
ERWIN SCHRÖDINGER (1887-1961)
Professor of Theoretical Physics (1937 - 1938) at the University of Graz
Nobel Prize 1933 for Physics (for the development of new fruitful forms of atomic theory)
JULIUS WAGNER-JAUREGG (1857 - 1940)
Professor of Psychiatry (1889 - 1892) at the University of Graz
Nobel Prize 1927 for Medicine (for the discovery of the therapeutic significance of malaria inoculation in the treatment of progressive paralysis, dementia paralytica)
FRITZ PREGL (1869 - 1930)
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Graz
Nobel Prize 1923 for Chemistry (for the microanalysis of organic substances developed by him)
WALTHER NERNST (1864 - 1941)
Studied at the University of Graz
Nobel Prize 1921 for Chemistry (in recognition of his work in thermochemistry)
SVANTE ARRHENIUS (1859 - 1927)
Postgraduate student with Boltzmann and Ettingshausen at the University of Graz
Nobel Prize 1903 for Chemistry (for his theory of electrolytic dissociation)