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Munich University is a public university in Germany.

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University buildings in Ingolstadt
Portrait of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, after whom the University of Munich was renamed in 1802
View of the University of Munich from Amalienstrasse around 1900
View of the main building of LMU from Professor-Huber-Platz in 2017
LMU's institutes and research centers are spread throughout Munich
Subway station Universität serves LMU's main campus via lines U3/U6
LMU's Institute of Systematic Botany is located at Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg
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Große Aula
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901
Theodor W. Hänsch received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2005
Otto Hahn received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944
Werner Heisenberg received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932
Max Planck received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918
Hans Bethe received the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics
Karl Jaspers was a German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher
Hans-Werner Sinn, professor of economics at LMU Munich
Blake Ragsdale Van Leer, United States Army officer and president of Georgia Institute of Technology
Konrad Adenauer was Chancellor of Germany from 1949 to 1963
Valdas Adamkus, President of Lithuania 1998–2003 and 2004–2009
Bertolt Brecht, poet, playwright and theatre director
The sociologist Max Weber was a professor at LMU Munich
Josef Mengele was a Schutzstaffel (SS) officer
Heinrich Brüning served as Chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic from 1930 to 1932
Theodor Heuss served as the first President of the Federal Republic of Germany

See also

In Spanish: Universidad de Múnich para niños

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