Five Nobel laureates who teach or have taught at Freie Universität Berlin:

• Ernst Ruska (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1986)

• Professor Reinhard Selten (Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1994)

• Professor Gerhard Ertl (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2007)

• Professor Ulrich Cubasch (co-author of reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007)

• Herta Müller (Nobel Prize in Literature, 2009)