Historic Treasure: Detail of Rudolf Mößbauer's Nobel Certificate from 1961.
Historic Treasure: Detail of Rudolf Mößbauer's Nobel Certificate from 1961 (Foto: Benz).

Academic awards and honors

13 Nobel Prizes, 14 Leibniz Prizes and four Humboldt Professorships: TUM academics are regularly honored with major science awards. The university also confers some prestigious awards and honors of its own.

  

  

Lecturers at TUM can qualify for a variety of teaching prizes. They all share a common goal – to further strengthen our culture of teaching and learning, flanked by a defining and visible tradition of research excellence.

  

The southside of the city campus.
Photo of the Clocktower from the archives.

How old is the University actually? Read all about the history of the TUM here.