Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, known as KIT, is a German public research university in Karlsruhe in the state of Baden-Württemberg that is simultaneously a research centre of the Helmholtz Association, so that teaching and large-scale non-university research sit inside a single legal entity.卡尔斯鲁厄理工学院（Karlsruhe Institute of Technology，缩写 KIT）是德国巴登-符腾堡州卡尔斯鲁厄市的公立研究型大学，同时又是亥姆霍兹联合会旗下的研究中心，教学与大型非高校科研被置于同一法人实体之内。

KIT was created in 2009 when the University of Karlsruhe, founded in 1825 as the Fridericiana, merged with the Karlsruhe Research Center, established in 1956 as a national nuclear research centre, and it ranked 110th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings with a score of 66.9.KIT 成立于 2009 年，由 1825 年创建、又称「弗里德里希学校」的卡尔斯鲁厄大学与 1956 年作为国家核研究中心成立的卡尔斯鲁厄研究中心合并而成，并在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中以 66.9 分位列第 110。

History

• The university was founded on 7 October 1825 by Grand Duke Ludwig I of Baden as the Polytechnische Schule, modelled on the École Polytechnique in Paris, and its earliest official documents called it the Großherzogliche Badische Schule, reflecting its origin in the sovereignty of the regional ruler.学校由巴登大公路德维希一世于 1825 年 10 月 7 日仿照巴黎综合理工学院创办，校名 Polytechnische School，最初的官方文件称其为「巴登大公学校」，体现出校源自地区君主的统治。

• In 1832 a separate Forstschule, or school of forest sciences, was founded because of the importance of forestry in Baden and the Black Forest, and the two institutions were later merged into one expanded technical school.由于林业在巴登与黑森林地区的重要性，1832 年另建林业学校，两校日后合并为一所规模扩大的技术学校。

• In 1864 William Barton Rogers, the founding director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, described the Karlsruhe Polytechnische Schule as the model school of Germany and perhaps of Europe, an endorsement that shaped the school's international standing.1864 年，麻省理工学院首任校长威廉·巴顿·罗杰斯称卡尔斯鲁厄综合理工学校为「德国乃至欧洲的模范学校」，这一评价奠定了学校的国际声誉。

• In 1865 Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden raised the school to the status of a Hochschule, and from 1902 it was also known as the Fridericiana in his honour, the name still used today by the Karlsruhe University community.1865 年巴登大公弗里德里希一世将该校提升为高等学校，1902 年起学校又以「弗里德里希学校」之名为人所知，这一称呼至今仍被卡尔斯鲁厄大学社群沿用。

• In 1885 it was formally declared a Technische Hochschule, and in 1888 Heinrich Hertz demonstrated the existence of electromagnetic waves in the lecture hall that still bears his name on the campus today.1885 年学校正式定名为技术高等学院，1888 年海因里希·赫兹在如今仍以他名字命名的赫兹报告厅中证明了电磁波的存在。

• In 1899 the school acquired the right to award the engineering doctorate, and in 1900 it received full powers to award doctorates, a step that separated it from the purely trade-school tradition of German technical education.1899 年学校取得授予工程博士的权利，1900 年取得完整的博士学位授予权，这一步使其摆脱了德国技术教育纯职业学校的传统。

• In 1904 it became the first university in Germany to admit women to regular degree study, a reform that distinguishes it from the overwhelmingly male technical faculties of the period.1904 年，该校成为德国第一所招收女生就读正规学位课程的学校，这一改革在以男性为主的德国技术院系中格外突出。

• Otto Lehmann, professor of physics from 1889 to 1922 and rector from 1900 to 1901, founded the study of liquid crystals there, and the school of liquid crystal research that he started still carries his name.自 1889 年至 1922 年任物理学教授、1900 至 1901 年任校长的奥托·雷曼在卡尔斯鲁厄开创了液晶研究，由此形成的液晶研究学派至今仍以他命名。

• A central computer laboratory was founded in 1966, the department of informatics and the first regular informatics course followed in 1969, and in 1972 the school created the first department of computer science in Germany.学校于 1966 年设立中央计算机实验室，1969 年成立信息学系并开出首门常规信息学课程，1972 年建成德国第一个计算机系。

• In 1967 the school became a full Universität under Baden-Württemberg law, which gave it the right to award ordinary doctorates beyond engineering and ended its status as an institute of technology with a technical suffix.依据巴登-符腾堡州的法律，学校于 1967 年成为完全大学，可在工程之外授予常规博士学位，技术学院的附加称谓随之取消。

• On 2 August 1984 a research fellow, Michael Rotert, received the first e-mail ever sent to Germany at the Karlsruhe university, and the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research was founded there in 1985.1984 年 8 月 2 日，研究员米夏埃尔·罗特尔在卡尔斯鲁厄大学收到了德国第一封电子邮件；1985 年，该校又设立气象与气候研究所。

• From January 1994 the university administered and registered the German country-code domain for three years, keeping technical support until 1999, so German internet naming was effectively run from Karlsruhe.自 1994 年 1 月起，学校负责德国国家域名「.de」的管理与注册达三年，技术支持持续至 1999 年，德国互联网域名注册实务由此坐落在卡尔斯鲁厄。

• In July 2005 the school added the descriptor Forschungsuniversität to its name to stress its research profile, a claim it would later make literal by merging with a research centre.2005 年 7 月，学校在校名中加上「研究型大学」的附加字样以强调科研定位，这一表述日后因与研究中心合并而变为字面事实。

• On 11 April 2006 Horst Hippler and Dieter Ertmann for the university and Manfred Popp and Sigurd Lettow for the Karlsruhe Research Center signed the contract to found KIT, and both institutions used a common letterhead from 1 July 2006.2006 年 4 月 11 日，校方的霍斯特·希普勒与迪特·埃尔特曼、研究中心方面的曼弗雷德·波普与齐格德·莱托共同签署组建 KIT 的合同，两家机构自 2006 年 7 月 1 日起启用统一信纸抬头。

• On 13 October 2006 KIT, the University of Munich and the Technical University of Munich were the first three universities named in the initial round of the German federal Excellence Initiative, which offered clusters up to fifty million euros a year.2006 年 10 月 13 日，KIT、慕尼黑大学与慕尼黑工业大学成为德国联邦精英大学计划首轮入选的三所大学，该计划单个研究集群每年最高可获五千万欧元资助。

• The internal KIT founding contract was finally signed on 13 December 2007, the state of Baden-Württemberg and the federal government agreed the merger in February 2008, and the state parliament passed the KIT merger act on 8 July 2009.KIT 内部成立合同于 2007 年 12 月 13 日最终签署，2008 年 2 月巴登-符腾堡州与联邦政府同意合并，2009 年 7 月 8 日州议会通过 KIT 合并法案。

• On 1 October 2009 the merger took legal effect and KIT became one entity that is both a university and a Helmholtz research centre, and the name was consciously modelled on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.2009 年 10 月 1 日合并正式生效，KIT 成为兼具大学与亥姆霍兹研究中心双重身份的统一机构，校名有意参照麻省理工学院而来。

• The merger did not deliver the second round of excellence status that had been the motive for it, since KIT was left out in 2012, but the university recovered by taking funds from other sources, including two hundred million euros raised for it in 2008 by SAP co-founder Hans-Werner Hector.合并并未实现当初的动机，卡尔斯鲁厄在 2012 年落选第二轮精英大学计划，但学校从其他渠道获得补偿，其中包括 2008 年由 SAP 联合创始人汉斯-维尔纳·赫克托为其筹措的两亿欧元。

• Under the German Excellence Strategy KIT was named one of eleven Excellence Universities in 2019, giving it the status it had lost a decade earlier, and in 2025 the school marked the two-hundredth anniversary of its foundation with a year of events.在德国卓越战略下，KIT 于 2019 年入选十一所卓越大学之列，重新获得十年前失去的地位，2025 年学校以一整年的庆典活动纪念建校两百周年。

Academics

• KIT has eleven faculties covering mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology, humanities and social sciences, architecture, civil engineering with geology and ecological sciences, mechanical engineering, chemical and process engineering, electrical engineering and information technology, informatics, and economics and management.KIT 设有十一个学院，涵盖数学、物理、化学与生物、人文与社会科学、建筑、土木工程与地质及生态科学、机械工程、化学与过程工程、电子与信息技术、信息学以及经济与管理。

• In 2023 the university reported 22,816 students, of whom 12,434 were undergraduates and 8,042 postgraduates, including 950 doctoral students, and it counted 414 professors and 5,409 further academic staff2023 年学校共有学生 22,816 人，其中本科 12,434 人、研究生 8,042 人（含博士生 950 人），专任教授 414 人、其他学术人员 5,409 人。

• Enrollment reached 23,083 students in the winter semester of 2025 and 2026, against an annual budget of 1,223.4 million euros in 2025, which shows a small university by German standards carrying a research-centre-sized budget.2025 至 2026 冬季学期在校生增至 23,083 人，2025 年年度预算为 12.234 亿欧元，可见这所按德国标准规模不大的大学背负着研究中心级别的预算。

• Science-based mechanical engineering was founded here in the middle of the nineteenth century under Ferdinand Redtenbacher, and his model influenced the founding of other technical universities, including the Federal Polytechnic in Zurich in 1855.以科学为基础的机械工程由费迪南德·雷登巴赫于 19 世纪中叶在此创立，其模式影响了其他技术大学的建立，包括 1855 年创立的苏黎世联邦理工学校。

• Mechanical engineering is a national lead subject, ranked third in Germany and thirty-fifth worldwide in the QS subject ranking of 2023, and the Karlsruhe School of Optics and Photonics, founded in 2006 as a funded graduate school, supports it.机械工程是学校的国家级优势学科，在 2023 年 QS 学科排名中列德国第 3、全球第 35，2006 年作为受资助研究生院成立的卡尔斯鲁厄光学与光子学学校亦对其提供支撑。

• Electrical engineering and information technology ranked fourth in Germany and fifty-seventh worldwide in 2023, and computer science ranked fifth in Germany and one hundred and fourth worldwide, so the information disciplines build directly on the informatics department of 1969.2023 年电子与信息技术学科列德国第 4、全球第 57，计算机科学列德国第 5、全球第 104，信息类学科的底气直接来自 1969 年成立的信息学系。

• Materials science ranked second in Germany and twenty-ninth worldwide in 2023, and the Centre for Functional Nanostructures, established in 2001, is one of the three Excellence Centres of the university and works across materials science, biology, chemistry, engineering and physics.2023 年材料科学列德国第 2、全球第 29，2001 年成立的功能纳米结构中心是学校的三个卓越中心之一，横跨材料科学、生物、化学、工程与物理。

• In the Shanghai subject ranking of 2022 KIT ranked first in Germany in metallurgical engineering at twenty-sixth worldwide, first in Germany in energy science at thirty-fifth, first in Germany in atmospheric science at thirty-first, and shared first place in Germany in materials science and water resources.2022 年上海软科学科排名中，卡尔斯鲁厄冶金工程列全球第 26、德国第 1，能源科学列全球第 35、德国第 1，大气科学列全球第 31、德国第 1，材料科学与水资源则并列德国第一。

• Chemical engineering ranked first in Germany in the 2023 QS subject table, and physical sciences, engineering and computer science each placed KIT inside the global top hundred in the 2023 Times Higher Education subject ranking.2023 年 QS 学科排名中化工列德国第 1，而在《泰晤士高等教育》2023 年学科排名中，物理科学、工程与计算机三个学科均进入全球百强。

• The Karlsruhe Institute for Nanotechnology is directed by Jean-Marie Lehn, who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and it turns the university's chemistry and physics base into a device and materials programme.卡尔斯鲁厄纳米技术研究所由让-马里·莱恩主持，他分享了 1987 年诺贝尔化学奖，该所把学校的化学与物理基础转化为器件与材料研究计划。

• The Karlsruhe Decision and Design Lab, established in 2016, is among the largest computer-based experimental laboratories in the world and brings economics, information systems, engineering, psychology and computer science into one facility for decision research.2016 年成立的卡尔斯鲁厄决策与设计实验室是全球最大的计算机实验实验室之一，把经济学、信息系统、工程学、心理学与计算机科学集中于同一设施从事决策研究。

• The cluster of excellence 3D Matter made to order began operating in January 2019 jointly with Heidelberg University, specialising in two-photon polymerisation for micro and nanoscale three-dimensional printing.卓越集群「按需打造的三维物质」于 2019 年 1 月与海德堡大学共同启动，专注双光子聚合驱动的微纳尺度三维打印。

• The Karlsruhe neutrino experiment KATRIN, led by the university, measures the mass of the electron antineutrino, and the Institute of Transuranium Elements on the northern campus took part in the world's largest measurement of very high energy cosmic rays.由该校主导的卡尔斯鲁厄氚中微子实验 KATRIN 测量电子反中微子的质量，北校区的超铀元素研究所则参与了世界最大规模超高能宇宙射线测量。

• Teaching kept a studium generale, or general studies, programme from 1949, and the Centre for Applied Culture and General Studies, founded in 1989, still offers interdisciplinary qualifications alongside every degree.学校自 1949 年起设有普通教育课程，1989 年成立的应用文化与通识教育中心至今仍在各学位课程之外提供跨学科资格课程。

• Since the winter semester of 2008 and 2009 KIT has completed the move from the Diplom degree to bachelor and master degrees, and every course now requires orientation examinations in the first three semesters, which cuts the drop-out rate sharply.自 2008 至 2009 冬季学期起，KIT 已完成从旧制文凭学位向学士与硕士学位的过渡，各专业均在最初三个学期设置定向考核，学业流失率因此大幅下降。

• OpenAlex records 187,521 works and 15,224,802 citations for the institution, a citation load that reflects a university which runs research reactors, accelerators and a national nanotechnology centre as part of its own campus.OpenAlex 为该校记录论文 187,521 篇、被引 15,224,802 次，这样的被引规模反映出一所把研究反应堆、加速器与国家纳米技术中心直接办在校内的大学。

Campus

• Campus South lies in the city centre of Karlsruhe beside the Karlsruhe Palace and the Wildparkstation home ground of Karlsruher SC, covers roughly 550,000 square metres and carries most of the teaching load, including the Audimax and the Hertz lecture hall.南校区位于卡尔斯鲁厄市中心，紧邻卡尔斯鲁厄宫与卡尔斯鲁厄体育俱乐部的主场维尔德帕克体育场，占地约 550,000 平方米，承担主要教学任务，内有可容纳大型听众的报告厅与赫兹报告厅。

• Campus Nord occupies about two square kilometres in the northern suburbs at the site of the former Karlsruhe Research Center and holds the national nuclear engineering research centre, the Institute of Transuranium Elements, a nanotechnology research centre and the KATRIN experiment.北校区位于城市北郊的原卡尔斯鲁厄研究中心旧址，占地约 2 平方公里，建有国家核工程研究中心、超铀元素研究所、纳米技术研究中心与 KATRIN 实验。

• A 200-metre guyed mast for meteorological measurements stands on Campus Nord and is one of the tallest structures in Germany, a working instrument rather than a monument.北校区内矗立着一座 200 米高的气象观测拉线塔，是德国最高建筑之一，属于在用的观测设施而非纪念性建筑。

• Smaller sites in the east and west of the city complete the Karlsruhe footprint, and the Campus Alpin in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria hosts the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research for atmospheric and climate work.卡尔斯鲁厄城区东西两侧的较小校区补全了校内布局，巴伐利亚州加米施-帕滕基兴的阿尔卑斯校区则承载气象与气候研究所的大气与气候研究。

• The Helmholtz Institute Ulm, founded by KIT in the city of Ulm, works with Ulm University, the German Aerospace Center and the state's solar and hydrogen research centre on renewable energy and battery systems.由 KIT 在乌尔姆创立的亥姆霍兹乌尔姆研究所，与乌尔姆大学、德国航空航天中心及该州太阳能与氢研究中心合作研究可再生能源与电池系统。

• The KIT Library runs two branches on the southern and northern campuses and serves about 25,000 students and 8,000 scientists from a stock of more than two million volumes and 28,000 periodicals, with the emphasis on natural and engineering sciences.KIT 图书馆在南、北两校区各设一处，服务约 25,000 名学生与 8,000 名科研人员，馆藏图书超过 200 万册、期刊 28,000 种，藏书重心在自然科学与工程科学。

• The southern branch became a twenty-four hour library in 2006, with about 1,000 workplaces made possible by a book security system and an automated issue desk, while the northern branch holds the energy and nuclear collections.南校区图书馆于 2006 年升级为 24 小时开放，凭图书防盗系统与自助借还台实现约 1,000 个自习座位，北校区馆则收藏能源与核技术文献。

• The Karlsruhe campus is spread across the city rather than concentrated in a single enclave, so most first-year teaching is within walking distance of the central station while the northern research sites are reached by the city's tram and bus network.卡尔斯鲁厄各校区分散于全城而非集中于单一园区，大部分一年级教学场所步行即可抵达中央火车站，北部科研站点则由该市的电车与公交网络连接。

Reputation

• The 2027 QS World University Rankings place KIT 110th in the world with a score of 66.9, which keeps it in the second tier of German universities on that table.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将 KIT 列于全球第 110 位，综合得分 66.9，在该榜单上仍属德国大学中的第二梯队。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place KIT jointly 143rd, and the 2024 edition of the same table had it at 140th worldwide and fourteenth in Germany, so the two tables broadly agree.《泰晤士高等教育》2027 年世界大学排名将 KIT 并列第 143 位，同一榜单 2024 年版为全球第 140 位、德国第 14，两大榜单的判断大体一致。

• The Best Global Universities ranking of US News for 2026 and 2027 places KIT 310th, a much lower position on the American table than on the European ones, which reflects its weighting of clinical and life-science output.《美国新闻与世界报道》2026 至 2027 年最佳全球大学排名将 KIT 列于第 310 位，在这份美国榜单上的位置明显低于欧洲榜单，反映其对临床与生命科学产出的加权。

• In the 2022 and 2023 editions KIT was ranked first in Germany by the Economic and Business Weekly survey of corporate preferences in electrical engineering, computer science, mechanical engineering and industrial engineering, and it has produced twenty-four board members of the hundred largest German companies.在《经济周刊》2022 与 2023 年度的企业偏好调查中，KIT 在电气工程、计算机科学、机械工程与工业工程四个学科均居德国首位，且已培养出德国百大企业的二十四名董事。

• In the QS graduate employability ranking of 2022 KIT stood forty-sixth worldwide, first in Germany and tenth in Europe, and in the 2023 CWTS Leiden Ranking it was fifty-sixth worldwide in the physical sciences and engineering on the impact indicator and first in Germany.2022 年 QS 毕业生就业力排名中 KIT 列全球第 46、德国第 1、欧洲第 10，2023 年莱顿排名按影响力指标在全球物理科学与工程类列第 56 位、德国第 1。

• In the Nature Index for the twelve months to 30 April 2023 KIT ranked second in Germany, seventh in Europe and sixty-third worldwide in the physical sciences, measured on output in eighty-two high quality journals.在截至 2023 年 4 月 30 日的十二个月自然指数中，卡尔斯鲁厄在物理科学领域列德国第 2、欧洲第 7、全球第 63，该指数以 82 种高质量期刊的发文量计量。

• OpenAlex records 187,521 works and 15,224,802 citations, which is the largest citation total in this group and reflects a research effort spread across physics, chemistry, materials, climate science and engineering.OpenAlex 为该校记录论文 187,521 篇、被引 15,224,802 次，是本组中最高的被引总量，反映出横跨物理、化学、材料、气候与工程的科研规模。

• Professors and former students of KIT have won six Nobel Prizes, ten Leibniz Prizes, which are among the most prestigious and best funded prizes in Europe, and one Academy Award for Technical Achievement.KIT 的教授与校友已获得六项诺贝尔奖、十项莱布尼茨奖（欧洲最负盛名且资助最丰厚的奖项之一）以及一项技术成就奥斯卡奖。

• KIT is a member of the TU9 alliance of nine leading German technical universities and of the European University Association, and it also runs the Karlsruhe Decision and Design Lab, one of the largest experimental economics facilities anywhere.KIT 是德国九所顶尖理工大学组成的 TU9 联盟成员，也是欧洲大学协会成员，并运营着全球最大的实验经济学设施之一卡尔斯鲁厄决策与设计实验室。

Student life

• The institutional motto is KIT, Die Universität in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, published in English as KIT, The University in the Helmholtz Association, a sentence that states the 2009 merger as a motto rather than burying it in a history.校训为「KIT，Die Universität in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft」，英译为「KIT，The University in the Helmholtz Association」，这句校训把 2009 年的合并直接写进日常，而不只埋在史料里。

• Unlike the British and American institutions it is compared with, KIT has no residential college system, so accommodation is organised by the citywide student services organisation and by private providers rather than by individual faculties.与常被用来对标的英美院校不同，KIT 不设住宿学院制，学生住宿由覆盖全市的学生服务机构与私人供应商组织，而非由各院系自行安排。

• The twenty-four hour library on Campus South, extended in 2006 and open around the clock with about 1,000 workplaces, is the practical centre of student life on the Karlsruhe campus.南校区自 2006 年扩建后实现全天 24 小时开放、设有约 1,000 个自习座位的图书馆，是卡尔斯鲁厄校园学生生活的实际中心。

• Student entrepreneurship is organised through the KIT-Gründerschmiede, founded in 2013 by students and staff as a central platform with mentoring, networking events and its own crowdfunding venue, and more than thirty start-ups are launched in the KIT environment each year.学生创业依托 2013 年由学生与教职员共同创办的 KIT-Gründerschmiede 平台展开，该平台提供导师辅导、联络活动与自有众筹渠道，KIT 生态每年新创企业超过三十家。

• Between 2008 and 2018 some three hundred start-ups were founded in and around KIT, and the PionierGarage, a student-run association, adds lectures, workshops and trips to Silicon Valley to that machine.2008 至 2018 年间，KIT 及其周边共创立约三百家初创企业，学生自治组织 PionierGarage 则以讲座、工作坊与硅谷之行补上这一机制。

• KIT also plugs into the Karlsruhe start-up ecosystem through the CyberForum, the EXI Startup Voucher and the Perfekt Futur creative park, which reuses shipping containers on the site of the former municipal slaughterhouse.KIT 还通过 CyberForum、EXI 创业券与「Perfekt Futur」创意园区接入卡尔斯鲁厄创业生态，后者利用原市政屠宰场的场地，以集装箱改造办公空间。

• Study is organised by the two divisions of higher education and vocational training, and the Interfakultatives Institut für Anwendungen der Informatik, founded in 1979, remains the formal meeting point between the mathematical and engineering sides of the faculty.教学分为高等教育与职业培训两大部门，1979 年成立的跨院系信息学应用研究所仍是校内数学与工程两侧正式汇合的节点。

Notable people

• Grand Duke Ludwig I of Baden founded the school on 7 October 1825 as the Polytechnische Schule, on the model of the Parisian école polytechnique, and remains its founding patron in institutional memory.巴登大公路德维希一世于 1825 年 10 月 7 日仿照巴黎综合理工学院创办学校，在机构记忆中是其创校奠基人。

• Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden raised the school to a Hochschule in 1865 and gave it the name Fridericiana from 1902, the designation the Karlsruhe community still uses for the university.巴登大公弗里德里希一世于 1865 年将学校提升为高等学校，并自 1902 年起赐名「弗里德里希学校」，卡尔斯鲁厄社群至今仍以该名指称这所大学。

• Heinrich Hertz was professor of physics at Karlsruhe from 1885 to 1889, demonstrated the existence of electromagnetic waves in 1888, and gave his name to the SI unit of frequency and to the Hertz lecture hall.海因里希·赫兹于 1885 至 1889 年在卡尔斯鲁厄任物理学教授，1888 年证明电磁波的存在，国际单位制中的频率单位与赫兹报告厅皆以他命名。

• Karl Benz studied at Karlsruhe from 1860 to 1864, built the first automobile in 1885, was granted the patent for it, and received an honorary doctorate from the university in 1914.卡尔·本茨于 1860 至 1864 年在卡尔斯鲁厄求学，1885 年造出第一辆汽车并取得专利，1914 年获该校荣誉博士学位。

• Fritz Haber developed the high pressure synthesis of ammonia in 1909 and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918, one of six Nobel Prizes associated with the school.弗里茨·哈伯于 1909 年实现氨的高压合成，1918 年获诺贝尔化学奖，是与该校相关的六项诺贝尔奖之一。

• Karl Ferdinand Braun was professor of physics in Karlsruhe from 1883 to 1885, developed the cathode ray tube in 1897 and shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909 for work on wireless telegraphy.卡尔·费迪南德·布劳恩于 1883 至 1885 年在卡尔斯鲁厄任物理学教授，1897 年研制阴极射线管，1909 年因无线电报工作分享诺贝尔物理学奖。

• Hermann Staudinger received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1953 for establishing the concept of macromolecules, and the school named one of its chair holders after him.赫尔曼·施陶丁格因确立高分子概念于 1953 年获诺贝尔化学奖，学校后来以其名设立了一个讲席。

• Jean-Marie Lehn, director of the Karlsruhe Institute for Nanotechnology, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987 for his contributions to the chemistry of molecules, and still holds a chair at the university.让-马里·莱恩任卡尔斯鲁厄纳米技术研究所所长，因在分子化学方面的贡献分享 1987 年诺贝尔化学奖，至今仍在该校任教。

• Peter Sanders, computer scientist at KIT, received the Leibniz Prize in 2012 for work on efficient data structures, one of the ten Leibniz Prizes won by members of the school.卡尔斯鲁厄计算机科学家彼得·桑德斯因高效数据结构方面的研究于 2012 年获莱布尼茨奖，这是该校成员所获十项莱布尼茨奖之一。

• Hasso Plattner co-founded SAP and was its chairman for many years, and the school that trained him is now named after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the model for the KIT name itself.哈索·普拉特纳是 SAP 的联合创始人并长期担任董事长，培养他的学校如今以麻省理工学院命名，而 KIT 校名本身也取自该校。

• Dieter Zetsche studied electrical engineering and information technology at Karlsruhe from 1971 to 1976 and later chaired Daimler AG and headed Mercedes-Benz Cars, the clearest case of the school's link to the automotive industry.迪特·采彻于 1971 至 1976 年在卡尔斯鲁厄就读电子与信息技术专业，后任戴姆勒股份公司董事长并掌管梅赛德斯-奔驰汽车业务，是该校与汽车工业渊源的典型例证。

• Martin Brudermüller, chief executive of BASF, is a Karlsruhe alumnus, and Christoph Bregler, a computer vision researcher, won the Academy Award for Technical Achievement in 2016 as a member of the school.巴斯夫首席执行官马丁·布鲁德米勒是卡尔斯鲁厄校友，计算机视觉研究者克里斯托夫·布雷格勒作为该校成员于 2016 年获技术成就奥斯卡奖。