University of Bonn

The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (German: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn), is a public research university in the city of Bonn in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.波恩大学，正式名称为莱茵弗里德里希·威廉大学（德文：Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn），是位于德国北莱茵-威斯特法伦州波恩市的公立研究型大学。

Founded on 18 October 1818 by King Frederick William III of Prussia and funded by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, it belongs to the German U15 group of leading research-intensive universities, has held the title University of Excellence since 2019, teaches 31,318 students in around 200 subject areas with more than 550 professors, and was placed 209th in the QS World University Rankings 2027.该校由普鲁士国王腓特烈·威廉三世于 1818 年 10 月 18 日创办，由北莱茵-威斯特法伦州资助，是德国 U15 研究密集型大学联盟成员，自 2019 年起获「精英大学」称号，开设约 200 个学科方向、在读学生 31,318 人、拥有 550 余名教授，并在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列世界第 209 位。

History

• The university's forerunner was the Academy of the Prince-Elector of Cologne, founded in 1777 by Maximilian Frederick of Königsegg-Rothenfels, prince-elector of Cologne, and run in the spirit of the Enlightenment without confessional ties.波恩大学的前身是科隆选帝侯学院，由科隆选帝侯马克西米利安·弗里德里希·冯·柯尼希塞格-罗滕费尔斯于 1777 年创办，秉承启蒙精神、不设教派限制。

• Emperor Joseph II granted the academy the right to award academic degrees in 1784, which raised it to the status of a university, but it was dissolved in 1798 after the left bank of the Rhine was occupied by France during the French Revolutionary Wars.1784 年约瑟夫二世皇帝授予该学院颁发学位的权利，使其升格为大学；但在法国大革命战争中莱茵河左岸被法国占领后，学院于 1798 年解散。

• The Rhineland fell to Prussia at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, and King Frederick William III decreed the founding of a new university in the province on 18 October 1818 because the region had had no university since the three older ones closed under French rule.莱茵兰在 1815 年维也纳会议上归属普鲁士，腓特烈·威廉三世国王遂于 1818 年 10 月 18 日下令在该省新建一所大学，因为当地三所旧大学在法国统治下关闭后便再无高等学府。

• The new Rhine University was the sixth Prussian university, after those of Greifswald, Berlin, Königsberg, Halle and Breslau, and Bonn was preferred to Cologne and Duisburg because it offered two empty electoral palaces and a tradition of non-denominational teaching.这所新的莱茵大学是普鲁士第六所大学，晚于格赖夫斯瓦尔德、柏林、柯尼斯堡、哈勒与布雷斯劳；波恩之所以胜过科隆与杜伊斯堡，是因为它有两座空置的选帝侯宫殿，并有不设教派的教学传统。

• Teaching began with 35 professors and eight adjunct professors in schools of Catholic theology, Protestant theology, medicine, law and philosophy.建校之初有 35 名教授与 8 名编外教授，开设天主教神学、新教神学、医学、法学与哲学等学科。

• The university constitution adopted in 1827, written in the spirit of Wilhelm von Humboldt, emphasised the autonomy of the university and the unity of teaching and research, turning Bonn into a modern research university on the model of Berlin.1827 年通过的大学章程秉承威廉·冯·洪堡的精神，强调大学自治与教学科研统一，使波恩成为仿照柏林模式的现代研究型大学。

• The Carlsbad Decrees of 20 September 1819 imposed censorship and dissolved the student fraternities, and the historian and poet Ernst Moritz Arndt, newly appointed in Bonn, was barred from teaching until he was reinstated after the death of Frederick William III in 1840.1819 年 9 月 20 日的卡尔斯巴德决议实行书报审查并解散学生社团，刚刚受聘于波恩的历史学家兼诗人恩斯特·莫里茨·阿恩特被禁止授课，直到 1840 年腓特烈·威廉三世去世后才复职。

• Frederick William III refused the new university a chain of office, a seal and an official name, so the institution remained nameless until 1840, when his successor Frederick William IV gave it the name Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University.腓特烈·威廉三世拒绝授予新大学职链、印章与正式校名，因此这所机构长期没有正式名称，直到 1840 年其继任者腓特烈·威廉四世赐名「莱茵弗里德里希·威廉大学」。

• Towards the end of the nineteenth century the university was known as the princes' university because many sons of the Prussian royal house studied there, and in 1900 it counted 68 chairs, 23 adjunct chairs and 57 Privatdozenten.十九世纪末该校被称为「王子大学」，因为普鲁士王室众多子弟在此就读；1900 年学校已有 68 个教授席位、23 个编外教席与 57 名私人讲师。

• Women were allowed into Prussian universities as guest auditors from 1896, and the University of Bonn became fully coeducational in 1908.自 1896 年起女性可作为旁听生进入普鲁士的大学，波恩大学则于 1908 年实现完全男女同校。

• The First World War halted the university's growth and it turned to private and industrial sponsors, and in 1930 a new constitution for the first time let students share in self-government through an elected council called Astag.第一次世界大战使大学的发展停滞，学校转而寻求私人及产业界资助；1930 年新章程首次允许学生通过名为 Astag 的选举产生的委员会参与自治。

• After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 the university was brought into line and remodelled as a Nazi institution, Jewish professors and students were ostracised and expelled, the theologian Karl Barth was forced to resign, and the mathematician Felix Hausdorff was removed in 1935 and took his own life in 1942.1933 年纳粹夺取政权后，大学被「一体化」改造为纳粹机构，犹太教授与学生遭到排斥和驱逐，神学家卡尔·巴特被迫辞职，数学家费利克斯·豪斯多夫于 1935 年被解职、1942 年自尽。

• The novelist Thomas Mann was stripped of his honorary doctorate in 1937 and had it restored in 1946.小说家托马斯·曼于 1937 年被剥夺名誉博士学位，1946 年获得恢复。

• An air raid on 18 October 1944 destroyed the main building of the university, and an estimated 180,000 books were lost in the bombing.1944 年 10 月 18 日的空袭摧毁了大学主楼，轰炸中约 18 万册图书散失。

• The university reopened on 17 November 1945 as one of the first in the British occupation zone, under its first president Heinrich Matthias Konen, who had been expelled in 1934 for opposing Nazism, and it drew more than 10,000 applicants for only 2,500 places.1945 年 11 月 17 日，大学作为英占区最早复课的大学之一重新开学，首任校长为 1934 年因反对纳粹而被驱逐的海因里希·马蒂亚斯·科嫩；当年有逾 10,000 人申请，却只有 2,500 个名额。

• The postwar decades brought rapid expansion, including the transfer of the university hospital to the Venusberg in 1949, the opening of the new central library in 1960 and of the Juridicum for law and economics in 1967.战后数十年学校迅速扩张，包括 1949 年大学医院迁往维纳斯山、1960 年新中央图书馆启用，以及 1967 年供法学与经济学使用的「尤里迪库姆」落成。

• In 1980 the Pedagogical University of Bonn was merged into the university, although the teacher-training programmes it brought were eventually closed in 2007.1980 年波恩师范学院并入波恩大学，不过它带来的教师培养项目最终于 2007 年停办。

• Wolfgang Paul received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 and Reinhard Selten the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1992, both while working at Bonn.沃尔夫冈·保罗于 1989 年、莱因哈德·泽尔腾于 1992 年分别在波恩任职期间获得诺贝尔物理学奖与经济学奖。

• When the German government moved the capital from Bonn to Berlin after reunification in 1991, the city received a compensation package that included three new research institutes linked to the university.1991 年两德统一后德国政府把首都从波恩迁往柏林，波恩获得一揽子补偿，其中包括三个与大学相关的新建研究所。

• In the 2000s the university implemented the Bologna process and replaced the traditional Diplom and Magister degrees with Bachelor and Master programmes, a reform completed by 2007.2000 年代该校推行博洛尼亚进程，以学士与硕士课程取代传统的 Diplom 与 Magister 学位，改革于 2007 年完成。

• In July 2019 Bonn was named a University of Excellence in the third round of the German Excellence Strategy, and it now hosts eight Clusters of Excellence, more than any other funded German university.2019 年 7 月，波恩大学在德国卓越战略第三轮评选中获「精英大学」称号，如今拥有 8 个卓越集群，数量多于其他任何获资助的德国大学。

Academics

• The university is divided into seven faculties: Catholic Theology, Protestant Theology, Law and Economics, Medicine, Arts, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, and Agriculture.大学设有七个学院：天主教神学院、新教神学院、法学与经济学学院、医学院、文学院、数学与自然科学学院以及农学院。

• The Faculty of Arts, with more than 8,753 students the largest faculty, covers English, American and Celtic studies, history, German studies, comparative literature, classical and Romance philology, communication studies, Oriental and Asian studies, philosophy, political science and sociology, psychology, archaeology and art history.文学院以 8,753 余名学生成为规模最大的学院，涵盖英语、美国与凯尔特研究、历史学、德语研究、比较文学、古典与罗曼语语文学、传播学、东方与亚洲研究、哲学、政治学与社会学、心理学、考古学与艺术史。

• The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences groups mathematics, computer science, physics and astronomy, chemistry, earth sciences, biology, pharmacy and molecular biomedicine, and with 7,636 students is one of the largest faculties.数学与自然科学学院下设数学、计算机科学、物理与天文、化学、地球科学、生物学、药学与分子生物医学等学科组，以 7,636 名学生成为规模最大的学院之一。

• The Faculty of Medicine focuses on neuroscience, the genetic basis and genetic epidemiology of disease, hepatology and gastroenterology, cardiovascular disease and immunology, and teaches 2,699 students, largely on the Venusberg.医学院以神经科学、疾病的遗传基础与遗传流行病学、肝胆胃肠病学、心血管疾病与免疫学为重点，共有 2,699 名学生，教学主要在维纳斯山进行。

• The Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Sciences, housed since 1967 in the Juridicum on Adenauerallee, has about 5,000 students and is home to the Bonn Graduate School of Economics and the Reinhard Selten Institute.法学、经济学与社会科学学院自 1967 年起设于阿登纳大道的尤里迪库姆大楼，约有 5,000 名学生，并设有波恩经济学研究生院与莱因哈德·泽尔腾研究所。

• The Faculty of Agriculture, created in 1934 from the Agricultural University of Poppelsdorf founded in 1847, has about 2,500 students and works on crop sciences, food and nutrition and resource economics.农学院于 1934 年由创办于 1847 年的波佩尔斯多夫农业大学并入而成，约有 2,500 名学生，研究作物科学、食品营养与资源经济学。

• The Faculty of Catholic Theology, founded in 1818, today has 13 chairs and 243 students, and Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, held its chair of fundamental theology from 1959 to 1963.天主教神学院创办于 1818 年，现有 13 个教席与 243 名学生；后来的教宗本笃十六世约瑟夫·拉青格曾于 1959 至 1963 年担任该校基本神学教席。

• The Faculty of Protestant Theology, with 187 students the smallest faculty, is housed in the main building, where the Protestant Castle Church also stands.新教神学院以 187 名学生成为最小的学院，设于主楼之内，新教城堡教堂也位于此处。

• Nearly 4,000 of the university's students come from abroad, and each year it confers about 800 doctorates and 60 habilitations while some 3,000 undergraduates graduate.该校近 4,000 名学生来自国外；每年学校授予约 800 个博士学位与 60 个教授资格论文，并有约 3,000 名本科生毕业。

• Teaching and research are supported by more than 550 professors, some 3,900 further academic staff and over 1,700 administrative staff.教学与研究由 550 余名教授、约 3,900 名其他学术人员以及 1,700 余名行政人员共同支撑。

• The Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, founded as part of the Excellence Initiative of 2006, is a national centre for mathematics at Bonn, where the Fields medallist Peter Scholze studied and now teaches.豪斯多夫数学中心在 2006 年卓越计划推动下成立，是波恩的全国性数学研究中心；菲尔兹奖得主皮特·舒尔策曾在此求学、现于此任教。

• The Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology, known as b-it, was founded in April 2011 and shares the computer science centre on the Poppelsdorf campus with the Institute of Computer Science.波恩-亚琛国际信息技术中心简称 b-it，于 2011 年 4 月成立，与计算机科学研究所共用波佩尔斯多夫校区的计算机中心。

• The university runs nine collaborative research centres and five research units funded by the German Research Foundation, attracts more than 75 million euros in external research funding a year and holds 69 ERC grants.该校运行九个由德国研究联合会资助的协同研究中心与五个研究小组，每年获得逾 7,500 万欧元的外部科研经费，并持有 69 项欧洲研究理事会资助。

• The University and State Library, whose central building dates from 1960 and whose science library opened in 1983, holds 2.2 million volumes and subscribes to about 14,000 journals, supported by some 160 smaller libraries.大学与州立图书馆的中央馆舍建于 1960 年、理科馆于 1983 年启用，藏书 220 万册、订阅期刊约 14,000 种，另有约 160 个小型分馆。

• The university's collections include the Academic Museum of Antiquities with one of the world's largest holdings of plaster casts, the Arithmeum with over 1,200 historical calculating machines and the Egyptian Museum with about 3,000 objects.学校的收藏包括拥有世界最大规模石膏复制品收藏之一的学术古物博物馆、藏有 1,200 余台历史上机械计算机的算术博物馆，以及约 3,000 件藏品的埃及博物馆。

Campus

• The University of Bonn has no single central campus, its main building being the Electoral Palace built for the prince-elector of Cologne, Joseph Clemens of Bavaria, by Enrico Zuccalli between 1697 and 1705.波恩大学没有集中的单一校园，其主楼是为科隆选帝侯约瑟夫·克莱门斯·冯·巴伐利亚修建的选帝侯宫，由恩里科·祖卡利在 1697 至 1705 年间建造。

• The Hofgarten park in front of the main building is a favoured meeting place for students and has repeatedly hosted political demonstrations, most notably one against the NATO Double-Track Decision on 22 October 1981 with about 250,000 participants.主楼前的霍夫花园是学生聚会读书的常去之地，也屡次成为政治示威场所，最著名的是 1981 年 10 月 22 日反对北约「双重决议」、参与者约 25 万人的集会。

• The science departments and the science library are in Poppelsdorf and Endenich, west of the centre, an area whose landmark is Poppelsdorf Palace, built from 1715 to 1753 by Robert de Cotte and today housing the mineral collection and the botanical garden.理科各系与理科图书馆位于市中心以西的波佩尔斯多夫和恩德尼希，该区域的标志性建筑是罗伯特·德科特于 1715 至 1753 年建造的波佩尔斯多夫宫，如今设矿物收藏与植物园。

• The Old Chemical Institute, built between 1864 and 1867, was the largest institute building in the world at the time and now houses the Institute of Microbiology and the Institute of Geography.建于 1864 至 1867 年的旧化学研究所当时是全球最大的研究所建筑，如今设微生物学研究所与地理学研究所。

• The Medical School stands on the Venusberg, a hill on the western edge of Bonn, and the associated university hospital, an independent public corporation since 1 January 2001, comprises about thirty clinics, more than 990 physicians and over 1,100 nursing staff and treats about 50,000 inpatients a year.医学院位于波恩西缘的维纳斯山，与之相关的大学医院自 2001 年 1 月 1 日起为独立的公法机构，由约 30 家专科诊所、990 余名医师与 1,100 余名护理人员组成，每年收治约 50,000 名住院病人。

• Altogether the University of Bonn owns 371 buildings, and its residence halls are scattered across the city rather than concentrated on one site.波恩大学共拥有 371 座建筑，其学生宿舍散布全城，而非集中于单一地点。

• The central library of 1960 was designed by Pierre Vago and Fritz Bornemann close to the main building, and in 1983 a further library building opened in Poppelsdorf for the science, agriculture and medicine collections.1960 年的中央图书馆由皮埃尔·瓦戈与弗里茨·博尔内曼设计、紧邻主楼，1983 年又在波佩尔斯多夫启用一座新馆，收藏理科、农业与医学文献。

• The Argelander Institute for Astronomy, named after the astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, was formed in 2006 by merging three astronomical institutes, and the Institute of Physics operates the ELSA particle accelerator.以天文学家弗里德里希·威廉·阿格兰德命名的阿格兰德天文研究所于 2006 年由三个天文研究机构合并而成，物理研究所则运行 ELSA 粒子加速器。

• The Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, founded in 1912 by Alexander Koenig, is one of Germany's largest natural history museums and is affiliated with the university.亚历山大·柯尼希于 1912 年创办的亚历山大·柯尼希动物学研究博物馆是德国最大的自然史博物馆之一，隶属于该校。

• The Botanical Garden, officially founded in 1818 around Poppelsdorf Palace, saw the world's largest titan arum, some 2.74 metres high, flower for three days in May 2003.官方创办于 1818 年、环绕波佩尔斯多夫宫的植物园，曾在 2003 年 5 月让一株高约 2.74 米的全球最大巨花魔芋开花三天。

• A refurbishment of the Electoral Palace costing over one billion euros is due for completion in 2030, while a 128 million euro Forum of Knowledge designed to extend the main building is planned for 2031.选帝侯宫的翻修耗资超过 10 亿欧元、预计 2030 年完工，而耗资 1.28 亿欧元、用于扩建主楼的「知识论坛」计划于 2031 年落成。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the University of Bonn is placed 209th in the world.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，波恩大学位列世界第 209 位。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places it 89th in the world, one of the strongest positions of any German university.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列为世界第 89 位，是德国高校中最靠前的位置之一。

• The U.S. News Best Global Universities edition of 2026-2027 ranks it 179th in the world.2026 至 2027 年版美国新闻与世界报道最佳全球大学排名将其列为世界第 179 位。

• In the Academic Ranking of World Universities of 2026 it stands 69th in the world, its highest placing in the major global tables.在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中，该校位列世界第 69 位，是它在各大全球榜单中的最好名次。

• In subject rankings Bonn took 39th place worldwide in mathematics in the QS ranking of 2023 and 15th in the ARWU mathematics ranking of 2022, first in Germany in both.在学科排名方面，该校 2023 年 QS 数学排名居世界第 39 位、2022 年 ARWU 数学排名居世界第 15 位，两项均列德国第一。

• The OpenAlex database attributes 192,966 works to the university with 19,845,895 citations, and it has 12 winners of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Germany's most important research award.OpenAlex 数据库为该校收录 192,966 篇成果、被引 19,845,895 次；学校共有 12 位戈特弗里德·威廉·莱布尼茨奖得主，此奖为德国最重要的科研奖项。

• Eleven Nobel laureates and five Fields medallists have been associated with Bonn as faculty or alumni, including the physicists Wolfgang Paul, Philipp Lenard and Reinhard Genzel and the mathematicians Peter Scholze and Gerd Faltings.曾有 11 位诺贝尔奖得主与 5 位菲尔兹奖得主以教师或校友身份与波恩结缘，包括物理学家沃尔夫冈·保罗、菲利普·莱纳德与赖因哈德·根策尔，以及数学家皮特·舒尔策与格尔德·法尔廷斯。

• Bonn is the only German university whose faculty and alumni have produced the country's two Fields medallists, Peter Scholze in 2018 and his teacher Gerd Faltings in 1986.波恩是唯一一所教职员与校友中走出了德国两位菲尔兹奖得主的大学，即 2018 年获奖的皮特·舒尔策与其导师、1986 年获奖的格尔德·法尔廷斯。

• With eight Clusters of Excellence Bonn holds more than any other funded German university, and it is the only University of Excellence to have had six clusters in the 2018 to 2025 funding round.波恩拥有 8 个卓越集群，多于其他任何获资助的德国大学，也是唯一在 2018 至 2025 年资助期内拥有六个卓越集群的精英大学。

• Research at Bonn produced the quadrupole ion trap, the Geissler tube and the discovery of radio waves, while the Hirzebruch-Riemann-Roch theorem, the Petri net, the Schönhage-Strassen algorithm and Faltings' theorem are named after Bonn mathematicians.波恩的研究产生了四极离子阱、盖斯勒管与无线电波的发现；而 Hirzebruch-Riemann-Roch 定理、Petri 网、Schönhage-Strassen 算法与法尔廷斯定理均以波恩数学家命名。

Student life

• The university has no formal motto, and its seal carries the Latin name Universitas Fridericia Guilelmia Rhenana.该校没有正式校训，其校印上刻有拉丁文校名 Universitas Fridericia Guilelmia Rhenana。

• The Bonn Studentenwerk, one of the three oldest student welfare organisations in Germany, runs the cafeterias and residence halls and administers the BAföG system of study grants and loans.波恩学生服务处是德国历史最悠久的三家学生服务机构之一，经营食堂与宿舍，并管理 BAföG 助学金与贷款体系。

• Student media and societies include the campus radio station BonnFM and the Bonn University Shakespeare Company.学生媒体与社团包括校园电台 BonnFM 与波恩大学莎士比亚剧团。

• The university's debating club was European champion in 2006.该校的辩论俱乐部曾在 2006 年夺得欧洲冠军。

• The university runs one of the largest university sports programmes in North Rhine-Westphalia, with around 200 sports facilities, 38 sites across the city and its own gym in Hall 5.该校运营北莱茵-威斯特法伦规模最大的大学体育项目之一，拥有约 200 项运动设施、分布于全城的 38 个场地，以及设在 5 号馆的自有健身房。

• Rowing is prominent at Bonn, whose crews train from their own boathouse on the Rhine between Beuel and Limperich and compete each year at the German university championships.赛艇在波恩颇为突出，校队在莱茵河畔贝乌尔与林佩里希之间自有的船屋训练，每年参加德国大学锦标赛。

• Undergraduates may spend one or two semesters at over 300 European partner institutions through Erasmus or study free of charge at non-European partners under the Global Exchange Programme.本科生可通过 Erasmus 项目在 300 多所欧洲伙伴院校学习一到两学期，或凭「全球交换计划」在非欧洲伙伴院校免费就读。

• Students have shared in university self-government since 1930, when the Astag council was introduced with members chosen by secret ballot.自 1930 年引入 Astag 委员会、其成员以无记名投票产生以来，学生便参与大学的自治管理。

• The Hofgarten in front of the main building and the former government quarter give Bonn students a campus woven into a city that was the capital of West Germany and now hosts United Nations institutions.主楼前的霍夫花园与昔日的政府区，使波恩学生的校园融入这座曾为西德首都、如今设有联合国机构的城市。

Notable people

• King Frederick William III of Prussia founded the university by decree on 18 October 1818 as the sixth Prussian university.普鲁士国王腓特烈·威廉三世于 1818 年 10 月 18 日颁令创办该校，使其成为普鲁士第六所大学。

• Maximilian Frederick of Königsegg-Rothenfels, prince-elector of Cologne, had founded the predecessor Academy of the Prince-Elector of Cologne in 1777.科隆选帝侯马克西米利安·弗里德里希·冯·柯尼希塞格-罗滕费尔斯于 1777 年创办了其前身科隆选帝侯学院。

• Karl Marx, the philosopher and economist, studied law, history and philosophy at Bonn in 1835 and 1836.哲学家与经济学家卡尔·马克思于 1835 至 1836 年在波恩学习法学、历史学与哲学。

• Friedrich Nietzsche studied theology and classical philology at Bonn in 1864 and 1865.弗里德里希·尼采于 1864 至 1865 年在波恩学习神学与古典语文学。

• Konrad Adenauer, a law student at Bonn, was the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 to 1963.曾在波恩学习法学的康拉德·阿登纳，于 1949 至 1963 年出任联邦德国首任总理。

• Robert Schuman, who studied law at Bonn, was a French statesman and one of the founding fathers of the European Union.曾在波恩学习法学的罗伯特·舒曼是法国政治家、欧洲联盟奠基人之一。

• Heinrich Hertz, who discovered radio waves, was a professor of physics at Bonn.发现无线电波的物理学家海因里希·鲁道夫·赫兹曾任波恩大学物理学教授。

• Wolfgang Paul, a professor at Bonn and a founder of the DESY laboratory, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989.波恩大学教授、德国电子加速器 DESY 的创办者之一沃尔夫冈·保罗于 1989 年获诺贝尔物理学奖。

• Reinhard Selten, a professor of economics at Bonn, received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994 for his work on game theory.波恩大学经济学教授莱因哈德·泽尔腾因博弈论研究于 1994 年获诺贝尔经济学奖。

• Peter Scholze, who studied and later taught at Bonn, was awarded the Fields Medal in 2018 and directs the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics.曾在波恩求学并留校任教的皮特·舒尔策于 2018 年获菲尔兹奖，并主持豪斯多夫数学中心。

• Jürgen Habermas, the philosopher and sociologist, studied philosophy, history and psychology at Bonn.哲学家与社会学家尤尔根·哈贝马斯曾在波恩学习哲学、历史学与心理学。

• Wolfgang Kubin, a German sinologist and translator of modern Chinese literature, held the chair of Chinese studies at Bonn.德国汉学家、中国现代文学翻译家沃尔夫冈·顾彬曾担任波恩大学汉学教席。