President Emeritus passes away
Physicist Wolfgang Wild, TUM President from 1980 until 1986, has passed away at the age of 92. His period in office saw ground-breaking decisions such as the campaign to found the Walter Schottky Institute for Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials. Wild was later named Bavaria’s first Minister of Science."Not only was Wolfgang Wild an outstanding researcher and teacher," says TUM President Thomas F. Hofmann. "He was also a strategically adept force in the university system and a man of wide and varied interests with a broad horizon. Continuously addressing the relationship between science and society, he was often well ahead of his time. ...
