In the course of time, renowned scientists have researched as well as developed ground-breaking cognitions in Graz.

The mathematician Paul Guldin established „Guldin’s Rules“ for calculating the volume of solids of revolution. The economist Joseph Schumpeter devised his Theory of Economic Development. Alfred Wegener framed the Theory of Continental Drift.

The historian Franz Krones, the philosopher Alexius Meinong with his Theory of Objects or the expert in Romance languages Hugo Schuchardt are also among the „masterminds“ of the University of Graz.

Gerty Theresa Cori and her husband Carl Ferdinand worked at the University of Graz before 1922, they discovered the process of glycogen metabolism and in 1947 were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

Ludwig Gumplowicz, pioneer of sociology researched in Graz for more than 30 years. Hans Gross founded the first Criminological Institute in the world at this place. Ludwig Boltzmann published his most essential works in the development of Statistical Physics.

The mathematician and physician Ernst Mach wrote important papers on the physiology of the senses and Arnold Luschin a definitive book on the Austrian history of law.

Numerous Nobel prize laureates rank among the scientists who have researched in Graz:

• Fritz Pregl (1923 Nobel Prize for Chemistry)
• Julius Wagner von Jauregg (1927 Nobel Prize for Medicine)
• Erwin Schrödinger (1933 Nobel Prize for Physics)
• Otto Loewi (1936 Nobel Prize for Medicine)
• Victor F. Hess (1936 Nobel Prize for Physics) and
• Karl von Frisch (1973 Nobel Prize for Medicine).