This is a list of German physicists.

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* Ernst Abbe * Max Abraham * Gerhard Abstreiter *

Michael Adelbulner Michael A. Adelbulner (February 3, 1702 – June 21, 1779) was a German mathematician, physicist, physician, and astronomer. He was born at Nürnberg and died in Altdorf bei Nürnberg. His claim to fame resides in his having started with Anders Ce ...

* Martin Aeschlimann * Georg von Arco * Manfred von Ardenne * Peter Armbruster * Leo Arons *

Markus Aspelmeyer Markus Aspelmeyer is an Austrian quantum physicist. Aspelmeyer was born 1974 in the Bavarian town Schongau. He also attended the local school, where he received his abitur in 1993. He studied physics and philosophy at the University of Munich, ...

* Felix Auerbach *

Bruno Augenstein Bruno Wilhelm Augenstein (March 16, 1923 – July 6, 2005) was a German-born American mathematician and physicist who made important contributions in space technology, ballistic missile research, satellites, antimatter, and many other areas. ...

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* Ernst Emil Alexander Back * Karl Baedeker * Erich Bagge * Marc Baldus * Valentine Bargmann * Heinrich Barkhausen *

Henry H. Barschall Henry Herman ("Heinz") Barschall (April 29, 1915 – February 4, 1997) was a German-American physicist."Henry Herman Barschall" by R. Adair and W. Haeberli. ''Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences'/ref> Biography Barsc ...

* Heinz Barwich * Ernst G. Bauer * Karl Bechert *

Friedrich Beck Friedrich Hans Beck (16 February 1927 – 20 December 2008) was a German physicist. His research interests were focused on superconductivity, nuclear and elementary particle physics, relativistic quantum field theory, and late in his life, bio ...

* Guido Beck * Richard Becker *

Karl Heinz Beckurts Karl Heinz Beckurts (born 16 May 1930 in Rheydt; murdered 9 July 1986 in Straßlach near Munich) was a German physicist and research manager. With Karl Wirtz, he wrote a textbook on neutron physics. He was co-editor of the journal '' Nukleonik''. ...

* Georg Bednorz *

August Beer August Beer (; 31 July 1825 – 18 November 1863) was a German physicist, chemist, and mathematician of Jewish descent. Biography Beer was born in Trier, where he studied mathematics and natural sciences. Beer was educated at the technical s ...

* Wilhelm von Beetz * Martin Beneke *

Johann Benzenberg Johann Friedrich Benzenberg (5 May 1777 – 7 June 1846) was a German astronomer, geologist, and physicist. Biography Benzenberg was born near Elberfeld, Germany on 5 May 1777 to Heinrich Benzenberg and Johanna Elisabeth. He married Charlotte Pla ...

* Berend Wilhelm Feddersen * Arnold Berliner *

Arthur Berson Arthur Josef Stanislaus Berson (6 August 1859 – 3 December 1942) was a German meteorologist and pioneer of aerology who was a native of Neu Sandez, Galicia (now Nowy Sącz, Poland). After visiting the gymnasium in Neu Sandez, Berson stu ...

* Adolf Bestelmeyer * Hans Bethe * Sigfried Bethke *

Albert Betz Albert Betz (25 December 1885 – 16 April 1968) was a German physicist and a pioneer of wind turbine technology. Education and career Betz was born in Schweinfurt. In 1910 he graduated as a naval engineer from Technische Hochschule Berlin ( ...

Hans-Dieter Betz Hans-Dieter Betz (born 29 September 1940) is a German professor emeritus of experimental physics. Fields of research Beside atomic physics Betz searched on Sferics, where he leads a science-group on the Munich Ludwig-Maximilians-University. ...

Paul Alfred Biefeld Dr. Paul Alfred Biefeld (22 March 1867 – 21 June 1943) was a German-American electrical engineer, astronomer and teacher. Biography Paul Alfred Biefeld was born in Jöhstadt, Saxony, Germany on March 22, 1867. He was the son of Heinrich and ...

Ikaros Bigi Ikaros Bigi (born 27 August 1947) is a German theoretical physicist. His research focuses on refining the Standard Model phenomenology. Biography Bigi graduated from Gymnasium Fridericianum, Erlangen, in 1967. Six years later he received a Mast ...

* Josef Bille * Heinz Billing * Gerd Binnig * Marcus Birkenkrahe * Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius * Klaus Blaum * Immanuel Bloch *

Detlef Blöcher Detlef Blöcher (born 15 January 1953 in Frankfurt am Main) has been Director of the Christian Relief and Missionary Work DMG interpersonal in Sinsheim near Heidelberg from 2000 to May 2018. In the years before he worked as a lecturer in the Arab w ...

Werner H. Bloss Werner H. Bloss (1930 – 6 June 1995) was a scientist known for his work in the field of photovoltaics. He was the director of the Institute of Physical Electronics at the University of Stuttgart. Biography Werner H. Bloss studied Physics ...

* Eberhard Bodenschatz * Bodo von Borries * Martin Bojowald * Friedrich Bopp *

Hans-Jürgen Borchers Hans-Jürgen Borchers (24 January 1926, Hamburg – 10 September 2011, Göttingen) was a mathematical physicist at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen who worked on operator algebras and quantum field theory. He introduced Borchers algebras a ...

Max Born Max Born (; 11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a n ...

* Manfred Börner * Richard Börnstein * Gerhard Borrmann * Emil Bose * Georg Matthias Bose * Walther Bothe *

Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes (; 27 July 1777 – 17 May 1834) was a German physicist, meteorologist, and astronomer. Brandes was born in 1777 in Groden near Ritzebüttel (a former exclave of the Free Imperial City of Hamburg, today in Cuxhaven), ...

* Ernst Helmut Brandt * Karl Ferdinand Braun * Wernher von Braun *

Werner Braunbeck Werner Braunbeck (German: ''Werner Braunbek''; 8 January 1901 – 9 February 1977) was a German physicist. He was born in Bautzen, the son of the Government Commissioner of City Planning Otto August Braunbek (1869–1929). Werner attended the Uni ...

* Carsten Bresch *

Hans Breuer Hans may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Hans (name), a masculine given name * Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician ** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans ** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi a ...

Dirk Brockmann Dirk Brockmann is a German physicist and Professor at the Institute for Biology at Humboldt University of Berlin and the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin. Brockmann is known for his work in complex systems, complex networks, computational epidemiol ...

* Eugen Brodhun * Ernst Brüche * Hermann Brück *

Alfred Bucherer Alfred Heinrich Bucherer (* 9 July 1863 in Cologne; † 16 April 1927 in Bonn) was a German physicist, who is known for his experiments on relativistic mass. He also was the first who used the phrase " theory of relativity" for Einstein's theo ...

* Detlev Buchholz *

Bernd Büchner Bernd Büchner (born 26 May 1961) is, since 2003, Director of the Institute for Solid State Research, IFW Dresden and Professor for Experimental Physics at the Dresden University of Technology. Büchner is known for contributions to the field of ...

* Alfons Bühl *

Heinrich Bürger Heinrich Bürger (or: Heinrich Burger) (Hamelin, 29 February 1804, or 7 November 1804, or 20 January 1806 – Indramayu (Java) 25 March 1858) was a German physicist, biologist and botanist employed by the Dutch government, and an entrepreneur. ...

* Hans Busch *

Gerd Buschhorn Gerd W. Buschhorn (21 June 1934 – 20 January 2010) is the former director of the Max Planck Institute for Physics The Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) is a physics institute in Munich, Germany that specializes in high energy physics and ...

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* Philipp Carl * Lorenz S. Cederbaum * Ernst Chladni * Elwin Bruno Christoffel * Rudolf Clausius * Emil Cohn * Theodor des Coudres *

Christoph Cremer Christoph Cremer (born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) is a German physicist and emeritus at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, former honorary professor at the University of Mainz and was a former group leader at Institute of Molecul ...

Erika Cremer Erika Cremer (20 May 1900, Munich – 21 September 1996, Innsbruck) was a German physical chemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Innsbruck who is regarded as one of the most important pioneers in gas chromatography, as she secon ...

* Siegfried Czapski

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* Konrad Dannenberg * Kurt H. Debus * Max Delbrück * Wolfgang Demtröder * Guido Dessauer * Kurt Diebner *

Gerhard Heinrich Dieke Gerhard Heinrich Dieke (1901 in Rheda, Germany – August 26, 1965 in Aberdeen, Scotland) was a German/United States of America, U.S. physicist. He was a pioneer in investigating the structure of atoms and molecules by spectroscopic methods. Dieke ...

* Walter Dieminger * Hansjoerg Dittus *

Günther Dollinger Günther Dollinger (born 2 August 1960 in Kempten) is a German physicist and professor at the Bundeswehr University Munich. Life Dollinger completed his doctoral studies in physics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He is currentl ...

Klara Döpel Klara (Minna) Renate Döpel (née Mannß; 1900 – 6 April 1945 in Leipzig) was a feminist and a German lawyer until 1933. Then she married the German nuclear physicist Robert Döpel, and they worked together as a team at Leipzig University st ...

Robert Döpel Georg Robert Döpel (3 December 1895 – 2 December 1982) was a German experimental nuclear physicist. He was a participant in a group known as the " first ''Uranverein''", which was spawned by a meeting conducted by the ''Reichserziehungsmin ...

* Werner Döring *

Friedrich Ernst Dorn Friedrich Ernst Dorn (27 July 1848 – 16 December 1916) was a German physicist who was the first to discover that a radioactive substance, later named radon, is emitted from radium. Life and work Dorn was born in Guttstadt (Dobre Miasto), P ...

* Walter Dornberger * Heinrich Wilhelm Dove * Jörg Dräger *

Olaf Dreyer Olaf Dreyer (born 1969, Hamburg) is a German theoretical physicist whose research interests include quantum gravity and the quantum measurement problem. Dreyer received his Ph.D. in quantum gravity in 2001 from the Pennsylvania State University un ...

* Paul Drude *

Dirk Dubbers Dirk Dubbers (short for Dietrich Jochen Dubbers) (born 16 November 1943 in Dresden) is a German physicist. Biography Dubbers studied physics at the universities of Göttingen and Heidelberg, received his doctorate in 1972 in Heidelberg, then ...

* Hans-Peter Dürr

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Gustav Eberhard Gustav E. Eberhard (10 August 1867 – 3 January 1940) German astrophysicist. Eberhard published numerous investigations on spectroscopy and on photographic Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by reco ...

* Hermann Ebert *

Ernst R. G. Eckert Ernst Rudolph Georg Eckert (September 13, 1904 – July 8, 2004) was an Austrian American engineer and scientist who advanced the film cooling technique for aeronautical engines. He earned his Diplom Ingenieur and doctorate in 1927 and 1931, respe ...

Eduard Riecke Eduard Riecke (1 December 1845 – 11 June 1915) was a German experimental physicist. Riecke studied physics at the Polytechnic in Stuttgart, at the University of Tübingen and at the University of Göttingen under Wilhelm Weber and Friedri ...

* Jürgen Ehlers *

Geoffrey G. Eichholz Geoffrey, Geoffroy, Geoff, etc., may refer to: People * Geoffrey (name), including a list of people with the name * Geoffroy (surname), including a list of people with the name * Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. 1095–c. 1155), clergyman and one of the ...

* Albert Einstein *

Wolfgang Eisenmenger Wolfgang Eisenmenger (11 February 1930 – 10 December 2016) was a German physicist. Fields of investigation His PhD thesis (1958) dealt with the surface tension of water and aqueous solutions. In 1964 he defended his habilitation Habilitatio ...

Jens Eisert Jens Eisert, born 9 October 1970, is a German physicist, ERC fellow, and professor at the Free University of Berlin. He is known for his research in quantum information science and quantum many-body theory in condensed matter physics. He has ...

Walter M. Elsasser Walter Maurice Elsasser (March 20, 1904 – October 14, 1991) was a German-born American physicist, a developer of the presently accepted dynamo theory as an explanation of the Earth's magnetism. He proposed that this magnetic field resulted from ...

* Julius Elster *

Berthold-Georg Englert Berthold-Georg Englert (born 1953) is Provost's Chair Professor at the National University of Singapore, and Principal Investigator at the Centre for Quantum Technologies. In 2006, he was recognized for outstanding contributions to theoretical re ...

* Georg Adolf Erman * Paul Erman * Gerhard Ertl *

Abraham Esau Robert Abraham Esau (7 June 1884 – 12 May 1955) was a German physicist. After receipt of his doctorate from the University of Berlin, Esau worked at Telefunken, where he pioneered very high frequency (VHF) waves used in radar, radio, and tele ...

* Tilman Esslinger *

Andreas von Ettingshausen Andreas Freiherr von Ettingshausen (25 November 1796 – 25 May 1878) was an Austrian mathematician and physicist. Biography Ettingshausen studied philosophy and jurisprudence at the University of Vienna. In 1817, he joined the University of Vi ...

* Arnold Eucken *

Hans Heinrich Euler Hans Heinrich Euler (b. 6 October 1909 in Merano, d. 1941) was a German physicist. He received his PhD in 1935 at the University of Leipzig under Werner Heisenberg with a thesis ''Über die Streuung von Licht an Licht nach der Diracschen Theor ...

* Paul Peter Ewald

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* Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit * Heino Falcke *

Hans Falkenhagen Hans Falkenhagen (13 May 1895 – 26 June 1971) was a German physicist and electrochemist best known for eponymous Debye–Falkenhagen effect. 1955 he became a regular member of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin and in 1962 a member of the ...

* Lutz Feld *

Claudia Felser Claudia Felser (28 July 1962 in Aachen) is a German solid state chemist and materials scientist. She is currently a director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids. Felser was elected as a member into the National Academy of En ...

* Klaus Fesser *

Wolfgang Fink Wolfgang Fink is a German-American theoretical physicist. He is currently an associate professor and the inaugural Maria & Edward Keonjian Endowed Chair of Microelectronics at the University of Arizona. Fink has joint appointments in the Dep ...

Peter Finke Peter Finke (born 1944) is a German theoretical physicist who participated in Project-706, Pakistan's clandestine nuclear research project. A close associate and friend of the famous Pakistani nuclear engineer Munir Ahmad Khan (late), he is ...

* Wolfgang Finkelnburg * Erich Fischer * Johannes Fischer *

Arnold Flammersfeld Arnold Rudolf Karl Flammersfeld (February 10, 1913 – January 5, 2001) was a German nuclear physicist who worked on the German nuclear energy project during World War II. From 1954, he was a professor of physics at the University of Göttinge ...

* Rudolf Fleischmann * Siegfried Flügge * Albrecht Fölsing * Theodor Förster * Jens Frahm * James Franck *

Moritz Ludwig Frankenheim Moritz Ludwig Frankenheim (29 June 1801 – 14 January 1869) was a Germans, German physicist, geographer, and crystallography, crystallographer. Life and education Moritz Ludwig Frankenheim was born in 1801 in Braunschweig, Brunswick. His fam ...

* Rudolph Franz * Walter Franz *

Joseph von Fraunhofer Joseph Ritter von Fraunhofer (; ; 6 March 1787 – 7 June 1826) was a German physicist and optical lens manufacturer. He made optical glass, an achromatic telescope, and objective lenses. He also invented the spectroscope and developed diffract ...

* Theodoric of Freiberg * Benedict Friedlaender * Harald Friedrich * Harald Fritzsch *

Hellmut Fritzsche Hellmut Fritzsche (20 February 1927 – June 17, 2018) was an American physicist. He came to the US on a one-year Smith-Mundt fellowship in 1950/51. After receiving his Diplom in physics from the University of Göttingen in 1952 he returned to ...

Klaus Fuchs Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly aft ...

* Erwin Fues * Peter Fulde

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* Wolfgang Gaede *

Otto Willi Gail Otto Willi Gail (18 July 1896 – 29 March 1956) was a German science journalist and author. Gail was born in Gunzenhausen, in the Middle Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany. He studied electrical engineering and physics at the Technical Un ...

* Richard Gans * Carl Friedrich Gauss *

Johann Samuel Traugott Gehler Johann Samuel Traugott Gehler (1 November 1751, in Görlitz – 16 October 1795, in Leipzig) was a German lawyer and physicist. He studied mathematics, natural sciences and law at the University of Leipzig, obtaining his habilitation for mathem ...

Ernst Gehrcke Ernst J. L. Gehrcke (1 July 1878 in Berlin – 25 January 1960 in Hohen-Neuendorf) was a German experimental physicist. He was director of the optical department at the Reich Physical and Technical Institute. Concurrently, he was a professor at th ...

* Hans Geiger * Theo Geisel * Hans Friedrich Geitel * Wolfgang Gentner *

Paul Gerber Paul Gerber (1854 Berlin, Germany – 13 August 1909 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) was a German physics teacher. He studied in Berlin from 1872-1875. In 1877 he became a teacher at the Realgymnasium (high school) in Stargard in Pommern. Gerber ...

Reimund Gerhard Reimund Gerhard (born 31 May 1952 in Heidelberg) is a German applied physicist and university professor. Between 1979 and 2006 he used the last name "Gerhard-Multhaupt". Education Gerhard graduated from the Technical University of Darmstadt as ...

* Walter Gerlach * Christian Ludwig Gerling *

Christian Gerthsen Christian Gerthsen (21 November 1894 in Hörup, Alsen, Province of Schleswig-Holstein, German Reich – 8 December 1956 in Karlsruhe, West Germany) was a German physicist who made contributions to atomic and nuclear physics, as well as writing num ...

Franz Josef Giessibl Franz Josef Gießibl (born 27 May 1962 in Amerang) is a German physicist and university professor at the University of Regensburg. Life Giessibl studied physics from 1982 to 1987 at the Technical University of Munich and at Eidgenössische Tec ...

* Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert *

Herbert Gleiter Herbert Gleiter (born 13 October 1938 in Stuttgart) is a German researcher in physics and nanotechnology. In 1966, he received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Stuttgart in Germany. He received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 198 ...

Karl Glitscher Karl Glitscher (1886 – 1945) was a German physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics. Education Glitscher studied under Arnold Sommerfeld at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. For his doctoral dissertation, Sommerfeld aske ...

* Maria Goeppert-Mayer *

Adolf Goetzberger Adolf Goetzberger (born 29 November 1928 in Munich) is a German physicist. Life Goetzberger studied physic in Munich, Germany. He finished his university studies with a work over ''Über die Kristallisation aufgedampfter Antimonschichten''. He w ...

Gerhard W. Goetze Gerhard Wilhelm Goetze (June 19, 1930 – January 17, 2007) was a German-born Ph.D. researcher and inventor in atomic physics. He was primarily known for his work on the Moon-to-Earth Apollo TV camera making live broadcast in both brilliant sun ...

* Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt *

Eugen Goldstein Eugen Goldstein (; 5 September 1850 – 25 December 1930) was a German physicist. He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, the discoverer of anode rays or canal rays, later identified as positive ions in the gas phase including the hy ...

* Fritz Goos * Walter Gordon *

Göttingen Eighteen The Göttingen Eighteen () was a group of eighteen leading nuclear researchers of the newly founded Federal Republic of Germany who wrote the Göttingen Manifesto on 12 April 1957, opposing Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Defense Secretary Franz-Jo ...

Florian Goebel Karl Florian Goebel (18 October 1972 — 10 September 2008) was a German astrophysicist attached to the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich. He had also been a member of DESY, a German-based research center that develops and runs several ...

* Wolfgang Götze * Leo Graetz * Robert Graham *

Daniel Gralath Daniel Gralath (30 May 1708 – 23 July 1767) was a physicist and a mayor of Danzig. Gralath was born and died in Danzig (Gdańsk) in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He came from a well-to-do trade family. He studied law and philosophy ...

Hans Grassmann Hans Grassmann (Bamberg, 21 May 1960) is a German physicist, writer and entrepreneur, who teaches and works in Italy. Grassmann is the author of four books and more than 250 scientific publications, and is the founder and managing director of the re ...

* Hermann Grassmann *

Markus Greiner Markus Greiner is a German physicist and Professor of Physics at Harvard University. Greiner studied under the Nobel Laureate Theodor Hänsch at the Ludwig-Maximilians University and at the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, where he rece ...

* Walter Greiner * Rudolf Grimm * Claudius Gros * Siegfried Grossmann * Wilhelm Groth * Helmut Gröttrup * Peter Grünberg * Eduard Grüneisen *

Otto von Guericke Otto von Guericke ( , , ; spelled Gericke until 1666; November 20, 1602 – May 11, 1686 ; November 30, 1602 – May 21, 1686 ) was a German scientist, inventor, and politician. His pioneering scientific work, the development of experimental me ...

Peter Gumbsch Peter Gumbsch (born 21 January 1962 in Pforzheim, Germany) is a German physicist and materials scientist. He is the director of the Fraunhofer-Institut für Werkstoffmechanik IWM, ( Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM) in Freiburg ...

* Sibylle Günter

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* Rudolf Haag * Heinz Haber * Rolf Hagedorn * Gotthilf Hagen * Hermann Haken * Wilhelm Hallwachs * Thomas Hamacher * Hilda Hänchen * Wilhelm Hanle *

Theodor W. Hänsch Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch (; born 30 October 1941) is a German physicist. He received one-third of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb t ...

* Hauke Harder * Johannes Franz Hartmann * Werner Hartmann *

Christian August Hausen Christian August Hausen (1693–1743) was a German mathematician who is known for his research on electricity. Biography Hausen studied mathematics at the University of Wittenberg and received his master's degree in 1712. He became an extraordin ...

Isolde Hausser Isolde Hausser (née Ganswindt; 7 December 1889 – 5 October 1951) was a German physicist. She became the head of a department of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (then Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research) in Heidelberg i ...

* Otto Haxel * Oskar Heil *

Burkhard Heim Burkhard Heim (; 9 February 1925 – 14 January 2001) was a German theoretical physicist. He devoted a large portion of his life to the pursuit of his unified field theory, Heim theory. One of his childhood ambitions was to develop a method o ...

* Jochen Heisenberg * Werner Heisenberg * Walter Heitler * Wolfgang Helfrich * Stefan Hell *

Hans Hellmann Hans Gustav Adolf Hellmann (14 October 1903 – 29 May 1938) was a German theoretical physicist. Biography Hellmann was born in Wilhelmshaven, Prussian Hanover. He began studying electrical engineering in University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, b ...

* Hermann von Helmholtz * Thomas Henning * Klaus Hentschel * Carl Hermann * Grete Hermann * Stephan Herminghaus * Walter Herrmann * Gustav Ludwig Hertz * Heinrich Hertz * Gerhard Herzberg * Maximilian Herzberger * Rolf-Dieter Heuer * Burkard Hillebrands * Arthur R. von Hippel *

Johann Wilhelm Hittorf Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (27 March 1824 – 28 November 1914) was a German physicist who was born in Bonn and died in Münster, Germany. Hittorf was the first to compute the electricity-carrying capacity of charged atoms and molecules (ions), an ...

Karl-Heinz Höcker Karl-Heinz Höcker (27 December 1915 – 17 July 1998) was a German theoretical nuclear physicist who worked in the German ''Uranverein''. After World War II, he worked at the university of Stuttgart and was the founder of the ''Institut für Ker ...

Hanna von Hoerner Hanna von Hoerner (14 November 1942 – 4 July 2014) was a German astrophysicist. She founded the company von Hoerner & Sulger which produces scientific instruments, notably cosmic dust analyzers used on space missions by European Space Agency ...

Sebastian von Hoerner Sebastian Rudolf Karl von Hoerner (15 April 1919 – 7 January 2003) was a German astrophysicist and radio astronomer. He was born in Görlitz, Lower Silesia. After the end of World War II he studied physics at University of Göttingen. He obtain ...

Ulrich Höfer Ulrich Höfer (born 7 July 1957, in Zusmarshausen) is a German professor of physics at the University of Marburg. He received his Ph.D. in 1989. According to Google Scholar, Höfer has an h-index The ''h''-index is an author-level metric that ...

Gerhard Hoffmann Gerhard Hoffmann (4 August 1880 – 18 June 1945) was a German nuclear physicist. During World War II, he contributed to the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranium Club. Education Hoffmann studied at the University of Götting ...

* Sigurd Hofmann * Hans Hollmann * Christian Holm * Wilhelm Holtz * Michael Holzscheiter * Helmut Hönl * Ludwig Hopf *

Walter Hoppe Walter Hoppe (March 21, 1917 – November 3, 1986) was a German physicist and electron microscopist. Walter Hoppe was born in Wallsee-Sindelburg and obtained his doctorate in chemistry at the German University in Prague under Professor J. Bo ...

* Heinrich Hora *

Wilhelm Hort Wilhelm Karl Konrad Siegmund Adam Hort (20 March 1878 in Madelungen, now part of Eisenach – 2 June 1938 in Berlin) was a German physicist. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Jena, mechanical and electrical engineering at th ...

Sabine Hossenfelder Sabine Hossenfelder (born 1976) is a German theoretical physicist, author, musician and YouTuber. She is currently employed as a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. She is the author of ''Lost in Math: How Beauty L ...

* Fritz Houtermans *

Alfred Hübler Alfred Wilhelm Hübler (May 16, 1957 – January 27, 2018) was a German-born research physicist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Frederick Seitz, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory as well as a tenured faculty m ...

Erich Hückel Erich Armand Arthur Joseph Hückel (August 9, 1896, Berlin – February 16, 1980, Marburg) was a German physicist and physical chemist. He is known for two major contributions: *The Debye–Hückel theory of electrolytic solutions *The Hückel m ...

* Friedrich Hund *

Hans-Hermann Hupfeld Gustav Theodor Hans Hermann Hupfeld (November 28, 1905 – November 11, 1942 in Mecklenburg, Germany) was a German physicist known for his work on the scattering of gamma rays. Early career Hans-Hermann Hupfeld was born on his parents' far ...

Roland Hüttenrauch Roland Johannes Hüttenrauch (26 January 1928 – 12 January 2006) was in charge of Stiftung Warentest, the German consumer organisation in Berlin from 1967 to 1994. Roland Hüttenrauch was born in Oberlungwitz, Germany. After finishing school ...

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* Maximus von Imhof * Caspar Isenkrahe * Ernst Ising * Patrick Ilg

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* Max Jakob * J. Hans D. Jensen * Peter Herbert Jensen * Willibald Jentschke *

Sabina Jeschke Sabina Jeschke (born 27 July 1968 in Kungälv, Sweden) is a German university professor for information sciences in mechanical engineering at the RWTH Aachen University. As of 10 November 2017, she was named member of the management board of De ...

* Viktor K. Jirsa * Johann Gottfried Teske * Philipp von Jolly *

Claus Jönsson Claus Jönsson (born 26 May 1930) is a Germans, German physicist who in 1961 performed for the first time a version of the double-slit experiment with a single electrons, electron. In 2002 it was named "the most beautiful experiment" by readers of ...

* Georg Joos * Pascual Jordan * Johannes Juilfs

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* Wolfgang Kaiser *

Willi A. Kalender Willi A. Kalender (born 1 August 1949) is a German medical physicist and professor and former chairman of the Institute of Medical Physics of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Kalender has produced several new technologies in the field of diag ...

Salomon Kalischer Salomon Kalischer, or Solomon Kalischer (8 October 1845 – 22 September 1924), was a German Jewish composer, pianist, and physicist. Kalischer was born in Thorn (Toruń) in West Prussia, within the Kingdom of Prussia. He studied at the Jew ...

* Hartmut Kallmann * Theodor Kaluza *

Karl Strehl Karl Wilhelm Andreas Strehl (April 30, 1864 – June 14, 1940) was a German physicist, author and mathematician. He is notable for the Strehl ratio, a widely used measurement for the optical quality of an imaging system.Strehl, K. 1902, ''Über ...

Gustav Karsten Gustav Karsten (24 November 1820 – 16 March 1900) was a German physicist. Karsten was born in Berlin. He studied mathematics and sciences at the universities of Bonn and Berlin, receiving his doctorate in 1843 with the thesis ''Imponderabil ...

* Hermann Karsten *

Ralph Kaufmann Ralph Martin Kaufmann (born August 4, 1969) is a German mathematician working in the United States. Career Kaufmann studied mathematics, physics and philosophy at the University of Bonn. He obtained a master's degree in Physics in 1994 under t ...

* Walter Kaufmann * Heinrich Kayser * Bernhard Keimer *

Christoph Helmut Keitel Christoph Helmut Keitel (born 30 July 1965 in Lübeck, Germany) is a German physicist, presently a director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (''Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik'') in Heidelberg and an honorary professor ("Honorar ...

* Nicholas Kemmer * Julia Kempe * Klaus Kern *

Johannes Kepler Johannes Kepler (; ; 27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630) was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music. He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best known for his laws ...

* Boris Kerner * Wolfgang Ketterle * Karl-Otto Kiepenheuer *

Karl Johann Kiessling Karl Johann Kiessling (6 February 1839 – 22 July 1905) was a German physicist, mathematician, and botanist born in Culm; today Chełmno, Poland. Biography Karl Johann Hermann Kiessling studied at Göttingen, where he became member of Burschens ...

Erhard Kietz Dr. Erhard Karl Kietz (August 22, 1909 – April 6, 1982) was a German-born physicist, who researched frequency constancy of video signals. Life Born August 22, 1909 in Leipzig, Germany as the eldest child of mathematics teacher Georg and Ann ...

* Gustav Kirchhoff * Hans Volker Klapdor-Kleingrothaus * Hagen Kleinert * Ewald Georg von Kleist * Otto Klemperer * Gerhard Klimeck * Klaus von Klitzing * Heinz-Jürgen Kluge *

Hermann Knoblauch Karl Hermann Knoblauch (; 11 April 1820 – 30 June 1895) was a German physicist. He is most notable for his studies of radiant heat. He was one of the six founding members of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft at Berlin on 14 January 1845. ...

Stephan W. Koch Stephan W. Koch (23 May 1953 in Frankfurt am Main – 12 September 2022 in FronhausenMenschen, Verstorbene. In: Physik Journal 21 (2022), Nr. 11, S. 45.) was a German theoretical physicist. He was a professor at the University of Marburg and wo ...

Rudolph Koenig Karl Rudolph Koenig (26 November 18322 October 1901) was born in Königsberg of Prussia. Koenig was a businessman, instrument maker, and Germany, German physicist, chiefly concerned with Acoustics, acoustic phenomena. He was best known for design ...

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Hedwig Kohn Hedwig Kohn (5 April 1887 – 26 November 1964) was a physicist who was one of only three women (along Lise Meitner and Hertha Sponer) to obtain habilitation (the qualification for university teaching) in physics in Germany before World War II. ...

* Werner Kolhörster *

Heinrich Konen Heinrich Matthias Konen (16 September 1874 in Cologne – 31 December 1948 in Bad Godesberg) was a German physicist who specialized in spectroscopy. He was a founder and organizer of the Emergency Association of German Science, and he was a me ...

Arthur König Arthur Peter König (September 13, 1856, Krefeld – October 26, 1901, Berlin) devoted his short life to physiological optics. Born with congenital kyphosis he studied in Bonn and Heidelberg, moving to Berlin in the fall of 1879 where he studied ...

* Hans Kopfermann *

Arthur Korn Arthur Korn (20 May 1870 – 21 December/22 December 1945) was a German physicist, mathematician and inventor. He was involved in the development of the fax machine, specifically the transmission of photographs or telephotography, known as the B ...

* Horst Korsching * Walther Kossel *

Wolfgang Ludwig Krafft Wolfgang Ludwig Krafft (25 August 1743 – 20 November 1814) was a German astronomer and physicist. He is the namesake of the lunar crater Crater may refer to: Landforms *Impact crater, a depression caused by two celestial bodies impacting each ...

* Gerhard Kraft *

Wolfgang Krätschmer Wolfgang Krätschmer (born 16 November 1942 in Berlin) is a German physicist. Krätschmer studied physics in Berlin. After his Diplom he went to the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg and earned his PhD there in 1971 with a t ...

* Michael Kramer * Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein * Adolf Kratzer * Karl Kraus *

Dirk Kreimer Dirk Kreimer (born 12 July 1960) is a German physicist who pioneered the Hopf-algebraic approach to perturbative quantum field theory with Alain Connes and other co-authors. He is currently Humboldt professor at the department of mathematics of ...

* Kurt Kremer *

Erich Kretschmann Erich Justus Kretschmann (14 July 1887 – 1973) was a German physicist. (Gebhardt gives a list of Kretschmann's publications.) Life Kretschmann was born in Berlin. He obtained his PhD at Berlin University in 1914 with his dissertation entitl ...

* Herbert Kroemer * August Krönig *

Bernd J. Kröger Bernd J. Kröger (; born 1959 in Osnabrück, Germany) is a German phonetician and professor at RWTH Aachen University. He is known for his contributions in the field of neurocomputational speech processing, in particular the ACT model.Beal, Deryk S ...

* Ralph Kronig *

Eckhard Krotscheck Eckhard Krotscheck is an American physicist and inventor of Fermi hypernetted-chain theory. Krotscheck is currently a SUNY Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York and a published author. He is also a Fellow of the American Phys ...

Rainer Walter Kühne Rainer may refer to: People * Rainer (surname) * Rainer (given name) Other * Rainer Island, an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia * 16802 Rainer Year 168 ( CLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar ...

Rudolf Kühnhold Rudolf Kühnhold (1903–1992) was an experimental physicist who is often given credit for initiating research that led to the ''Funkmessgerät'' (radio measuring device – radar) in Germany. Early life A native of Schwallungen, Saxe-Meiningen, ...

Helmuth Kulenkampff Helmuth Kulenkampff (5 December 1895 – 12 June 1971) was a physicist notable for his studies of X-rays. He obtained his PhD in 1922 under Ernst Wagner at the University of Munich with a thesis entitled: ''Über das Kontinuierliche Röntgenspek ...

August Kundt August Adolf Eduard Eberhard Kundt (; 18 November 183921 May 1894) was a German physicist. Early life Kundt was born at Schwerin in Mecklenburg. He began his scientific studies at Leipzig, but afterwards went to Berlin University. At first ...

Adolph Theodor Kupffer Adolph Theodor Kupffer ForMemRS (17 January 1799 Jelgava – 4 June 1865) was a Baltic German (subject of Russian Empire) chemist, and physicist. He founded the Depot of Standard Weights and Measures, and the main physical Observatory in Russia. ...

Jochen Küpper Jochen Küpper FRSC (born 1971) is a German chemist and physicist, group leader at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, and Professor of Physics and Professor by courtesy of Chemistry at the Universi ...

* Ferdinand Kurlbaum * Jürgen Kurths * Polykarp Kusch

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Johann von Lamont Johann von Lamont, FRSE (13 December 1805 – 6 August 1879), born John Lamont, was a Scottish-German astronomer and physicist. Biography Lamont was born at Corriemulzie near Inverey in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The son of Robert Lamont (fore ...

* Rolf Landauer * Alfred Landé *

Gottfried Landwehr Gottfried Landwehr (22 August 1929 – 24 January 2013) was a German physicist. Landwehr was born in Osnabrück and studied physics in Karlsruhe. After that he worked at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig. He was one o ...

Dieter Langbein Dieter Langbein, Dr. phil. nat., was a German physicist, whose fields of research included solid state physics, fluid physics and microgravity. He was born on 10 February 1932 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany as Werner Dietrich Langbein and died on 2 ...

* Ludwig Lange * Otto Laporte *

Gerda Laski Gerda Laski (4 June 1893, Vienna – 24 November 1928, Berlin) was an Austrian/German physicist known for her research in infrared radiation. She went to a private girls secondary grammar school in Vienna and graduated in 1913. She earned her do ...

* Jakob Laub *

Max von Laue Max Theodor Felix von Laue (; 9 October 1879 – 24 April 1960) was a German physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals. In addition to his scientific endeavors with cont ...

* Harry Lehmann *

Otto Lehmann Otto Lehmann may refer to: * Otto Lehmann (physicist) (1855–1922), German physicist * Otto Lehmann (movie producer) Otto Lehmann (22 January 1889 in Berlin – 28 April 1968 in Munich ) was a German movie producer. Career Lehmann studied to ...

* Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz * Philipp Lenard * Emil Lenz * Wilhelm Lenz * Karl Leo *

Ulf Leonhardt Ulf Leonhardt, FRSE (born 9 October 1965 in Bad Schlema, East Germany) is a German and British scientist. In 2006, he published the first scientific paper on invisibility cloaking with metamaterials at the same time Pendry's group published thei ...

* Harald Lesch *

Jacob Leupold Jacob Leupold (22 July 1674 – 12 January 1727) was a German physicist, mathematician, instrument maker, mining commissioner and engineer. He wrote the seminal book ''Theatrum Machinarum Generale'' ("The General Theory of Machines"). Early lif ...

Hilde Levi Hilde Levi (9 May 1909 – 26 July 2003) was a German-Danish physicist. She was a pioneer of the use of radioactive isotopes in biology and medicine, notably the techniques of radiocarbon dating and autoradiography. In later life she bec ...

* Willy Ley * Georg Christoph Lichtenberg *

Manfred Lindner Manfred Lindner (born 22 February 1957) is a German physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany. He conducts basic research in particle and astro-particle physics. Life and Scientific Work Man ...

* Detlef Lohse * Renate Loll * Eugen von Lommel *

Gerhart Lüders Gerhart Lüders (25 February 1920 – 31 January 1995) was a German theoretical physicist who worked mainly in quantum field theory and was well known for the discovery and a general proof of the CPT theorem. This theorem is also called the ''Pauli ...

* Christian Ludwig * Otto Lummer * Dieter Lüst * Reimar Lüst * Josef Lutz

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* Erwin Madelung * Heinrich Gustav Magnus * Heinz Maier-Leibnitz *

Christoph von der Malsburg Christoph von der Malsburg (born 8 May 1942) is a German physicist and neuroscientist. Early life von der Malsburg obtained his PhD with a concentration in elementary particle physics at CERN and the University of Heidelberg in 1970. Career H ...

Jochen Mannhart Jochen Mannhart (born 24 April 1960 in Metzingen) is a German physicist. Biography Jochen Mannhart studied physics at the University of Tübingen, Germany, from 1980 to 1986, where he also received his PhD in 1987 and his habilitation in 1994. ...

Reinhold Mannkopff Reinhold Mannkopff (18 May 1894 – 9 April 1978) was a German experimental physicist who specialized in spectroscopy. In 1939, he was a member of the first Uranium Club, the German nuclear energy project. After World War II, he was the secre ...

* Herman March * Henry Margenau * Thomas Martinetz * Herbert Mataré * Gerhard Materlik * Josef Mattauch * Dieter Matthaei * Hans Ferdinand Mayer * Julius von Mayer * Reinhard Mecke *

Reinhard Meinel Reinhard Meinel (born 21 October 1958, in Jena) is the Head of the Relativistic Astrophysics group at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Jena, Germany. In 1993 he published together with Gernot Neugebauer a complete analytical solution to t ...

* Karl Meissner * Walther Meissner * Josef Meixner * Franz Melde * Angela Merkel * Ulrich Mescheder *

Karl Mey Karl Mey (March 1879 – May 1945) was a prominent German industrial physicist who directed the research and development branch of Osram AG. His presidency of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, starting the year Hitler became Chancellor of ...

* Werner Meyer-Eppler *

Hajo Meyer Hajo Meyer (born Hans Joachim Gustav Meyer; 12 August 1924 – 23 August 2014) was a German-born Dutch physicist, Holocaust survivor and political activist. While primarily known for his public commentaries in terms of the European Jewish communi ...

Oskar Emil Meyer Oskar Emil Meyer (15 October 1834, Varel – 21 April 1909, Breslau) was a German physicist best known for his studies on the viscosity of gases. He was a younger brother to chemist Lothar von Meyer. Biography From 1854 he studied sciences ...

Theodor Meyer Theodor Meyer (July 1, 1882 – March 8, 1972 in Bad Bevensen, Germany) was a German mathematician, a student of Ludwig Prandtl, and a founder of the scientific discipline now known as compressible flow or gas dynamics.G. S. Settles, E. Krause, and ...

* Rolf Michel * Gustav Mie * Jürgen Mlynek * Dieter Möhl * Richard Mollier * Kurd von Mosengeil *

Rudolf Mössbauer Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer (German spelling: ''Mößbauer''; ; 31 January 1929 – 14 September 2011) was a German physicist best known for his 1957 discovery of ''recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence'' for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobe ...

* Erwin Wilhelm Müller * Justus Mühlenpfordt * Harald J. W. Mueller-Kirsten *

Johann Heinrich Jakob Müller Johann Heinrich Jakob Müller (30 April 1809, Kassel, Kingdom of Westphalia – 3 October 1875, Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German physicist. Biography From 1829 he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Bonn, where one of hi ...

Klaus-Robert Müller Klaus-Robert Müller (born 1964 in Karlsruhe, Germany) is a German computer scientist and physicist, most noted for his work in machine learning and brain–computer interfaces. Career Klaus-Robert Müller received his Diplom in mathematical ph ...

* Walther Müller * Wilhelm Müller *

Georg Wilhelm Muncke Georg Wilhelm Muncke or Georg Wilhelm Munke (28 November 1772, in Hilligsfeld – 17 October 1847, in Großkmehlen) was a German physicist. From 1797 to 1810 he worked as an administrator at the Georgianum in Hanover. In 1810 he became a pro ...

Gottfried Münzenberg Gottfried Münzenberg (born 17 March 1940) is a German physicist. He studied physics at Justus-Liebig-Universität in Giessen and Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck and completed his studies with a Ph.D. at the University of Giessen ...

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Werner Nahm Werner Nahm (; born 21 March 1949) is a German theoretical physicist, with the status of professor. He has made contributions to mathematical physics and fundamental theoretical physics. Life and work Werner Nahm attended Gymnasium Philipp ...

Elsa Neumann Elsa Neumann (23 August 1872 – 23 July 1902) was a German physicist. She was the first woman to receive a PhD in physics from the University of Berlin, in 1899. Early life and education Elsa was the daughter of Maximilian and Anna née Meye ...

* Franz Ernst Neumann * Roger G. Newton * Gereon Niedner-Schatteburg *

Alexander Nikuradse Alexander Nikuradse (Aleksandre Nikuradze; ka, ალექსანდრე ნიკურაძე), also known by his pseudonym Al. Sanders, (November 10, 1900 – June 13, 1981) was a Georgian-German physicist and Nazi political scientist. ...

* Johann Nikuradse * Günter Nimtz * Ida Noddack * Emmy Noether * Bengt Nölting *

Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim LotharHis name is sometimes misspelled as ''Lother''. Wolfgang Nordheim (November 7, 1899, Munich – October 5, 1985, La Jolla, California) was a German born Jewish American theoretical physicist. He was a pioneer in the applications of quantum ...

Johann Gottlieb Nörremberg Johann Gottlieb Christian Nörremberg (11 August 1787, in Pustenbach – 20 July 1862) was a German physicist who worked on the polarization of light. From 1823 he taught classes in mathematics and physics at the military school in Darmstadt. In ...

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Anton Oberbeck Anton Oberbeck (25 March 1846 – 23 October 1900) was a German physicist from Berlin. He studied at University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg and the Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Berlin, obtaining his doctorate from the latter in 1868. ...

Hermann Oberth Hermann Julius Oberth (; 25 June 1894 – 28 December 1989) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and engineer. He is considered one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics, along with Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Konstantin Ts ...

* Robert Ochsenfeld *

Reinhard Oehme Reinhard Oehme (; born 26 January 1928, Wiesbaden; died sometime between 29 September and 4 October 2010, Hyde Park) was a German-American physicist known for the discovery of C (charge conjugation) non-conservation in the presence of P ( parity) ...

Walter Oelert Walter Oelert (born 14 July 1942) is a professor at the Juelich Research Center in Germany. Research In 1995 under the leadership of Professor Walter Oelert, the international group of physicists in the CERN laboratory managed to show that the ...

* Arthur von Oettingen * Hans von Ohain * Georg Ohm * Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers * Johannes Orphal * Wilhelm Orthmann * Gottfried Osann * Heinrich Ott

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* Friedrich Paschen * Wolfgang Paul * Rudolf Peierls *

Christoph Heinrich Pfaff Christoph Heinrich Pfaff (2 March 1773, Stuttgart – 24 April 1852, Kiel, Holstein) was a German physician, chemist and physicist. Biography He graduated as a physician at the Karlsschule in Stuttgart in 1793, where he studied under Carl Fried ...

* Franz Pfeiffer * Georg Pfotzer * Bernhard Philberth * Marcello Pirani * Max Planck *

Jan Christoph Plefka Jan Christoph Plefka (born 31 January 1968 in Hanau) is a German theoretical physicist working in the field of quantum field theory and string theory. Education After receiving the Abitur in Darmstadt and performing civil service in a hospital, P ...

Martin Bodo Plenio Martin Bodo Plenio (born 20 May 1968) is a German physicist, Alexander von Humboldt Professor, and Director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Ulm University. He is notable for his work on entanglement theory, quantum technology and qua ...

* Julius Plücker * Agnes Pockels * Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels * Johann Christian Poggendorff * Dieter Pohl * Robert Pohl] *

Fritz-Albert Popp Fritz-Albert Popp (11 May 1938 – 4 August 2018) was a German researcher in biophysics, particularly in the study of biophotons. Biography Popp was born in 1938 in Frankfurt. He has a diploma in Experimental Physics (1966, University Würzbur ...

* Heinz Pose * Ludwig Prandtl *

Fritz Karl Preikschat Fritz Karl Preikschat (September 11, 1910 – September 2, 1994) was a German, later American, electrical and telecommunications engineer and inventor. He had more than three German patents and more than 23 U.S. patents, including a dot matrix te ...

Ernst Pringsheim Sr. Ernst Pringsheim Sr. (11 July 1859 – 28 June 1917) was a German physicist. He was born and died in Breslau. He made, together with Otto Lummer, important measurements of the blackbody radiation spectrum, leading to Max Planck's quantum hypo ...

* Carl Pulfrich

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* Jürgen P. Rabe * Johann Rafelski * Carl Ramsauer * Karl Rawer * Erich Regener *

Karl-Henning Rehren Karl-Henning Rehren (born 1956 in Celle) is a German physicist who focuses on algebraic quantum field theory. Biography Rehren studied physics in Heidelberg, Paris and Freiburg. In Freiburg he received his PhD (advisor Klaus Pohlmeyer) in 198 ...

* Werner E. Reichardt *

Fritz Reiche Fritz Reiche (July 4, 1883 – January 14, 1969) was a German physicist, a student of Max Planck and a colleague of Albert Einstein, who was active in, and made important contributions to the early development of quantum mechanics including co-aut ...

* Hans Reissner * Gerhard Rempe * Jürgen Renn *

Mauritius Renninger Mauritius Renninger (8 June 1905 – 22 December 1987) was a German theoretical physicist noted for his work on crystallography and x-ray optics. He's known for the Renninger effect and for the Renninger negative-result experiment. See also *Renni ...

* Ernst Rexer *

Franz Richarz Franz Richarz (15 October 1860, in Endenich – 10 June 1920, in Marburg) was a German physicist. His father, also named Franz Richarz (1812–1887), was a noted psychiatrist. He studied mathematics and physics at the universities of Berlin and ...

* Georg Wilhelm Richmann * Achim Richter * Klaus Riedle *

Charlotte Riefenstahl Charlotte Houtermans born: Charlotte Riefenstahl (24 May 1899 in Bielefeld, Germany – 6 January 1993 in Northfield, Minnesota, United States ) was a German physicist. Education Riefenstahl began her studies at the Georg-August University ...

* Peter Theophil Riess * Karl-Heinrich Riewe *

Johann Wilhelm Ritter Johann Wilhelm Ritter (16 December 1776 – 23 January 1810). was a German chemist, physicist and philosopher. He was born in Samitz (Zamienice) near Haynau (Chojnów) in Silesia (then part of Prussia, since 1945 in Poland), and died in Munic ...

* Oskar Ritter * Walter Rogowski * Wilhelm Röntgen * Harald Rose * Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider *

Heinrich Rubens Heinrich Rubens (30 March 1865, Wiesbaden, Nassau, Germany – 17 July 1922, Berlin, Germany) was a German physicist. He is known for his measurements of the energy of black-body radiation which led Max Planck to the discovery of his radiati ...

Andreas Rüdiger Johannes Andreas Rüdiger (1 November 1673 – 6 June 1731) was a German philosopher and physicist. Main Works * 1707 Philosophia synthetica * 1709, 1722 De sensu veri et falsi * 1711, 1717, 1718 Institutiones eruditionis (= Institutiones phi ...

* Paul Rudolph *

Carl David Tolmé Runge Carl David Tolmé Runge (; 30 August 1856 – 3 January 1927) was a German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist. He was co-developer and co-eponym of the Runge–Kutta method (German pronunciation: ), in the field of what is today known a ...

Iris Runge Iris Anna Runge (1 June 1888 – 27 January 1966) was a German applied mathematician and physicist. Life and work Iris Runge was the eldest of six children of mathematician Carl Runge. She started studying physics, mathematics, and geography ...

Wilhelm Runge Wilhelm Tolmé Runge (June 10, 1895 – June 9, 1987) was an electrical engineer and physicist who had a major involvement in developing radar systems in Germany. Early life Wilhelm Runge was born and raised in Hanover, where his father, Carl Ru ...

Ernst Ruska Ernst August Friedrich Ruska (; 25 December 1906 – 27 May 1988) was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope. Life and career Erns ...

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* Erich Sackmann * Corinna Salander * Wolfgang Sandner * Fritz Sauter *

Fritz Peter Schäfer Fritz Peter Schäfer (15 January 1931 – 25 April 2011) was a German physicist, born in Hersfeld, Hesse-Nassau. He is the co-inventor of the organic dye laser Organic lasers use an organic (carbon based) material as the gain medium. The firs ...

Hendrik Schatz Hendrik Schatz is a professor of Nuclear Astrophysics at Michigan State University. He earned his Diploma from the University of Karlsruhe in 1993, and his PhD from the University of Heidelberg in 1997 after completing his thesis work at the Uni ...

Karl Scheel Karl Friedrich Franz Christian Scheel (10 March 1866 in Rostock – 8 November 1936 in Berlin) was a German physicist. He was a Senior Executive Officer and head of Department IIIb at the Reich Physical and Technical Institute. Additionally ...

Jens Scheer Jens Scheer (30 May 1935 – 18 July 1994), was a physicist, professor of nuclear physics at the University of Bremen and one of Germany's best-known anti-nuclear activists. Scheer was a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). For reason o ...

* Frank Scheffold *

Valentin Scheidel Valentin Scheidel (born 1883) was a German physicist. Scheidel received his doctorate from the University of Munich in 1911, under Arnold Sommerfeld Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld, (; 5 December 1868 – 26 April 1951) was a German the ...

* Christoph Scheiner * Hans Joachim Schellnhuber *

Harald Schering Harald Ernst Malmsten Schering (November 25, 1880 – April 10, 1959) was a German physicist born in Göttingen. He is best known for his work in high voltage electricity and the Schering Bridge used in electrical engineering. Schering was the ...

* Otto Scherzer *

Josef Schintlmeister Josef 'Sepp' Schintlmeister (16 June 1908, Radstadt – 14 August 1971, Hinterglemm) was an Austrian-German nuclear physicist and alpinist from Radstadt. During World War II, he worked on the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Ur ...

Dagmar Schipanski Dagmar Elisabeth Schipanski (; 3 September 1943 – 7 September 2022) was a German physicist, academic, and politician from Thuringia. Although best known for her 1999 German presidential election, 1999 nomination as President of Germany by the ...

* Wolfgang P. Schleich * Helmut Schmidt * Jürgen Schmitt * Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake * Eckehard Schöll * Jan Hendrik Schön * Gaspar Schott * Walter H. Schottky *

Heinrich G. F. Schröder Heinrich Georg Friedrich Schröder (28 September 1810 – 12 May 1885) was a German natural scientist (physicist, chemist), mathematician and educator.Alexander KipnisSchröder, Georg Friedrich Heinrich In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 23, ...

Manfred R. Schroeder Manfred Robert Schroeder (12 July 1926 – 28 December 2009) was a German physicist, most known for his contributions to acoustics and computer graphics. He wrote three books and published over 150 articles in his field. Born in Ahlen, he stud ...

Bert Schroer Bert Schroer (born 10 November 1933 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany) is a German mathematical physicist, now a visiting professor in Rio de Janeiro and an emeritus professor in Berlin, who is known for his work on algebraic quantum field theory, braid ...

* Engelbert Schücking *

Helmut W. Schulz Helmut W. Schulz (1912 – 28 January 2006) was a German chemical engineer and professor at Columbia University known for his many works in disparate fields like nuclear physics, rocketry and waste-to-energy processes. He developed the proces ...

* Erich Schumann * Victor Schumann *

Manfred Schüssler Manfred Schüssler is a German solar physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research. In 2017, he was awarded the George Ellery Hale Prize and the Senior Prize of the Solar Physics Division of the European Physical Society for hi ...

* Karl Schwarzschild * Martin Schwarzschild *

Gerhard Schwehm Gerhard Schwehm (born 13 March 1949, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) is Head of Solar System Science Operations Division for the European Space Agency (ESA). He was Mission Manager for the Rosetta mission until his retirement. Education Schwehm ...

* Achim Schwenk * Johann Schweigger *

August Seebeck August Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Seebeck (27 December 1805 in Jena – 19 March 1849 in Dresden) was a scientist at the Technische Universität Dresden. Seebeck is primarily remembered for his work on sound and hearing, in particular with expe ...

* Thomas Johann Seebeck *

Rudolf Seeliger Rudolf Seeliger (12 November 1886 – 20 January 1965) was a German physicist who specialized in electric discharges in gases and plasma physics. From 1906 to 1909, Seeliger studied at the University of Tübingen and the University of Heidelberg ...

Jens Seipenbusch Jens Peter Seipenbusch (born 6 August 1968) is a German politician and physicist who was leader of the Pirate Party Germany. Seipenbusch, a founding member of his party, studied physics at the University of Münster The University of Münster ...

* Walter Selke * Ludwig August Seeber * Henry Siedentopf *

Paul Eugen Sieg Paul Eugen Sieg (2 August 1899 – 2 May 1950) was a German physicist and science fiction writer. Initially popular during the 1930s, writing ''Detatom'' in 1936, his books were reprinted following World War II. Two of his books, ''Insula'' and ...

* Francis Simon *

Hermann Theodor Simon Hermann Theodor Simon (german: ˈziːmɔn, lang; 1 January 1870, in Kirn – 22 December 1918, in Göttingen) was a German physicist. Biography He studied physics at the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin, earning his doctorate in 1894 ...

* Paul Söding *

Johann Georg von Soldner Johann Georg von Soldner (16 July 1776 in Feuchtwangen, Ansbach – 13 May 1833 in Bogenhausen, Munich) was a German physicist, mathematician and astronomer, first in Berlin and later in 1808 in Munich. Life He was born in Feuchtwangen in Ans ...

Arnold Sommerfeld Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld, (; 5 December 1868 – 26 April 1951) was a German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics, and also educated and mentored many students for the new era of theoretica ...

* Eckehard Specht * Johann Sperling * Hertha Sponer * Johannes Stark *

Matthias Staudacher Matthias Staudacher born 11th January of 1963 is a German theoretical physicist who has done significant work in the area of quantum field theory and string theory. Education Beginning his physics studies at the University of Heidelberg and at Lu ...

* Max Steenbeck * Carl August von Steinheil * Hans Stephani * Otto Stern *

Ernest J. Sternglass Ernest Joachim Sternglass (24 September 1923 – 12 February 2015) was a professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh and director of the Radiation and Public Health Project. He is an American physicist and author, best known for his co ...

Georg Stetter Georg Carl Stetter (23 December 1895 – 14 July 1988) was an Austrian-German nuclear physicist. Stetter was Director of the Second Physics Institute of the University of Vienna. He was a principal member of the German nuclear energy project, also ...

* Horst Stöcker * Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann * Horst Ludwig Störmer * Herbert Arthur Stuart * Hildegard Stücklen * Ernst Stuhlinger * Kurt Symanzik

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* Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann * Michel Ter-Pogossian * Friedrich-Karl Thielemann * Uwe Thumm *

Bruno Thüring Bruno Jakob Thüring (7 September 1905, in Warmensteinach – 6 May 1989, in Karlsruhe) was a German physicist and astronomer. Thüring studied mathematics, physics, and astronomy at the University of Munich and received his doctorate in 1928, und ...

Clemens Timpler Clemens Timpler (1563 – 28 February 1624) was a German philosopher, physicist and theologian. Along with Jakob Degen (1511–1587), he is considered an important Protestant metaphysician, establishing the Protestant Reformed ''Neuscholasti ...

* Johann Daniel Titius *

August Toepler August Joseph Ignaz Toepler (7 September 1836 – 6 March 1912) was a German chemist and physicist known for his experiments in electrostatics. Biography August Toepler was born on 7 September 1836. He studied chemistry at the Gewerbe-Insti ...

* Maximilien Toepler *

Rudolf Tomaschek Rudolf Karl Anton Tomaschek (23 December 1895 in Budweis, Bohemia – 8 February 1966, Breitbrunn am Chiemsee) was a German experimental physicist. His scientific efforts included work on phosphorescence, fluorescence, and (tidal) gravitation. ...

Peter E. Toschek Peter E. Toschek (18 April 1933 – 25 June 2020) was a German experimental physicist who researched nuclear physics, quantum optics, and laser physics. He is known as a pioneer of laser spectroscopy and for the first demonstration of single t ...

* Johann Georg Tralles * Max Trautz *

Hans-Jürgen Treder Hans-Jürgen Treder (born 4 September 1928 in Berlin; died 18 November 2006 in Potsdam) was a German theoretical physicist and in the GDR, specializing in general relativity (and its extensions), astrophysics, and cosmology. He also had an inte ...

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* Vitello * Woldemar Voigt *

Dieter Vollhardt Dieter Vollhardt (born September 8, 1951) is a German physicist and Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Augsburg. Scientific work Vollhardt is one of the founders of the Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (DMFT) for strongly correlated m ...

* Helmut Volz

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Ernst Wagner Ernst Wagner (1876-1928) was a German physicist. He was born on 14 August 1876 at Hildburghausen. He first studied medicine and physics at the Universities of Würzburg, Berlin, and Munich, obtaining his doctorate under Wilhelm Röntgen Wilh ...

* Gerhard Wagner * Herbert Wagner *

Manfred Wagner Manfred Hermann Wagner (born 1948) is the author of Wagner model and the molecular stress function theory for polymer rheology. He is a Professor for Polymer engineering and Polymer physics at the Technical University of Berlin. Manfred was ...

Wilhelm Walcher Wilhelm Walcher (7 July 1910 in Kaufbeuren – 9 November 2005 in Marburg) was a German experimental physicist. During World War II, he worked on the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranium Club; he worked on mass spectrometers ...

Ludwig Waldmann Ludwig Waldmann (June 8, 1913 in Fürth – February 9, 1980) was a German physicist who specialized in transport phenomena in gases. He derived the Waldmann-Snider equation.Hess, 2003 Career Waldmann completed his Ph.D. under Arnold Sommerfeld ...

Andreas Wallraff Andreas Wallraff is a German physicist who conducts research in quantum information processing and quantum optics. He has taught as a professor at ETH Zürich in Zürich, Switzerland since 2006. He worked as a research scientist with Robert J. Sc ...

Emil Warburg Emil Gabriel Warburg (; 9 March 1846 – 28 July 1931) was a German physicist who during his career was professor of physics at the Universities of Strassburg, Freiburg and Berlin. He was president of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft 1 ...

* Jürgen Warnatz * Heinrich Friedrich Weber * Wilhelm Eduard Weber * Franz Wegner *

Stephanie Wehner Stephanie Dorothea Christine Wehner (born 8 May 1977 in Würzburg) is a German physicist and computer scientist. She is the Roadmap Leader of the Quantum Internet and Networked Computing initiative at QuTech, Delft University of Technology. S ...

Dieter Weichert Dieter Weichert (born 5 March 1948) is a German mechanical engineer specialising in solid mechanics and polymer rheology. From 1995 to 2013 he was the Director of the Institute for General Mechanics of RWTH Aachen RWTH Aachen University (), al ...

Hans-Arwed Weidenmüller Hans-Arwed Weidenmüller (born 26 July 1933 in Dresden) is a German theoretical physicist, who works primarily in the field of nuclear physics. Life and work Weidenmüller studied in Bonn and from 1956 to 1957 in Heidelberg under J. Hans D. Jensen ...

Richard M. Weiner Richard M. Weiner (6 February 1930 – 13 August 2020) was a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Marburg in Marburg, Germany and an associate of the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique at Paris-Sud 11 University in Orsay, Franc ...

* Max Bernhard Weinstein * Paul Weiss * Walter Weizel * Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker * Heinrich Welker *

Katrin Wendland Katrin Wendland (born 1970) is a German mathematical physicist who works as a professor at Trinity College Dublin.. Wendland earned a diploma in mathematics from the University of Bonn in 1996, and a PhD in physics from the University of Bonn ...

* Horst Wenninger * Gregor Wentzel * Werner Hofmann * Julius Wess *

Wilhelm Westphal Wilhelm Heinrich Westphal (3 March 1882, in Hamburg – 5 June 1978, in Berlin) was a German physicist. From 1918, he was a professor at the University of Berlin. During the period 1922 to 1924, he was also an expert adviser to the Prussian Mini ...

* Christof Wetterich * Eilhard Wiedemann * Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann * Max Wien * Wilhelm Wien * Otto Wiener * Friedwardt Winterberg * Karl Wirtz *

Christian Wissel Christian Wissel, originally a physicist and professor at the University of Marburg, is an important founding father of modern ecological modelling in Germany. He established an influential department at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental R ...

Erich Peter Wohlfarth Erich Peter Wohlfarth (December 7, 1924 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia – March 1988, in London) was a theoretical physicist. He is known for his work in magnetism, in particular the Stoner–Wohlfarth model he developed together with his teacher E.C ...

Ewald Wollny Martin Ewald Wollny (March 20, 1846, Berlin – January 8, 1901, München) was a German founder of agrophysics Agrophysics is a branch of science bordering on agronomy and physics, whose objects of study are the agroecosystem - the biologica ...

Hans Wolter Hans Wolter (11 May 1911 in Dramburg – 17 August 1978 in Marburg) was a German physicist who designed an aplanatic system of grazing incidence mirrors that satisfied the Abbe sine condition (i.e. free of both spherical aberration and coma). Wol ...

Jörg Wrachtrup Jörg Wrachtrup (born 27 December 1961) is a German physicist. He is director of the 3rd Institute of Physics and the Centre for Applied Quantum Technology at Stuttgart University. He is an appointed Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institu ...

* Theodor Wulf * Adolf Wüllner *

Gunter Wyszecki Gunter or Günter may refer to: * Gunter rig, a type of rig used in sailing, especially in small boats * Gunter Annex, Alabama, a United States Air Force installation * Gunter, Texas, city in the United States People Surname * Chris Gunter ( ...

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Joseph Zähringer Joseph Zähringer (often written ''Josef'', March 15, 1929 – July 22, 1970) was a German physicist. From 1949 until 1954 he attended the Universität Freiburg, studying physics, mathematics, chemistry and mineralogy. In 1955 he became an a ...

H. Dieter Zeh Heinz-Dieter Zeh (; 8 May 1932 – 15 April 2018), usually referred to as H. Dieter Zeh, was a professor (later professor emeritus) of the University of Heidelberg and theoretical physicist. Work Zeh was one of the developers of the many-minds ...

Alfred Zehe Alfred Zehe (born May 23, 1939) is a German physicist, professor and author. After American authorities charged him with spying for the East German government in 1983, he became part of a high-profile prisoner exchange between the U.S. and the Sovi ...

Elmar Zeitler Elmar Zeitler (12 March 1927 – 19 December 2020) was a German physicist. Academic career After his service within German Luftwaffe and American prisoner of war, Zeitler studied physics in his hometown Würzburg. The advisor of his dissertat ...

* Karl Eduard Zetzsche * Gustav Zeuner * Hans K. Ziegler *

Karl Zimmer Karl Günter Zimmer (12 July 1911 – 29 February 1988) was a German physicist and radiation biologist, known for his work on the effects of ionizing radiation on DNA. In 1935, he published the major work, ''Über die Natur der Genmutation un ...

Wolfhart Zimmermann Wolfhart Zimmermann (17 February 1928 – 18 September 2016) was a German theoretical physicist. Zimmermann attained a doctorate in 1950 at Freiburg im Breisgau in topology ("Eine Kohomologietheorie topologischer Räume"). Biography Zimmermann w ...

Annette Zippelius Annette Zippelius (born 25 June 1949) is a German physicist at the University of Göttingen. In 1998 she became a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winner. Her research focuses on complex fluids and soft matter – materials that are intermediate b ...

* Martin Zirnbauer * Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner * Hartmut Zohm * Georg Zundel

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