This is a list of notable German scientists. * Alois Alzheimer * Franz Aepinus *

Ralf Altmeyer Prof. Dr. Ralf M. Altmeyer is a German virology, virologist who leads the Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, a joint institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Pasteur Institute, Institut Pasteur and Politics of Shanghai, Shanghai Municipal Govern ...

* Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe * Ludwig Aschoff * Richard Baerwald * Adolf von Baeyer * Emil von Behring * Martin Beneke * Carl Benz *

Roland Benz Roland Benz (born 1943 in Singen, Baden-Württemberg) is a German biophysicist. Early life and education Benz studied mathematics, chemistry, and physics at the University of Würzburg. In 1972, he obtained his Ph.D. in biology, with Peter Lä ...

* Friedrich Bergius *

Ernest Beutler Ernest Beutler (September 30, 1928 – October 5, 2008) was a German-born American hematologist and biomedical scientist. He made important discoveries about the causes of a number of diseases, including anemias, Gaucher disease, disorders of ir ...

Peter Beyer Peter Beyer (born 9 May 1952) is a German Professor for Cell Biology at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Freiburg. He is known as co-inventor of Golden Rice, together with Ingo Potrykus from the ETH Zurich. Biography Peter Beyer ...

* Heinrich Ernst Beyrich * Wilhelm von Bezold * William Blandowski * Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius *

Jens Blauert Jens Peter Blauert (born 20 June 1938 in Hamburg) is a German scientist specializing in psychoacoustics and an emeritus professor at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where he founded the Institute of Communication Acoustics. His major scientific field ...

* Max Bodenstein *

Harald von Boehmer Harald von Boehmer (30 November 1942 – 24 June 2018) was a German- Swiss immunologist best known for his work on T lymphocytes. Career The youngest of Hasso von Boehmer's three children, von Boehmer obtained an M.D. from the Ludwig Maximili ...

Armin von Bogdandy Armin von Bogdandy (born 5 June 1960 in Oberhausen) is a German legal scholar. He is director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and Professor for Public Law, European Union law, European Law ...

* Friedrich Boie *

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 ...

* Carl Bosch *

Johann Friedrich von Brandt Johann Friedrich von Brandt (25 May 1802 – 15 July 1879) was a German-Russian natural history, naturalist, who worked mostly in Russia. Brandt was born in Jüterbog and educated at a Gymnasium (school), gymnasium in Wittenberg and the Humboldt ...

Magnus von Braun Magnus "Mac" Freiherr von Braun (10 May 1919 – 21 June 2003) was a German chemical engineer, Luftwaffe aviator, rocket scientist and business executive. In his 20s he worked as a rocket scientist at Peenemünde and the Mittelwerk. At age ...

* Wernher von Braun * Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke * Franz Ernst Bruckmann * Ernst Büchner * Robert Bunsen *

Friedrich Burmeister Friedrich Burmeister (1890–1969) was a German geophysicist. He was director of the Munich University’s Geomagnetic Observatory. Burmeister studied mathematics and physics at the University of Munich under Hugo von Seeliger and Arnold So ...

Abraham Buschke Abraham Buschke (27 September 1868 – 25 February 1943) was a Jewish German dermatologist who was a native of Nakel in the Province of Posen. Life In 1891 he received his doctorate in Berlin, and afterwards was a surgical assistant in Greifswa ...

* Adolf Butenandt *

Karin Büttner-Janz Karin Büttner-Janz ( Janz, born 17 February 1952) is a German medical doctor who won world and Olympic gold medals in artistic gymnastics for East Germany. From 1990 to 2012, she was chief physician of clinics in Berlin, Germany. She has a f ...

* Jean Cabanis * Sethus Calvisius *

Franz Ludwig von Cancrin Franz Ludwig von Cancrin (February 21, 1738 in Breidenbach – 1812) was a German mineralogist, metallurgist, architect and writer. He was born into a German mining family where he was trained by his father in the science of mining. In 1764, he ...

* Georg Cantor * Joseph Carlebach *

Ernst Boris Chain Sir Ernst Boris Chain (19 June 1906 – 12 August 1979) was a German-born British biochemist best known for being a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin. Life and career Chain was born in Ber ...

* Otto Detlev Creutzfeldt *

Rudolf Criegee Rudolf Criegee (* May 23, 1902 in Düsseldorf; † November 7, 1975 in Karlsruhe) was a German organic chemist. Early life Criegee's family was wealthy. His father worked as a court director. The family was national liberal, Prussian and Prot ...

Theodor Curtius ''Geheimrat'' Julius Wilhelm Theodor Curtius (27 May 1857 – 8 February 1928) was professor of Chemistry at Heidelberg University and elsewhere. He published the Curtius rearrangement in 1890/1894 and also discovered diazoacetic acid, hydra ...

Daniel Dahm Johannes Daniel Dahm (*born 1969 at Cologne) is a German geographer, ecologist, activist, consultant and entrepreneur. Daniel Dahm is pioneering a just and sustainable development within science, as entrepreneur as well as an activist. For many ...

* Max Delbrück * Otto Diels * Gerhard Domagk * Nikolai Eberhardt * Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg * Paul Ehrlich * Manfred Eigen * Albert Einstein *

Bernhard Eitel Bernhard Eitel (born 31 August 1959) is a German earth scientist and geographer. Eitel was born in Baden. Since October 2007, he has been the Rector of Heidelberg University. References See also * Sustainable Development Sustainable ...

* Paul Erman * Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben *

Adam Karl August von Eschenmayer Adam Karl August von Eschenmayer (originally Carl; 4 July 176817 November 1852) was a German philosopher and physician. Life He was born at Neuenbürg in Württemberg in 1768. After receiving his early education at the Caroline academy of Stuttga ...

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 ...

* Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit * Horst Feistel *

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 ...

* Hermann Emil Fischer *

Naika Foroutan Naika Foroutan (; born 24 December 1971 in Boppard) is a German social scientist. She has been head of the research group "Young Islam-related topics in Germany" (JUNITED) at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin (HU) since 2011; in June 2015, she w ...

* Werner Forssmann *

Salomon Franck Salomon (also Salomo) Franck, 6 March 1659 – 11 July 1725), was a German lawyer, scientist, and poet. Franck was working at Weimar at the same time as the composer Johann Sebastian Bach and he was the librettist of some of the best-kn ...

* Joseph Fraunhofer *

Reinhard Furrer Prof. Dr. Reinhard Alfred Furrer (25 November 1940 – 9 September 1995) was a German physicist and astronaut. Furrer was born in Wörgl, Ostmark (now Austria). After the end of World War II, his father was expelled from Austria. The family f ...

* Carl Friedrich Gauss * Johannes Gehrke *

Hanns Bruno Geinitz Hanns Bruno Geinitz (16 October 1814 – 28 January 1900) was a German geologist, born at Altenburg, the capital of Saxe-Altenburg. He was educated at the universities of Berlin and Jena, and gained the foundations of his geological knowledge ...

Christian Ludwig Gersten Christian Ludwig Gersten (7 February 1701 – 13 August 1762) was a German scientist. He was born in Gießen, a town in the German federal state of Hessen. He studied law and mathematics at the University of Gießen and in the beginning of the 1 ...

* Friederich Golz * Albrecht von Graefe *

Arnold Graffi Arnold Graffi (19 June 1910 – 30 January 2006) was a pioneering German doctor in the area of experimental cancer research. Graffi was born in the Saxon town of Bistritz (Bistrița) in Transylvania, then part of Austria-Hungary. He studied ...

* Peter Griess * Fritz Haber *

Heinz Haber Heinz Haber (May 15, 1913 in Mannheim – February 13, 1990 in Hamburg) was a German physicist and science writer who primarily became known for his TV programs and books about physics and environmental subjects. His lucid style of explaining ...

* Otto Hahn *

Willy Hartner Willy Hartner (22 January 1905 – 16 May 1981) was a German scientist and polymath. He studied at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, where he obtained his PhD in physics in 1928 and where he later served as professor from 1940, as ordina ...

Hartmut Heinrich Hartmut Heinrich (born 5 March 1952 in Northeim, Lower Saxony) is a German marine geologist and climatologist. Heinrich was Head of the Marine Physics Department at the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (''BSH'') in Hamburg until September ...

Reinhart Heinrich Reinhart Heinrich (24 April 1946 – 23 October 2006) was a German biophysicist. He was professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin, and best known as one of the founders, with Tom Rapoport, of metabolic control theory in parallel with simi ...

Wilhelm Heinrich Heintz Wilhelm Heinrich Heintz (4 November 1817 – 1 December 1880) was a German structural chemist from Berlin. He initially trained and worked as a pharmacist, from 1841 he studied sciences at the University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität z ...

* Jochen Heisenberg * Martin Heisenberg * Werner Heisenberg * Heinrich Hertz *

József Károly Hell József Károly Hell ( Slovak: ''Jozef Karol Hell'', German: ''Josef/ph Karl Hell'', Hungarian: ''Hell József Károly'') (15 May 1713, Szélakna (Windschacht, Piarg, now Štiavnické Bane) - 11 March 1789, Selmecbánya (Schemnitz, now Banská ...

* Maximilian Hell *

Gustav Hellmann Gustav Johann Georg Hellmann or Georg Gustav Hellmann (3 July 1854 – 21 February 1939) was a German meteorologist. Hellmann was born in Löwen (Lewin Brzeski), Prussian Silesia. Since 1907 to 1922, he was the principal of the Preußischen ...

* Hermann von Helmholtz *

Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (; 9 July 1809 – 13 May 1885) was a German physician, pathologist, and anatomist. He is credited with the discovery of the loop of Henle in the kidney. His essay, "On Miasma and Contagia," was an early argument for ...

* Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst * Gustav Herglotz * Grete Hermann * Richard Hesse * Johann F. C. Hessel *

David Hilbert David Hilbert (; ; 23 January 1862 – 14 February 1943) was a German mathematician, one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many a ...

* Franz Hillenkamp *

Diederich Hinrichsen Diederich Hinrichsen (born 17 February 1939) is a German mathematician who, together with Hans W. Knobloch, established the field of dynamical systems theory and control theory in Germany. Life and work Diederich Hinrichsen was born in 1939, and ...

* Fritz Hofmann * Robert Hübner * Alexander von Humboldt *

Klaus Hurrelmann Klaus Hurrelmann (born 1944) is professor of public health and education at the Hertie School in Berlin, Germany. Klaus Hurrelmann was born on 10 January 1944 in Gdynia and studied sociology, psychology and education in Berkeley (USA), Freiburg an ...

* Engelbert Kaempfer *

Elisabeth Kalko Elisabeth Klara Viktoria Kalko (10 April 1962 – 26 September 2011) was a German tropical scientist and ecologist working at the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Ulm. Life Elisabeth Kalko was an ecologist with a first degree in bio ...

* Franz Josef Kallmann * Immanuel Kant *

Michael Karas Michael Karas (born 1952) is a German physical chemistry scientist and Professor, known for his researches on matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI), a technique in mass spectrometry. Michael Karas studied Chemistry at the University ...

Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz Friedrich may refer to: Names * Friedrich (surname), people with the surname ''Friedrich'' * Friedrich (given name), people with the given name ''Friedrich'' Other * Friedrich (board game), a board game about Frederick the Great and the Seven Year ...

Oskar Kellner Oskar (Oscar) Johann Kellner (13 May 1851 - 12 September 1911) was a German agricultural scientist (''Agrikulturchemiker, Tierphysiologe''). Biography Kellner was invited to teach in Japan as a foreign advisor by the Meiji government of the Emp ...

Wolfgang von Kempelen Johann Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen de Pázmánd ( hu, Kempelen Farkas; 23 January 1734 – 26 March 1804) was a Hungarian author and inventor, known for his chess-playing "automaton" hoax The Turk and for his speaking machine. Personal lif ...

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 ...

* Franz Kessler * Uwe Kils * Athanasius Kircher * Gustav Kirchhoff * Siegfried Knemeyer *

Robert Koch Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch ( , ; 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist. As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis, cholera (though the Vibrio ...

* August Köhler *

Georges J. F. Köhler Georges Jean Franz Köhler (; 17 April 1946 – 1 March 1995) was a German biologist. Together with César Milstein and Niels Kaj Jerne, Köhler won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984, "for work on the immune system and the prod ...

Heinz Kohnen Heinz Kohnen (5 February 1938 – 25 July 1997) was a German scientist and geophysicist known for his work in polar research. Kohnen helped determine the site of the first German Antarctic station during an expedition from 1979-1980. Kohnen-Stat ...

Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter (27 April 1733 – 11 November 1806), also spelled ''Koelreuter'' or ''Kohlreuter'', was a German botanist who pioneered the study of plant fertilization, hybridization and was the first to detect self-incompatibility. ...

* Ralph von Königswald * Wladimir Köppen * Wilhelm Körner *

Ulrich Kortz Ulrich "Uli" Kortz is a German chemist and professor, working in the area of synthetic polyoxometalate chemistry. Biography Ulrich Kortz obtained his education in Chemical Engineering in the period 1982–1989 and was awarded his Diplom from ...

* Max Kramer * Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Krauss * Stefan Krauter * Bernt Krebs *

Herbert Kronke Herbert Kronke (born 1950) is professor of private law at Heidelberg University School of Law, and director of the Heidelberg Institute for Foreign and International Private and Economic Law. From 1998 to 2008 he served as Secretary General of UNID ...

Adolph Kussmaul Adolph Kußmaul (german: Carl Philipp Adolf Konrad Kußmaul; 22 February 1822 – 28 May 1902) was a German physician and a leading clinician of his time. He was born as the son and grandson of physicians at Graben near Karlsruhe and studied at He ...

* Heinrich Lamm * Rolf Landauer *

Günther Landgraf Günther Landgraf (14 September 1928 in Kryry – 12 January 2006 in Dresden) was a German physicist and, from 1990 till 1994, President of Technische Universität Dresden. Günther Landgraf was born in Kryry, in Bohemia (now Czech Republic). H ...

Gerhard Lang Gerhard Lang (* October 21, 1924, in Ravensburg; † June 19, 2016, in Biberach an der Riß) was a German botanist with a research focus on vegetation ecology, geobotany and vegetation history of the Quaternary. Personal life and academic caree ...

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 ...

* Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff *

Karl Christian von Langsdorf Karl Christian von Langsdorf, also known as Carl Christian von Langsdorff (18 May 1757 in Bad Nauheim, Nauheim – 10 June 1834 in Heidelberg), was a German mathematician, geologist, natural scientist and engineer. Life Langsdorf was the son of ...

Rüdiger Lautmann Rüdiger Lautmann (born 22 December 1935) is a German professor of sociology and one of the most prominent LGBT scholars in Germany. Biography Born in Koblenz, Lautmann lived during his childhood in Düsseldorf, where he went to school. He fi ...

* Gottfried Leibniz *

Walter Liebenthal Walter Liebenthal (12 June 1886 – 15 November 1982), was a German philosopher and sinologist who specialized in Chinese Buddhism. He translated many philosophical works from Pali, Sanskrit and specially from Chinese into German. Based upon his ...

Justus von Liebig Justus Freiherr von Liebig (12 May 1803 – 20 April 1873) was a German scientist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and is considered one of the principal founders of organic chemistry. As a professor at t ...

Rainer Liedtke Rainer Kurt Liedtke (16 September 1943 – 15 September 2012) was a German physician, scientist and entrepreneur who specialised in the theory and practice of biomedical information systems and medical innovation, and new therapies of pain, stres ...

Herbert Lochs Prof. Herbert Lochs, MD (20 October 1946 – 10 February 2015) was a prominent German and Austrian medical doctor and scientist. After graduating from the University of Innsbruck Medical School, Austria he completed his residency at the Institut ...

* Adolf Loewy * Johann von Löwenstern-Kunckel * Niklas Luhmann * Hermann Lux * Michael Maestlin * Herbert Mataré * Kurt Mendelssohn * Friedrich Sigmund Merkel *

Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt (russian: Да́ниэль Го́тлиб Ме́ссершмидт; September 16, 1685 – March 25, 1735) was a German physician, naturalist and geographer and among the first to conduct a scientific exploration of ...

* Helmut Metzner * Viktor Meyer *

Hermann Minkowski Hermann Minkowski (; ; 22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a German mathematician and professor at Königsberg, Zürich and Göttingen. He created and developed the geometry of numbers and used geometrical methods to solve problems in number t ...

Achim Müller Achim Müller (born 14 February 1938 in Detmold) is a German chemist. He is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Bielefeld. His research involves mainly the chemistry of transition metals, especially with relation to nan ...

Johannes Peter Müller Johannes Peter Müller (14 July 1801 – 28 April 1858) was a German physiologist, comparative anatomy, comparative anatomist, ichthyology, ichthyologist, and herpetology, herpetologist, known not only for his discoveries but also for his ability ...

* Salomon Müller *

Hermann von Nathusius Hermann Engelhard von Nathusius (9 December 1809 – 29 June 1879) was a German animal breeder. Born in Magdeburg to industrialist Johann Gottlob Nathusius, Hermann von Nathusius studied the natural sciences. He took over from his father and tu ...

Heinrich Edmund Naumann Heinrich Edmund Naumann (September 11, 1854 – February 1, 1927) was a German geologist, regarded as the "father of Japanese geology" in Meiji period Japan. Biography Heinrich Edmund Naumann was hired by the Meiji government in 1875 as a fo ...

* Rudolf Nebel *

Walther Nernst Walther Hermann Nernst (; 25 June 1864 – 18 November 1941) was a German chemist known for his work in thermodynamics, physical chemistry, electrochemistry, and solid state physics. His formulation of the Nernst heat theorem helped pave the wa ...

Hans E. J. Neugebauer Hans E. J. Neugebauer was a German-born physicist and imaging scientist who later lived in the United States and Canada.Henry Neugebauer, "Memories of my father," ''SPIE vol. 1184, Neugebauer Memorial Seminar on Color Reproduction.'' Bellingham, W ...

* Georg von Neumayer * Paul Nipkow * Bernd Noack * Hugo Obermaier * Hans von Ohain *

Heinrich Olbers Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (; ; 11 October 1758 – 2 March 1840) was a German physician and astronomer. Life and career Olbers was born in Arbergen, Germany, today part of Bremen, and studied to be a physician at Göttingen (1777–8 ...

* Volker Oppitz *

Theodor Peckolt Theodor Peckolt (1822–1912) was a German-born naturalist, botanist, phytochemist and pharmacist who worked in Brazil from 1847 to 1912, analyzing the chemical and medicinal properties of Brazilian flora Flora is all the plant life presen ...

* Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer * Max Planck *

Johannes Plendl Johannes "Hans" Plendl (6 December 1900 – 10 May 1991), German radar pioneer, was the scientist whose airplane navigation inventions made possible the early German bombing successes in World War II. Early life Plendl was born in 1900 in Muni ...

Kurt Plötner Kurt Friedrich Plötner (19 October 190526 February 1984) was a Nazi Party member and medical doctor who conducted human experimentation on Jews and Soviet prisoners of war in German concentration camps. American intelligence recruited him to wor ...

* Julius Plücker * Ingo Potrykus *

Ernst Pringsheim Jr. Ernst Pringsheim Jr. or Ernst Georg Pringsheim (October 26, 1881 in Breslau, Lower Silesia – December 26, 1970 in Hannover) was a German Natural scientist and plant physiology. He taught as a professor for biochemistry and botany, in ...

* Wolfgang Prinz *

Karl Ramsayer Karl Ramsayer (29 September 1911, Schwäbisch Gmünd''Große Kreisstadt Schwäbisch Gmünd. Personalia'' in ''ostalb einhorn. Vierteljahreshefte für Heimat und Kultur im Ostalbkreis'', Nr. 37/38, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Einhorn-Verlag E. Dietenberger ...

Samuel Mitja Rapoport Samuel Mitja Rapoport (27 November 1912 – 7 July 2004) was a German Empire-born German university professor of biochemistry in East Germany. Of Jewish descent and a committed communist, he fled Austria after its annexation by Nazi Germany, and ...

Eberhard Rees Eberhard Friedrich Michael Rees (April 28, 1908 – April 2, 1998) was a German-American (by becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States) rocketry pioneer and the second director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Biography Rees ...

* Jens Reich * Ralf Reski *

Berthold Ribbentrop Berthold Ribbentrop was a pioneering forester from Germany who worked in India with Sir Dietrich Brandis and others. He is said to have inspired Rudyard Kipling's character of Muller in ''In the Rukh'' (1893), one of the earliest of his ''Jungle ...

* Ronald Richter *

Ferdinand von Richthofen Baron Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen (5 May 18336 October 1905), better known in English as was a German traveller, geographer, and scientist. He is noted for coining the terms "Seidenstraße" and "Seidenstraßen" = "Silk Road(s)" or "Silk ...

* Nikolaus Riehl *

Bernhard Riemann Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (; 17 September 1826 – 20 July 1866) was a German mathematician who made contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry. In the field of real analysis, he is mostly known for the first rig ...

* Wilhelm Röntgen * Walter Rogowski *

Ludwig Roth Ludwig Roth (June 10, 1909 – November 1, 1967) was the Aerospace engineer who was the head of the Peenemünde Future Projects Office which designed the Wasserfall and created advanced rockets designs such as the A9/A10 ICBM. Roth ar ...

* Arthur Rudolph * Hans Sachs * Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh * Karl Ludwig Fridolin von Sandberger * Monika Schäfer-Korting * Valentin Scheidel *

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 ...

* Claus Schilling * Johannes Schöner * Hermann Schlegel * Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert * Ulrich S. Schubert *

Stefan Schuster Stefan Schuster (born 7 November 1961 in Meissen) is a German biophysicist. He is professor for bioinformatics at the University of Jena. Life Stefan Schuster studied biophysics at the Humboldt University Berlin and wrote his PhD thesis unde ...

* Karl 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 ...

Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger (8 April 1779 – 6 September 1857) was a German chemist, physicist, and professor of mathematics born in Erlangen. J.S.C.Schweigger was the son of Friedrich Christian Lorenz Schweigger, professor of theologie ...

* Walter Seelmann-Eggebert * Johann Andreas Segner * Meinolf Sellmann *

Friedrich Sellow Friedrich Sellow (var. Sello) (1789–1831) was a German botanist and natural history, naturalist. He was one of the earliest European scientific explorers of Brazil, and a major collector of Wildlife of Brazil#Plants, Brazilian flora. Friedrich ...

Johann Silberschlag Johann Esaias Silberschlag (16 November 1721 – 22 November 1791) was a German Lutheran pastor (1753-1766) and natural scientist from Aschersleben, Principality of Halberstadt In 1760, he became an external member of the Prussian Academy of S ...

* Eduard Simon * Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring *

Frank Steglich Frank Steglich (born 14 March 1941) is a German physicist. He studied physics in the University of Münster and the University of Göttingen. He received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in 1986 and a n ...

Matthias Steinmetz Matthias Steinmetz (born 8 March 1966 in Saarbrücken) is a German astronomer and astrophysicist. He is director of the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam (AIP) and professor at the University of Potsdam. Steinmetz is a specialist in the areas of ...

Karl Stetter Karl Otto Stetter (born 16 July 1941) is a German microbiologist and authority on astrobiology. He is an expert on microbial life at high temperatures. Career Stetter was born in Munich and studied biology at the Technical University of Munich ...

* Erwin Stresemann * Michael Succow * Reinhard Süring * Kurt Tank *

Bernhard Tessmann Bernhard Robert Tessmann (August 15, 1912 in Zingst – December 19, 1998) was a German expert in guided missiles during World War II, and later worked for the United States Army and NASA. Life Tessmann first met rocket expert Wernher von Braun i ...

* Vera Tiesler * Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus *

Ida Valeton Ida Valeton (born ''Meggendorfer'', 26 May 1922 – 4 April 2016) was a German scientist. She was head of the sediment petrographic lab at the geological and paleontological institute of the University of Hamburg. Additionally, she was visi ...

* Rudolf Virchow *

Hans Vogel Hans Vogel (16 February 1881, in Oberartelshofen, Middle Franconia – 6 October 1945) was a German politician and chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) along with Arthur Crispien and Otto Wels from 1931 to 1933. After the NS ...

Gerhard Vollmer Gerhard Vollmer (born 17 November 1943) is a German physicist and philosopher. He is perhaps best known for his development of an evolutionary theory of knowledge. Life Vollmer was born in Speyer. He studied in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg and Freib ...

* Peter Wagner * Albert H. Walenta * Otto Heinrich Warburg * Alfred Wegener * Friedrich Wegener * Arthur Wehnelt * Heinrich Welker * Guenter Wendt * Gregor Wentzel * Richard Wilhelm *

Hans Winkler Hans Karl Albert Winkler (23 April 1877 – 22 November 1945) was a German botanist. He was Professor of Botany at the University of Hamburg, and a director of that university's Institute of Botany. Winkler coined the term 'heteroploidy' in 191 ...

* Johannes Winkler *

Friedrich Wöhler Friedrich Wöhler () FRS(For) HonFRSE (31 July 180023 September 1882) was a German chemist known for his work in inorganic chemistry, being the first to isolate the chemical elements beryllium and yttrium in pure metallic form. He was the firs ...

Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf, Nathanael Matthäus von Wolf, pl, Nataniel Mateusz Wolf (28 January 1724 in Konitz – 15 December 1784 in Gdańsk) was a German botanist, physician, and astronomer. Wolf was born in Chojnice (Konitz) in Royal ...

* Theodor Wolf * Rüdiger Wolfrum * Johann Zahn * Karl Ziegler * Holger Ziegler * Torsten Zuberbier * Konrad Zuse *

Eberhard Zwicker Karl Eberhard Zwicker (15 January 1924, in Öhringen, Germany – 22 November 1990, in Icking) was a German acoustics scientist and full professor at the Technical University of Munich. Zwicker studied physics and electrical engineering at the U ...

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