List of German scientists
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A list of notable German
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- Franz AepinusFranz AepinusFranz Ulrich Theodor Aepinus was a German and Russian natural philosopher. Aepinus is best known for his researches, theoretical and experimental, in electricity and magnetism.-Life:...
- Ralf AltmeyerRalf AltmeyerProf. Dr. Ralf M. Altmeyer is a German virologist who leads the ', a joint institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institut Pasteur and Shanghai Municipal Government, founded in 2004....
- Hermann Anschütz-KaempfeHermann Anschütz-KaempfeHermann Franz Joseph Hubertus Maria Anschütz-Kaempfe was a German scientist and inventor. In his quest to navigate to the North Pole by submarine, he became interested in the concept of the gyrocompass. In 1905 he founded, with Friedrich Treitschke the first firm to manufacture gyroscopic...
- Ludwig AschoffLudwig AschoffKarl Albert Ludwig Aschoff was a German physician and pathologist. He is considered to be one of the most influential pathologists of the early 20th century and is regarded as the most important German pathologist after Rudolf Virchow.Aschoff was born in Berlin, Prussia...
- Richard BaerwaldRichard BaerwaldRichard Baerwald was a German academic psychologist, in Berlin. Towards the end of his life he became interested in parapsychology and occultism...
- Martin BenekeMartin Beneke-Biography:Beneke studied Physics, Mathematics and Philosophy at the University of Konstanz, University of Cambridge and University of Heidelberg. In 1993 he received his doctorate at the Technical University of Munich on the structure of perturbative series in higher order and habilitated in...
- Roland BenzRoland Benz- Life :Benz studied Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics ] at the University of Würzburg. In 1972 he obtained his PhD in Biology under Peter Läuger at University of Konstanz and his [ Habilitation in Biophysics ] in 1977...
- Ernest BeutlerErnest BeutlerErnest Beutler 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 iron metabolism and Tay-Sachs disease...
- Peter BeyerPeter BeyerPeter Beyer is a German Professor for Cell Biology at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Freiburg. He is known as co-inventor of the Golden rice, together with Ingo Potrykus from the ETH Zurich...
- Heinrich Ernst Beyrich
- Wilhelm von BezoldWilhelm von BezoldJohann Friedrich Wilhelm von Bezold was a German physicist and meteorologist born in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria....
- Tom Bieling
- William BlandowskiWilliam BlandowskiWilhelm Blandowski born Johan Wilhelm Theodor Ludwig von Blandowski January 21, 1822 died December 18, 1878, a German zoologist and mining engineer, was born in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia ....
- Paul Richard Heinrich BlasiusPaul Richard Heinrich BlasiusPaul Richard Heinrich Blasius was a German fluid dynamics engineer.He was one of the first students of Prandtl who provided a mathematical basis for boundary-layer drag but also showed as early as 1911 that the resistance to flow through smooth pipes could be expressed in terms of the Reynolds...
- Jens BlauertJens BlauertJens Blauert is a German scientist specializing in psycho-acoustics and an emeritus professor at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where he founded the Institute of Communication Acoustics...
- Heiko BleherHeiko BleherHeiko Bleher is a German explorer, researcher, author, photographer, filmmaker and producer, editor and nature lover. He is very concerned about the conservation of the freshwater habitats of the world....
- Max BodensteinMax BodensteinMax Ernst August Bodenstein was a German physical chemist known for his work in chemical kinetics...
- Harald von BoehmerHarald von BoehmerHarald von Boehmer is a German/Swiss immunologist best known for his work on T lymphocytes.He obtained an M.D. from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and a Ph.D. from Melbourne University, Australia...
- Armin von BogdandyArmin von BogdandyArmin von Bogdandy is professor of public law and international law at the University of Heidelberg School of Law and Director of the Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law...
- Friedrich BoieFriedrich BoieFriedrich Boie was a German scientist and brother of Heinrich Boie. He was born at Meldorf in Holstein and died at Kiel....
- Max BornMax BornMax Born was a German-born 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 number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 30s...
- Carl BoschCarl BoschCarl Bosch was a German chemist and engineer and Nobel laureate in chemistry. He was a pioneer in the field of high-pressure industrial chemistry and founder of IG Farben, at one point the world's largest chemical company....
- Johann Friedrich von BrandtJohann Friedrich von BrandtJohann Friedrich von Brandt was a German naturalist.Brandt was born in Jüterbog and educated at a gymnasium in Wittenberg and the University of Berlin. In 1831 he was appointed director of the Zoological Department at the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences, where he published in Russian...
- Magnus von BraunMagnus von BraunMagnus "Mac" Freiherr von Braun was a German chemical engineer, Luftwaffe aviator, and rocket scientist at Peenemünde, the Mittelwerk, and after emigrating to the United States via Operation Paperclip, at Fort Bliss...
- Wernher von BraunWernher von BraunWernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun was a German rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, space architect, and one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany during World War II and in the United States after that.A former member of the Nazi party,...
- Ernst Wilhelm von BrückeErnst Wilhelm von BrückeErnst Wilhelm Ritter von Brücke was a German physician and physiologist.He was born Ernst Wilhelm Brücke in Berlin. He graduated in medicine at University of Berlin in 1842, the following year he became esearch assistant to Johannes Peter Müller...
- Franz Ernst BruckmannFranz Ernst BruckmannFranz Ernst Bruckmann was a German mineralogist born at Marienthal near Helmstedt. Having qualified as a medical man in 1721, he practised at Brunswick and afterwards at Wolfenbüttel. His leisure time was given up to natural history, and especially to mineralogy and botany...
- Friedrich BurmeisterFriedrich BurmeisterFriedrich Burmeister 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 Sommerfeld, and he received his doctorate in 1919...
- Abraham BuschkeAbraham BuschkeAbraham Buschke was a Jewish German dermatologist who was a native of Nakel in the Province of Posen. In 1891 he received his doctorate in Berlin, and afterwards was a surgical assistant in Greifswald. Later he worked at dermatological clinics in Breslau under Albert Neisser and in Berlin with...
- Karin Büttner-JanzKarin Büttner-JanzKarin Büttner-Janz Karin Büttner-Janz Karin Büttner-Janz (born 17 February 1952 in Hartmannsdorf a district of Lübben (Spreewald), German Democratic Republic (GDR, commonly:East Germany) is a medical doctor, Olympic medal winner in artistic gymnastics and, since March 1990, chief physician of...
- Jean CabanisJean CabanisJean Louis Cabanis was a German ornithologist.Cabanis was born in Berlin. He studied at the University of Berlin from 1835 to 1839, and then travelled to North America, returning in 1841 with a large natural history collection. He was assistant and later director of the Berlin University Museum,...
- Sethus CalvisiusSethus CalvisiusSethus Calvisius or Setho Calvisio, originally Seth Kalwitz was a German music theorist, composer, chronologer, astronomer, and teacher of the late Renaissance....
- Franz Ludwig von CancrinFranz Ludwig von CancrinFranz Ludwig von Cancrin was a German mineralogist and metallurgist.He was born into a German mining family where he was trained by his father in the science of mining...
- Joseph CarlebachJoseph CarlebachDr. Joseph Hirsch Carlebach was an Orthodox rabbi and Jewish-German scholar and natural scientist ....
- Ernst Boris ChainErnst Boris ChainSir Ernst Boris Chain was a German-born British biochemist, and a 1945 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin.-Biography:...
- Otto Detlev CreutzfeldtOtto Detlev CreutzfeldtOtto Detlev Creutzfeldt was a Germanphysiologist and neurologist. He is the son of Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and the younger brother of Werner Creutzfeldt, a professor of internal medicine.-Career:...
- Rudolf CriegeeRudolf CriegeeRudolf Criegee was a German chemist. He studied in Tübingen, Greifswald, and Würzburg and received his doctorate at Würzburg in 1925. He proposed a reaction mechanism for ozonolysis in 1953. The Criegee rearrangement is named after him...
- Theodor CurtiusTheodor Curtius- External links :* * * *...
- Daniel DahmDaniel DahmJohannes Daniel Dahm is a German geographer, ecologist, activist, consultant and entrepreneur.As a transdisciplinary scientist he works in the fields of sustainability and development research, ecological economics and ecological creation of values, future of work, plurality and diversity of...
- Max DelbrückMax DelbrückMax Ludwig Henning Delbrück was a German-American biophysicist and Nobel laureate.-Biography:Delbrück was born in Berlin, German Empire...
- Otto DielsOtto DielsOtto Paul Hermann Diels was a German chemist. He was the son of a professor of philology at the University of Berlin, where he himself earned his doctorate in chemistry, in the group of Emil Fischer....
- Gerhard DomagkGerhard DomagkGerhard Johannes Paul Domagk was a German pathologist and bacteriologist credited with the discovery of Sulfonamidochrysoidine – the first commercially available antibiotic – for which he received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.Domagk was born in Lagow, Brandenburg, the...
- Nikolai EberhardtNikolai EberhardtNikolai Eberhardt is a German émigré physicist, author of From the Big Bang to the Human Predicament and of The final Paradigm: Tragedy, Religion, Knowledge and Folly in Our Neuro-Mechanical Life . In the Final Paradigm he explores the value of religion in a purely mechanistic world- and self-view...
- Christian Gottfried EhrenbergChristian Gottfried EhrenbergChristian Gottfried Ehrenberg , German naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist, was one of the most famous and productive scientists of his time.- Early collections :...
- Paul EhrlichPaul EhrlichPaul Ehrlich was a German scientist in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy, and Nobel laureate. He is noted for curing syphilis and for his research in autoimmunity, calling it "horror autotoxicus"...
- Manfred EigenManfred EigenManfred Eigen is a German biophysical chemist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on measuring fast chemical reactions.-Career:...
- Albert EinsteinAlbert EinsteinAlbert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history...
- Bernhard EitelBernhard EitelBernhard Eitel is a German earth scientist. Since October 2007, he has been the Rector of the University of Heidelberg....
- Paul ErmanPaul ErmanPaul Erman was a German physicist from Berlin, Brandenburg. He was the son of the historian Jean Pierre Erman , author of Histoire des refugis....
- Johann Christian Polycarp ErxlebenJohann Christian Polycarp ErxlebenJohann Christian Polycarp Erxleben was a German naturalist from Quedlinburg.Erxleben was Professor of physics and veterinary medicine at the University of Göttingen. He wrote Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre and Systema regni animalis...
- Adam Karl August von EschenmayerAdam Karl August von EschenmayerAdam Karl August von Eschenmayer was a German philosopher and physician.-Life:...
- Andreas von EttingshausenAndreas von EttingshausenAndreas Freiherr von Ettingshausen was a German mathematician and physicist.Ettingshausen studied philosophy and jurisprudence in Vienna. In 1817, he joined the University of Vienna and taught mathematics and physics...
- Peter FinkePeter FinkeDr. Peter Finke 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 , he is citizen of both Pakistan and Germany...
- Horst FeistelHorst FeistelHorst Feistel was a German-born cryptographer who worked on the design of ciphers at IBM, initiating research that would culminate in the development of the Data Encryption Standard in the 1970s....
- Salomon FranckSalomon FranckSalomon Franck, 6 March 1659 – 11 July 1725), was a German lawyer, scientist, and gifted poet.His name is widely associated with some of Johann Sebastian Bach's best-known cantatas, mainly those composed as of 1714 in Weimar.-Biography:Franck was born in Weimar...
- Joseph Fraunhofer
- Reinhard Furrer
- Carl Friedrich GaussCarl Friedrich GaussJohann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician and scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy and optics.Sometimes referred to as the Princeps mathematicorum...
- Johannes GehrkeJohannes GehrkeJohannes Gehrke is a professor of computer science at Cornell University who works in the areas of database systems and data mining. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1999 for a thesis in data mining. Since its second edition, he has been a co-author of the standard...
- Hanns Bruno Geinitz
- Christian Ludwig GerstenChristian Ludwig GerstenChristian Ludwig Gersten 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 1730s he travelled to London, England, to improve his mathematical knowledge. In London in 1733 he...
- Friederich GolzFriederich GolzFriederich Golz was a German scientist and researcher, who was a pioneer in psychosurgery. He performed the first lobotomy on dogs in 1890. His experiments involved removing portions of the dogs’ temporal lobes. As a result the dogs were more calm and less aggressive. His work inspired the first...
- Albrecht von Graefe
- Arnold GraffiArnold GraffiArnold Graffi was a pioneering German doctor in the area of experimental cancer research.Graffi was born in the Saxon town of Bistritz in Transylvania, then part of Austria-Hungary. He studied medicine at Marburg, Leipzig, and Tübingen before receiving his doctorate at the Charité in Berlin...
- Peter Griess
- Heinz HaberHeinz HaberHeinz Haber was a German physicist and science writer who primarily became famous for his TV programs and books about physics and environmental subjects...
- Otto HahnOtto HahnOtto Hahn FRS was a German chemist and Nobel laureate, a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry". Hahn was a courageous opposer of Jewish persecution by the Nazis and after World War II he became a passionate campaigner...
- Willy HartnerWilly HartnerWilly Hartner 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 ordinary professor [German academic terminology] from 1946.In 1943, he founded the Institute for...
- Hartmut HeinrichHartmut HeinrichHartmut Heinrich is a German marine geologist and climatologist. Dr. Heinrich is Head of the Physics Department at the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency in Hamburg. He is actively involved in GOOS...
- Wilhelm Heinrich HeintzWilhelm Heinrich HeintzWilhelm Heinrich Heintz was a German structural chemist who earned his PhD at Berlin in 1844 under Heinrich Rose.He was one of six founding members of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft and the only chemist....
- Werner HeisenbergWerner HeisenbergWerner Karl Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to quantum mechanics and is best known for asserting the uncertainty principle of quantum theory...
- Jochen HeisenbergJochen HeisenbergJochen Heisenberg is a German physicist specializing in nuclear physics, and Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of New Hampshire. He is the son of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Werner Heisenberg, who is best known for the uncertainty principle...
- Martin HeisenbergMartin HeisenbergMartin Heisenberg is a German neurobiologist and geneticist. Before his retirement in 2008, he held the professorial chair for genetics and neurobiology at the Bio Centre of the University of Würzburg....
- József Károly Hell
- Maximilian HellMaximilian HellMaximilian Hell, S.J. was a Hungarian astronomer and an ordained Jesuit priest from the Kingdom of Hungary.- Biography :...
- Gustav HellmannGustav HellmannGustav Johann Georg Hellmann or Georg Gustav Hellmann was a German meteorologist.Hellmann was born in Löwen , Prussian Silesia. Since 1907 to 1922, he was the principal of the Preußischen Meteorologischen Institut in Berlin...
- Hermann von HelmholtzHermann von HelmholtzHermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz was a German physician and physicist who made significant contributions to several widely varied areas of modern science...
- Friedrich Gustav Jakob HenleFriedrich Gustav Jakob HenleFriedrich Gustav Jakob Henle 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 the germ theory of disease...
- Johann Friedrich Wilhelm HerbstJohann Friedrich Wilhelm HerbstJohann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst was a German naturalist and entomologist from Petershagen, Minden-Ravensberg....
- Gustav HerglotzGustav HerglotzGustav Herglotz was a German mathematician. He is best known for his works on the theory of relativity and seismology....
- Grete HermannGrete HermannGrete 'Hermann was a German mathematician and philosopher. She studied mathematics at Göttingen under Emmy Noether, where she achieved her Ph.D. in 1926...
- Richard HesseRichard HesseRichard Hesse was a German zoologist and ecologist.Hesse took his PhD in 1892 from the University of Tübingen and was subsequently appointed lecturer, later extraordinary professor of zoology at the same university...
- Johann F. C. HesselJohann F. C. HesselJohann Friedrich Christian Hessel was a German physician and professor of mineralogy at the University of Marburg....
- Franz HillenkampFranz HillenkampFranz Hillenkamp is a German mass spectrometry scientist developer with Michael Karas of the matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization technique.-Awards:...
- Diederich HinrichsenDiederich HinrichsenDiederich Hinrichsen 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:...
- Fritz Hofmann
- Robert HübnerRobert HübnerRobert Hübner is a respected German chess Grandmaster, chess writer, and papyrologist . At eighteen, he was joint winner of the West German Chess Championship...
- Alexander von HumboldtAlexander von HumboldtFriedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt...
- Klaus HurrelmannKlaus HurrelmannKlaus Hurrelmann is a German social and health scientist. He grew up in Nordenham and has three grown children, two from the first and one from second marriage...
- Engelbert KaempferEngelbert KaempferEngelbert Kaempfer , a German naturalist and physician is known for his tour of Russia, Persia, India, South-East Asia, and Japan between 1683 and 1693. He wrote two books about his travels...
- Elisabeth KalkoElisabeth KalkoElisabeth Klara Viktoria Kalko was a German tropical scientist and ecologist working at the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Ulm.-Life:...
- Franz Josef KallmannFranz Josef KallmannFranz Josef Kallmann MD , a German-born American psychiatrist, was one of the pioneers in the study of the genetic basis of psychiatric disorders...
- Michael KarasMichael KarasMichael Karas is a German physical chemistry scientist and Professor, known for his researches on matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization , a technique in mass spectrometry....
- Friedrich August Kekulé von StradonitzFriedrich August Kekulé von StradonitzFriedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz was a German organic chemist. From the 1850s until his death, Kekule was one of the most prominent chemists in Europe, especially in theoretical chemistry...
- Oskar KellnerOskar KellnerOskar Johann Kellner was a German agricultural scientist .-Biography:...
- Frieder KempeFrieder KempeFrieder Kempe is a German scientist who designed a special metallic fabric called Farabloc that shields the human body from immediate shifts in the Earth's electromagnetic field. Published studies show Farabloc relieves pain...
- Wolfgang von KempelenWolfgang von KempelenJohann Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen de Pázmánd was a Hungarian author and inventor with Irish ancestors.-Life:...
- Franz KesslerFranz KesslerFranz Kessler was a scholar, inventor and alchemist living in the Holy Roman Empire.He wrote a book called Unterschiedliche bisshero mehrern Theils Secreta oder Verborgene, Geheime Kunste , which was published in Oppenheim in September 1616...
- Johannes KeplerJohannes KeplerJohannes Kepler was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution, he is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion, codified by later astronomers, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican...
- Uwe KilsUwe KilsUwe Kils is a German marine biologist specializing in Antarctic biology.-Career:His work led to the development of instruments for in situ observation of underwater fauna, including the ecoSCOPE and the first software for full speed video processing...
- Athanasius KircherAthanasius KircherAthanasius Kircher was a 17th century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geology, and medicine...
- Siegfried KnemeyerSiegfried KnemeyerSiegfried Knemeyer was a German Aeronautical engineer and Aviator. He invented an early flight computer, was the Head of Technical Development for the Ministry of Aviation during World War II, and invented numerous aviation technologies for the United States Air Force during the Cold War. In the...
- August KöhlerAugust KöhlerAugust Karl Johann Valentin Köhler was a German professor and early staff member of Carl Zeiss AG in Jena, Germany. He is best known for his development of the microscopy technique of Köhler illumination, an important principle in optimizing microscopic resolution power by evenly illuminating the...
- Georges J. F. KöhlerGeorges J. F. Köhler-External links:* http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1984/...
- Heinz KohnenHeinz KohnenHeinz Kohnen was 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-Station, a field station on Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, is named after him.- References :...
- Joseph Gottlieb KölreuterJoseph Gottlieb KölreuterJoseph Gottlieb Kölreuter , also spelled Koelreuter or Kohlreuter, was a German botanist.Kölreuter was born the son of a pharmacist in Karlsruhe, Germany, and grew up in Sulz. He studied medicine at the University of Tübingen under physician and botanist Johann Georg Gmelin, receiving his PhD in...
- Ralph von KönigswaldGustav Heinrich Ralph von KoenigswaldProfessor Dr. Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald was a distinguished paleontologist and geologist who conducted research on hominins, including Homo erectus. Ralph von Koenigswald made many contributions to paleontology during his career...
- Wladimir KöppenWladimir KöppenWladimir Peter Köppen was a Russian geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist. After studies in St. Petersburg, he spent the bulk of his life and professional career in Germany and Austria...
- Wilhelm KörnerWilhelm KornerWilhelm Körner, later a.k.a. Guglielmo Körner was a German chemist.-Life:Körner studied chemistry at Giessen, where he graduated in 1860. In 1866 he became assistant to Kekulé at Ghent...
- Max KramerMax KramerDr. Max Kramer was a German scientist who worked for the Ruhrstahl AG steel and armaments corporation...
- Christian Ferdinand Friedrich KraussChristian Ferdinand Friedrich KraussChristian Ferdinand Friedrich Krauss , was a German scientist, traveller and collector.-Early life:...
- Stefan KrauterStefan KrauterStefan Krauter is Professor and Entrepreneur in the area of Renewable Energies. His activities in research, teaching and business are directed to establish a global sustainable energy supply...
- Bernt KrebsBernt KrebsBernt Krebs is a German scientist. He is currently conducting research at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Münster.- Academic career :...
- Herbert KronkeHerbert KronkeHerbert Kronke is professor of private law at the University of Heidelberg 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 UNIDROIT. Since 2010, Kronke has been Dean of Heidelberg...
- Adolph KussmaulAdolph KussmaulAdolph Kussmaul 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 Heidelberg. He entered the army after graduation and spent two years as an army surgeon...
- Heinrich LammHeinrich LammHeinrich Lamm, a German physician, was a pioneer of using optical fibers for communication purpose.-Introduction:When Lamm was a medical student in 1930, he first carried out the transfer of images by assembling a bundle of optical fibers...
- Rolf LandauerRolf LandauerRolf William Landauer was an IBM physicist who in 1961 argued that when information is lost in an irreversible circuit, the information becomes entropy and an associated amount of energy is dissipated as heat...
- Günther LandgrafGünther LandgrafGünther Landgraf was a German physicist and former President of Technische Universität Dresden ....
- Dieter LangbeinDieter LangbeinProf. Dr. phil. nat. Dieter Langbein was a German physicist, whose fields of research included solid state physics, fluid physics and microgravity. He was born on February 10, 1932 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany as Werner Dietrich Langbein and died on June 25, 2004 in Bad Homburg, Germany...
- Karl Christian von LangsdorfKarl Christian von LangsdorfKarl Christian von Langsdorf, also known as Carl Christian von Langsdorff, was a German mathematician, geologist, natural scientist and engineer.-Life:...
- Grigori Ivanovitch LangsdorffGrigori Ivanovitch LangsdorffGeorg Heinrich von Langsdorff, Baron de Langsdorff was a Prussian aristocrat, politician and naturalist. He lived in Russia and was better known by his Russian name, Grigori Ivanovitch...
- Rüdiger LautmannRüdiger LautmannRüdiger Lautmann is a German sociologist 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 studied first German law. After he finished his law studies, he started a second study in...
- Gottfried LeibnizGottfried LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German philosopher and mathematician. He wrote in different languages, primarily in Latin , French and German ....
- Walter LiebenthalWalter LiebenthalWalter Liebenthal, 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...
- Justus von LiebigJustus von LiebigJustus von Liebig was a German chemist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and worked on the organization of organic chemistry. As a professor, he devised the modern laboratory-oriented teaching method, and for such innovations, he is regarded as one of the...
- Rainer LiedtkeRainer LiedtkeRainer K. Liedtke is a German physician, scientist and entrepreneur. Theory and practice of biomedical information systems and medical innovation...
- Herbert LochsHerbert LochsProf. Herbert Lochs, MD, is 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 Institute of Pharmacology at the University of Innsbruck...
- Adolf LoewyAdolf LoewyAdolf Loewy ; was a German physiologist who was a native of Berlin.He studied medicine in Vienna and Berlin, where in 1885 he received his medical doctorate. Later he was an assistant to Nathan Zuntz at the Landwirtschaftlichen Hochschule in Berlin...
- Johann von Löwenstern-KunckelJohann von Löwenstern-KunckelJohann Kunckel, awarded Swedish nobility in 1693 under the name von Löwenstern-Kunckel , German chemist, was born in 1630 , near Rendsburg, his father being alchemist to the court of Holstein...
- Niklas LuhmannNiklas LuhmannNiklas Luhmann was a German sociologist, and a prominent thinker in sociological systems theory.-Biography:...
- Hermann LuxHermann LuxHermann Lux , was a prominent inorganic chemist from Munich, Germany.Lux studied chemistry in the University of Karlsruhe where he graduated with honors in 1928 and then completed his education in the University of Bonn in 1929...
- Michael MaestlinMichael MaestlinMichael Maestlin was a German astronomer and mathematician, known for being the mentor of Johannes Kepler.-Career:...
- Herbert MataréHerbert MataréHerbert Franz Mataré was a German physicist. The focus of his research was the field of semiconductor research. His best-known work is the first functional "European" transistor, which he developed and patented together with Heinrich Welker in the vicinity of Paris in 1948, at the same time and...
- Kurt MendelssohnKurt MendelssohnKurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn FRS was a German-born British medical physicist, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 1951.He was a great-great-grandson of Saul Mendelssohn, the younger brother of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn...
- Friedrich Sigmund MerkelFriedrich Sigmund MerkelFriedrich Sigmund Merkel was a leading German anatomist and histopathologist of the late 19th century. In 1875 he provided the first full description of Tastzellen which occur in the skin of all vertebrates. They were subsequently given the eponym Merkel cells in 1878 by Robert Bonnet .Merkel was...
- Daniel Gottlieb MesserschmidtDaniel Gottlieb MesserschmidtDaniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt was a German physician, naturalist and geographer. He was born in Danzig and studied medicine in Jena and Halle, obtained his doctorate degree in the latter in 1713 and settled as a medical doctor in Danzig. In 1716, he came into contact with Russian emperor Peter...
- Helmut MetznerHelmut MetznerHelmut Metzner was an eminent plant physiologist, Professor of Biochemical Plant Physiology at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, the founder of the European Academy of Environmental Affairs and a co-founder of the Weikersheim Think Tank.- Life and Works :Metzner studied biology, physics and...
- Viktor MeyerViktor MeyerViktor Meyer was a German chemist and significant contributor to both organic and inorganic chemistry. He is best known for inventing an apparatus for determining vapour densities, the Viktor Meyer apparatus, and for discovering thiophene, a heterocyclic compound...
- Hermann MinkowskiHermann MinkowskiHermann Minkowski was a German mathematician of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, who created and developed the geometry of numbers and who used geometrical methods to solve difficult problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity.- Life and work :Hermann Minkowski was born...
- Achim MüllerAchim MüllerAchim Müller is a German scientist . He is working now with his research group at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Bielefeld.- Academic career :...
- Johannes Peter MüllerJohannes Peter MüllerJohannes Peter Müller , was a German physiologist, comparative anatomist, and ichthyologist not only known for his discoveries but also for his ability to synthesize knowledge.-Early years and education:...
- Salomon MüllerSalomon MüllerDr Salomon Müller was a German naturalist.Müller was the son of a saddler in Heidelberg. In 1823 Müller, along with Heinrich Boie and Heinrich Christian Macklot, was sent by Coenraad Jacob Temminck to collect specimens in the East Indies. Müller visited Indonesia in 1826, New Guinea and Timor in...
- Hermann von NathusiusHermann von NathusiusHermann Engelhard von Nathusius was a German animal breeder.Born in Magdeburg to industrialist Johann Gottlob Nathusius, Hermann von Nathusius studied the natural sciences. He took over Schloss Hundisburg from his father and turned it to agriculture, particularly cattle breeding...
- Heinrich Edmund NaumannHeinrich Edmund NaumannHeinrich Edmund Naumann was a German geologist, regarded as the “father of Japanese geology” in Meiji period Japan.-Biography:...
- Rudolf NebelRudolf NebelRudolf Nebel was a spaceflight advocate active in Germany's amateur rocket group, the Verein für Raumschiffahrt in the 1930s and in rebuilding German rocketry following World War II....
- Hans E. J. NeugebauerHans E. J. NeugebauerHans E. J. Neugebauer was a German-born physicist and imaging scientist who later lived in the United States and Canada.In his 1935 dissertation, he developed the Neugebauer equations, which have served as the basis for more accurate models for the prediction of color produced by...
- Georg von NeumayerGeorg von NeumayerGeorg Balthazar von Neumayer , was a German polar explorer and scientist who conceived the idea of international cooperation for meteorology and scientific observation....
- Bernd NoackBernd NoackBernd Rainer Noack is a German scientist.His research and teaching area is closed-loop flow control for transport systems. Focus is placed on reduced-order modelling and nonlinear control of shear flows. Currently investigated configurations include wakes, mixing layers, jets, combustor mixing...
- Hugo ObermaierHugo ObermaierHugo Obermaier was a distinguished prehistorian and anthropologist who taught at various European centres of learning...
- Heinrich Olbers
- Volker Oppitz (scientist)Volker Oppitz (scientist)Volker Oppitz is a German economist and mathematician.- Life :Oppitz graduated 1950 from the Deutsche Müllerschule Dippoldiswalde , 1952 from the School of Engineering Dippoldiswalde in mechanical and electrical engineering and 1956 in economics at the Dresden University of Technology. 1970 he...
- Max PlanckMax PlanckMax Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, ForMemRS, was a German physicist who actualized the quantum physics, initiating a revolution in natural science and philosophy. He is regarded as the founder of the quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.-Life and career:Planck came...
- Theodor PeckoltTheodor PeckoltTheodor Peckolt 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.-External links:...
- Richard Friedrich Johannes PfeifferRichard Friedrich Johannes PfeifferRichard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer was a German physician and bacteriologist.Pfeiffer was born in Zduny, Province of Posen, and died in Bad Landeck....
- Johannes PlendlJohannes PlendlJohannes "Hans" Plendl , German radar pioneer, was the scientist whose radio navigation techniques made possible the early German bombing successes in World War II.-Biography:...
- Kurt PlötnerKurt PlötnerKurt Friedrich Plötner was a Nazi Party member and doctor who conducted human experimentation on Jews and Soviet prisoners of war in German concentration camps. American intelligence recruited him to work for the United States in 1945...
- Julius PlückerJulius PlückerJulius Plücker was a German mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions to the field of analytical geometry and was a pioneer in the investigations of cathode rays that led eventually to the discovery of the electron. He also vastly extended the study of Lamé curves.- Early...
- Ingo PotrykusIngo PotrykusIngo Potrykus was full Professor of Plant Sciences, specifically of Biotechnology of Plants, at the Institute of Plant Sciences of the ETH Zurich from June 1, 1987 until his retirement on April 1, 1999. His research group applied gene-technology to contribute to food security in developing countries...
- Ernst Pringsheim, Jr.Ernst Pringsheim, Jr.Ernst Pringsheim, Jr., Ernst Georg Pringsheim jun., or Ernst Georg Pringsheim was a German Natural scientist and plant physiologist .He taught as a professor for biochemistry and botany, in the University of Berlin, University of Prague, and Cambridge...
- Wolfgang PrinzWolfgang PrinzWolfgang Prinz is director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, and an internationally recognized expert in experimental psychology, cognitive psychology and philosophy of mind...
- Karl RamsayerKarl RamsayerKarl Ramsayer was a German geodesist and is well known as one of the most important scientists in geodetic astronomy and in electronic navigation....
- Eberhard ReesEberhard ReesDr Eberhard Friedrich Michael Rees was a German-American rocketry pioneer and the second Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center...
- Jens ReichJens ReichJens Georg Reich is a German scientist and a member of the German Ethics Council. He has become famous as a civil rights campaigner in the last decade of the GDR times.-Life and work:Jens Reich grew up in Halberstadt...
- Ralf ReskiRalf ReskiRalf Reski is a German Professor of Plant Biotechnology and former Dean of the Faculty of Biology of the University of Freiburg...
- Berthold RibbentropBerthold RibbentropBerthold 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 , one of the earliest of his Jungle Book stories....
- Ronald RichterRonald RichterRonald Richter was an Austrian, later Argentine, scientist who became famous in connection with the Huemul Project and the National Atomic Energy Commission. This was intended to generate energy from nuclear fusion in the 1950s in Argentina, during the presidency of Juan Perón...
- Ferdinand von RichthofenFerdinand von RichthofenFerdinand Freiherr von Richthofen was a German traveller, geographer, and scientist.-Biography:He was born in Carlsruhe, Prussian Silesia, and was educated in Breslau and Berlin. He traveled or studied in the Alps of Tyrol and the Carpathians in Transylvania...
- Nikolaus RiehlNikolaus RiehlNikolaus Riehl was a German industrial nuclear chemist. He was head of the scientific headquarters of Auergesellschaft. When the Russians entered Berlin near the end of World War II, he was invited to the Soviet Union, where he stayed for 10 years...
- Walter RogowskiWalter RogowskiWalter Rogowski was a German physicist who bridged the gap between theoretical physics and applied technology in numerous areas of electronics; the Rogowski coil was named after him....
- Ludwig RothLudwig RothLudwig Roth 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....
- Arthur RudolphArthur RudolphArthur Louis Hugo Rudolph was a German rocket engineer and member of the Nazi party who played a key role in the development of the V-2 rocket. After World War II he was brought to the United States, subsequently becoming a pioneer of the United States space program. He worked for the U.S...
- Hans Sachs (serologist)Hans Sachs (serologist)Hans Sachs , was a German serologist.-Education:Sachs studied at the universities of Freiburg, Wrocław and Berlin. In 1900, he received his doctorate from the University of Leipzig. From 1905, he taught and conducted research at the University of Frankfurt...
- Kazem Sadegh-ZadehKazem Sadegh-ZadehKazem Sadegh-Zadeh is an analytic philosopher of medicine. He studied medicine and philosophy at the German universities of Münster, Berlin, and Göttingen with Internship and residency 1967-1971, assistant professor 1972-1982, full professor of philosophy of medicine at the University of Münster...
- Karl Ludwig Fridolin von SandbergerKarl Ludwig Fridolin von SandbergerKarl Ludwig Fridolin von Sandberger , German palaeontologist and geologist, was born at Dillenburg, Nassau, on the 22nd of November 1826. He was educated at the universities of Bonn, Heidelberg and Giessen, at the last of which he graduated Ph.D. in 1846...
- Monika Schäfer-KortingMonika Schäfer-KortingMonika Schäfer-Korting is a German Pharmacologist and Toxicologist.- Life :Schäfer-Korting studied Pharmacy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main from 1971 to 1975. In 1976 she was approved as a Pharmacist. In 1977 she obtained the degree of a PhD as a pupil of Professor Ernst...
- Valentin ScheidelValentin ScheidelValentin Scheidel was a German physicist.Scheidel received his doctorate from the University of Munich in 1911, under Arnold Sommerfeld.-Notes:...
- Harald ScheringHarald ScheringHarald Schering was a German physicist who was born in Göttingen. He studied physics at the University of Göttingen, and earned his doctorate in 1904. Beginning in 1905 he was a scientific assistant at the Physics and Technology Institute in Berlin Charlottenburg; today known as the...
- Claus SchillingClaus SchillingClaus Karl Schilling , also recorded as Klaus Schilling, was a German tropical medicine specialist, particularly remembered for his infamous participation in the Nazi human experiments at the Dachau concentration camp during World War II.Though never a member of the Nazi Party and a recognized...
- Hermann SchlegelHermann SchlegelHermann Schlegel was a German ornithologist and herpetologist.-Early life and education:Schlegel was born at Altenburg, the son of a brassfounder. His father collected butterflies, which stimulated Schlegel's interest in natural history...
- Gotthilf Heinrich von SchubertGotthilf Heinrich von SchubertGotthilf Heinrich von Schubert was a German physician and naturalist....
- Ulrich S. SchubertUlrich S. SchubertUlrich Sigmar Schubert is a professor of Chemistry at Jena University. He was born in Tübingen in 1969. He studied chemistry at the Universities of Frankfurt and Bayreuth and the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond . His Ph.D. work was performed under the supervision of Professor Eisenbach ...
- Karl SchwarzschildKarl SchwarzschildKarl Schwarzschild was a German physicist. He is also the father of astrophysicist Martin Schwarzschild.He is best known for providing the first exact solution to the Einstein field equations of general relativity, for the limited case of a single spherical non-rotating mass, which he accomplished...
- Gerhard SchwehmGerhard SchwehmDr Gerhard Schwehm PhD is Head of Solar System Science Operations Division for the European Space Agency , and Mission Manager for the Rosetta mission.-Education and work:...
- Johann Salomo Christoph SchweiggerJohann Salomo Christoph SchweiggerJohann Salomo Christoph Schweigger was a German chemist, physicist, and professor of mathematics. In 1811, he proposed the name "Chlorine" for the substance discovered in 1774 by Carl Wilhelm Scheele and properly identified by Humphry Davy as an element in 1810. In 1820 he built the first...
- Walter Seelmann-EggebertWalter Seelmann-EggebertWalter Seelmann-Eggebert was a German radiochemist.He was a student of Otto Hahn at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute where he worked with Lise Meitner or Fritz Strassmann on nuclear fission....
- Johann Andreas Segner
- Meinolf SellmannMeinolf SellmannMeinolf Sellmann, born in Holzminden, Germany, computer scientist, best known for algorithmic research in combinatorial optimization, artificial intelligence, and the hybridization thereof.He received a doctorate degree Meinolf Sellmann, born in Holzminden, Germany, computer scientist, best known...
- Friedrich SellowFriedrich SellowFriedrich Sellow was a German botanist and naturalist, one of the earliest scientific explorers of the Brazilian flora....
- Johann SilberschlagJohann SilberschlagJohann Esaias Silberschlag was a German Lutheran theologian and natural scientist from Aschersleben, Principality of Halberstadt....
- Eduard SimonEduard SimonEduard Simon, an apothecary in Berlin, Germany, accidentally discovered polystyrene in 1839. Simon distilled an oily substance from storax, the resin of the Sweetgum tree, Liquidambar orientalis, which he named "styrol"...
- Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring
- Frank SteglichFrank SteglichFrank Steglich is a German physicist.He received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in 1986 and a number of other recognitions...
- Karl StetterKarl StetterKarl Otto Stetter is a German microbiologist and authority on astrobiology. He is an expert on microbial life at high temperatures.-Career:...
- Erwin StresemannErwin StresemannErwin Stresemann was a German naturalist and ornithologist.Stresemann was one of the outstanding ornithologists of the 20th century...
- Michael SuccowMichael SuccowMichael Succow is a German biologist and ecologist. His numerous publications are mostly devoted to the ecology of moorlands and his typology of moorlands is today used as a standard classifications strategy for moorlands.In 1997, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for his work,...
- Reinhard SüringReinhard SüringReinhard Süring was a German meteorologist who was a native of Hamburg. He died in Potsdam, East Germany on 29 December 1950....
- Kurt TankKurt TankKurt Waldemar Tank was a German aeronautical engineer and test pilot, heading the design department at Focke-Wulf from 1931-45. He designed several important aircraft of World War II, including the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft.-Early life:Tank was born in Bromberg , Province of Posen...
- Bernhard TessmannBernhard TessmannBernhard Robert Tessmann 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 in 1935...
- Torsten ZuberbierTorsten ZuberbierTorsten Zuberbier is a German dermatologist and allergologist.- Scientific career :After completing his Abitur in 1981, Torsten Zuberbier studied medicine at Free University of Berlin from 1983 to 1990...
- Gottfried Reinhold TreviranusGottfried Reinhold TreviranusGottfried Reinhold Treviranus was a German naturalist. He was a proponent of the theory of the transmutation of species, a theory of evolution held by some biologists prior to the work of Charles Darwin...
- Rudolf VirchowRudolf VirchowRudolph Carl Virchow was a German doctor, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician, known for his advancement of public health...
- Hans Vogel (scientist)Hans Vogel (scientist)Hans Vogel was a German scientist known for his work in helminthology . For much of his career he was associated with the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg....
- Gerhard VollmerGerhard VollmerGerhard Vollmer is a German physicist and philosopher. He tries to build bridges between the natural science and the more social or humanistic disciplines. He is perhaps best known for his development of an evolutionary theory of knowledge.-Life:Vollmer studied in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg and...
- Peter Wagner (Social theorist)Peter Wagner (Social theorist)Peter Wagner is a German social philosopher. His research focus is with the issues of social theory and political philosophy of contemporary Europe. He has done comparative research in the history of the social sciences, and has in his publications attempted to formulate and utilize a sociology of...
- Albert H. WalentaAlbert H. WalentaAlbert H. Walenta is professor for experimental physics at the University of Siegen in Germany.In 1986 he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.-External links:*...
- Otto Heinrich WarburgOtto Heinrich WarburgOtto Heinrich Warburg , son of physicist Emil Warburg, was a German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate. He served as an officer in the elite Uhlan during the First World War and won the Iron Cross for bravery. Warburg was one of the twentieth century's leading biochemists...
- Alfred WegenerAlfred WegenerAlfred Lothar Wegener was a German scientist, geophysicist, and meteorologist.He is most notable for his theory of continental drift , proposed in 1912, which hypothesized that the continents were slowly drifting around the Earth...
- Friedrich WegenerFriedrich WegenerFriedrich Wegener was a German pathologist who is notable for his description of a rare disease... Although this disease was known before Wegener's description, since the 1950s it has been called by the name Wegener's granulomatosis.Wegener joined the Nazi Party in 1932...
- Arthur WehneltArthur WehneltArthur Rudolph Berthold Wehnelt was a German physicist, noted for important contributions in the fields of X-ray physics, gas discharges and electron emission.-Life:...
- Heinrich WelkerHeinrich WelkerHeinrich Johann Welker was a German theoretical and applied physicist who invented the "transistron", a form of transistor made at Westinghouse independently of the first successful transistor made at Bell Laboratories...
- Guenter WendtGuenter WendtGünter F. Wendt was a German-American engineer noted for his work in the U.S. manned spaceflight program. An employee of McDonnell Aircraft and later North American Aviation, he was in charge of the spacecraft close-out crews at the launch pads for the entire Mercury and Gemini programs , and the...
- Gregor WentzelGregor WentzelGregor Wentzel was a German physicist known for development of quantum mechanics. Wentzel, Hendrik Kramers, and Léon Brillouin developed the Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin approximation in 1926...
- Richard WilhelmRichard WilhelmRichard Wilhelm was a German sinologist, as well as theologian and missionary. He is best remembered for his translations of philosophical works from Chinese into German that in turn have been translated into other major languages of the world, including English...
- Hans WinklerHans WinklerProfessor Hans Winkler was a German botanist. He was Professor of Botany at the University of Hamburg, and a director of that university's Institute of Botany. He is remembered for coining the term 'genome' in 1920, by making a portmanteau of the words gene and chromosome...
- Johannes WinklerJohannes WinklerJohannes Winkler was a German rocket pioneer who founded the first German rocket society and launched the first successful liquid-fuelled rocket in Europe....
- Friedrich WöhlerFriedrich WöhlerFriedrich Wöhler was a German chemist, best known for his synthesis of urea, but also the first to isolate several chemical elements.-Biography:He was born in Eschersheim, which belonged to aau...
- Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf
- Theodor WolfTheodor WolfTheodor Wolf was a German naturalist who studied the Galápagos Islands during the late nineteenth century. Wolf Island is named after him. The wolf volcano on Isabela Island was also named after him...
- Rüdiger WolfrumRüdiger WolfrumRüdiger Wolfrum is professor of international law at the University of Heidelberg School of Law and Director of the Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law...
- Johann ZahnJohann ZahnJohann Zahn was the seventeenth-century German author of Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium...
- Eberhard ZwickerEberhard ZwickerKarl Eberhard Zwicker was a German acoustics scientist and full professor at the Technical University Munich....