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page 119th-century German inventors
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
Carl Benz
German automotive and engine designer and manufacturer (1844–1929)
Heinrich Hertz
German physicist (1857–1894)
Philipp Lenard
German physicist (1862-1947)
Ferdinand Braun
German inventor and physicist (1909 Nobel Prize)
Rudolf Diesel
German inventor and mechanical engineer (1858–1913)
Gustav Kirchhoff
German physicist (1824–1887)
Paul Ehrlich
Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)
Justus von Liebig
German chemist (1803-1873)
Robert Bunsen
German chemist (1811-1899)
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and industrialist (1834–1900)
Joseph von Fraunhofer
Bavarian physicist and optical lens manufacturer
Ernst Abbe
German physicist (1840-1905)
Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist (1816–1892)
Otto Lilienthal
German aviation pioneer (1848-1896)
Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor (1875–1951)
Nicolaus Otto
German inventor (1832–1891)
Robert Bosch
German industrialist, inventor, engineer (1861-1942)
Karl Drais
German inventor of early form of bicycle and typewriter (1785-1851)
Emile Berliner
German-born American inventor (1851–1929)
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner
German chemist
Bertha Benz
German automobile pioneer, with husband Karl Benz (1849–1944)
Wilhelm Maybach
German engine designer and industrialist (1846–1929)
Carl von Linde
German engineer (1842-1934)
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
German technician and inventor (1860–1940)
Johann Philipp Reis
German scientist and inventor (1834–1874)
Felix Hoffmann
German chemist (1868-1946)
Christian Friedrich Schönbein
German-Swiss chemist, discoverer of guncotton and ozone (1799-1868)
Viktor Meyer
German chemist (1848-1897)
Eugen Goldstein
German physicist and the great science-history maker (1850-1930)
Heinrich Geißler
physicist (1814–1879)
Theobald Boehm
Bavarian flautist and tinkerer (1794-1881)
Margarete Steiff
foundress of Margarete Steiff GmbH in Germany
Gustave Whitehead
possible first powered manned flight (1874–1927)
Carl Wilhelm Siemens
engineer and inventor (1823–1883)
Max Skladanowsky
German inventor and early filmmaker (1863–1939)
Ottomar Anschütz
German photographer and inventor (1846–1907)
Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff
German inventor (1803-1877)
Otto Schott
German chemist, glass technologist, and inventor (1851–1935)
Johann Nepomuk Maelzel
German inventor (1772–1838)
Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse
German inventor
Franz Xaver Gabelsberger
German stenographer and inventor of Gabelsberger shorthand
August Oetker
German food scientist (1862-1918)
Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring
German anatomist and paleontologist (1755–1830)
Eugen Baumann
German chemist (1846-1896)
Friedrich von Esmarch
German academic (1823-1908)
Johann Schweigger
German chemist, physicist, and professor
Eugen Langen
German businessman (1833–1895)
Carl August von Steinheil
German physicist (1801-1870)
Max Wien
German physicist (1866–1938)
Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger
German astronomer (1765-1831)
Albrecht Berblinger
German aviation pioneer
Karl Wilhelm Naundorff
German clock maker, who claimed to be Louis XVII of France (1785-1845)
Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig
German chemist (1835–1910)
Rudolph Ackermann
German-born British publisher (1764-1834)
Albert Ballin
German businessman (1857-1918)
Paul Mauser
German weapon designer and manufacturer (1838-1914)
Herman Frasch
United States mining engineer and inventor (1851–1914)
Karl Freiherr von Müffling
German general and cartographer (1775–1851)