20th-century German physicists

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory. His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from special relativity, has been called "the world's most famous equation". He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".

chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)

German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)

German physicist (1845–1923)

German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)

German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)

German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)

German-born American theoretical physicist (1906-1972)

German physicist (1862-1947)

German physicist (1864-1928)

German inventor and physicist (1909 Nobel Prize)

German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)

German-American nuclear physicist

German physicist, Nobel laureate and anti-Nazi (1879–1960)

German-American physicist (1888–1969)

German physicist (1882–1964)

German physicist (1887–1975)

German physicist (1874-1957)

German physicist, mathematician and chemist (1891-1957)

German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1939-2018)

German physicist (1868-1951)

German physicist

German physicist (1906–1988)

physicist

German physicist

German-American physicist (1911-1993)

German physicist

German physicist and nobel laureate (born 1941)

German physicist

German physicist (1913–1993)

German-American physics (1928–2024)

German physicist (1882–1945)

Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894-1989)

German philosopher (1882-1936)

German physicist (1912–2007)

German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)

German–American philosopher

German physicist and politician (1902-1980)

German physicist (1896-1997)

German mathematician and physicist (1856–1927)

German chemist (1896–1978)

German physicist (1875-1953)

German-born British physicist

German physicist (1886–1976)

German physicist (1875-1922)

German physicist (1865–1947)

German researcher and applied physicist (1907-1997)

physicist (1904-1981)

mathematician, physicist and university teacher (1885-1954)

German physicist

German astronomer (1912-1997)

German physicist (1882–1974)

German physicist and the great science-history maker (1850-1930)

German aerospace engineer (1911-1998)

German chemist pioneer in surface science

German general (1895–1980)

German astronomer (1865–1936)

German physical chemist known for the Debye-Hückel Theory and the Hückel method

German physicist (1848–1916)

German physicist (1850–1919)