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page 120th-century German physicists
Albert Einstein
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".
Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
Wilhelm Röntgen
German physicist (1845–1923)
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
Maria Goeppert Mayer
German-born American theoretical physicist (1906-1972)
Philipp Lenard
German physicist (1862-1947)
Wilhelm Wien
German physicist (1864-1928)
Ferdinand Braun
German inventor and physicist (1909 Nobel Prize)
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
Hans Bethe
German-American nuclear physicist
Max von Laue
German physicist, Nobel laureate and anti-Nazi (1879–1960)
Otto Stern
German-American physicist (1888–1969)
James Franck
German physicist (1882–1964)
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
German physicist (1887–1975)
Johannes Stark
German physicist (1874-1957)
Walther Bothe
German physicist, mathematician and chemist (1891-1957)
Peter Grünberg
German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1939-2018)
Arnold Sommerfeld
German physicist (1868-1951)
Gerd Binnig
German physicist
Ernst Ruska
German physicist (1906–1988)
Georg Bednorz
physicist
Klaus von Klitzing
German physicist
Polykarp Kusch
German-American physicist (1911-1993)
Horst Ludwig Störmer
German physicist
Theodor W. Hänsch
German physicist and nobel laureate (born 1941)
Wolfgang Ketterle
German physicist
Wolfgang Paul
German physicist (1913–1993)
Herbert Kroemer
German-American physics (1928–2024)
Hans Geiger
German physicist (1882–1945)
Hermann Oberth
Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894-1989)
Moritz Schlick
German philosopher (1882-1936)
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
German physicist (1912–2007)
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
Hans Reichenbach
German–American philosopher
Pascual Jordan
German physicist and politician (1902-1980)
Friedrich Hund
German physicist (1896-1997)
Carl David Tolmé Runge
German mathematician and physicist (1856–1927)
Ida Noddack
German chemist (1896–1978)
Ludwig Prandtl
German physicist (1875-1953)
Rudolf Peierls
German-born British physicist
Walter H. Schottky
German physicist (1886–1976)
Max Abraham
German physicist (1875-1922)
Friedrich Paschen
German physicist (1865–1947)
Manfred von Ardenne
German researcher and applied physicist (1907-1997)
Walter Heitler
physicist (1904-1981)
Theodor Kaluza
mathematician, physicist and university teacher (1885-1954)
Hagen Kleinert
German physicist
Martin Schwarzschild
German astronomer (1912-1997)
Walther Meissner
German physicist (1882–1974)
Eugen Goldstein
German physicist and the great science-history maker (1850-1930)
Hans von Ohain
German aerospace engineer (1911-1998)
Agnes Pockels
German chemist pioneer in surface science
Walter Dornberger
German general (1895–1980)
Johannes Franz Hartmann
German astronomer (1865–1936)
Erich Hückel
German physical chemist known for the Debye-Hückel Theory and the Hückel method
Friedrich Ernst Dorn
German physicist (1848–1916)
Woldemar Voigt
German physicist (1850–1919)