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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".
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
Wilhelm Wien
German physicist (1864-1928)
Hans Bethe
German-American nuclear physicist

Rudolf Clausius
German mathematical physicist and professor (1822–1888)
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German climate researcher, meteorologist, and oceanologist (born 1931)
Pascual Jordan
German physicist and politician (1902-1980)

Ludwig Prandtl
German physicist (1875-1953)

Theodor Kaluza
mathematician, physicist and university teacher (1885-1954)
Hertha Sponer
German physicist and chemist (1895–1968)
Rudolf Haag
German physicist (1922–2016)
Burkhard Heim
German physicist (1925–2001)
Gregor Wentzel
German physicist (1898–1978)
Walter Gordon
German physicist (1893-1939)
Hermann Haken
German physicist
Viatcheslav Mukhanov
German cosmologist and theoretical physicist
Walter Greiner
German physicist (1935-2016)
Richard Becker
physicist (1887–1955)

Detlev Buchholz
German physicist
Harald Fritzsch
German physicist
Wolfhart Zimmermann
physicist (1928–2016)
Franz Wegner
German physicist
Werner Döring
German physicist (1911–2006)
Christof Wetterich
German physicist
Hans Hellmann
German scientist (1903–1938)
Harry Lehmann
German physicist (1924–1998)

Friedrich Bopp
German physicist (1909–1987)
Theodor Förster
German chemist (1910–1974)
Kurt Symanzik
German physicist (1923-1983)
Herbert Wagner
German physicist
Dietrich Stauffer
German physicist (1943–2019)
Siegfried Großmann
German physicist
Friedrich Beck
German physicist (1927–2008)
Gerhart Lüders
German physicist (1920–1995)
Fritz Sauter
Austrian-German physicist (1906-1983)
Karl Kraus
German theoretical physicist (1938–1988)
Werner Nahm
German physicist
Rolf Hagedorn
German theoretical physicist (1919–2003)
Sibylle Günter
German physicist

Christoph Helmut Keitel
German physicist
H. Dieter Zeh
German physicist (1932-2018)
Raphael Bousso
American physicist