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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 Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
Hans Bethe
German-American nuclear physicist
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
Otto Stern
German-American physicist (1888–1969)
James Franck
German physicist (1882–1964)
Rainer Weiss
American physicist (1932–2025)
Jack Steinberger
German-American physicist, Nobel laureate (1921-2020)
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German physicist, astronomer and mathematician (1873–1916)
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
German chemist and physicist (1802–1870)
Rudolf Peierls
German-born British physicist
Fritz London
German-American physicist (1900-1954)
Max Abraham
German physicist (1875-1922)
Walter Heitler
physicist (1904-1981)
Martin Schwarzschild
German astronomer (1912-1997)
Eugen Goldstein
German physicist and the great science-history maker (1850-1930)
Hedwig Kohn
German-American physicist
Emil Warburg
German physicist (1846-1931)
Bruce Alberts
American biochemist
Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky
American physicist (1919–2007)
Ernst Ising
German physicist
Rolf Landauer
American-German physicist, engineer (1927-1999)
Walter M. Elsasser
German-American physicist
Alfred Landé
American physicist (1888-1976)
Benedict Friedlaender
German writer and sexuologist (1866–1908)
Walter Gordon
German physicist (1893-1939)
Francis Simon
German-British chemist
Arthur Korn
German physicist and mathematician (1870–1945)
Arthur Berson
German scientist (1859–1942)
Hilde Levi
German physicist (1909–2003)
Richard Gans
German physicist (1880–1954)
Leo Arons
German physicist and politician (1860-1919)
Valentine Bargmann
German-American physicist
Felix Auerbach
German Jewish physicist and art collector (1856-1933)
Elsa Neumann
German physicist (1872-1902)
Emil Cohn
German physicist (1854-1944)
Arnold Berliner
German physicist (1862–1942)
Herbert Fröhlich
British physicist (1905–1991)
Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim
German-American physicist
Peter Bergmann
German-American physicist
Rudolf Ladenburg
German atomic physicist (1882-1952)
Max Bernhard Weinstein
German physicist and philosopher (1852–1918)
Salomon Kalischer
German physicist and composer (1845–1924)
Richard Börnstein
German physicist (1852–1913)
Siegfried Czapski
German physicist (1861-1907)
Yehuda (Leo) Levi
American rabbi and physicist
Ludwig Hopf
German physicist (1884–1939)
Wilhelm Westphal
German physicist (1882–1978)