1. Georg Ohm (1789)

German Physicist

Though remembered best for formulating an electrical principle known as Ohm's Law (wherein Current through a conductor equals Voltage divided by Resistance), this nineteenth-century scientist also developed both Ohm's Phase...

2. Ernst Abbe (1840)

German Physicist

Physicist who is often thought of as one of the fathers of modern optics. He had a hand in the development of several key instruments, such as the microscope and...

3. Robert Döpel (1895)

German Physicist

German nuclear physicist who was in the group "first Uranverein", which was the German effort to produce atomic weapons during World War II. Most of his work was destroyed by...

4. Pascual Jordan (1902)

German Physicist

Theoretical and mathematical physicist who did research on quantum physics. He had a great deal to do with the development of matrix mechanics.

5. Max Steenbeck (1904)

German Physicist

German physicist who invented the betatron in 1934, and worked on the Soviet atomic bomb project after World War II. He later returned to East Germany during the Cold War...

6. Ernst Ruska (1906)

German Physicist

German physicist who earned a Nobel Prize in 1986 for designing the world's first electron microscope. His electron microscope allowed scientists to see subatomic particles.

7. Justus Mühlenpfordt (1911)

German Physicist

German nuclear scientist who became a Corresponding Member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften in 1969. He worked for both the German nuclear energy project and the Soviet atomic bomb project....

8. Gerd Binnig (1947)

German Physicist

German physicist who co-developed a scanning and tunneling microscope, which earned him the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was appointed an IBM Fellow in 1987.

9. Carsten Bresch (1921)

German Physicist

Carsten Bresch is a German physicist geneticist and professor emeritus at the University of Freiburg.

10. Martin Zirnbauer (1958)

German Physicist

Martin R. Zirnbauer is a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Cologne. Zirnbauer studied at the Technical University of Munich and Oxford University where he earned his PhD....

11. Reimar Lüst (1923)

German Physicist

Reimar Lüst is a German astrophysicist. He was the director general of the European Space Agency from 1984 until 1990. Dr. Lüst received degrees in physics from Göttingen Chicago and...

12. Harald Rose (1935)

German Physicist

Harald Rose is a German physicist. Rose received in 1964 his physics Diplom in theoretical electron optics under Otto Scherzer at the Technical University of Darmstadt. From 1976 to 1980...

13. Günter Nimtz (1936)

German Physicist

Günter Nimtz is a German physicist working at the 2nd Physics Institute at the University of Cologne in Germany. He has investigated narrow-gap semiconductors and liquid crystals and was engaged...

14. Hans-Dieter Betz (Unknow)

German Physicist

Hans-Dieter Betz is a German professor emeritus of experimental physics.

15. Gottfried Münzenberg (1940)

German Physicist

Gottfried Münzenberg is a German physicist. He studied physics at Justus-Liebig-Universität in Giessen and Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck and completed his studies with a Ph. D. at the University of Giessen Germany...

16. Achim Richter (1940)

German Physicist

Achim Richter is a German nuclear physicist. He became a professor at the Institute of Nuclear Physics at the Darmstadt University of Technology in 1974 and retired in September 2008....

17. Theodor W. Hänsch (1941)

German Physicist

Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch is a German physicist. He received one fourth of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy including the optical...

18. Heinz-Jürgen Kluge (1941)

German Physicist

Heinz-Jürgen Kluge known as Jürgen Kluge is a physicist probably best known for the development of ion-storage devices and methods for accurate measurements of nuclear masses.

19. Hagen Kleinert (1941)

German Physicist

Hagen Kleinert is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Free University of Berlin Germany Honorary Doctor at theWest University of Timişoara andat theKyrgyz-Russian Slavic Universityin Bishkek. He is alsoHonorary Member...

20. Frank Steglich (1941)

German Physicist

Steglich is a German physicist. He received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in 1986 and a number of other recognitions. He is the founding director of...

21. Karl Bechert (1901)

German Physicist

Karl Richard Bechert was a German theoretical physicist and political leader. As a scientist his contributions were in atomic physics.

22. Hans Volker Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (1942)

German Physicist

Hans Volker Klapdor-Kleingrothaus was born on January 25 1942 in Reinbek and is a German physicist who works in nuclear physics particle physics and astrophysics.

23. Walter Weizel (1901)

German Physicist

Karl Weizel was a German theoretical physicist and politician. As a result of his opposition to National Socialism in Germany he was forced into early retirement for a short duration...

24. Philipp Lenard (1862)

German Physicist

Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard was a German physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his research on cathode rays and the discovery of...

25. Rolf-Dieter Heuer (1948)

German Physicist

Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer is a German particle physicist and the Director General of CERN since 2009.

26. Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949)

German Physicist

Horst Ludwig Störmer is a German physicist Nobel laureate and emeritus professor at Columbia University. He was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Daniel Tsui and Robert...

27. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (1950)

German Physicist

Hans Joachim John Schellnhuber is the founding Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change. Being one of the...

28. Dieter Vollhardt (1951)

German Physicist

Dieter Vollhardt is a German physicist and Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Augsburg.

29. Hermann Knoblauch (1820)

German Physicist

Karl Hermann Knoblauch was a German physicist. He is most notable for his studies of radiant heat. He was one of the six founding members of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft...

30. Christof Wetterich (1952)

German Physicist

Christof Wetterich is a German theoretical physicist. Born 1952 in Freiburg he studied physics in Paris Cologne and Freiburgwhere he received his PhD in 1979. He worked at CERN in...

31. Ulf Leonhardt (1965)

German Physicist

Ulf Leonhardt FRSE is a German scientist born in Schlema Germany. In 2006 he published the first scientific paper on invisibility cloaking with metamaterials at the same time Pendry's group...

32. Heinrich Ott (physicist) (1894)

German Physicist

Heinrich Ott was a German physicst.

33. Günther Dollinger (1960)

German Physicist

Günther Dollinger is a German physicist and professor at the Bundeswehr University Munich.

34. Heinrich Konen (1874)

German Physicist

Heinrich Matthias Konen was a German physicist who specialized in spectroscopy. He was a founder and organizer of the Emergency Association of German Science and he was a member of...

35. Bernd Büchner (1961)

German Physicist

Bernd Büchner is since 2003 Director of the Institute of Solid State Research IFW Dresden and Professor for Experimental Physics at the Dresden University of Technology.

36. Manfred Lindner (1957)

German Physicist

Manfred Lindner is a German physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg Germany.

37. Wolfgang Ketterle (1957)

German Physicist

gang Ketterle is a German physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

38. Jens Eisert (1970)

German Physicist

Jens Eisert born October 9 1970 is a German physicist ERC fellow and professor at the Free University of Berlin. He is notable as one of the co-pioneers of quantum...

39. Klaus Blaum (1971)

German Physicist

Klaus Blaum is a German physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg Germany.

40. Richard Becker (1887)

German Physicist

Richard Becker was a German theoretical physicist who made contributions in thermodynamics statistical mechanics superconductivity and quantum electrodynamics.

41. Andreas Rüdiger (1673)

German Physicist

Johannes Andreas Rüdiger was a German philosopher and physicist.

42. Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912)

German Physicist

Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker was a German physicist and philosopher. He was the longest-living member of the team which performed nuclear research in Germany during the Second World War...

43. Theodoric of Freiberg (Unknow)

German Physicist

Theodoric of Freiberg was a German member of the Dominican order and a theologian and physicist. He was named provincial of the Dominican Order in 1293 Albert the Great's old...

44. Immanuel Bloch (1972)

German Physicist

Immanuel Bloch is an experimental physicist from Germany.

45. Markus Greiner (1973)

German Physicist

Markus Greiner is a German physicist. He is the winner of the thesis award of the American Physical Society 2004 and of the William L. McMillan Award 2005 for outstanding...

46. Martin Bojowald (1973)

German Physicist

Martin Bojowald is a German physicist who now works on the faculty of the Penn State Physics Department where he is a member of the Institute for Gravitation and the...

47. Johannes Orphal (1966)

German Physicist

Johannes Orphal is a German physicist. He is Full Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Until 2009...

48. Christine Silberhorn (1974)

German Physicist

Christine Silberhorn is a famous German physicist, who was born on April 19, 1974 in Germany. According to Astrologers, Christine Silberhorn's zodiac sign is Aries.
Christine Silberhorn (born April 19, 1974)...

49. Claudius Gros (1961)

German Physicist

Claudius Gros is a famous German physicist, who was born on February 18, 1961 in Germany. Claudius Gros (born 18 February 1961 in Mainz, Germany) is a German physicist. According...