German Scientist
1. Walther Nernst (1864)
German Scientist
German physical chemist and physicist best known for discovering the third law of thermodynamics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1920 for his theories behind the calculation...
2. Gerhard M. Sessler (1931)
German Scientist
Gerhard M. Sessler is a German inventor and scientist. Sessler invented together with James E. West the foil electret microphone at Bell Laboratories 1962 and the silicon microphone in 1983....
3. Ingo Potrykus (1933)
German Scientist
Ingo Potrykus is Professor Emeritus of Plant Sciences at the Institute of Plant Sciences of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich from which he retired in 1999. His research...
4. Heiko Braak (1937)
German Scientist
Heiko Braak is a German anatomist. Braak was born in Kiel Schleswig-Holstein and studied medicine at the universities of Hamburg Berlin and Kiel. He is Professor at the Institute of...
5. Karl Ernst Adolf von Hoff (1771)
German Scientist
Karl Ernst Adolf von Hoff was a German natural historian and geologist. After studying law physics and natural history in 1791 he was appointed to a diplomatic post by Ernest...
6. Jens Reich (1939)
German Scientist
Jens Georg Reich is a German scientist and a member of the German Ethics Council. He has become famous as a civil rights campaigner in the last decade of the...
7. Carsten Niemitz (1945)
German Scientist
Carsten Niemitz is a German anatomist ethologist and human evolutionary biologist.
8. Martin Zenke (1953)
German Scientist
Martin Zenke born August 7 1953 in Korbach is a German biochemist und cell biologist Professor for Cell Biology and scientist who is conducting research on stem cells and biomedical...
9. Ilona Kickbusch (1948)
German Scientist
Ilona Kickbusch is recognized throughout the world for her contribution to health promotion and global health. She is currently adjunct professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies...
10. Volkmar Weiss (1944)
German Scientist
Volkmar Weiss is a German scientist and writer primarily interested in the field of IQ research. He is mostly known for his controversial thesis that biological intelligence is fixed to...
11. Hermann Burmeister (1807)
German Scientist
Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister was a German Argentine zoologist entomologist herpetologist and botanist. He was born in Stralsund and died in Buenos Aires.
12. Dirk Brockmann (1969)
German Scientist
Dirk Brockmann is a theoretical physicist working at Northwestern University in Evanston Illinoiswhere he is Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics. He is known for...
13. Michael Succow (1941)
German Scientist
Michael Succow is a German biologist and ecologist. His numerous publications are mostly devoted to the ecology of moorlands and his typology of moorlands is today used as a standard...
14. Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt (1853)
German Scientist
Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt was a German mineralogist natural philosopher and art collector.
15. Karl Vogt (1817)
German Scientist
Carl Christoph Vogt was a German scientist who emigrated to Switzerland. Vogt published a number of notable works on zoology geology and physiology. All his life he was engaged in...
16. Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743)
German Scientist
Eberhardt August Wilhelm von Zimmermann was a German geographer and zoologist. Zimmermann was Professor of Natural Science at Brunswick. He wrote Specimen Zoologiae Geographicae Quadrupedum one of the first works...
17. Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert (1780)
German Scientist
Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert was a German physician and naturalist. He began his studies with theology but turned to medicine and established himself as a doctor in Altenburg Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.
18. Gustav Fechner (1801)
German Scientist
Gustav Theodor Fechner was a German philosopher physicist and experimental psychologist. An early pioneer in experimental psychology and founder of psychophysics he inspired many 20th century scientists and philosophers. He...
19. Johann Schweigger (1779)
German Scientist
Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger was a German chemist physicist and professor of mathematics born in Erlangen. In 1811 he proposed the name Chlorine for the substance discovered in 1774 by...
