Find out more about the greatest 19th Century German Scientists, including Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Alfred Wegener, Robert Koch and David Hilbert.
Albert Einstein14 March 1879
Physicist
Max Planck23 April 1858
Physicist
Fritz Haber09 December 1868
Chemist
Robert Koch11 December 1843
Physician
Alfred Wegener01 November 1880
Researcher
David Hilbert23 January 1862
Mathematician
Georg Cantor03 March 1845
Mathematician
Emmy Noether23 March 1882
Mathematician
William Herschel15 November 1738
Astronomer, Composer
Bernhard Riemann17 September 1826
Mathematician
Ernst Haeckel16 February 1834
Biologist, Physician, Philosopher & Artist
Max Born11 December 1882
Physicist
Wilhelm Wundt16 August 1832
Philosopher
Paul Ehrlich14 March 1854
Scientist
Heinrich Hertz22 February 1857
Physicist
Otto Hahn08 March 1879
Chemist
Hermann von Helmholtz31 August 1821
Physicist and Physician
Otto Heinrich Warburg08 October 1883
Physiologist & Physician
Gustav Kirchhoff12 March 1824
Physicist
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi10 December 1804
Mathematician
Theodor Schwann07 December 1810
Physiologist
Hermann Minkowski22 June 1864
Philipp Lenard07 June 1862
Physicist
Arnold Sommerfeld05 December 1868
Physicist
Karl Weierstrass31 October 1815
Mathematician
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet13 February 1805
Mathematician
Richard Dedekind06 October 1831
Mathematician
Robert Bunsen30 March 1811
Chemist
Carl Bosch27 August 1874
Chemist & Engineer
Max von Laue09 October 1879
Physicist
Adolf von Baeyer31 October 1835
Chemist
Karl Ferdinand Braun06 June 1850
German Physicist & Inventor
James Franck26 August 1882
Physicist
Carl F. Gauss30 April 1777
Mathematician
Wilhelm Ostwald02 September 1853
Chemist
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Walther Nernst25 June 1864
Physicist and Chemist
Johannes Stark15 April 1874
Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
Wilhelm Wien13 January 1864
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Johannes Peter Müller14 July 1801
Physiologist
Hermann Staudinger23 March 1881
Chemist
Otto Stern17 February 1888
Physicist
Karl Ziegler26 November 1898
Chemist
Heinrich Otto Wieland04 June 1877
Father of Biochemistry
Hermann Emil Fischer09 October 1852
Chemist
Gustav Ludwig Hertz22 July 1887
Physicists
Eduard Buchner20 May 1860
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Walther Bothe08 January 1891
Physicist
Albrecht Kossel16 September 1853
Biochemist
Ferdinand von Richthofen05 May 1833
Geographer, Traveler, Scientist
Emil Adolf von Behring15 March 1854
German physiologist
Carl Ludwig Siegel31 December 1896
Mathematician
Hans Fischer27 July 1881
Chemist
Ferdinand von Mueller30 June 1825
Botanist and Geographer
Otto Fritz Meyerhof12 April 1884
Physician and Biochemist
Georg Wittig16 June 1897
Organic Chemist
Otto Diels23 January 1876
Chemist
Otto Wallach27 March 1847
Chemist
Friedrich Bergius11 October 1884
Chemist
Wilhelm Rontgen27 March 1845
Winner of First Nobel Prize in Physics
Felix Christian Klein25 April 1849
Mathematician
Hugo von Mohl08 April 1805
Botanist
Walter Gerlach01 August 1889
Physicist
Paul Walden26 July 1863
Chemist
Max Volmer03 May 1885
Chemist
Otto Wilhelm von Struve07 May 1819
Astronomer
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl09 November 1885
Mathematician and Theoretical Physicist
Wilhelm Weber24 October 1804
Physicst
Carl Friedrich Gauss30 April 1777
Mathematician, Geophysicist, Astronomer, Science
Edmund Husserl08 April 1859
Mathematician, Philosopher, University teacher
Oswald Spengler29 May 1880
Writer, Historian, Philosopher, Sociologist,
Karl Schwarzschild09 October 1873
Physicist, Astronomer, Astrophysicist, University
Gottlob Frege08 November 1848
Mathematician, Logician, Analytic philosopher,
Emanuel Lasker
Justus von Liebig12 May 1803
Chemist, Scientist, Inventor, University teacher,
Charles Proteus Steinmetz09 April 1865
Mathematician, Electrical engineer, Engineer,
Hermann Weyl09 November 1885
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher, University
Matthias Jakob Schleiden05 April 1804
Biologist, Botanist, Philosopher, University
Kurt Tank24 February 1898
Aerospace engineer, Engineer, Scientist,
Felix Klein25 April 1849
Mathematician, Historian of mathematics,
August Wilhelm von Hofmann08 April 1818
Chemist, University teacher
Hans Geiger30 September 1882
Physicist, Inventor, Professor
Rudolf Clausius02 January 1822
Physicist, University teacher, Mathematician,
Friedrich Ratzel30 August 1844
Biologist, Geopolitician, Geographer, Zoologist,
Joseph von Fraunhofer06 March 1787
Physicist, Astronomer, Chemist
Gustav Fechner19 April 1801
Physicist, Psychologist, Statistician, University
August Ferdinand Möbius
Johann Philipp Reis07 January 1834
Physicist, Inventor
Leopold Kronecker07 December 1823
Mathematician, University teacher
Moritz Schlick14 April 1882
Physicist, Philosopher, University teacher,
Julius Lothar Meyer19 August 1830
Chemist, University teacher
Ludwig Prandtl04 February 1875
Physicist, Mechanical engineer, University teacher
Felix Hoffmann21 January 1868
Chemist, Inventor, Pharmacist, Non-fiction writer
Wilhelm Eduard Weber24 October 1804
Physicist, University teacher
Friedrich Bessel22 July 1784
Astronomer, Mathematician, University teacher
Felix Hausdorff08 November 1868
Mathematician, Writer, Topologist, University
Charles Pfizer22 March 1824
Chemist, Entrepreneur