Albert Einstein14 March 1879
Physicist
Carl F. Gauss30 April 1777
Mathematician, Physicist
Max Planck23 April 1858
Physicist
David Hilbert23 January 1862
Mathematician
Fritz Haber09 December 1868
Chemist
Robert Koch11 December 1843
Physician
Wilhelm Rontgen27 March 1845
Winner of First Nobel Prize in Physics
Georg Cantor03 March 1845
Mathematician
Emmy Noether23 March 1882
Mathematician
Oswald Spengler29 May 1880
Philosopher
Max Born11 December 1882
Physicist
Bernhard Riemann17 September 1826
Mathematician
Alfred Wegener01 November 1880
Researcher
Ernst Haeckel16 February 1834
Biologist, Physician, Philosopher & Artist
William Herschel15 November 1738
Astronomer, Composer
Heinrich Hertz22 February 1857
Physicist
Otto Hahn08 March 1879
Chemist
Wilhelm Wundt16 August 1832
Philosopher
Paul Ehrlich14 March 1854
Scientist
Philipp Lenard07 June 1862
Physicist
Hermann von Helmholtz31 August 1821
Physicist and Physician
Otto Heinrich Warburg08 October 1883
Physiologist & Physician
Hermann Minkowski22 June 1864
Gustav Kirchhoff12 March 1824
Physicist
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi10 December 1804
Mathematician
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet13 February 1805
Mathematician
Karl Weierstrass31 October 1815
Mathematician
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl09 November 1885
Mathematician and Theoretical Physicist
Arnold Sommerfeld05 December 1868
Physicist
Emil Adolf von Behring15 March 1854
German physiologist
Felix Christian Klein25 April 1849
Mathematician
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Carl Bosch27 August 1874
Chemist & Engineer
Theodor Schwann07 December 1810
Physiologist
Richard Dedekind06 October 1831
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Robert Bunsen30 March 1811
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Max von Laue09 October 1879
Physicist
Adolf von Baeyer31 October 1835
Chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald02 September 1853
Chemist
Karl Ferdinand Braun06 June 1850
German Physicist & Inventor
Walther Nernst25 June 1864
Physicist and Chemist
James Franck26 August 1882
Physicist
Johannes Stark15 April 1874
Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
Hermann Emil Fischer09 October 1852
Chemist
Hermann Staudinger23 March 1881
Chemist
Ferdinand von Richthofen05 May 1833
Geographer, Traveler, Scientist
Wilhelm Weber24 October 1804
Physicst
Johannes Peter Müller14 July 1801
Physiologist
Wilhelm Wien13 January 1864
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Otto Stern17 February 1888
Physicist
Heinrich Otto Wieland04 June 1877
Father of Biochemistry
Karl Ziegler26 November 1898
Chemist
Gustav Ludwig Hertz22 July 1887
Physicists
Eduard Buchner20 May 1860
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Walter Gerlach01 August 1889
Physicist
Carl Ludwig Siegel31 December 1896
Mathematician
Albrecht Kossel16 September 1853
Biochemist
Hans Fischer27 July 1881
Chemist
Ferdinand von Mueller30 June 1825
Botanist and Geographer
Georg Wittig16 June 1897
Organic Chemist
Walther Bothe08 January 1891
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Otto Fritz Meyerhof12 April 1884
Physician and Biochemist
Hugo von Mohl08 April 1805
Botanist
Otto Diels23 January 1876
Chemist
Otto Wallach27 March 1847
Chemist
Friedrich Bergius11 October 1884
Chemist
Max Volmer03 May 1885
Chemist
Paul Walden26 July 1863
Chemist
Otto Wilhelm von Struve07 May 1819
Astronomer
Charles Pfizer22 March 1824
Chemist, Entrepreneur
Emanuel Lasker24 December 1868
Chess player
Gottlob Frege08 November 1848
Philosopher
Kurt Tank24 February 1898
Aerospace engineer, Engineer, Scientist,
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach11 May 1752
Physician
Karl Schwarzschild09 October 1873
Physicist, Astronomer, Astrophysicist, University
August Kekulé07 September 1829
Chemist
Moritz Schlick14 April 1882
Philosopher
Justus von Liebig12 May 1803
Scientist
Peter G. L. Dirichlet13 February 1805
Charles Proteus Steinmetz09 April 1865
Mathematician, Electrical engineer, Engineer,
Clara Immerwahr21 June 1870
Chemist
Friedrich Ratzel30 August 1844
Biologist, Geopolitician, Geographer, Zoologist,
Eugen Fischer05 July 1874
Anthropologist, Physician, Racial hygienist,
August Ferdinand Möbius
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner13 December 1780
Chemist
Leopold Kronecker07 December 1823
Mathematician, University teacher
Rudolf Clausius02 January 1822
Physicist, University teacher, Mathematician,
Hans Geiger30 September 1882
Physicist, Inventor, Professor
Carl von Linde11 June 1842
Scientist
Joseph von Fraunhofer06 March 1787
Physicist, Astronomer, Chemist
George de Hevesy01 August 1885
Chemist
Gustav Fechner19 April 1801
Physicist, Psychologist, Statistician, University
Ludwig Prandtl04 February 1875
Physicist, Mechanical engineer, University teacher
Richard Courant08 January 1888
Mathematician, University teacher
Julius Lothar Meyer19 August 1830
Chemist