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  2. List of German inventors and discoverers - Wikipedia

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    Hans Bethe: Nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate in physics 1967. During World War II, he was head of the Theoretical Division at the secret Los Alamos laboratory which developed the first atomic bombs. Emil Adolf von Behring: Discovered the diphtheria antitoxin. It was the world's first cure for a disease (1891). [3]

  3. Werner Heisenberg - Wikipedia

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    Werner Karl Heisenberg (/ ˈ h aɪ z ən b ɜːr ɡ /; [2] German: [ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈhaɪzn̩bɛʁk] ⓘ; 5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) [3] was a German theoretical physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics and a principal scientist in the Nazi nuclear weapons program during World War II.

  4. List of Germans relocated to the US via the Operation Paperclip

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    A group of 104 rocket scientists at Fort Bliss, Texas. Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959.

  5. Operation Paperclip - Wikipedia

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    Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from former Nazi Germany to the US for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959; several were confirmed to be former members of the Nazi Party ...

  6. List of German physicists - Wikipedia

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    Albert Einstein. Gustav Eberhard; Hermann Ebert; Ernst R. G. Eckert; Eduard Riecke; Jürgen Ehlers; Geoffrey G. Eichholz; Albert Einstein; Wolfgang Eisenmenger

  7. Erich Schumann - Wikipedia

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    Erich Schumann (5 January 1898 – 25 April 1985) was a German physicist who specialized in acoustics and explosives, and had a penchant for music. He was a general officer in the army and a professor at the University of Berlin and the Technische Hochschule Berlin.

  8. Category:German physicists - Wikipedia

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    It should only contain pages that are German physicists or lists of German physicists, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about German physicists in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .

  9. Karl Schwarzschild - Wikipedia

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    Karl Schwarzschild (German: [kaʁl ˈʃvaʁtsʃɪlt] ⓘ; 9 October 1873 – 11 May 1916) was a German physicist and astronomer.. Schwarzschild provided the first exact solution to the Einstein field equations of general relativity, for the limited case of a single spherical non-rotating mass, which he accomplished in 1915, the same year that Einstein first introduced general relativity.