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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: German scientist credited with the development of the electrophorus. Justus von Liebig: German chemist who made contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry. Otto Lilienthal: Father of Aviation and first successful aviator. Main discovery was the properties and shape of the wing.
Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604-1670), alchemist and chemist, His discovery of sodium sulfate in 1625 led to the compound being named after him: "Glauber's salt". Nicholas Mercator (1620-1687), mathematician, also known by his German name Kauffmann, was a 17th-century; Adam Olearius (1599-1671), geographer
This is a list of German chemists. A. Georgius Agricola Kurt Alder. Richard Abegg; ... List of German inventions and discoveries; Science and technology in Germany
Germany has been the home of many famous inventors, discoverers and engineers, including Carl von Linde, who developed the modern refrigerator. [2] Ottomar Anschütz and the Skladanowsky brothers were early pioneers of film technology , while Paul Nipkow and Karl Ferdinand Braun laid the foundation of the television with their Nipkow disk and ...
This list of chemical elements named after people includes elements named for people both directly and indirectly. Of the 118 elements, 19 are connected with the names of 20 people. 15 elements were named to honor 16 scientists (as curium honours both Marie and Pierre Curie). Four others have indirect connection to the names of non-scientists. [1]
Justus Freiherr von Liebig [a] (12 May 1803 – 20 April 1873) [2] was a German scientist who made major contributions to the theory, practice, and pedagogy of chemistry, as well as to agricultural and biological chemistry; he is considered one of the principal founders of organic chemistry. [3]
Albert Einstein. Gustav Eberhard; Hermann Ebert; Ernst R. G. Eckert; Eduard Riecke; Jürgen Ehlers; Geoffrey G. Eichholz; Albert Einstein; Wolfgang Eisenmenger
Carl Wilhelm Scheele (German:, Swedish: [ˈɧêːlɛ]; 9 December 1742 – 21 May 1786 [2]) was a German Swedish [3] pharmaceutical chemist.. Scheele discovered oxygen (although Joseph Priestley published his findings first), and identified molybdenum, tungsten, barium, nitrogen, and chlorine, among others.