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List of German physicists

This is a list of German physicists.

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This is a list of German physicists.

A

Ernst Abbe source ↗
Manfred von Ardenne source ↗

B

Hans Bethe source ↗
Gerd Binnig source ↗
Max Born source ↗
Walther Bothe source ↗
Karl Ferdinand Braun source ↗
Wernher von Braun source ↗

C

D

Konrad Dannenberg source ↗
Walter Dornberger source ↗

E

Albert Einstein source ↗

F

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit source ↗
Joseph von Fraunhofer source ↗
James Franck source ↗

G

Carl Friedrich Gauss source ↗
Hans Geiger source ↗
Maria Goeppert-Mayer source ↗
Otto von Guericke source ↗

H

Werner Heisenberg source ↗
Stefan Hell source ↗
Hermann von Helmholtz source ↗
Gustav Hertz source ↗
Johann Wilhelm Hittorf source ↗

I

J

Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen source ↗

K

Gustav Robert Kirchhoff source ↗
Klau von Klitzing source ↗
Polykarp Kusch source ↗

L

Max von Laue source ↗
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz source ↗
Philipp Lenard source ↗

M

Rudolf Mössbauer source ↗

N

Ida Noddack source ↗

O

Hermann Oberth source ↗
Hans von Ohain source ↗
Georg Simon Ohm source ↗

P

Max Planck source ↗
Ludwig Prandtl source ↗

Q

R

Johann Wilhelm Ritter source ↗
Wilhelm Röntgen source ↗

S

Karl Schwarzschild source ↗
Arnold Sommerfeld source ↗
Johannes Stark source ↗
Carl August Steinheil source ↗
Otto Stern source ↗
Ernst Stuhlinger source ↗

T

U

V

Woldemar Voigt source ↗

W

Wilhelm Eduard Weber source ↗
Wilhelm Wien source ↗

Z

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