Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and Freie Universität Berlin, all mixed together until we can unjumble them.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Roger Adams |
Chemist |
2-Jan-1889 |
6-Jul-1971 |
Organic chemist at Illinois |
| Kurt Alder |
Chemist |
10-Jul-1902 |
20-Jun-1958 |
Diels-Alder Reaction |
| Ernst F. W. Alexanderson |
Inventor |
25-Jan-1878 |
14-May-1975 |
Developed radio and television at GE and RCA |
| Alois Alzheimer |
Doctor |
14-Jun-1864 |
19-Dec-1915 |
Alzheimer's Disease |
| Michelle Bachelet |
Head of State |
29-Sep-1951 |
|
President of Chile |
| Adolf von Baeyer |
Chemist |
31-Oct-1835 |
20-Aug-1917 |
Synthesized indigo |
| Emily Greene Balch |
Activist |
8-Jan-1867 |
9-Jan-1961 |
Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Karl Barth |
Religion |
10-May-1886 |
9-Dec-1968 |
Church Dogmatics |
| Auguste Beernaert |
Diplomat |
26-Jul-1829 |
6-Oct-1912 |
Belgian Prime Minister, Nobel recipient |
| Theodor Billroth |
Doctor |
26-Apr-1829 |
6-Feb-1894 |
Viennese surgeon |
| Boris Blacher |
Composer |
19-Jan-1903 |
30-Jan-1975 |
Die Nachtschwalbe |
| Walther Bothe |
Physicist |
8-Jan-1891 |
8-Feb-1957 |
Pioneer of nuclear spectroscopy |
| Karl Brandt |
Economist |
9-Jan-1899 |
8-Jul-1975 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1958-61 |
| Ferdinand Braun |
Physicist |
6-Jun-1850 |
20-Apr-1918 |
Early developer of radio |
| James Henry Breasted |
Archaeologist |
27-Aug-1865 |
2-Dec-1935 |
A History of Egypt |
| Martin Buber |
Philosopher |
8-Feb-1878 |
13-Jun-1965 |
Ich und Du |
| Georg Cantor |
Mathematician |
3-Mar-1845 |
6-Jan-1918 |
Founder of set theory |
| Rudolf Carnap |
Philosopher |
18-May-1891 |
14-Sep-1970 |
The Logical Syntax of Language |
| Austen Chamberlain |
Politician |
16-Oct-1863 |
16-Mar-1937 |
British pol, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Rudolf Clausius |
Physicist |
2-Jan-1822 |
24-Aug-1888 |
Second Law of Thermodynamics |
| Frederick G. Cottrell |
Inventor |
10-Jan-1877 |
16-Nov-1948 |
Electrostatic precipitator |
| Wilhelm Cuno |
Head of State |
2-Jul-1876 |
3-Jan-1933 |
German Chancellor 1922-23 |
| Max Delbrück |
Scientist |
4-Sep-1906 |
10-Mar-1981 |
Molecular structure of viral genes (phages) |
| Otto Diels |
Chemist |
23-Jan-1876 |
7-Mar-1954 |
Diels-Alder Reaction |
| Alfred Döblin |
Novelist |
10-Aug-1878 |
26-Jun-1957 |
Berlin Alexanderplatz |
| Engelbert Dollfuss |
Head of State |
4-Oct-1892 |
25-Jul-1934 |
Austrian Chancellor murdered by Nazis |
| Christiaan Eijkman |
Scientist |
11-Aug-1858 |
5-Nov-1930 |
Research led to discovery of vitamins |
| Hans von Euler-Chelpin |
Chemist |
15-Feb-1873 |
7-Nov-1964 |
Enzymes of sugar fermentation |
| Ludwig Feuerbach |
Philosopher |
28-Jul-1804 |
13-Sep-1872 |
Das Weses des Christentums |
| Hanno C. Fiedler |
Business |
24-Jun-1945 |
|
CEO of Ball Packaging Europe, 2002-05 |
| Abraham Flexner |
Educator |
13-Nov-1866 |
21-Sep-1959 |
The American College |
| James Franck |
Physicist |
26-Aug-1882 |
21-May-1964 |
Franck-Hertz experiment |
| Wilhelm Frick |
Government |
12-Mar-1877 |
16-Oct-1946 |
Authored the Nuremberg Laws |
| Walther Funk |
Government |
18-Aug-1890 |
31-May-1960 |
Reich economic minister |
| J. Willard Gibbs |
Physicist |
11-Feb-1839 |
28-Apr-1903 |
Elementary Principles in Statistical Mathematics |
| Eugen Goldstein |
Physicist |
5-Sep-1850 |
25-Dec-1930 |
Cathode rays |
| Theodore F. Green |
Politician |
2-Oct-1867 |
19-May-1966 |
Governor and Senator from Rhode Island |
| Romano Guardini |
Religion |
17-Feb-1885 |
1-Oct-1968 |
Roman Catholic theologian |
| Fritz Haber |
Chemist |
9-Dec-1868 |
29-Jan-1934 |
Synthesized ammonia |
| Ernst Haeckel |
Zoologist |
16-Feb-1834 |
9-Aug-1919 |
Proponent of evolution |
| Odd Hassel |
Chemist |
17-May-1897 |
11-May-1981 |
Conformational analysis |
| Gustav Hertz |
Physicist |
22-Jul-1887 |
30-Oct-1975 |
Franck-Hertz experiment |
| Heinrich Hertz |
Physicist |
22-Feb-1857 |
1-Jan-1894 |
Discoverer of electromagnetic radiation |
| Karl M. von der Heyden |
Business |
? |
|
Vice Chairman of Pepsi, 1996-2001 |
| Paul von Heyse |
Author |
15-Mar-1830 |
2-Apr-1914 |
L'Arrabbiata |
| John Grier Hibben |
Educator |
19-Apr-1861 |
16-May-1933 |
President, Princeton University, 1912-32 |
| Edwin J. Houston |
Inventor |
9-Jul-1847 |
1-Mar-1914 |
Thomson-Houston Electric Company |
| Zakir Hussain |
Head of State |
8-Feb-1897 |
3-May-1969 |
President of India, 1967-69 |
| Edmund Husserl |
Philosopher |
8-Apr-1859 |
26-Apr-1938 |
Phenomenological philosopher |
| Karl Gustav Jacobi |
Mathematician |
10-Dec-1804 |
18-Feb-1851 |
Investigated elliptical functions |
| Karl Jaspers |
Philosopher |
23-Feb-1883 |
26-Feb-1969 |
Existential thinker |
| James E. Keeler |
Astronomer |
10-Sep-1857 |
12-Aug-1900 |
Composition of Saturn's rings |
| George F. Kennan |
Diplomat |
16-Feb-1904 |
17-Mar-2005 |
Architect of US policy of Soviet containment |
| Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Head of State |
6-Apr-1904 |
9-Mar-1988 |
German Chancellor 1966-69 |
| Hans Krebs |
Scientist |
25-Apr-1900 |
22-Nov-1981 |
Tricarboxylic acid cycle |
| Alfried Krupp |
Business |
13-Aug-1907 |
30-Jul-1967 |
Nazi munitions maker, convicted war criminal |
| Nicholas Kurti |
Physicist |
14-May-1908 |
24-Nov-1998 |
Molecular gastronomy |
| Max von Laue |
Physicist |
9-Oct-1879 |
23-Apr-1960 |
Diffraction of X-rays on crystals |
| Morris E. Leeds |
Business |
6-Mar-1869 |
8-Feb-1952 |
Leeds & Northrup Co. |
| Wassily Leontief |
Economist |
5-Aug-1906 |
5-Feb-1999 |
Structure of the American Economy |
| Richard Lepsius |
Historian |
23-Dec-1810 |
10-Jul-1884 |
German Egyptologist |
| Armin O. Leuschner |
Astronomer |
16-Jan-1868 |
22-Apr-1953 |
Astronomer at Berkeley |
| Kurt Lewin |
Psychologist |
9-Sep-1890 |
12-Feb-1947 |
Field theorist, group dynamicist |
| Willy Ley |
Author |
2-Oct-1906 |
24-May-1969 |
The Conquest of Space |
| Frederick Lindemann |
Government |
5-Apr-1886 |
3-Jul-1957 |
Churchill's scientific and war advisor |
| Fritz Lipmann |
Scientist |
12-Jun-1899 |
24-Jul-1986 |
Carbohydrate oxidation |
| Alain Locke |
Author |
13-Sep-1886 |
9-Jun-1954 |
Leader in the Harlem Renaissance |
| Karl Mannheim |
Sociologist |
27-Mar-1893 |
9-Jan-1947 |
Ideology and Utopia |
| Ernst Mayr |
Naturalist |
5-Jul-1904 |
3-Feb-2005 |
Evolutionary biologist |
| Otto Meyerhof |
Scientist |
12-Apr-1884 |
6-Oct-1951 |
Glycogen-lactic acid cycle |
| Hermann Minkowski |
Mathematician |
22-Jun-1864 |
12-Jan-1909 |
Minkowski space |
| Robert Musil |
Novelist |
6-Nov-1880 |
15-Apr-1942 |
Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften |
| Charles Nagel |
Government |
9-Aug-1849 |
5-Jan-1940 |
US Secy. of Commerce & Labor, 1909-13 |
| Ernest Fox Nichols |
Physicist |
1-Jun-1869 |
29-Apr-1924 |
Infrared radiation |
| Erwin Panofsky |
Historian |
30-Mar-1892 |
14-Mar-1968 |
Studies in Iconology |
| Emin Pasha |
Explorer |
28-Mar-1840 |
23-Oct-1892 |
German colonial traveller in Africa |
| Rudolf Peierls |
Physicist |
5-Jun-1907 |
19-Sep-1995 |
Frisch-Peierls Memorandum |
| Max Planck |
Physicist |
23-Apr-1858 |
4-Oct-1947 |
Originator of quantum theory |
| Julius Plücker |
Mathematician |
16-Jul-1801 |
22-May-1868 |
Analytical geometry |
| Johann Christian Poggendorff |
Physicist |
29-Dec-1796 |
24-Jan-1877 |
Annalen der Physik und Chemie |
| Bernhard Riemann |
Mathematician |
17-Sep-1826 |
20-Jul-1866 |
Topologist, also Riemann Hypothesis |
| Bert Sakmann |
Scientist |
12-Jun-1942 |
|
Cellular ion channels |
| George Santayana |
Philosopher |
16-Dec-1863 |
26-Sep-1952 |
The Realms of Being |
| Hjalmar Schacht |
Government |
22-Jan-1877 |
3-Jun-1970 |
Reich Minister of Economics |
| Moritz Schlick |
Philosopher |
14-Apr-1882 |
22-Jun-1936 |
Positivist philosopher, Vienna Circle |
| Gershom Scholem |
Historian |
5-Dec-1897 |
21-Feb-1982 |
Revolutionized the study of Kabbalah |
| Arthur Schopenhauer |
Philosopher |
22-Feb-1788 |
21-Sep-1860 |
Philosopher of Pessimism |
| Walter Schottky |
Physicist |
23-Jul-1886 |
4-Mar-1976 |
Solid-state physics and electronics |
| Frederick Hanley Seares |
Astronomer |
17-May-1873 |
20-Jul-1964 |
Astronomer at Mt. Wilson Observatory |
| Georg Simmel |
Sociologist |
1-Mar-1858 |
26-Sep-1918 |
Philosophy of Money |
| Richard Sorge |
Spy |
4-Oct-1895 |
7-Nov-1944 |
Warned Stalin of Operation Barbarossa |
| Hans Speidel |
Military |
28-Oct-1897 |
28-Nov-1984 |
German general, NATO commander |
| Oswald Spengler |
Historian |
29-May-1880 |
8-May-1936 |
The Decline of the West |
| Max Stirner |
Philosopher |
25-Oct-1806 |
26-Jun-1856 |
Existential German nihilo-anarchist |
| Gustav Stresemann |
Head of State |
10-May-1878 |
3-Oct-1929 |
German Chancellor 1923 |
| Albert Szent-Györgyi |
Scientist |
16-Sep-1893 |
22-Oct-1986 |
Vitamins C and B2 |
| Leo Szilard |
Physicist |
11-Feb-1898 |
30-May-1964 |
Nuclear chain reaction |
| Garrick Utley |
Journalist |
19-Nov-1939 |
|
NBC correspondent for 30 years |
| Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg |
Head of State |
29-Nov-1856 |
1-Jan-1921 |
German Chancellor 1909-17 |
| Wernher von Braun |
Scientist |
23-Mar-1912 |
16-Jun-1977 |
German-American rocket technologist |
| Bernhard von Bulow |
Head of State |
3-May-1849 |
28-Oct-1929 |
German Chancellor, 1900-09 |
| Hermann von Helmholtz |
Physicist |
31-Aug-1821 |
8-Sep-1894 |
Law of Conservation of Energy |
| Georg von Hertling |
Head of State |
31-Aug-1843 |
4-Jan-1919 |
German Chancellor 1917-18 |
| John von Neumann |
Scientist |
28-Dec-1903 |
8-Feb-1957 |
Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory |
| Konstantin von Neurath |
Diplomat |
2-Feb-1873 |
15-Aug-1956 |
Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Otto Warburg |
Scientist |
8-Oct-1883 |
1-Aug-1970 |
Effect of oxygen on cancer |
| Max Weber |
Sociologist |
21-Apr-1864 |
14-Jun-1920 |
The Protestant Ethic |
| William H. Welch |
Scientist |
8-Apr-1850 |
30-Apr-1934 |
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
| Heinrich Wieland |
Chemist |
4-Jun-1877 |
5-Aug-1957 |
Studied acids of bile |
| Wilhelm Wien |
Physicist |
13-Jan-1864 |
30-Aug-1928 |
Blackbody radiation |
| Robert W. Wood |
Physicist |
2-May-1868 |
11-Aug-1955 |
Physical Optics |
