| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Theodor Adorno |
Philosopher |
11-Sep-1903 |
6-Aug-1969 |
Dialectic of Enlightenment |
| Hans Bethe |
Physicist |
2-Jul-1906 |
6-Mar-2005 |
Atomic scientist |
| Gerd Binnig |
Physicist |
20-Jul-1947 |
|
Co-Inventor, scanning tunneling microscope |
| Günter Blobel |
Scientist |
21-May-1936 |
|
Protein signaling in cells |
| Henry Dale |
Scientist |
9-Jun-1875 |
23-Jul-1968 |
Acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter |
| Marion Dönhoff |
Journalist |
2-Dec-1909 |
11-Mar-2002 |
Die Zeit |
| Ludwig Erhard |
Head of State |
4-Feb-1897 |
5-May-1977 |
German Chancellor, 1963-66 |
| James Franck |
Physicist |
26-Aug-1882 |
21-May-1964 |
Franck-Hertz experiment |
| Lee H. Hamilton |
Politician |
20-Apr-1931 |
|
9/11 Commission vice chairman |
| Bert Hölldobler |
Zoologist |
25-Jun-1936 |
|
Social organizations in insects |
| Alex Karp |
Business |
2-Oct-1967 |
|
CEO of Palantir Technologies |
| Alexander Kluge |
Film Director |
14-Feb-1932 |
|
Yesterday Girl |
| Leo Lowenthal |
Sociologist |
3-Nov-1900 |
21-Jan-1993 |
Literature and the Image of Man |
| Joseph P. Newhouse |
Economist |
24-Feb-1942 |
|
Rand economist, Harvard professor |
| Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard |
Scientist |
20-Oct-1942 |
|
Embryonic development of fruit flies |
| Max Rudolf |
Conductor |
15-Jun-1902 |
28-Feb-1995 |
Director, Cincinnati Symphony, 1958-71 |
| Gerhard Schulmeyer |
Business |
1938 |
|
President of Siemens US, 1999-2001 |
| Reinhard Selten |
Economist |
5-Oct-1930 |
23-Aug-2016 |
Game theory |
| Horst L. Störmer |
Physicist |
6-Apr-1949 |
|
Fractional quantum Hall effect |
| Alexander R. Todd |
Chemist |
2-Oct-1907 |
10-Jan-1997 |
Nucleic acid, nucleotides |
