Spalding County German Program
Famous German Inventors
" If we knew what we were doing then it would not be called research, would it? "
This is a list of German inventors. If you know of someone who needs to be added, please email me and let me know.
Contact Herr Wallace
Inventors A-N
Richard Abegg (valence theory)
Alois Alzheimer (Alzheimer's Disease)
Selmar Aschheim (pregnancy test)
Adolf von Baeyer (chemistry)
Oskar Barnack (35mm Camera)
Professor Wilhelm Barthlott (the lotus effect)
Eugen Baumann (PVC)
Martin Behaim (globe)
Melitta Bentz (coffee filters)
Karl Benz (automobile)
Hans Berger (EEG - Alpha Brain Waves)
Emile Berliner (gramophone,microphone)
Gerd Karl Binnig (scanning tunnelling microscope)
Otto Bock (prosthetics)
Ludwig Bölkow (helicopter,airbag,antitank missile)
Carl Bosch (Haber process)
Robert Bosch (spark plug)
Karlheinz Brandenburg (mp3)
Karl Ferdinand Braun (cathode-ray tube)
Wernher von Braun (rockets)
Walter Bruch (PAL colour television)
Robert Bunsen (Bunsen Burner)
Rudolf Clausius (Thermodynamics)
Gottlieb Daimler (automobile)
Adolph (Adi) Dassler (Adidas,shoes)
Jürgen Dethloff (microprocessor card)
Rudolf Diesel (diesel engine)
Karl Drais (precursor to Bicycle)
Paul Ehrlich (syphilis treatment)
Albert Einstein (Theory of Relativity)
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (alcohol thermometer)
Marga Faulstich (optics)
Adolf Fick (contact lenses)
Artur Fischer (flashlight,expansion plug)
Heinrich Focke (Helicopter)
Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel (kindergarten)
Carl Friedrich Gauss (number theory,differential geometry)
Hans Geiger (Geiger Counter)
Heinrich Geissler (flourescent tube)
Edmund Germer (flourescent lamp)
Heinrich Goebel (light bulb)
Berhard Grill (mp3)
Peter Grünberg (GMR Effect - hard drives)
Otto von Guericke (vacuum)
Johannes Gutenberg (movable type)
Otto Hahn (fission)
Robert Hahn (micro fuel cells)
Theodor W. Hänsch (lasers)
Rudolf Hell (Hell Recorder - TV)
Hermann von Helmholtz (Conservation of energy)
Peter Henlein (balance sping - clockwork)
Caroline Herschel (astonomer)
Heinrich Hertz (electromagnetic waves)
Werner Heisenberg (quantum mechanics)
Felix Hoffmann (aspirin)
Christian Hülsmeyer (radar)
Karl Jatho (airplane)
Hermann Kemper (maglev Train)
Johannes Kepler (astronomy)
Gustav Kirchhoff (electrical circuits)
Klaus von Klitzing (Quantum Hall effect)
Gabriele Knecht (forward sleeve design)
Robert Koch (anthrax bacterium)
Hedy Lamarr (spread spectrum technology)
Justus von Liebig (fertilizer)
Otto Lilienthal (glider)
Carl von Linde (refrigerator)
Heinz Lindenmeier (antennas)
Hans Lippershey (telescope)
Inventors M-Z
Ernst Mach (mach number - speed)
Powerpoint on Ernst Mach
Paul von Mauser (bolt action rifle)
Ottomar von Mayenburg (toothpaste)
Maria Goeppert Mayer (nuclear structure)
Lise Meitner (physicist)
Julius Lothar Meyer (periodic chart)
Rudolf Mossbauer (Mossbauer effect)
Paul Muller (DDT)
Walther Nernst (Thermochemistry)
Gerhard Neukum (HRSC camera - mars camera)
Werner Nickel (radar absorbing paint)
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (TV)
Emmy Noether (mathematics)
Hermann Oberth (rockets,space travel)
Hans-Joachim Pabst von Ohain (jet engine)
Georg Ohm (Ohm's law)
Nicolaus Otto (internal combustion engine)
katharina Paulus (parachute packet)
Oskar-Erich Peter (clamping systems)
Fritz Pfleumer (magnetic tape)
Max Planck (Quantum theory)
Ferdinand Porsche (Automobile)
Johann Philipp Reis (telephone)
Hans Riegel (Gummi Bears)
wilhelm conrad Roentgen (X-rays)
Ludwig Roselius (Decaffeination of coffee)
Ernst Ruska (electron microscope)
Hans Sauer (relay technology)
Hugo Schmeisser (infantry weapons)
Karlheinz Schmidt (bone growth)
Gerhard M. Sessler (foil electret microphone)
Johannes Stark (Stark effect)
Charles Proteus Steinmetz (alternating current)
Otto Stern (beam technology)
Levi Strauss (jeans)
Ernst Werner von Siemens (dynamo generator)
Edward Teller (H-Bomb)
Felix Wankel (rotary cylinder engine)
August von Wassermann (bacteriologist)
Wilhelm Eduard Weber (magnetometers)
Wilhelm Wien (radiation of heat)
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (genetics)
Ferdinand Von Zeppelin (rigid airship)
Konrad Zuse (Z1-Z4 computers)