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  • Albert EinsteinOn the 14th of March 1879, Albert Einstein was born in Ulm within the Kingdom of Württemberg. His parents were Hermann Einstein and Pauline Koch.
  • Alfred KleinerAlfred Kleiner received his PhD on the 24th of April 1874 from the University of Zurich. His thesis examined intermittent retinal stimulation under Johann…
  • Carl JungCarl Gustav Jung was born on the 26th of July 1875 in Kesswil, a small village in the Swiss canton of Thurgau. He entered the world as the first surviving…
  • Heinrich Jacob GoldschmidtHeinrich Jacob Goldschmidt entered the world on the 12th of April 1857 in Prague, Austria-Hungary. He studied chemistry at Charles University during his…
  • Hermann MinkowskiHermann Minkowski entered the world on the 22nd of June 1864 in Aleksota. This town sat within the Suwałki Governorate of the Kingdom of Poland.
  • Hermann WeylHermann Klaus Hugo Weyl entered the world on the 9th of November 1885 in Elmshorn. This small town sat near Hamburg within Germany.
  • Marcel GrossmannMarcel Grossmann entered the world on the 9th of April 1878 in Budapest. He was born into a Jewish family that had deep roots in Switzerland.
  • Jacob BurckhardtCarl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt entered the world on the 25th of May 1818 in Basel. He was born into a Protestant clergyman family and grew up within the…
  • Peter DebyePeter Joseph William Debye was born on the 24th of March 1884 in Maastricht, Netherlands. He enrolled at Aachen University of Technology in 1901 to study…
  • Otto SternOtto Stern was born on the 17th of February 1888 into a Jewish family in Sohrau. This town now bears the name Żory within the Province of Silesia, Kingdom of…