Curated category
German Nobel laureates
- 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.
- Robert KochHeinrich Hermann Robert Koch entered the world on the 11th of December 1843 in Clausthal, Germany. His father worked as a mining engineer and raised thirteen…
- Hermann HesseHermann Karl Hesse was born on the 2nd of July 1877 in the Black Forest town of Calw. His grandparents had served as missionaries in India under the Basel…
- Max PlanckMax Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was born on the 23rd of April 1858 in Kiel, Holstein. He entered the world into a family where theology and law ruled supreme.
- Werner HeisenbergWerner Karl Heisenberg was born on the 5th of December 1901 in Würzburg, Germany. His father Kaspar Ernst August Heisenberg taught classical languages and…
- Willy BrandtHerbert Ernst Karl Frahm was born on the 18th of December 1913 in the Free City of Lübeck. His mother Martha Luise Wilhelmine Frahm worked as a cashier for a…
- Max BornMax Born entered the University of Göttingen in April 1904, stepping into a world dominated by three renowned mathematicians.
- Theodor MommsenTheodor Mommsen entered the world on the 30th of November 1817 in Garding, a small town within the Duchy of Schleswig. His father served as a Lutheran…
- 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…
- Walther NernstWalther Hermann Nernst entered the world on the 25th of June 1864 in Briesen, a town within the Prussian Province of West Prussia.