Physics
- first telephone transmitter in 1861 by Johann Philipp Reis, he also invented the term telephone.
- Deinking by Justus Claproth
- Geissler tube by Heinrich Geißler
- Planck constant by Max Planck
- Planck's law by Max Planck
- Refractometer by Ernst Abbe in 1874.
- Scanning tunneling microscope by Gerd Binnig (German) and Heinrich Rohrer (Swiss) (at IBM Zürich) .
- Stark effect by Johannes Stark
- Stark spectroscopy by Johannes Stark
- Electron microscope
- Nuclear fission by Otto Hahn and Fritz Straßmann
- Geiger–Müller tube by Hans Geiger and Walther Müller
- Geiger–Müller counter by Hans Geiger
- Photoelectric effect by Albert Einstein
- Mass–energy equivalence by Albert Einstein
- General relativity by Albert Einstein
- Special relativity by Albert Einstein
- Bose–Einstein statistics, Bose–Einstein condensate and Boson by Albert Einstein (together with Bose)
- x-ray by Wilhelm Röntgen
- Noether's theorem by Emmy Noether
- Nuclear shell model by Maria Goeppert-Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen
- Quantum Hall effect by Klaus von Klitzing
- Giant magnetoresistance by Peter Grünberg (together with Albert Fert)
- Anode ray by Eugen Goldstein
- Ohm's law by Georg Ohm
- vacuum pump and Magdeburg hemispheres by Otto von Guericke
- Radio waves and Electromagnetic radiation by Heinrich Hertz
- Nernst lamp by Walther Nernst
- Wien approximation and Wien's displacement law by Wilhelm Wien
- Ultraviolet by Johann Wilhelm Ritter
- electromagnetic and radio waves, discovered by Heinrich Hertz
- Barkhausen effect and Barkhausen stability criterion by Heinrich Barkhausen
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