List of German Inventors and Discoverers - M

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• Ernst Mach: Discovered many effects of high speed projectiles; the Mach number is dedicated to his memory.
• Georg Hans Madelung: Academic and aeronautical engineer; a participant in the development of the Junkers F.13.
• Karl Marx: Political economist and philosopher, who defined the political/economical background of capitalism and discovered the mechanics of Marxism. His ideas still influence the world we now live in.
• Wilhelm Maybach: Together with Gottlieb Daimler the first gasoline-powered motorcycle, power-engine boat and later, 1902, the Mercedes car model.
• Ottomar von Mayenburg: Inventor of "Chlorodont", the first commercial brand of toothpaste.
• Georg Meissner: Discovered Meissner's plexus.
• Lise Meitner: Nuclear physicist, who, together with Otto Frisch, provided a theoretical account of nuclear fission.
• Julius Lothar Meyer: With Mendeleev he developed the periodic classification of the elements in order of their atomic weight.
• Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer: He discovered the Triassic predator Teratosaurus, the earliest bird Archaeopteryx lithographica (1861), the pterosaur Rhamphorhynchus, and the prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus
• Gregor Mendel: Discoveries in genetics. Mendel demonstrated that the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follows particular patterns, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance. First published in 1865.
• Ottmar Mergenthaler: Inventor who has been called a second Gutenberg because of his invention of the Linotype machine.
• Rudolf Mössbauer: physicist, discovered Mössbauer effect, shared Nobel Prize in Physics 1961.
• Johannes Peter Müller: Discoveries in physiology.