Famous People and Discoveries
- Karl Benz (1844–1929), the inventor of the automobile, a graduate who also received an honorary Ph.D. in 1914
- Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918), who developed the cathode ray tube in 1897, which is widely used in televisions, in 1909 he received the Nobel Prize for the invention
- Wolfgang Gaede (1878–1945), who founded vacuum technology
- Fritz Haber (1868–1934), who developed the high-pressure synthesis of ammonia in 1909 and won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918
- Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894) discovered electromagnetic waves in 1887, which are the basis of radio, and after whom the SI unit of frequency, hertz is named
- Otto Lehmann (1855–1922), the founder of liquid crystal research
- Wilhelm Nusselt (1882–1957), the co-founder of technical thermodynamics
- Ferdinand Redtenbacher (1809–1863), founder of mechanical engineering in Germany
- Roland Scholl (1865–1945), discovered coronene and contributed significantly to the field of organic chemistry in general
- Hermann Staudinger (1881–1965), who won in 1953 the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry
- Wilhelm Steinkopf (1879–1949), co-developer of a method for the mass production of mustard gas during World War I
- Edward Teller (1908–2003), who is known as the originator of the hydrogen bomb
- Karl Heun (1859-1929), numerical Integration and solutions to differential equations. Discovery of the Heun method.
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“Sole and self-commanded works,
Fears not undermining days,
Grows by decays,
And, by the famous might that lurks
In reaction and recoil,
Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is hard to have patience with people who say “There is no death” or “Death doesn’t matter.” There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn’t matter.”
—C.S. (Clive Staples)
“Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)