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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Prince Albert
Royalty
26-Aug-1819 14-Dec-1861 Royal Consort of Queen Victoria
Alois Alzheimer
Doctor
14-Jun-1864 19-Dec-1915 Alzheimer's Disease
Eva Braun
First Lady
6-Feb-1912 30-Apr-1945 Adolf Hitler's mistress, then wife
Eduard Buchner
Chemist
20-May-1860 13-Aug-1917 Cell-free fermentation
Adi Dassler
Business
3-Nov-1900 6-Sep-1978 Founder of Adidas
Johann Deisenhofer
Chemist
30-Sep-1943   Proteins of photosynthesis
Rudolf Diesel
Inventor
18-Mar-1858 30-Sep-1913 Inventor of the diesel engine
Hans von Euler-Chelpin
Chemist
15-Feb-1873 7-Nov-1964 Enzymes of sugar fermentation
Emil Fischer
Chemist
9-Oct-1852 15-Jul-1919 Peptide bond
Ernst Otto Fischer
Chemist
10-Nov-1918 23-Jul-2007 Organometallic "sandwich" compounds
Fritz Fischer
Historian
5-Mar-1908 1-Dec-1999 Blamed Germany for World War I
King Frederick I
Royalty
c. 1122 10-Jun-1190 King of Germany, Barbarossa
Theodor W. Hänsch
Physicist
30-Oct-1941   Quantum optics
Werner Heisenberg
Physicist
5-Dec-1901 1-Feb-1976 Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
David H. Hubel
Scientist
27-Feb-1926   Neurophysiology of vision
Alec Issigonis
Engineer
18-Nov-1906 2-Oct-1988 Designer of the Mini Cooper
Karl von Linde
Engineer
11-Jun-1842 16-Nov-1934 Inventor of refrigeration
Ernst Mayr
Biologist
5-Jul-1904 3-Feb-2005 Evolutionary biologist
Erwin Neher
Scientist
20-Mar-1944   Cellular ion channels
Samuel Sachs
Business
28-Jul-1851 2-Mar-1935 Half namesake of Goldman Sachs
Erwin Schrödinger
Physicist
12-Aug-1887 4-Jan-1961 Schrödinger's wave equation
Jack Steinberger
Physicist
25-May-1921   Researcher of neutrinos
Philip Van Doren Stern
Author
10-Sep-1900 31-Jul-1984 It's A Wonderful Life
George Wald
Biologist
18-Nov-1906 12-Apr-1997 Physiology of the retina
August von Wassermann
Biologist
21-Feb-1866 16-Mar-1925 Syphilis test


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