LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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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