Major Accomplishments of German Astronomer Simon Marius
Simon Marius, known in Latin as Simon Mayr, was born on January 10, 1573, in Gunzenhausen, near Nuremberg, Germany. Emerging during an era of unprecedented advances in astronomy, Marius is...
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Wilhelm Röntgen (1845-1923): Biography, Accomplishments & Contribution to Medicine
The German physicist and mechanical engineer Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen is hailed as the first to identify electromagnetic radiation in wavelength ranges, which are now known as X-rays. Even though other...
Robert Koch: History, Accomplishments & Contribution to Microbiology
There have been many brilliant scientists to come out of Germany throughout the years, but Robert Heinrich Herman Koch stands out as one of the country’s all-time greats. Koch established...
Max Planck: Greatest Achievements of the German Physicist
The famous German physicist, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. The prestigious honor was for his work on...
