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This is a list of German scientists.

From left to right, some famous German scientists: Gotfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Johanennes Kepler, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Albert Einstein, Hildegard of Bingen, Hennig Brand

Middle Ages

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  • Rabanus Maurus (780-856), writer
  • Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), physician and theologian[1]
  • Theodoric of Freiberg (1250-1311), physicist and theologian[2]
  • Gottfried von Hagenau (1270-1325), physician[3]
  • John of Saxony, astronomer[4]
  • Albert of Saxony (1320-1390), mathematician, physicist and philosopher.[5] He developed the theory of assumption
  • Albertus Magnus (1200-1280), alchemist and chemist, He classified minerals in a systematic way and He discovered the element arsenic
  • Henry of Langenstein (1325-1397), He provided a revival of Eudoxus' cosmological model of concentric spheres
  • Johannes Gutenberg (1396-1468), was a German inventor and craftsman who introduced letterpress printing to Europe with his movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg invented the printing press, which later spread across the world. His work led to an information revolution and the unprecedented mass-spread of literature throughout Europe. It also had a direct impact on the development of the Renaissance, Reformation, and humanist movements, as all of them have been described as "unthinkable" without Gutenberg's invention
  • Johannes von Gmunden (1380-1442), mathematician and astronomer
  • Regiomontanus (1436-1476), mathematician
  • Nicolaus Germanus (1420-1490), geographer
  • Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), philosopher
  • Johannes Widmann (1460-1498), mathematician, The + and - symbols first appeared in print in his book Mercantile Arithmetic or Behende und hüpsche Rechenung auff allen Kauffmanschafft published in Leipzig in 1489 in reference to surpluses and deficits in business problems.
  • Henricus Martellus Gormenus, geographer
  • Jacob Ziegler, scholar and geographer

16th century

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  • Eucharius Rösslin (1470-1526), was a German physician who in 1513 authored a book about childbirth called Der Rosengarten (The Rose Garden), which became a standard medical text for midwives.
  • Erhard Ratdolt (1442–1528), Bilinen ilk yazıcı tip örneği kitabını üretmesiyle ünlü Matbaacı
  • Michael Stifel (1487-1567), mathematician, theologian, He was an Augustinian who was one of the first supporters of Martin Luther. Later in mathematics professor at the University of Jena
  • Nicholas Kratzer (1487-1550), mathematician, astronomer and horologist
  • Adam Ries (1492-1559), mathematician
  • Christoph Rudolff (1499-1545), mathematician, He was a German mathematician who was the author of the first German textbook on algebra
  • Jacob Milich (1501-1559), mathematician, physician and astronomer, The crater Milichius on the Moon is named after him
  • Petrus Apianus (1495-1552), mathematician, geographer, astronomer
  • Philipp Apian (1531-1589), He was a German mathematician and doctor. Son of Petrus Apianus (1495–1552), he is also known as the cartographer of Bavaria.
  • Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (1547-1590), philologist
  • Adam Lonicer, Adamus Lonicerus (10 October 1528 – 29 May 1586) was a German botanist best known for his 1557 revised version of Eucharius Rösslin's medicinal plant
  • Hieronymus Wolf (1516-1580), historian and humanist, He coined the term Byzantium
  • Heinrich Rantzau (1526-1598), humanist
  • Nicolaus Reimers (1551-1600), astronomer, mathematician
  • Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (1561-1613), mathematician, The scientist who first coined the term trigonometry
  • Georg Limnaeus (1554-1611), mathematician and astronomer
  • Ludolph van Ceulen (1540-1610), mathematician

17th century

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18th century

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Worl, Gayle (1997-03-09). "WOMEN OF HISTORIC NOTE". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
  2. ^ Glick, Thomas F.; Livesey, Steven; Wallis, Faith (2014). Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge. p. 473. ISBN 978-0415969307.
  3. ^ Gottfried von Haguenau. Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie der Theologie und der Kirchen (DBETh). 3 May 2011. ISBN 9783110959888. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  4. ^ Glick, Thomas; Ivesey, Steven; Wallis, Faith (29 September 2005). Medieval Science Technology and Medicine: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 292. ISBN 140394766X.
  5. ^ "Albert of Saxony - Biography". Maths History. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
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