Bunsen, Robert (Göttingen)
The spectrometer inventor with the gas burner name
Famous Brainiacs from Germany
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Einstein, Albert (Ulm)
Creator of the theory of relativity -
Engels, Friedrich (Barmen)
Karl Marx's collaborator and editor -
Fuchs, Klaus (Rüsselheim)
The physicist who gave secrets to the Soviets in WWII -
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (Frankfurt am Main)
The German dramatist known for Faust -
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (Stuttgart)
Metaphysical philosopher who came up with the idea of the dialectic -
Heidegger, Martin (Messkirch)
The modern philosopher who wrote 1927's 'Being and Time' -
Marx, Karl (Trier)
Founder of modern communism -
Nietzsche, Friedrich (Röcken)
The 19th century German who said "God is dead" -
Planck, Max (Kiel)
The German physicist who originated quantum theory -
Von Braun, Wernher (Wirsitz)
Ex-Nazi rocket scientist and father of the U.S. space program