This is a list of German Inventions and Discoveries of German people or inventors/discoverers of German heritage in alphabetical order of the surname. The main section includes existing articles, indicated by blue links and possibly non-existing, indicated by red links. Please read the Notes section below for more information BEFORE adding an inventor or discoverer.
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A
- Manfred von Ardenne: Research and applied physicist and inventor. Inventor of television among other things. 600 patents in fields including electron microscopy, medical technology, nuclear technology, plasma physics, and radio and television technology.
- Leopold Auerbach: Discovery of Plexus myentericus Auerbachi, or Auerbach's plexus.
B
- Emil Adolf von Behring: Discoverer of diphtheria antitoxin. He was awarded histories first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901.
- Melitta Bentz: Inventor of the coffee filter, 1908.
- Karl Benz: The father and inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile, 1885, and pioneering founder of automobile manufacturing.
- Robert Bosch: He invented, engineered and launched various innovations for the motor vehicle.
- Karlheinz Brandenburg: Inventor and audio engineer; father of audio compression format MPEG Audio Layer 3, more commonly known as MP3.
- Wernher von Braun: The preeminent rocket engineer of the 20th century.
- Wilhelm Busch: Caricaturist, painter and poet; father of comics.
C
D
- Gottlieb Daimler: He invented the first high-speed petrol engine and the first four-wheel automobile, also the first gasoline-powered motorcycle.
- Adolf „Adi“ Dassler: Sport sneakers with and without spikes.
- Rudolf Dassler: First sport shoes with screw-in shoe spikes, 1949.
- Rudolf Diesel: Inventor of the diesel engine.
- Walter Robert Dornberger: Co-inventor of the V2 rocket.
- Karl Drais: Inventor of the bicycle and typewriter (1821) among other things.
E
- Paul Ehrlich: Scientist in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy, and Nobel laureate. Developed an effective treatment against syphilis.
- Albert Einstein: Godfather of Theoretical Physics, inventor and discoverer.
F
- Joseph von Fraunhofer: Discovery of the dark absorption lines known as Fraunhofer lines in the Sun's spectrum, and for making excellent optical glass and achromatic telescope objectives.
- Nikolaus Friedreich: Discovery of Friedreich-Auerbach disease (together with Leopold Auerbach) among other things.
G
- Carl Friedrich Gauss: Inventor of the first the first electromagnetic telegraph; discoverer of many things in mathematics and physics, known as "the Prince of Mathematicians".
- Heinrich Göbel: Inventor of the first light bulb in 1854.
- Johannes Gutenberg: Inventor of the technology of printing with movable type.
H
- Otto Hahn: German chemist and Nobel laureate who pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. "The father of nuclear chemistry" and the "founder of the atomic age".
- Henry J. Heinz: Tomato ketchup among many other things.
- Werner Heisenberg: Theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to quantum mechanics.
- Richard Hellmann: Hellmann's (Blue Ribbon) Mayonnaise, 1905.
- Peter Henlein: Inventor of the watch.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel: Discovered infrared radiation among other things.
- Heinrich Hertz: Physicist, inventor of electromagnetic/radio waves.
- Felix Hoffmann: Aspirin (Bayer), 1897.
- Gottlob Honold: Inventor of the spark plug and the modern internal combustion engine, as well as headlights.
- Christian Huelsmeyer: Inventor of Radar.
I
J
- Hugo Junkers: Pioneer of all-metal aircraft construction with the Junkers J 1 (1915-16)
K
- Robert Koch: Physician, discoverer, inventor and Nobel Prize winner. He became famous for isolating Bacillus anthracis (1877), the Tuberculosis bacillus (1882) and the Vibrio cholera (1883) and for his development of Koch's postulates.
L
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Philosopher known for discovering the mathematical field of calculus and coherently laying down its basic operations in 1684.
- Otto Lillienthal: Father of Aviation and first successful aviator of humanity.
M
- Wilhelm Maybach: Together with Gottlieb Daimler the first gasoline-powered motorcycle, power-engined boat and later, 1902, the Mercedes car model.
- Lise Meitner: Nuclear physicist, the only woman in the team that discovered nuclear fission.
N
O
- Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain: The modern jet engine in 1933, patented in 1936.
- Nikolaus August Otto: Inventor of the first internal-combustion engine to efficiently burn fuel directly in a piston chamber.
P
- Max Planck: Physicist, Scientist. He is considered to be the founder of the quantum theory, and one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century.
- Robert Wichard Pohl: In 1938, together with Rudolf Hilsch, built first functioning solid-state amplifier using salt as the semiconductor.
Q
R
- Johann Philipp Reis: Inventor of the first phone transmitter in 1861, he also invented the term Telephone.
- Paul Julius Freiherr von Reuter: Communications pioneer.
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen: Physicist and inventor of x-rays/Röntgen rays (8 November 1895), this earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
S
- Johann Lukas Schönlein: Professor of medicine, he discovered among other things the parasitic cause of ringworm or favus (Achorion Schönleinii).
- Marx Schwab: Silversmith, invented coining with the screw press around 1550.
- Ernst Werner von Siemens: dynamo, pointer telegraph that used a needle to point to the right letter, first electric elevator, trolleybus
T
U
- Dietrich "Diedrich" Uhlhorn: Engineer, mechanic and inventor who invented the first mechanical tachometer (1817), invented between 1817 and 1830 the Presse Monétaire (level coin press known as Uhlhorn Press) which bears his name.
V
- Abraham Vater: Ampulla of Vater.
- Hans Vogt: Invented sound-on-film (idea 1905) together with Jo Engl and Joseph Massolle, first sound-on-film for the public on 17 September 1922 in Filmtheater Alhambra , Berlin, Germany.
- Woldemar Voigt: Physicist, who taught at the Georg August University of Göttingen. He worked on crystal physics, thermodynamics and electro-optics. He discovered the Voigt effect in 1898.
W
- Felix Wankel: Inventor of the Rotary Motor.
- Wilhelm Eduard Weber: Inventor of the first the first electromagnetic telegraph together with Carl Friedrich Gauss.
- Gustav Weißkopf: Aviation pioneer - Worlds First Motorized Flight: August 14, 1901.
- Clemens Alexander Winkler: Chemist who discovered the element germanium in 1886.
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Y
Z
- Konrad Zuse: Inventor of the first computing machine/computer.
Notes
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