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1989 Wolfgang Paul
and Hans Dehmelt
receive the Nobel 1991 Erwin Neher
prize for research into and Bert Sakmann
nuclear and molecular
1813 Karl physics and for their receive the Nobel
Freiherr von Drais work in the 1950s prize for research
invents the first developing the “Paul into defining
two-wheeled vehicle – trap” – a device for the process of
a kind of bicycle capturing ions communication
1874 Otto Lilienthal constructs the first between cells
1831 Justus von Liebig glider for engineless flights 1987 Georg Bednorz and
develops a new method Karl A Müller receive the 1999 Günter
of chemical analysis Blobel is awarded
1876 Nikolaus Otto invents the Nobel prize for discovering
internal combustion engine high temperature the Nobel prize
1841 Julius Mayer superconductivity in metal for discovering
formulates the oxides the process that
principle of conser- determines the
vation of energy direction of
1922 The Nobel movement and
1865 Rudolf J E Prize is awarded the location
Clausius to Albert Einstein, of proteins
formulates the who developed within cells
second law of the theory
thermodynamics of relativity
1934 Ida Noddack (née Tacke), nomi-
nated three times for the Nobel Prize in
1882 Robert Chemistry, is the first German physicist
Koch discovers to mention the idea of nuclear fission.
the tuberculosis
bacillus (Nobel 1980 Christiane Nüsslein-
prize in 1905) Volhard and Eric Wieschaus
identify and classify the
15 genes that direct the
cells to form a new fly.
1800 1850 1900 1950 2000
1800 1850 1900 1950 2000
1963 Nobel Prize
1885 Karl awarded to Karl Ziegler
Benz and for his work on industrial
Gottlieb production of polymers
Daimler
construct the
first petrol-
driven car 2012 Germany
is named as
1918 Nobel Prize the world’s top
1886 Heinrich awarded to Max K photovoltaics (PV)
Hertz discovers Planck who installer; the
radio waves
founded the 1944 Nobel Prize country has a
principles of awarded to Otto solar PV capacity
quantum theory Hahn for discovery of more than
(with Lise Meitner) 32 gigawatts, as of
1903 Arthur Korn of the process of December 2012
demonstrates how nuclear fission
to transmit a
photograph from
1866 Ernest W Siemens a distance
develops the dynamo
1938 Ernst
Ruska and
Max Knoll
1850 Wilhelm Bauer
constructs a submarine construct the
first electron
microscope
1841 Christian
Schönbein
discovers ozone
1941 Konrad Zuse constructs the Z3
1826 Georg S Ohm shows that calculator – the first digital “computer”
the ratio of a steady current to
voltage is a constant
1901 Nobel Prize awarded to Wilhelm C Röntgen,
for his discovery of X-rays and their uses
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