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Discovered a particle's position and velocity cannot be known at the same time. Discovered atomic nuclei are made of protons and neutrons. Wolfgang Helfrich: Co-inventor of Twisted nematic field effect. Rudolf Hell: Inventor of the first fax machine (Hellschreiber). Richard Hellmann: Hellmann's (Blue Ribbon) Mayonnaise, 1905.
Oscar Hertwig (21 April 1849 in Friedberg – 25 October 1922 in Berlin) was a German embryologist and zoologist known for his research in developmental biology and evolution. Hertwig is credited as the first person to observe sexual reproduction at the cellular level, by looking at the cells of sea urchins under the microscope.
Often, things discovered for the first time are also called inventions and in many cases, there is no clear line between the two. German-born Albert Einstein, world-famous physicist. Germany has been the home of many famous inventors, discoverers and engineers, including Carl von Linde, who developed the modern refrigerator. [2]
The Mauer 1 mandible is the oldest-known specimen of the genus Homo in Germany. It was found in 1907 in a sand quarry in the community Mauer , around 10 km (6.2 mi) south-east of Heidelberg . The Mauer 1 mandible is the type specimen of the species Homo heidelbergensis . [ 1 ]
In 1856, the fossilized bones of an extinct human species were salvaged from a limestone grotto in the Neander valley near Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia. The archaic nature of the fossils, now known to be around 40,000 years old, was recognized and the characteristics published in the first-ever paleoanthropologic species description in ...
They also discovered a note from 1634 detailing a plague outbreak that killed more than 15,000 people in 1632-1633, which says almost 2,000 people were buried near St. Sebastian Spital, the site ...
All that is known definitely is that he used Cyprian and Carniolan bees, [58] which were particularly aggressive, to the annoyance of other monks and visitors of the monastery, such that he was asked to get rid of them. [59] Mendel, on the other hand, was fond of his bees and referred to them as "my dearest little animals". [60]
Paleontologists in Germany took a fresh look at some old bones and discovered a new type of dinosaur.