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51Roux, Wilhelm — ▪ German zoologist born June 9, 1850, Jena, Saxony [Germany] died Sept. 15, 1924, Halle, Ger. German zoologist whose attempts to discover how organs and tissues are assigned their structural form and functions at the time of fertilization… …
52Strauss, Richard — ▪ German composer Introduction in full Richard Georg Strauss born June 11, 1864, Munich, Ger. died Sept. 8, 1949, Garmisch Partenkirchen an outstanding German Romantic composer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His symphonic poems of… …
53Böhmer, Johann Friedrich — ▪ German historian born April 22, 1795, Frankfurt am Main [Germany] died Oct. 22, 1863, Frankfurt am Main historian known for his Regesta, an annotated collection of charters and imperial documents of medieval Germany. After studying… …
54Carathéodory, Constantin — ▪ German mathematician born Sept. 13, 1873, Berlin, Ger. died Feb. 2, 1950, Munich German mathematician of Greek origin who made important contributions to the theory of real functions, to the calculus of variations, and to the theory of… …
55Curtius, Ernst — ▪ German archaeologist born Sept. 2, 1814, Free City of Lübeck died July 11, 1896, Berlin German archaeologist and historian who directed the excavation of Olympia, the most opulent and sacred religious shrine of ancient Greece and site of… …
56Froebel, Friedrich — ▪ German educator Froebel also spelled Fröbel , in full Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel born April 21, 1782, Oberweissbach, Thuringia, Ernestine Saxony [now in Germany] died June 21, 1852, Marienthal, near Bad Liebenstein, Thuringia… …
57Herrhausen, Alfred — ▪ German industrialist born Jan. 30, 1930, Essen, Ger. died Nov. 30, 1989, Bad Homburg, W.Ger. West German captain of industry, chairman of the country s largest commercial bank (Deutsche Bank). Herrhausen launched his career as an… …
58Kiesinger, Kurt Georg — ▪ German statesman born April 6, 1904, Ebingen, Germany died March 9, 1988, Tübingen, West Germany conservative politician and chancellor (1966–69) of the Federal Republic of Germany whose “grand coalition” brought the Social Democratic Party… …
59Lenard, Philipp — ▪ German physicist in full Philipp Eduard Anton Lenard born June 7, 1862, Pressburg, Hung. [now Bratislava, Slovakia] died May 20, 1947, Messelhausen, Ger. German physicist and recipient of the 1905 Nobel Prize for Physics for his research on… …
60Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph — ▪ German philosopher and physicist born July 1, 1742, Ober Ramstadt, near Darmstadt, Hesse [Germany] died Feb. 24, 1799, Göttingen, Hanover German physicist, satirist, and writer of aphorisms (aphorism), best known for his ridicule of… …
