german biologists library

German biologists have contributed some of biology's greatest findings. With the increasing importance of genetics, conservation and microbiology, German biologists may yet discover some of nature's most amazing secrets.

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Loffler, Friedrich August Johannes (1852-1915), a German bacteriologist. In 1882, Loffler discovered the bacilli causing glanders and swine erysipelas. See more »

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Karl Ernst von Baer

Baer, Karl Ernst von (1792-1876), a German-Estonian biologist, was the first to discover the egg of the mammal in the ovary.

Karl von Frisch

Von Frisch, Karl (1886-1982) was an Austrian zoologist and co-recipient of the 1973 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his groundbreaking work in animal behavior.

Konrad Emil Bloch

Bloch, Konrad Emil (1912-2000), a German-born American biochemist, shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with German biochemist Feodor Lynen for discovering how animal cells transform acetic acid into cholesterol.

Matthias Jacob Schleiden

Schleiden, Matthias Jakob (1804–1881), a German botanist. He and Theodor Schwann established the fact that all living organisms are made up of cells.

Max Delbruck

Delbrück, Max (1906-1981) was a German-born American biologist who shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with American biologists Alfred Day Hershey and Salvador Edward Luria.

Otto Heinrich Warburg

Warburg, Otto Heinrich (1883-1970) was a German biochemist who discovered cell oxidation and the respiratory enzyme iron-oxygenase that catalyzes the process.

Paul Ehrlich

Ehrlich, Paul (1854–1915), a German bacteriologist and chemist. For his research in immunology he shared the 1908 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Élie Metchnikoff.

Robert Huber

Huber, Robert (1937-) is a German biochemist. He won the 1988 Nobel Prize in chemistry for unraveling the full details of how a membrane-bound protein is built up, revealing the structure of the molecule, atom by atom.

Robert Koch

Koch, Robert (1843–1910), a German physician and bacteriologist. Koch was awarded the 1905 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for developing a test used in diagnosing tuberculosis.

Theodore Schwann

Schwann, Theodor (1810–1882), a German physiologist and anatomist. Schwann and the German botanist Matthias Schleiden established one of the basic ideas in modern biology—the theory that all living organisms are made up of cells and cell products.