23 hours ago · The future king and emperor was born William Frederick Louis of Prussia (Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig von Preußen) in the Kronprinzenpalais in Berlin on 22 March 1797. As the second son of Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Prince Frederick William, himself son of King Frederick William II, William was not expected to ascend to the throne.
- 18 January 1871 – 9 March 1888
- Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
23 hours ago · Paul Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, as the second child of German music teacher Hans Wilhelm Klee (1849–1940) and Swiss singer Ida Marie Klee, born Frick (1855–1921).
- Painting, drawing, watercolor, printmaking
- Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
- German
- Expressionism, Bauhaus, Surrealism
1 day ago · Early life and studies Early years. Werner Karl Heisenberg was born in Würzburg, Germany, to Kaspar Ernst August Heisenberg [], a secondary school teacher of classical languages who became Germany's only ordentlicher Professor (ordinarius professor) of medieval and modern Greek studies in the university system, and his wife, Annie Wecklein.
- 7 (incl. Jochen and Martin)
- Theoretical physics
2 days ago · Antoine Henri Becquerel (/ ˌ b ɛ k ə ˈ r ɛ l /; 15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French engineer, physicist, Nobel laureate, and the first person to discover evidence of radioactivity. For work in this field he, along with Marie Skłodowska-Curie (Marie Curie) and Pierre Curie , [3] received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics .
- Rumford Medal (1900), Nobel Prize in Physics (1903), Barnard Medal (1905), ForMemRS (1908)
- Discovery of radioactivity
2 days ago · Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld, ForMemRS (German: [ˈzɔmɐˌfɛlt]; 5 December 1868 – 26 April 1951) was a German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics, and also educated and mentored many students for the new era of theoretical physics.
- German
- Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld, 5 December 1868, Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia
- University of Königsberg
- 26 April 1951 (aged 82), Munich, West Germany