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Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin

Name	Area	Department	Start Year	Stop Year	Advisor
Max Abraham			1897	1900	Max Planck (grad student)
Franz von Baader
Richard Becker	Shockwaves and detonation, plasticity of metals and theory of ferromagnetism and superconductivity, statistical physics			1922	Max Planck (post-doc)
Max Born	quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, optics
Debendra Mohan Bose	Particle physics, nuclear physics, radiochemistry			1919	Erich Regener (grad student)
Walther Bothe	nuclear physics			1914	Max Planck (grad student)
K. Ferdinand Braun				1872	Georg Hermann Quincke (grad student)
Karl Christian Bruhns	Astronomy			1856	Johann Franz Encke (grad student)
Franz Friedrich Ernst Brünnow				1843	Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (grad student), Johann Franz Encke (grad student)
Heinrich Bruns				1871	Karl Weierstrass (grad student), Ernst Eduard Kummer (grad student)
Albert Pruden Carman			1888	1890	Hermann von Helmholtz (post-doc)
Alfred D. Cole			1894	1895	Heinrich Rubens (post-doc)
Henry Crew	astrophysics, history of physics		1883	1884	Hermann von Helmholtz (research assistant)
Marianus Czerny				1923	Gerhard Georg Hettner (grad student), Heinrich Rubens (grad student)
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest			1845	1850	Johann Franz Encke (grad student)
Peter J. W. Debye	Physical chemistry, structural chemistry
Harry Dember				1906	Emil Gabriel Warburg (grad student)
Alfred Denizot				1897	Emil Gabriel Warburg (grad student)
Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet
Enno Heeren Dirksen
Anders Severin Donner	Mathematics, Astronomy			1879	Karl Weierstrass (grad student)
Paul Karl Ludwig Drude	Optics
Henri E. J. G. du Bois	mathematical physics and mechanics
William Duane				1897	Emil Gabriel Warburg (research assistant), Walther Nernst (grad student)
Albert Einstein	Physics		1925	1933	Leó Szilárd (collaborator)
Johann Franz Encke	Astronomy
Ernst Gottfried Fischer	Electricity, magnetism, light
Wilhelm Julius Foerster			1855	1858	Johann Franz Encke (post-doc)
James Franck				1911	Emil Gabriel Warburg (grad student), Paul Karl Ludwig Drude (research assistant), Heinrich Rubens (post-doc)
Otto Robert Frisch	nuclear physics		1930	1930	Peter Pringsheim (post-doc)
Johann Gottfried Galle			1845	1846	Johann Franz Encke (grad student), Urbain Le Verrier (research scientist)
Ramón Enrique Gaviola	astrophysics			1926	Peter Pringsheim (grad student)
Maurice Goldhaber	nuclear physics			1933	Max von Laue (research assistant), Erwin Schrödinger (research assistant), Lise Meitner (research assistant)
Peter Grassmann	Process Engineering		1932	1937	Walther Meißner (post-doc)
Eduard Grüneisen				1900	Emil Gabriel Warburg (grad student)
Karl Eugen Guthe	Electricity		1900	1901	Max Planck (research scientist)
Charles Sheldon Hastings			1874	1877	Hermann von Helmholtz (grad student), Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (grad student)
Heinrich Rudolph Hertz	Electromagnetism		1878	1880	Hermann von Helmholtz (grad student), Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (grad student)
Gustav Ludwig Hertz			1911	1914	Heinrich Rubens (grad student), James Franck (collaborator)
Maximillian J. Herzberger	optical theory; superachromat, a lens triplet that is color-corrected in its focus			1923	Issai Schur (grad student)
Gerhard Georg Hettner	Theoretical physics			1918	Heinrich Rubens (grad student)
Frank Clark Hoyt	Theoretical physics		1927	1928	Erwin Schrödinger (research scientist)
Adolf Hurwitz	Mathematics		1881	1882	Karl Weierstrass (grad student), Leopold Kronecker (grad student)
Elmer Hutchisson	atomic physics		1929	1930	Erwin Schrödinger (post-doc)
Aleksander Jabłoński	Atomic and molecular optics		1930	1931	Peter Pringsheim (post-doc)
Arrien Johnsen	Mineralogy, crystallography
Philipp von Jolly				1834	Heinrich Gustav Magnus (research assistant)
Edward Taylor Jones	electromagnetism			1895	August Adolph Eduard Eberhard Kundt (grad student), Henri E. J. G. du Bois (grad student), Heinrich Rubens (grad student)
Hartmut Paul Kallmann				1920	Max Planck (grad student)
Gustav Karsten				1843	Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (grad student)
Heinrich Gustav Johannes Kayser	spectroscopy			1879	Hermann von Helmholtz (grad student)
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff	Theoretical physics			1848	Heinrich Gustav Magnus (post-doc)
Carl Klein	Mineralogy, crystallography
Max Kohler	Theoretical physics			1932	Max von Laue (grad student)
Gustav Kohn			1881	1882	Karl Weierstrass (grad student)
Demetrios Kokkidis				1862	Johann Franz Encke (grad student)
Horst Korsching	nuclear physics			1938	Hermann Schüler (grad student)
Karl Nikolaus Adalbert Krueger			1851	1853	Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet (research assistant)
August Adolph Eduard Eberhard Kundt				1864	Heinrich Gustav Magnus (grad student), Johann Franz Encke (research assistant), Wilhelm Julius Foerster (research assistant)
Nicholas Kurti	low temperature physics			1933	Francis (Franz Eugen) Simon (grad student)
Elizabeth R. Laird			1898	1899	Max Planck (research assistant)
Armin Otto Leuschner				1897	John M. Schaeberle (grad student)
E. Percival Lewis	infrared and far ultraviolet spectroscopy		1898	1900	Emil Gabriel Warburg (post-doc)
Frederick Alexander Lindemann	Experimental physics			1911	Walther Nernst (grad student)
Gabriel Lippmann	Optical physics, applied optical physics			1875	Hermann von Helmholtz (research assistant)
Fritz Wolfgang London			1927	1928	Erwin Schrödinger (research scientist)
F. Wheeler Loomis	molecular spectroscopy		1928	1929	Erwin Schrödinger (research scientist)
Otto Richard Lummer				1884	Hermann von Helmholtz (grad student)
William Francis Magie	properties of solutions			1885	Hermann von Helmholtz (grad student)
Heinrich Gustav Magnus	Physics and chemistry			1827	Eilhard Mitscherlich (grad student)
Hans Marschall	Theoretical physics			1944	Siegfried Flügge (grad student)
Wilhelm Meinardus				1894	Ferdinand von Richthofen (grad student)
Walther Meißner	low temperature physics		1904	1907	Max Planck (grad student)
Lise Meitner	nuclear fission			1907	Max Planck (research scientist)
Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn	low temperature physics, transuranic elements, and medical physics.			1931	Francis (Franz Eugen) Simon (grad student)
Georg Menzer	Crystallography, mineralogy			1930	Arrien Johnsen (grad student)
Ernest George Merritt	luminescence		1893	1894	Max Planck (post-doc)
Franz Mertens				1865	Ernst Eduard Kummer (grad student), Leopold Kronecker (grad student)
Edgar Meyer			1903	1907	Emil Gabriel Warburg (grad student), Paul Karl Ludwig Drude (post-doc)
Wilhelm Meyer		Mathematics Mathematics		1878	Leopold Kronecker (grad student), Karl Weierstrass (grad student)
Albert Abraham Michelson	optics, light interferometry		1880	1881	Hermann von Helmholtz (research scientist)
Eilhard Mitscherlich	Chemistry, mineralogy		1818	1819	Heinrich Friedrich Link (post-doc)
Friedrich (Fritz) Möglich			1927	1927	Max von Laue (grad student)
D M Axel Möller	Astronomy		1858		Johann Franz Encke (post-doc)
Franz Ernst Neumann	theoretical physics			1826	Christian Samuel Weiss (grad student)
Edward Leamington Nichols			1876	1878	Hermann von Helmholtz (grad student)
Ernest Fox Nichols			1894	1896	Peter Pringsheim (grad student), Heinrich Rubens (grad student)
Ernst Max Orlich	Electrical engineering			1896	Emil Gabriel Warburg (grad student)
Anton Peterlin	polymers			1938	Herbert Arthur Stuart (grad student), Max Kohler (grad student)
Max Planck					Hermann von Helmholtz (research assistant), Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (research assistant)
Johann Christian Poggendorff			1820	1823	Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (grad student)
Robert Wichard Pohl			1906	1909	Heinrich Rubens (post-doc), Emil Gabriel Warburg (grad student)
Peter Pringsheim	Luminescence
Ernst Pringsheim	Theoretical physics			1882	Hermann von Helmholtz (grad student)
Ivan Puluj				1876	August Adolph Eduard Eberhard Kundt (post-doc)
Michael I. Pupin	Electrical engineering			1889	Hermann von Helmholtz (grad student)
Friedrich August Quenstedt	Geology, palaeontology, mineralogy, crystallography			1836	Christian Samuel Weiss (grad student)
Georg Hermann Quincke	capillarity, acoustics, optics			1858	Heinrich Gustav Magnus (grad student)
Erich Regener			1909	1922	Emil Gabriel Warburg (grad student), Heinrich Rubens (collaborator)
Max Gustav Hermann Reich	Applied electricity			1899	Emil Gabriel Warburg (grad student)
Franz Joseph Matthias Richarz	Solid state physics			1884	Hermann von Helmholtz (grad student)
Heinrich Ritter			1811	1815	Friedrich Schleiermacher (grad student)
Gustav Rose	Mineralogy			1820	Christian Samuel Weiss (grad student)
Henry A. Rowland				1875	Hermann von Helmholtz (research scientist)
Heinrich Rubens	elektromagnetic radiation			1889	August Adolph Eduard Eberhard Kundt (grad student)
George Friedrich Wilhelm Rümker			1851	1853	Johann Franz Encke (research assistant)
Carl Runge	applied mathematics			1880	Karl Weierstrass (grad student)
Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge
Alexander Stuart Russell	Radioactivity			1912	Walther Nernst (post-doc)
Fernando Sanford					Hermann von Helmholtz (post-doc)
Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk	Mathematics and Astronomy			1823	Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (grad student), Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes (grad student)
Erwin Schopper					Erich Regener (research scientist)
Walter Hans Schottky	Semiconductor physics, Electronics			1912	Max Planck (grad student)
Erwin Schrödinger	physics
Erich Schumann	acoustics			1922	Carl Stumpf (grad student)
Wilhelm Schur	Astronomy		1867	1868	Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von Auwers (post-doc), Wilhelm Julius Foerster (post-doc), Johann Christian Poggendorff (post-doc)
Arthur Schuster	spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography			1879	Hermann von Helmholtz (post-doc)
Francis (Franz Eugen) Simon	low temperature physics, isotope separation of Uranium-235			1922	Walther Nernst (grad student)
Hermann Theodor Simon	electrical engineering			1894	August Adolph Eduard Eberhard Kundt (grad student)
Frederick Slate	mechanics		1877	1879	Hermann von Helmholtz (post-doc)
Marian Smoluchowski				1897	Emil Gabriel Warburg (post-doc)
Karl Snell	mathematics, physics		1827	1829	Ernst Gottfried Fischer (research assistant)
Benjamin Warner Snow				1892	Heinrich Rubens (grad student)
Herbert Arthur Stuart
Leó Szilárd	thermodynamics, biophysics, nuclear physics, and the development of atomic energy			1922	Max von Laue (grad student)
John Torrence Tate				1914	James Franck (grad student)
Wilhelm von Beetz			1840	1849	Heinrich Gustav Magnus (post-doc), Emil Heinrich du Bois-Reymond (grad student)
Hermann von Helmholtz	Psychophysics			1842	Johannes Peter Müller (grad student)
Max von Laue	X-ray diffraction			1903	Max Planck (grad student)
Ferdinand von Richthofen	Geomorphology			1856	Gustav Rose (grad student), Heinrich Gustav Magnus (research assistant)
Johann Georg von Soldner			1797	1803	Johann Elert Bode (grad student)
Emil Gabriel Warburg				1867	Heinrich Gustav Magnus (grad student), August Adolph Eduard Eberhard Kundt (grad student)
Heinrich Friedrich Weber			1871	1874	Hermann von Helmholtz (post-doc)
Arthur Gordon Webster	magnetism			1890	Hermann von Helmholtz (grad student), August Adolph Eduard Eberhard Kundt (grad student)
Karl Weierstrass	Mathematics
Christian Samuel Weiss	Crystallography
Karl Weissenberg	Rheology		1920	1921	Richard Edler von Mises (post-doc)
Victor Frederick Weisskopf				1932	Erwin Schrödinger (post-doc)
Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann	Thermal conductivity of various metals			1847	Heinrich Gustav Magnus (grad student)
Willy (Wilhelm) Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien	Electromagnetism			1886	Hermann von Helmholtz (grad student)
Max Carl Werner Wien	RF and Communications Technology			1888	August Adolph Eduard Eberhard Kundt (grad student), Hermann von Helmholtz (grad student)
Eugene Paul Wigner			1921	1925	Albert Einstein (research assistant), Walther Nernst (research assistant), Max Planck (research assistant), Max von Laue (research assistant)
August Wiktor Witkowski			1878	1880	Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (post-doc), Hermann von Helmholtz (post-doc)
Robert Williams Wood			1894	1896	Heinrich Rubens (post-doc)
Arthur Williams Wright	physics and astronomy			1869	Heinrich Gustav Magnus (post-doc), August Wilhelm von Hofmann (post-doc)
Wolfgang H. J. Yourgrau	History and Philosophy of Science			1932	Wolfgang Köhler (grad student), Erwin Schrödinger (research assistant)
Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner			1855	1857	Heinrich Gustav Magnus (grad student), Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (grad student)