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Born November 20, 1602 • Magdeburg
Died May 11, 1686 (aged 83) • Hamburg
Subjects Of Study combustion • respiration

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Guericke, engraving by C. Galle, 1649, after a portrait by Anselmus von Hulle
Guericke, Otto von; air pressure experiment
Guericke, Otto von; vacuum
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Guericke, Otto von; air pressure
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Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Auguste Piccard, 1961
Auguste Piccard
Swiss-Belgian physicist
Jack Kilby
American engineer
Jacques Piccard
Swiss oceanic engineer
Simon van der Meer
Dutch physicist
Ctesibius of Alexandria
Ctesibius Of Alexandria
Greek physicist and inventor
Nils Gustaf Dalén.
Nils Dalén
Swedish physicist
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Sir William Siemens, engraving after a portrait by Rudolf Lehmann
Sir William Siemens
British inventor
Wankel, Felix; Wankel engine
Felix Wankel
German inventor
Johann Philipp Reis
German physicist
Abbe, Ernst
Ernst Abbe
German physicist
Neher, Erwin
Erwin Neher
German physicist
Ernst Ruska
German engineer
Ferdinand Braun
Ferdinand Braun
German physicist
Geiger counter
Hans Geiger
German physicist
Binnig, Gerd
Gerd Binnig
German physicist
Stern, Otto
Otto Stern
American physicist

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