The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Seventeen years ago today, German scientist Willy Fiedler climbed into a makeshift cockpit installed in a V-1 rocket-bomb that was attached to the underbelly of a Heinkel bomber.

The term Animism appears to have been first developed as animismus by German scientist Georg Ernst Stahl, circa 1720, to refer to the " doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial soul.

* 1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist ( d. 1832 )

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (;, ) ( 30 April 177723 February 1855 ) was a German mathematician and physical scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy and optics.

In 1800 German scientist Alexander von Humboldt and French botanist Aimé Bonpland explored the river.

In 1874 German scientist Karl Ferdinand Braun discovered the " unilateral conduction " of crystals.

* 1724 – Franz Aepinus, German scientist ( d. 1802 )

Radio waves were not detected first from a natural source, but were rather produced deliberately an artificially by the German scientist Heinrich Hertz in 1887, using electrical circuits calculated to produce oscillations in the radio frequency range, following recipies suggested by the equations of James Clerk Maxwell.

In 1827, the German scientist Georg Ohm expressed his law in this famous book " Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet " ( The Galvanic Circuit Investigated Mathematically ) in which he gave his complete theory of electricity.

German scientist Walther Nernst portrait in the 1910s.

The word " ecology " (" Ökologie ") was coined in 1866 by the German scientist Ernst Haeckel ( 1834 – 1919 ).

* 1781 – Johann Baptist von Spix, German scientist ( d. 1826 )

* 1865 – Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist ( d. 1949 )

The principle of the fuel cell was discovered by German scientist Christian Friedrich Schönbein in 1838 and published in one of the scientific magazines of the time.

Georgius Agricola ( 24 March 1494 – 21 November 1555 ) was a German scholar and scientist.

* Agricola Akademischer Verein, German traditional Fraternity, with the name of the famous scientist.

Some of these blended science fiction films with Gothic horror, such as The Invisible Man ( 1933 ) and, mirroring the earlier German films, featured a mad scientist.

Friedrich August Kekulé von StradonitzThe need for an international standard for chemistry was first addressed in 1860 by a committee headed by German scientist Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz.

* 1941 – Hans Berger, German scientist ( b. 1873 )

* 1905 – Willy Hartner, German scientist ( d. 1981 )

* 1794 – Georg Forster, German scientist and revolutionary ( d. 1754 )

* 1949 – Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist ( b. 1865 )

It was invented independently by German cleric Ewald Georg von Kleist on 11 October 1745 and by Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek of Leiden ( Leyden ) in 1745 – 1746.

The idea for the Leyden jar was discovered independently by two parties: German scientist and jurist Ewald Georg von Kleist, and Dutchmen Musschenbroek and Cunaeus.

* 1730 – Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher ( d. 1788 )

* 1770 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher ( d. 1831 )

* 1917 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician ( b. 1849 )

* Georg Christian Lehms, Des israelitischen Printzens Absolons und seiner Prinzcessin Schwester Thamar Staats-Lebens-und Helden-Geschichte (' The Heroic Life and History of the Israelite Prince Absolom and his Princess Sister Tamar '), novel in German published in Nuremberg, 1710

* 1889 – Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician ( d. 1946 )

His last opera was a German language singspiel Die Neger, ( The Negroes ), a melodrama set in colonial Virginia with a text by Georg Friedrich Treitschke ( the author of the libretto for Beethoven's Fidelio ) performed in 1804 and was a complete failure.

* 1502 – Georg Major, German theologian ( d. 1574 )

The story of Ulysses and Circe was retold as an episode in Georg Rollenhagen's German verse epic, Froschmeuseler ( The frogs and mice, Magdeburg, 1595 ).

It was discovered in 1874 by Henry John Stephen Smith and introduced by German mathematician Georg Cantor in 1883.

* 1687 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician ( d. 1755 )

* 1893 – Georg August Rudolph, German politician ( b. 1816 )

Yet, at the 5th Congress of the Communist International ( July 1924 ), Grigory Zinoviev formally denounced Georg Lukács's heterodox definition of orthodox Marxism as exclusively derived from fidelity to the " Marxist method ", and not to Communist party dogmas ; and denounced the Marxism developments of the German theorist Karl Korsch.

Georg Doring ( German Lutheran ), Rev.

* 1837 – Georg Büchner, German playwright ( b. 1813 )

* 1664 – Georg Dietrich Leyding, German composer and organist ( d. 1710 )

* 1756 – Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat ( d. 1821 )

* 1639 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar ( d. 1691 )

* 1919 – Georg Gawliczek, German football manager ( d. 1999 )

* 1982 – Georg Konrad Morgen, German judge ( b. 1909 )

* 1948 – Georg Brunnhuber, German politician

Fichte is often perceived as a figure whose philosophy forms a bridge between the ideas of Kant and those of the German Idealist Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor ( ; ; – January 6, 1918 ) was a German mathematician, best known as the inventor of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics.

George Frideric Handel ( German: Georg Friedrich Händel ; ) ( 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759 ) was a German-born British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos.