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.

The projected union initially aroused great opposition: he did not consult with his father, who had been on vacation in Karlovy Vary and making arrangements to secure the hand of a German princess for his son, or his Prime Minister Dr. Vladan Đorđević, who was visiting the Paris Universal Exhibition at the time of the announcement.

He is believed to have moved in with Ziad Jarrah, who got a new apartment on Bougainvilla Dr. in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, after both men gave the landlord photocopies of their German passports, which he later turned over to the FBI.

The heckling of this German foreigner was tremendous, but he gave tit for tat, and any modern picture of Dr E. Mayr as a very formal person does not square with my memory of the 1930s.

VDM Verlag Dr. Müller: 2009, 128 p. ( German )

* 1920 – The first German Expressionist film and early horror movie, Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, premièred in Berlin.

According to Lang, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels called Lang to his offices to inform him that The Testament of Dr Mabuse was being banned but that he was nevertheless so impressed by Lang's abilities as a filmmaker ( especially Metropolis ), he was offering Lang a position as the head of German film studio UFA.

During 1942, Dr. Joseph Goebbels authorized relocation of SS Cap Arcona to Gotenhafen Harbour as a stand-in for RMS Titanic during filming of the German produced movie TITANIC directed by Herbert Selpin.

An area where Ribbentrop enjoyed more success arose in September 1940, when he had the Far Eastern agent of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop, Dr. Heinrich Georg Stahmer, start negotiations with the Japanese foreign minister, Yōsuke Matsuoka, for an anti-American alliance ( the German Ambassador to Japan, General Eugen Ott, was excluded from the talks on Ribbentrop's orders ).

The first Christian mission was founded on August 25, 1846, by Dr. Johann Ludwig Krapf, a German sponsored by the Church Missionary Society of England.

* 1911 – Dr. Josef Mengele, German physician and SS officer ( d. 1979 )

Spy Dr. Richard Sorge gave Stalin the exact German launch date ; Swedish cryptanalysts led by Arne Beurling also knew the date beforehand, but Sorge and other informers ( e. g. from Berlin Police dept.

He was then replaced in 1988 by the former manager of German computer company Nixdorf Computer AG, Arno Bohn, who made some costly miscalculations that led to his dismissal soon after, along with that of the development director, Dr. Ulrich Bez, who was formerly responsible for BMW's Z1 model, and today is CEO of Aston Martin.

# Flight, Guidance, and Telemetering Devices ( German: BSM ) ( Dr Ernst Steinhoff )

* Schnee, Dr. Heinrich, German Colonization, Past and Future – the Truth about the German Colonies ( George Allen & Unwin, 1926 ).

Dr. Max Rubner in an April 1919 article claimed that 100, 000 German civilians had died due to the continuation blockade of Germany after the armistice.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1919 ), directed by Robert Wiene, is usually credited as the first German expressionist film.

* June 5 – German Chancellor Dr. Heinrich Brüning visits London, where he warns the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald that the collapse of the Austrian banking system, caused by the bankruptcy of the Creditanstalt, has left the entire German banking system on the verge of collapse.

* November 25 – Auguste Deter is first examined by German psychiatrist Dr Alois Alzheimer, leading to a diagnosis of the condition that will carry Alzheimer's name.

The Misznay-Schardin effect was independently discovered during World War II by Misznay, a Hungarian, and Dr. Hubert Schardin, a German.

Dr. Johann Maier von Eck ( 13 November 1486 – 13 February 1543 ) was a German Scholastic theologian and defender of Catholicism during the Protestant Reformation.

His paper has, however, been rebutted by Dr. Jakob Cornides in the study " The Sudeten German Question after EU Enlargement "

In 1992, Jeffreys ' methods were used to confirm the identity for German prosecutors of the Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele, who had died in 1979, by comparing DNA obtained from a femur bone of his exhumed skeleton, and DNA from his widow and son, in a similar way to paternity testing.

One of the inventors of side-scan sonar was German scientist, Dr. Julius Hagemann, who was brought to the US after World War II and worked at the US Navy Mine Defense Laboratory, Panama City, FL from 1947 until his death in 1964.