• Friedrich Leibniz (1597-1652)

  Moral philosopher

  University of Leipzig

  

• Jakob Thomasius (1622 – 1684)

  Philosopher

  University of Leipzig

  

• Otto Mencke (1644 – 1707)

  Thesis title: thesis entitled: Ex Theologia naturali — De Absoluta Dei Simplicitate, Micropolitiam, id est Rempublicam In Microcosmo Conspicuam.

  Philosopher and Mathematician

  University of Leipzig

  

• Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen (1663 – 1727)

  Thesis title: Disputationem Moralem De Divortiis Secundum Jus Naturae (Moral Disputation on Divorce according to the Law of Nature)

  Philosopher

  University of Leipzig

  University of Wittenberg

  

• Christian August Hausen (1693-1743)

  Mathematician

  University of Wittenberg

  University of Leipzig

  

• Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (1719-1800)

  Mathematician and epigrammatist

  University of Leipzig

  University of Göttingen

  

  the crater Kästner on the Moon is named after him

• Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744-1777)

  Naturalist

  University of Göttingen

  

• Christian Ehrenfried Weigel (1748 – 1831)

  Thesis title: Observationes chemicae et mineralogicae

  Chemist and botanist

  University of Göttingen

  University of Greifswald

  

• Karl Asmund Rudolphi ( 1771 – 1832)

  Thesis title: Observationes circa vermes intestinales

  Naturalist

  University of Greifswald

  University of Berlin

  

  He is credit with begin the “father of helminthology”

• Johannes Peter Müller ( 1801 – 1858)

  Thesis title: Dissertatio inauguralis physiologica sistens Commentarios de Phoronomia Animalium (1822)

  Physiologist

  Rhine University

  University of Berlin

  

• Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821 – 1894)

  Thesis title: De fabrica systematis nervosi evertebratorum (1842)

  Physicist and physician

  University of Bonn

  University of Heidelberg

  Humboldt University

  

• Albert Abraham Michelson (1852 – 1931)

  Physicist

  United States Naval Academy

  University of Berlin

  Case Western Reserve University

  Clark University

  University of Chicago

  

  He won Nobel Prize in Physics “for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid”

• Robert Andrews Millikan (1868 – 1953)

  Thesis title: On the polarization of light emitted from the surfaces of incandescent solids and liquids. (1895)

  Experimental physicist

  Columbia University

  University of Chicago

  Caltech

  

  He won the Nobel prize “for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect.”

• Charles Christian Lauritsen (1892 – 1968)

  Thesis title: Electron Emission from Metals in Intense Electron Fields. (1929) 

  Nuclear physicist

  Caltech

  

• Horace Richard Crane (1907 – 2007)

  Thesis title: Artificial Radioactivity (1934)

  Physicist

  Caltech

  University of Michigan

  

  He is a recipient of President Ronald Reagan’s National Medal of Science “for the first measurement of the magnetic moment and spin of free electrons and positrons“

• David Todd Wilkinson (1935 – 2002)

  Thesis title: A Precision Measurement of the g-Factor of the Free Electron (1962)

  cosmologist

  University of Michigan

  Princeton University

  

  He was a pioneer in cosmology and the study of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB). NASA satellites, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe was named after him.

• Peter Timbie (present)

  Thesis title: A Novel Interferometer to Search for Medium Scale Anisotropy in the 2.7K Background Radiation (1985)

  Physicist, cosmologist

  Brown University

  University of Wisconsin, Madison

  

• Brian Keating (1971-present)

  Thesis title: A Search for the Large Angular Scale Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (2000)

  Cosmologist

  Brown University

  Stanford University

  Caltech

  UC San Diego

  

• “ME”

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