German Reich

Werner Karl Heisenberg

German Reich

for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen

Carl Bosch

German Reich

for the invention and development of chemical high-pressure methods

Friedrich Bergius

German Reich

for the invention and development of chemical high-pressure methods

Otto Heinrich Warburg

German Reich

for his discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme

Hans Fischer

German Reich

for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of haemin

Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin

Sweden, German Reich

for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes

Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus

German Reich

for his research into the constitution of the sterols and their connection with the vitamins (especially vitamin D)

Heinrich Otto Wieland

German Reich

for his investigations of the constitution of the bile acids and related substances

Ludwig Quidde

German Reich

for their contribution to Franco-German reconciliation and the nurturing of public opinion favouring peaceful international cooperation

Gustav Stresemann

German Reich

for their crucial role in bringing about the Locarno Treaty

James Franck

German Reich

for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom

Gustav Ludwig Hertz

German Reich

for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom

Richard Adolf Zsigmondy

German Reich, Kingdom of Hungary

for his demonstration of the heterogeneous nature of colloid solutions and for the methods he used, which have since become fundamental in modern colloid chemistry

Otto Fritz Meyerhof

German Reich

for his discovery of the fixed relationship between the consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle

Walther Hermann Nernst

German Reich

for his work in thermochemistry

Johannes Stark

German Reich

for his discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields