page_title: List of German inventors and discoverers
section_title: W
hierarchical_section_title: List of German inventors and discoverers / W
caption_attribution_description: Drehkolbenmotor DKM 54 von de:Felix Wankel. Das Exponat ist im Deutschen Museum Bonn ausgestellt (www.deutsches-museum-bonn.de) Fotograf: Ralf Pfeifer Lizenzstatus: GNU FDL. Durch den Fotografen hochgeladen und zur Verfügung gestellt. Datum: 09.10.2005
context_page_description: This is a list of German inventors and discoverers. The following list comprises people from Germany or German-speaking Europe, and also people of predominantly German heritage, in alphabetical order of the surname.
context_section_description: Martin Waldseemüller: Cartographer, used the name "America" on his map Universalis Cosmographia in honour of the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci. The map was drawn at St-Die in 1507 and it was the first time "America" was used on a map.
  Otto Wallach: Chemist who researched, amongst others, alicyclic compounds. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1910.
  Hellmuth Walter: Engineer who pioneered research into rocket engines and gas turbines.
  August von Wassermann: Developed a complement fixation test for the diagnosis of syphilis in 1906
  Felix Wankel: Inventor of the Rotary Motor.
  Max Weber: Discovered the mass effects of capitalism and modernity.
  Wilhelm Eduard Weber: Inventor of the first electromagnetic telegraph together with Carl Friedrich Gauss.
  Alfred Wegener: He is most notable for proposing continental drift in 1912
  Wilhelm Weinberg: Hardy–Weinberg principle
  Gustav Weißkopf: Aviation pioneer, designer and builder of early aircraft and engines, is reported to be the first flying a powered aircraft in 1901
  Rainer Weiss: born in Berlin, American physiscist who invented laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors. Shared the Nobel Prize for Physics 2017.
  Johan Wilcke: Inventor of the electrophorus
  Hugo Winckler: Discovery of Hattusa
  Clemens Alexander Winkler: Chemist who discovered the element germanium in 1886.
  August Wöhler: Investigated fatigue phenomena in the behavior of materials
  Friedrich Wöhler: The first to synthesize urea. Wöhler is regarded as a pioneer in organic chemistry.
  Heinrich Wöhlk: Contact lenses in PMMA
  Theodor Wulf: Cosmic ray (together with Austrian Victor Hess)
caption: Wankel engine, type DKM54 (1957)
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