Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 22. Chapters: Karl Weierstrass, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Fritz Houtermans, Ernst Stuhlinger, Dennis Gabor, Hans Scharoun, Walter Burkert, Adolf Slaby, Fritz Sauter, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, Rudolf Mossbauer, Reinhard Selten, Heinrich Tessenow, Ernst Kummer, Arthur Korn, Thomas Wiegand, Ernst Herzfeld, Wolfgang Paul, Hans Kollhoff, Ernst Steinitz, Heinrich Martin Weber, Paul du Bois-Reymond, Fritz Ullmann, Ingo Rechenberg, Paul Schmitthenner, Georg Hamel, Sabine Hark, Ferdinand Kurlbaum. Excerpt: Friedrich Georg "Fritz" Houtermans (January 22, 1903 - March 1, 1966) was a Dutch-Austrian-German atomic and nuclear physicist born in Zoppot near Danzig, West Prussia. Houtermans made important contributions to geochemistry and cosmochemistry. Houtermans began his studies at the Georg-August University of Gottingen in 1921, and he received his doctorate under James Franck in 1927, the same year Robert Oppenheimer received his doctorate under Max Born. He completed his Habilitation under Gustav Hertz at the Technische Hochschule Berlin, in 1932. Hertz and Franck were Nobel Prize laureates; they shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics. While at Gottingen, Houtermans met Enrico Fermi, George Gamow, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, and Victor Frederick Weisskopf. Houtermans and Gamow did pioneering work on quantum tunneling in 1928. Houtermans, in 1929, with Robert dEscourt Atkinson, made the first calculation of stellar thermonuclear reactions. Their pioneering calculations were the impetus for Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker and Hans Bethe, in 1939, to put forth the correct theory of stellar thermonuclear energy generation. Charlotte Riefenstahl, who received her doctorate in physics at the University of Gottingen in 1927, the same year as Houtermans and Robert Oppenheimer, was courted by both men. She was no relation to Leni Riefenstahl, the no...