List of Famous people named Friedrich

Name Friedrich is among the most common names in Germany, Austria. Shortened forms: Frederick, Fritz. Similar names: Frederick, Fritz, Fredrik, Fredrika, Fredrick, Freidrich. Here are some famous Friedrichs:

Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow

First Name Friedrich
Last Name Schadow
Died on March 19, 1862
Born in Germany

Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow was a German Romantic painter.

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Friedrich Dernburg

First Name Friedrich
Last Name Dernburg
Born on October 3, 1833
Died on December 3, 1911 (aged 78)
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Friedrich Karl Schmidt

First Name Friedrich
Last Name Schmidt
Born on September 22, 1901
Died on January 25, 1977 (aged 75)

Friedrich Karl Schmidt was a German mathematician, who made notable contributions to algebra and number theory.

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Friedrich Schmidt-Ott

First Name Friedrich
Last Name Schmidt-Ott
Born on June 4, 1860
Died on April 28, 1956 (aged 95)
Born in Germany, Brandenburg

Friedrich Gustav Adolf Eduard Ludwig Schmidt-Ott was a German lawyer, scientific organizer, and science policymaker. He was the Prussian Minister of Culture, president of the Emergency Association of German Science, on the advisory boards of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and its institutes, and chairman of the Donor Federation of the Emergency Association of German Science.

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Friedrich Bopp

First Name Friedrich
Last Name Bopp
Born on December 27, 1909
Died on November 14, 1987 (aged 77)
Born in Germany, Hesse

Friedrich Arnold "Fritz" Bopp was a German theoretical physicist who contributed to nuclear physics and quantum field theory. He worked at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Physik and with the Uranverein. He was a professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and a President of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. He signed the Göttingen Manifesto.

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Friedrich von Wurzbach-Tannenberg

First Name Friedrich
Born on November 30, 1848 (age 177)
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Friedrich Peltz

First Name Friedrich
Last Name Peltz
Born on July 8, 1844
Died on October 5, 1914 (aged 70)
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Friedrich Bidder

First Name Friedrich
Last Name Bidder
Born on November 9, 1810
Died on August 22, 1894 (aged 83)

Georg Friedrich Karl Heinrich Bidder was a Baltic German physiologist and anatomist from what was then the Governorate of Livonia in the Russian Empire.

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Friedrich Beck

First Name Friedrich
Last Name Beck
Born on February 16, 1927
Died on December 20, 2008 (aged 81)
Born in Germany, Hesse

Friedrich Hans Beck was a German physicist. His research interests were focused on superconductivity, nuclear and elementary particle physics, relativistic quantum field theory, and late in his life, biophysics and theory of consciousness.

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Friedrich Paschen

First Name Friedrich
Last Name Paschen
Born on January 22, 1865
Died on February 25, 1947 (aged 82)

Louis Carl Heinrich Friedrich Paschen, was a German physicist, known for his work on electrical discharges. He is also known for the Paschen series, a series of hydrogen spectral lines in the infrared region that he first observed in 1908. He established the now widely used Paschen curve in his article "Über die zum Funkenübergang in Luft, Wasserstoff und Kohlensäure bei verschiedenen Drücken erforderliche Potentialdifferenz". He is known for the Paschen-Back effect, which is the Zeeman effect's becoming non-linear at high magnetic field. He helped explain the hollow cathode effect in 1916.

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