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July 20 in German History

January 6, 2016 By germanculture

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July 20, 1839

Birth of the pathologist, Julius Cohnheim, in Demmin, Prussia. He worked with the effects of tuberculosis on tissue.

July 20, 1847

liebermann_die_gaenserupferinnenBirth of the artist, Max Liebermann, in Berlin, Germany. He was a leader in the German impressionist period.

July 20, 1850

Birth of Georg Müller in Grimma, Germany. Müller was a psychologist at the University of Göttingen and made significant contributions to knowledge about sensations, memory, learning and color vision.

July 20, 1866

Death of Bernhard Riemann in Italy. Riemann’s work in mathematics led to innovations in theoretical physics and relativity theory. The Riemann surface is named in his honor as is Riemannian geometry. He was a professor of mathematics at the University of Göttingen.

July 20, 1870

Albrecht_v_GraefeDeath of Albrecht von Gräfe in Berlin, Germany. Gräfe was an eye surgeon, the founder of modern ophthalmology. He worked at the University of Berlin. He introduced iridectomy in 1857 for the relief of glaucoma, in 1867 developed a surgery for the removal of cataracts and in 1864 developed “Gräfe’s sign” which is associated with Graves-Basedow disease.

July 20, 1897

Birth of Tadeus Reichstein in Poland. Reichstein was educated and worked in Switzerland. He won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for his work with hormones of the adrenal cortex.

July 20, 1920

Birth of Gottfried von Haberler in Vienna, Austria. Haberler was an economist, educated at the University of Vienna, a specialist in international trade. He then taught in Vienna and later accepted a professorship at Harvard. His The Theory of International Trade is regarded as a classic in the field.

July 20, 1933

Concordat between Germany and the Vatican.

July 20, 1934

Birth of Uwe Johnson in Cammin, Germany. Johnson was a novelist who explored the problems of life in divided Germany after WWII.

July 20, 1944

Attempted assassination of Hitler by Claus von Staufenberg. Von Staufenberg was arrested and executed on the same day.

July 20, 1945

Death of Ludwig Beck in Berlin, Germany. Beck was Chief of the General Staff and opposed Hitler’s plan to occupy the Rhineland in 1936. He was a central figure in the plot against Hitler in 1944. After the failure he committed suicide.

July 20, 1947

Gerd-BinnigBirth of Gerd Binnig in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. German physicist Gerd Binnig studied at Goethe University and the University of Frankfurt, and has spent most of his career at IBM. In 1981, with his colleague Heinrich Rohrer, he designed the first scanning tunneling microscope, which uses quantum mechanical effects to magnify images of conducting or semiconducting materials to the extent that individual atoms are easily recognizable. In 1986 they invented the atomic force microscope, which uses an almost unfathomably sensitive stylus to mechanically probe surface contours at an even finer level of clarity. “I couldn’t stop looking at the images”, Binnig said of the scanning tunneling microscope’s preliminary tests. “It was entering a new world.” In 1986 he and Rohrer won the Nobel Prize, sharing the highest honor in science honor with Ernst Ruska, who invented the electron microscope.

July 20, 1995

NPG x125362; Helmut Gernsheim by Ida KarDeath of Helmut Gernsheim in Munich, Germany. Gernsheim was one of the initiators of photography as a serious form of art worthy of study and as an academic discipline. After his study of art history at the University of Munich, he immigrated to England and spent much of his professional career in London. His book, which documented photography as a serious art form, was The History of Photography from the Earliest Use of the Camera Obscura in the Eleventh Century up to 1914 (1955).

July 20, 2002

A 250 kilogram American bomb from World War II is found in Berlin during a construction project. Hundreds of residents had to be evacuated for several hours during the defusing of the bomb.

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