Clemens Winkler

Clemens Winkler

male, deceased (1904)
German, Chemist, Freiberg, Saxony, Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, germanium, periodicity
Clemens Alexander Winkler (December 26, 1838 - October 8, 1904), a German chemist, discovered the element Germanium in 1886. This discovery...

Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois

male, deceased (1886)
Chemist, Ecole nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris, From Paris, Légion d'honneur recipient, Academic, element…periodicity
Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois was a French geologist and mineralogist who was the first to arrange the chemical elements in order of a...
Adriaan Fokker

Adriaan Fokker

male, deceased (1972)
Dutch music theorist, Delft University of Technology alumni, aeronautical, engineer, World War II, Nazi…Fokker periodicity block
Adriaan Daniël Fokker (Buitenzorg, Dutch East Indies (now Bogor, Indonesia), August 17, 1887-Beekbergen (near Apeldoorn), September 24, 1972) was a...

Shohé Tanaka

male
Mori Ōgai, 5-limit, 53 equal temperament, just intonation, pitch class, Music theorist…Fokker periodicity blocks
was a Japanese physicist, music theorist, and inventor. He graduated from Tokyo University in 1882 as a science student. On an imperial...
Raoul Bott

Raoul Bott

male, deceased (2005)
Canadian Forces, topologist, University of Michigan, World War II, Canadian Army, Ph.D.…Bott periodicity theorem
Raoul Bott, FRS (born September 24 1923, died December 20 2005) was a mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad...