German Nobel Prize Laureates

Name all German winners of the Nobel Prize. Hints are given in the form of the category and year of the prize won.

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Hint	Answer
1901 Physics	Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
1901 Medicine	Emil von Behring
1902 Literature	Theodor Mommsen
1902 Chemistry	Emil Fischer
1905 Physics	Philipp Lennard
1905 Medicine	Robert Koch
1905 Chemistry	Adolf von Baeyer
1907 Chemistry	Eduard Buchner
1908 Literature	Rudolf Christoph Eucken
1908 Medicine	Paul Ehrlich
1909 Physics	Ferdinand Braun
1909 Chemistry	Wilhelm Ostwald
1910 Literature	Paul Heyse
1910 Chemistry	Otto Wallach
1910 Medicine	Albrecht Kossel
1911 Physics	Wilhelm Wien
1912 Literature	Gerhart Hauptmann
1914 Physics	Max von Laue
1915 Chemistry	Richard Willstätter
1918 Physics	Max Planck
1918 Chemistry	Fritz Haber
1919 Physics	Johannes Stark
1920 Chemistry	Walther Nernst
1921 Physics	Albert Einstein
1922 Medicine	Otto Fritz Meyerhof
1925 Physics	James Franck & Gustav Hertz
1926 Peace	Gustav Stresemann
1927 Chemistry	Heinrich Otto Wieland
1928 Chemistry	Adolf Windaus
1928 Peace	Ludwig Quidde
1929 Literature	Thomas Mann
1929 Chemistry	Hans von Euler-Chelpin
1930 Chemistry	Hans Fischer
1931 Chemistry	Friedrich Bergius & Carl Bosch
1931 Medicine	Otto Heinrich Warburg
1932 Physics	Werner Heisenberg
1935 Peace	Carl von Ossietzky
1935 Medicine	Hans Spemann
1936 Medicine	Otto Loewi
1938 Chemistry	Johann Richard Kuhn
1939 Chemistry	Adolf Butenandt
1939 Medicine	Gerhard Domagk
1944 Chemistry	Otto Hahn
1945 Medicine	Ernst Boris Chain
1946 Literature	Hermann Hesse
1950 Chemistry	Otto Diehls & Kurt Alder

Hint	Answer
1952 Peace	Albert Schweitzer
1953 Chemistry	Hermann Staudinger
1953 Medicine	Hans Adolf Krebs
1954 Physics	Max Born & Walther Bothe
1956 Medicine	Werner Forßmann
1961 Physics	Rudolf Mößbauer
1963 Physics	J. Hans D. Jensen & Maria Goeppert-Mayer
1963 Chemistry	Karl Ziegler
1964 Medicine	Feodor Lynen & Konrad Bloch
1966 Literature	Nelly Sachs
1967 Chemistry	Manfred Eigen
1969 Medicine	Max Delbrück
1970 Medicine	Bernard Katz
1971 Peace	Willy Brandt
1971 Chemistry	Gerhard Herzberg
1972 Literature	Heinrich Böll
1973 Chemistry	Ernst Otto Fischer
1973 Peace	Henry Kissinger
1973 Medicine	Karl von Frisch
1979 Chemistry	Georg Wittig
1984 Medicine	Georges Köhler
1985 Physics	Klaus von Klitzing
1986 Physics	Ernst Ruska & Gerd Binnig
1987 Physics	J. Georg Bednorz
1988 Chemistry	Johann Deisenhofer & Hartmut Michel & Robert Huber
1989 Physics	Wolfgang Paul & Hans Georg Dehmelt
1991 Medicine	Erwin Neher & Bert Sakmann
1994 Economics	Reinhard Selten
1995 Medicine	Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
1998 Physics	Horst L. Störmer
1999 Literature	Günter Grass
1999 Medicine	Günter Blobel
2000 Physics	Herbert Kroemer
2001 Physics	Wolfgang Ketterle
2005 Physics	Theodor W. Hänsch
2007 Physics	Peter Grünberg
2007 Chemistry	Gerhard Ertl
2008 Medicine	Harald zur Hausen
2009 Literature	Herta Müller
2013 Medicine	Thomas C. Südhof
2014 Chemistry	Stefan Hell
2017 Chemistry	Joachim Frank
2020 Physics	Reinhard Genzel
2021 Physics	Klaus Hasselmann
2021 Chemistry	Benjamin List

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