Famous People with Name Werner

Werner Heisenberg            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Werner Heisenberg: was a German theoretical physicist, best known for enunciating the uncertainty principle of quantum theory. He made important contributions to quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, quantum field theory, and particle physics.After Hitler came to power in 1933, Heisenberg was attacked in the press by elements of the deutsche Physik movement, and he came under investigation by the SS. This was embroiled with the attempt to appoint Heisenberg as successor to Arnold Sommerfeld at the University of Munich; it became known as the Heisenberg Affair. The issue was resolved by Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, in 1938. While Heisenberg was not selected as Sommerfeld's successor,

Werner Karl Dahm            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Werner Karl Dahm: Werner K. Dahm, was an internationally recognized rocket pioneer whose work in Germany and the U.S. made important contributions to the nation’s ballistic missile programs and its manned and unmanned rocket programs. He was the last of the original WWII t

Werner Finck            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Werner Finck: was a German comedian, an actor with "comic bones". He could read the phone book and it would seem extremely funny.He founded the cabaret "Die Katakombe" (The Catacombs") with some friends in 1929. He, and the cabaret, became successful because of his cri

Werner Jäger            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Werner Jäger: is a former ice speed skater from Austria, who represented his native country at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Werner Lämmerhirt            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Werner Lämmerhirt: is a noted German singer-songwriter and guitarist in the contemporary folk music style. He writes and sings in both German and English languages. His recording career has spanned more than three decades.

Abraham Gottlob Werner            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Abraham Gottlob Werner: was a German geologist who set out a now obsolete theory about the stratification of the Earth's crust and coined the now obsolete word Neptunism.While in Leipzig, Werner became interested in the systematic identification and classification of minerals. Within a year he published the first modern textbook on descriptive mineralogy, Vonden äusserlichen Kennzeichen der Fossilien (On the External Characters of Fossils, or of Minerals) (1774).

Tobias Werner            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Tobias Werner: is a German football player. As of January 2009, he plays for FC Augsburg.

Scarlett Werner            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Scarlett Werner: is a German professional tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 279, which she reached on September 22, 2003. Her career high in doubles is 199, which she reached on November 10, 2003. She reached a career high junior singles world ranking of 1

Fritz Eberhard Werner            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Fritz Eberhard Werner: was a German artist and landscapist. Eberhard Werner was the son of the newspaper publisher and printer Friedrich Werner. After his battlefield injury that stemmed from the World War II was cured, he became a teacher in the GDR in Gransee and studied Art in Erfurt.[1]

Christian Werner            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Christian Werner: was a German racecar driver.