Important scientists
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| Pieter Zeeman | (1865 - 1943) | physicist | spectroscopy, Zeeman effect (with Lorentz) |
| (1816 - 1888) | optician | lens and microscope | |
| (1838 - 1917) | inventor | airship pioneer | |
| Fritz Zernike | (1888 - 1966) | physicist | phase-contrast microscope |
| Ahmed Zewail | (1946 - ) | chemistry | femtochemistry |
| Karl Ziegler | (1898 - 1973) | chemist | polymers, Ziegler-Natta catalyst (with Natta), free radicals |
| Rolf Zinkernagel | (1944 - ) | immunologist | T-cells, MHC antigen, immunology, viruses (with Doherty) |
| Richard Zsigmondy | (1865 - 1929) | chemist | colloids, ultramicoscope |