Meaning of name Werner

The names of some famous persons by the name Werner (or its variants) are:

Werner Arber, born on 3 June, a famous microbiologist . Werner Arber's background: A Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction endonucleases. Their work would lead to the development of recombinant DNA technology.

Werner Karl Heisenberg, born on 5 December, a famous physicist. Werner Karl Heisenberg's background: A celebrated German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics and acknowledged to be one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century. He is most well-known for discovering one of the central principles of modern physics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and for the development of quantum mechanics, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932.

Werner Forssmann, born on 29 August, a famous physicist. Werner Forssmann's background: A physician from Eberswalde, Germany. He is credited with the first catheterization of a human heart. In 1929, he made an incision into his arm and fed a urinary catheter into the right atrium of his own heart. He received his Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 for his pioneering feat into cardiological studies.