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Scheele
Scheele is a surname of Germanic origin. Notable people with the surname include: *Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786), German-Swedish pharmaceutical chemist *George Heinrich Adolf Scheele (1808–1864), German botanist * Karin Scheele (b. 1968), Austrian politician; member of the European Parliament since 1999 * Leonard A. Scheele (1907–1993), American physician; Surgeon General of the United States, 1948-56 *Nick Scheele (1944–2014), British businessman; chief operating officer of Ford Motor Company *Thomas von Scheele Thomas von Scheele (born March 13, 1969 in Bollnäs) is a left-handed Swedish table tennis player. He competed in the men's doubles event at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He won a gold medal in the double event of the World Table Tennis Championsh ... (b. 1969), Swedish table tennis player See also * Scheele (crater), the lunar impact crater {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Carl Wilhelm Scheele (, ; 9 December 1742 – 21 May 1786) was a Swedish German pharmaceutical chemist. Scheele discovered oxygen (although Joseph Priestley published his findings first), and identified molybdenum, tungsten, barium, hydrogen, and chlorine, among others. Scheele discovered organic acids tartaric, oxalic, uric, lactic, and citric, as well as hydrofluoric, hydrocyanic, and arsenic acids. He preferred speaking German to Swedish his whole life, as German was commonly spoken among Swedish pharmacists.Fors, Hjalmar 2008. Stepping through Science’s Door: C. W. Scheele, from Pharmacist's Apprentice to Man of Science. Ambix 55: 29–49 Biography Scheele was born in Stralsund, in western Pomerania, which at the time was a Swedish Dominion inside the Holy Roman Empire. Scheele's father, Joachim (or Johann) Christian Scheele, was a grain dealer and brewer from a respected Pomeranian family. His mother was Margaretha Eleanore Warnekros. Friends of Scheele's pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Scheele
Sir Nicholas Vernon Scheele KCMG (3 January 1944 – 18 July 2014) was an English business executive who served as president, from 2001–05, and Chief Operating Officer (COO), from 2001–04, of the Ford Motor Company, and also as Chancellor of the University of Warwick from March 2002 to July 2008. Prior to being Chief Operating Officer for Ford, Scheele was responsible for European operations and has also been Chief Executive of Jaguar, then a Ford subsidiary. Biography Born in Brentwood, Essex, the elder son of Werner J. Scheele and his wife, Norah E. Scheele (née Gough) He was educated at Brentwood School and went on to study at St Cuthbert's, Durham University. After graduation, he joined the Ford Motor Company.Nick Scheele obituary autonews.com, 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Scheele
Karin Scheele (born July 22, 1968 in Baden bei Wien) is an Austrian social democratic politician and was a member of the European Parliament from 1999 till 2008.Mag. Karin Scheele ''parlament.gv.at'' (Biography in German), Retrieved January 17, 2011 In December 2008, she entered the regional government of her native Land of Lower Austria to become secretary in charge of Health and Social Affairs. After graduating from the she held various functions in the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Heinrich Adolf Scheele
George Heinrich Adolf Scheele (1808–1864) was a German botanist and 19th century explorer. He was an expert on spermatophytes Scheele was the first person to classify ''Cucurbita texana''. ;California An important part of his botanical specimen collections are stored in the Herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th .... ;Author abbreviation References {{DEFAULTSORT:Scheele, George Heinrich Adolf 19th-century German botanists 1808 births 1864 deaths Botanists active in North America People associated with the California Academy of Sciences ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Von Scheele
Thomas von Scheele (born March 13, 1969 in Bollnäs) is a left-handed Swedish table tennis player. He competed in the men's doubles event at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He won a gold medal in the double event of the World Table Tennis Championships in 1991 with Peter Karlsson. He also won several medals in the European Table Tennis Championships. He later became a coach of Sweden's women table tennis team. See also * List of table tennis players This list of table tennis players is alphabetically ordered by surname. The main source of the information included in this page is the official International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) database. More detailed information about their careers is ... References Living people 1969 births Swedish male table tennis players People from Bollnäs Olympic table tennis players of Sweden Table tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Gävleborg County {{Sweden-tabletennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germanic Languages
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, English, is also the world's most widely spoken language with an estimated 2 billion speakers. All Germanic languages are derived from Proto-Germanic, spoken in Iron Age Scandinavia. The West Germanic languages include the three most widely spoken Germanic languages: English with around 360–400 million native speakers; German language, German, with over 100 million native speakers; and Dutch language, Dutch, with 24 million native speakers. Other West Germanic languages include Afrikaans, an offshoot of Dutch, with over 7.1 million native speakers; Low German, considered a separate collection of Standard language, unstandardized dialects, with roughly 4.35–7.15 million native speakers and probably 6.7–10 million people who can understand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard A
Leonard or ''Leo'' is a common English masculine given name and a surname. The given name and surname originate from the Old High German ''Leonhard'' containing the prefix ''levon'' ("lion") from the Greek Λέων ("lion") through the Latin '' Leo,'' and the suffix ''hardu'' ("brave" or "hardy"). The name has come to mean "lion strength", "lion-strong", or "lion-hearted". Leonard was the name of a Saint in the Middle Ages period, known as the patron saint of prisoners. Leonard is also an Irish origin surname, from the Gaelic ''O'Leannain'' also found as O'Leonard, but often was anglicised to just Leonard, consisting of the prefix ''O'' ("descendant of") and the suffix ''Leannan'' ("lover"). The oldest public records of the surname appear in 1272 in Huntingdonshire, England, and in 1479 in Ulm, Germany. Variations The name has variants in other languages: * Leen, Leendert, Lenard (Dutch) * Lehnertz, Lehnert (Luxembourgish) * Len (English) * :hu:Lénárd (Hungarian) * Lenart ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
