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Winkler (surname)
Winkler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: A-E * Albert J. Winkler (1894–1989), American professor of viticulture * Alberto Winkler (1932–1981) Italian rower and Olympian * Alexander Winkler (other), multiple people * Angela Winkler (born 1944), German actress * Angelina Virginia Winkler (1842–1911), American journalist, editor, magazine publisher *Anthony Winkler Prins (1817-1908), Dutch writer and encyclopedist * Austin John Winkler (born 1981), American singer-songwriter, former lead singer for Hinder * Ben Winkler (1902–1979), American sound engineer * Bernhard Winkler (born 1966), German footballer * Charles Winkler, American film director * Clemens Winkler (1838–1904), German chemist, discoverer of germanium * Clinton McKamy Winkler (1821–1882), American politician and Confederate soldier, namesake of Winkler County, Texas * Dan Winkler (born 1990), American baseball player * Emil Winkler (1835–1888), German engineer * Eric Winkl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert J
Albert may refer to: Companies * Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic * Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands * Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia * Albert Productions, a record label * Albert Computers, Inc., a computer manufacturer in the 1980s Entertainment * ''Albert'' (1985 film), a Czechoslovak film directed by František Vláčil * ''Albert'' (2015 film), a film by Karsten Kiilerich * ''Albert'' (2016 film), an American TV movie * ''Albert'' (Ed Hall album), 1988 * "Albert" (short story), by Leo Tolstoy * Albert (comics), a character in Marvel Comics * Albert (''Discworld''), a character in Terry Pratchett's ''Discworld'' series * Albert, a character in Dario Argento's 1977 film ''Suspiria'' Military * Battle of Albert (1914), a WWI battle at Albert, Somme, France * Battle of Albert (1916), a WWI battle at Albert, Somme, France * Battle of Albert (1918), a WWI battle at Albert, Somme, France People * Albert (given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Winkler
P. Frank Winkler, Jr. is an astronomer and noted subject-matter expert on supernova. He received his doctorate from Harvard and is currently the Gamaliel Painter Bicentennial Professor in Physics at Middlebury College located in Middlebury, Vermont. , Middlebury College Dr. Winkler has calculated the distance for the brightest supernova event recorded in human history, SN 1006, as being ~7,200 light years distant. Winkler is also the recipient of record for a grant for continued research regarding supernova. Frank Winkler is also a member of the |
Helmut Gustav Franz Winkler
Helmut Gustav Franz Winkler (3 April 1915 – 10 November 1980) was a German geologist who worked on experimental approaches to petrology, making use of high-pressure and temperature to examine metamorphic processes. The mineral Helmutwinklerite is named in his honour. Winkler was born in Kiel and studied geology at the University of Rostock, receiving a doctorate in 1938 for work on thixotropy of minerals. A major influence was C. W. Correns. He served in World War II and returned to Rostock in 1945. In 1949 he became a director of the crystallography institute at the University of Göttingen with some work at the University of Marburg before returning in 1962 to Göttingen where he worked until his retirement in 1976. He suggested that granites were formed from metamorphic parent rocks and are therefore common in cratons A craton (, , or ; from grc-gre, κράτος "strength") is an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere, which consists of Earth's two topmost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich August Winkler
Heinrich August Winkler (born 19 December 1938 in Königsberg) is a German historian. With his mother he joined the Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–50), westward flight in 1944, after which he grew up in southern Germany, attending a Gymnasium in Ulm. He then studied history, political science, philosophy and public law at University of Münster, Münster, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg and University of Tübingen, Tübingen. In 1970 he became professor at the Free University of Berlin. From 1972 to 1991 he was professor at the University of Freiburg. Since 1991 he has held a chair of modern history at the Humboldt University Berlin. He has been a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) since 1962, and has ties to numerous prominent politicians within that party, including former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. He is the author of a book detailing a comprehensive political history of the Weimar Republic, among others. During the ''Historikerstreit,'' W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Winkler (other)
Harry Winkler may refer to: * Harry Winkler (handballer) (born 1945), American Olympic handballer * Harry Winkler (writer) Harry Winkler was an American sitcom writer who wrote for such shows as ''The George Gobel Show'', ''The Addams Family'', ''The Doris Day Show'', and others. He shared an Emmy award in 1955 for ''The George Gobel Show'' and was nominated the follo ..., American sitcom writer See also * Henry Winkler (other) * Harold Winkler (other) {{hndis, Winkler, Harry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harald Winkler
Harald Winkler (born 17 December 1962) is an Austrian bobsledder who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won a gold medal in the four-man event with teammates Ingo Appelt, Gerhard Haidacher and Thomas Schroll at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. Winkler also won two medals in the four-man event at the FIBT World Championships with a silver in 1993 and a bronze in 1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph .... ReferencesBobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932-56, and since 1964 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans-Heinrich Winkler
Hans-Heinrich Winkler (sometimes listed as Hans-Heinrich Wickler) was an East German luger who competed in the mid-1970s. He won the bronze medal in the men's singles event at the 1976 FIL European Luge Championships in Hammarstrand, Sweden. Winkler also finished fourth in the men's singles event at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol (state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the ... though his surname was misspelled as Wickler. ReferencesList of European luge champions *Wallechinsky, David. (1984). "Luge - Men's singles". ''The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896-1980''. New York: Penguin Books. p. 575. German male lugers Living people Lugers at the 1976 Winter Olympics Olympic lugers for East Germany East German male lugers 1954 births People from Erzgebirg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Günter Winkler
Hans Günter Winkler (; 24 July 1926 – 9 July 2018) was a German show jumper. He is the only show jumper to have won five Olympic gold medals and a total of seven Olympic medals, and to compete and win medals in six different Olympic Games. In the 1950s and 1960s Winkler was one of Germany's most popular athletes. Career Winkler was born in Barmen, today part of Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the son of a riding teacher. His father, Paul Winkler, died as a soldier during the last week of World War II. The boy was drafted as a ''Flakhelfer'' and was a prisoner of war for a short time. The house of his mother in Frankfurt was destroyed by bombing. He made money, to support his mother and himself, as a groom in the stable of the Landgravine of Hesse in Kronberg im Taunus. He was also a riding teacher of the Americans who occupied the area. He began an apprenticeship in a textile store in Frankfurt in 1948. Winkler participated in show jumping competitions and won f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Winkler
Hans Karl Albert Winkler (23 April 1877 – 22 November 1945) was a German botanist. He was Professor of Botany at the University of Hamburg, and a director of that university's Institute of Botany. Winkler coined the term 'heteroploidy' in 1916. He is remembered for coining the term 'genome' in 1920, by making a portmanteau of the words gene and chromosome. He wrote: This may be translated as: "I propose the expression ''Genom'' for the haploid chromosome set, which, together with the pertinent protoplasm, specifies the material foundations of the species ..." Among his experiments was the discovery of chimeras (also chimaeras) by grafting a Deadly Nightshade and tomato plant and observing a shoot which displayed characteristics of both plants. Winkler also worked at the University of Naples, in Italy, where he researched the physiology of the alga ''Bryopsis''. He joined the NSDAP in 1937.Ernst Klee Ernst Klee (15 March 1942, Frankfurt – 18 May 2013, Frankfurt) was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Winkler
Gustav Winkler (11 May 1867 in Liegnitz – 26 April 1954 in Berlin) was a German industrialist. He led the "Gustav Winkler Textilwerke" in Lauban and produced mostly textile hanckerchives. He cooperated with the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the research for the improvement in the production of textiles. Winkler held the position of a Senator in the supervising committee of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society from 1936 till 1945. In 1953 he received the Harnack medal of the Max Planck Society The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (german: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V.; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes. ... in 1953. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Winkler, Gustav 1867 births 1954 deaths Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel Capone (; January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit. His seven-year reign as a crime boss ended when he went to prison at the age of 33. Capone was born in New York City in 1899 to Italian immigrants. He joined the Five Points Gang as a teenager and became a bouncer in organized crime premises such as brothels. In his early twenties, he moved to Chicago and became a bodyguard and trusted factotum for Johnny Torrio, head of a criminal syndicate that illegally supplied alcohol—the forerunner of the Outfit—and was politically protected through the Unione Siciliana. A conflict with the North Side Gang was instrumental in Capone's rise and fall. Torrio went into retirement after North Side gunmen almost killed him, handing control to Capone. Capone expanded the bootlegging b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gus Winkler
Gus Winkler (March 28, 1901 – October 9, 1933) was an American gangster who headed a Prohibition-era criminal gang specializing in armed robbery and murder for hire with Fred "Killer" Burke. Winkler was a senior associate of Chicago Outfit boss Al Capone and is considered a suspect in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Winkler is believed to be the first member of the National Crime Syndicate to be murdered for talking to the FBI. Early life Winkler was born August Henry Winkeler to Bernard J. Winkeler (September 28, 1862- November 23, 1928) and Mary K. (June 1, 1862- March 5, 1923) in Lemay, Missouri of German descent; he was a brother to Clara (April 21, 1895 – June 23, 1987), Jacob C. (1893-1961) and Anna C. (1890-1960). In September 1917, at the age of 16, Winkler enlisted in the U.S. Army Ambulance Corps and served on the Western Front with the 91st Infantry Division. After his return to America, Winkler joined up with the notorious Egan's Rats gang. It was during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
