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Wittig River
Wittig is a surname, and may refer to: * Burghardt Wittig (born 1947), German biochemist * Curt Wittig, American chemist * David Wittig (born 1955), American executive * Edward Wittig (1879–1941), Polish sculptor * Ferdinand Wittig (1851-1909), American politician * Georg Wittig (1897–1987), German chemist * Iris Wittig (1928-1978), German military pilot * Johnnie Wittig (1914–1999), former Major League pitcher * Martin C. Wittig (born 1964), German CEO * Michael Wittig (born 1976), American musician * Monique Wittig (1935–2003), French author and feminist theorist * Peter Wittig (born 1954), German diplomat * Rüdiger Wittig (born 1946), German professor of geobotany and ecology * Sigmar Wittig (born 1940), German Chair of the European Space Agency * Susan Wittig Albert (born 1940), American mystery writer See also * Wittich * Wittig River * 1,2-Wittig rearrangement * 2,3-Wittig rearrangement * Wittig reaction The Wittig reaction or Wittig olefination is a ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burghardt Wittig
Burghardt Wittig (born 1947 in Celle, Germany) is the chairman oMolBio2Mathand a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Freie Universitaet Berlin in Berlin (FUB), Germany. His research focuses on the areas of gene regulation, DNA structures induced by torsional strain, chromatin structure, G-protein-mediated signal transduction, as well as therapeutic applications of genetic research and DNA-based vaccines. His research has been published in numerous leading scientific journals, including Cell, Nature, PNAS, and Science. Early life Wittig was born in Celle, Germany, where he attended the classical "Gymnasium Ernestinum". He graduated by the German Abitur in fall 1966, followed by two years of service in the German military. Career and Research Wittig enrolled at Freie Universitaet Berlin in 1968 to study medicine. While attending medical school, he also received training as an engineer specialised in hearing aids (audiologist) and graduated by the German Gesel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monique Wittig
Monique Wittig (; July 13, 1935 – January 3, 2003) was a French author, philosopher and feminist theorist who wrote about abolition of the sex-class system and coined the phrase "heterosexual contract". Her seminal work is titled ''The Straight Mind and Other Essays'' She published her first novel, ''L'Opoponax'', in 1964. Her second novel, '' Les Guérillères'' (1969), was a landmark in lesbian feminism. Biography Monique Wittig was born in 1935 in Dannemarie, Haut-Rhin, France. In 1950 she moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. In 1964 she published her first novel, ''L'Opoponax'' which won her immediate attention in France. After the novel was translated into English, Wittig achieved international recognition. She was one of the founders of the ''Mouvement de libération des femmes'' (MLF) (Women's Liberation Movement). In 1969 she published what is arguably her most influential work, '' Les Guérillères'', which is today considered a revolutionary and controversial so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1,2-Wittig Rearrangement
A 1,2-Wittig rearrangement is a categorization of chemical reactions in organic chemistry, and consists of a 1,2-rearrangement of an ether with an alkyllithium compound. The reaction is named for Nobel Prize winning chemist Georg Wittig. : \mathsf The intermediate product is an alkoxy lithium salt and the final product an alcohol. When R" is a good leaving group and electron withdrawing group such as a cyanide (CN) group,''Preparation of aryl benzyl ketones by ,2Wittig rearrangement'' Alan R. Katritzky, Yuming Zhang, Sandeep K. Singh Arkivoc pp. 146–50 2002 (viilink this group is eliminated and the corresponding ketone is formed. : \mathsf Reaction mechanism The reaction mechanism centers on the formation of a free radical pair with lithium migrating from the carbon atom to the oxygen atom. The R radical then recombines with the ketyl.''Wittig Rearrangement of Lithiated Allyl Aryl Ethers: A Mechanistic Study'' Sven Strunk, Manfred Schlosser European Journal of Organic Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wittig River
Wittig is a surname, and may refer to: * Burghardt Wittig (born 1947), German biochemist * Curt Wittig, American chemist * David Wittig (born 1955), American executive * Edward Wittig (1879–1941), Polish sculptor * Ferdinand Wittig (1851-1909), American politician * Georg Wittig (1897–1987), German chemist * Iris Wittig (1928-1978), German military pilot * Johnnie Wittig (1914–1999), former Major League pitcher * Martin C. Wittig (born 1964), German CEO * Michael Wittig (born 1976), American musician * Monique Wittig (1935–2003), French author and feminist theorist * Peter Wittig (born 1954), German diplomat * Rüdiger Wittig (born 1946), German professor of geobotany and ecology * Sigmar Wittig (born 1940), German Chair of the European Space Agency * Susan Wittig Albert (born 1940), American mystery writer See also * Wittich * Wittig River * 1,2-Wittig rearrangement * 2,3-Wittig rearrangement * Wittig reaction The Wittig reaction or Wittig olefination is a ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wittich
Wittich is a surname, and may refer to: * Paul Wittich (c. 1546 in Breslau – 1586), a Silesia-born astronomer * Christopher Wittich ( la, Christophorus Wittichius; 1625, in Brieg/Brzeg - 1687, in Leyden), a Silesia-born Dutch theologian * Ludwig von Wittich (1818-1884), Prussian lieutenant general * Marie Wittich (1868–1931), a German female operatic soprano * Paul Wittich (politician) (1877−1957), German social democratic politician in Slovakia * Hans Wittich (1899-1995), immigrated to USA with wife, Anna (Pfeiffer) & toddler son Rolf Wittich early 1900s. Mountain climber. First to climb several Canadian Grand Tetons. Was known for giving lectures on mountain climbing at Nature Friend camps all over the USA. Also a talented photographer, he documented many of his and his climbing partner's (Otto) climbs through the 1930s. He earned his living as a sheet metal worker, installing church steeples in the summer, and climbing in the winter. * Rolf Wittich (1926-2020), son of Hans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Wittig Albert
Susan Wittig Albert, also known by the pen names Robin Paige and Carolyn Keene, is an American mystery writer from Vermilion County, Illinois, United States. Albert was an academic and the first female vice president of Southwest Texas State University before retiring to become a fulltime writer. Early life and education Albert grew up in downstate Illinois, attending Danville High School before moving to the nearby community of Bismarck, where she graduated. She earned a degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. She became a professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin and was a university administrator at Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans and vice president for academic affairs at Southwest Texas State University. She also writes a column for ''Country Living Gardener'' magazine. Her writing career has included the Nancy Drew mysteries under the pen name Carolyn Keene in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigmar Wittig
Dr. Sigmar Wittig (born 25 February 1940 in Nimptsch, former Silesia region of Germany) has been the Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Center (''Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt'') since March 2002. He was the chair of the European Space Agency Council for a two-year term between 1 July 2005 and 30 June 2007. Professor Wittig was instrumental in starting an exchange program between Purdue University and the University of Karlsruhe called the Global Engineering Alliance for Research and Education (GEARE). Curriculum vitae He studied mechanical engineering at the RWTH Aachen, finishing with a doctorate in 1967. This was followed by a 9-year spell in the U.S., as an associate professor at Purdue University. In 1976, he went back to Germany to the University of Karlsruhe The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national resea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rüdiger Wittig
Rüdiger Wittig (born October 17, 1946 in Herne, West Germany) is a professor of geobotany and ecology at the Goethe University Frankfurt in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Career From 1968 to 1973, Wittig studied biology and chemistry at the Wilhelms-University of Westphalia in Münster and passed the state examination, followed by doctoral studies from 1973 to 1976 (Dr.rer.nat.). Until the completion of his postdoctoral lecture qualification in 1980, he was a research associate at the Wilhelms-University in Münster. From 1980 until 1988, Wittig was professor for botany at the Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf and chair of the department for geobotany at the Institute for Plant Physiology. Since 1989, he has been a professor for ecology and geobotany at the Goethe University Frankfurt in Frankfurt am Main. In 2002, a specific type of blackberry The blackberry is an edible fruit produced by many species in the genus ''Rubus'' in the family Rosaceae, hybrids among these ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Wittig
Peter Wittig (born 11 August 1954) is a former German diplomat and has been Germany's Ambassador to the Court of St. James in the United Kingdom from July 2018, to April 2020, after having served as Ambassador to the United States from 30 April 2014, to 20 June 2018 and Permanent Representative at the United Nations in New York from 2009 to 2014. Early life and education Wittig studied at the University of Bonn, the University of Freiburg, University of Kent, and the University of Oxford. He has taught as an assistant professor at the University of Freiburg. Diplomatic career After joining the German foreign service in 1982, Wittig served as German ambassador to Lebanon and to Cyprus. In 2009 Wittig was appointed to serve as Germany's permanent representative to the United Nations. Wittig has served twice as the President of the United Nations Security Council, once in July 2011 and again in September 2012. Between 2011 and 2012, he headed among other committees the Al-Qaida S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Wittig
Michael Richard Wittig (born August 21, 1976) is an American Christian musician who is best known as " Kalel", the current bass player for the Dove Awards winning and Grammy nominated Christian hard rock band Pillar. After ten years of playing with Pillar, Wittig left the band in September 2008. He then later returned to the band in 2012. He was also a member of pop rock band Stars Go Dim, with Joey Avalos, Lester Estelle Jr. (former drummer for Pillar) and Chris Cleveland till 2012. Biography Musical career In 1992 he formed a Christian band in his garage. The band was originally called ''Q: The Source'' (named after the Q document), but they eventually renamed it as ''Godspeed'' for the release of their self-titled EP. Wittig's fellow Godspeed members were Mahlon Tobias and Robert Brouhard. He graduated from Riverside Polytechnic High School in 1994, and soon left to go to college in Hays, Kansas at Fort Hays State University. While living there he played bass for a Chr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curt Wittig
Curt Franklin Wittig is a Professor of Chemistry and the holder of the Paul A. Miller Chair in the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California (USC). Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Curt Wittig received his B.S. and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1970. Post-doctoral work (EE at USC, Chemistry at Cambridge (UK) and UC Berkeley) was followed by a faculty appointment in 1973 at USC in the EE Department. After becoming a professor in 1979, his interests changed, and he moved to the Chemistry and Physics Departments in 1981, settling eventually in the Chemistry Department, where he has specialized in physical chemistry (chemical physics) ever since. Wittig and his wife, Michele, live in Santa Monica, California. Research focus His earliest contributions were technological: invention of the continuous carbon monoxide chemical laser in 1969, and development and demonstration of the so-called infrared pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin C
Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (other) * Martin County (other) * Martin Township (other) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Australia * Martin, Western Australia * Martin Place, Sydney Caribbean * Martin, Saint-Jean-du-Sud, Haiti, a village in the Sud Department of Haiti Europe * Martin, Croatia, a village in Slavonia, Croatia * Martin, Slovakia, a city * Martín del Río, Aragón, Spain * Martin (Val Poschiavo), Switzerland England * Martin, Hampshire * Martin, Kent * Martin, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, hamlet and former parish in East Lindsey district * Martin, North Kesteven, village and parish in Lincolnshire in North Kesteven district * Martin Hussingtree, Worcestershire * Martin Mere, a lake in Lancashire ** WWT Martin Mere, a wetland nature reserve that includes the lake and surrounding areas * Martin Mill, Kent North America Canada * Rural Municipality of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
