Wentzel and Wentzell are surnames, and may refer to:

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Emil Wentzel Emil August Edward Wentzel (c. 1817 – 23 February 1892) was a timber merchant and politician in the colony of South Australia. Emil emigrated to South Australia on the ''Hermann von Beckerath'' from Bremen, Germany, arriving in December 1847. ...

(c. 1817–1892), timber merchant and politician in South Australia *

Gregor Wentzel Gregor Wentzel (17 February 1898 – 12 August 1978) was a German physicist known for development of quantum mechanics. Wentzel, Hendrik Kramers, and Léon Brillouin developed the Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin approximation in 1926. In his early y ...

(1898–1978), German physicist *

Stan Wentzel Stanley Aaron Wentzel (January 13, 1917 – November 28, 1991) was an American professional baseball player. A longtime minor league outfielder and, later, a manager, Wentzel's only stint in Major League Baseball came at the end of the season, w ...

(1917–1991), Major League Baseball player * Sune Wentzel (born 1971), Norwegian frisbeer *

Volkmar Wentzel Volkmar Kurt Wentzel (February 8, 1915 – May 10, 2006) was a German American photographer and cinematographer. He worked for nearly 50 years for the National Geographic Society as a darkroom technician and photographer, and his professional a ...

(1915–2006), American photographer Wentzel may also refer to: *

Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin approximation In mathematical physics, the WKB approximation or WKB method is a method for finding approximate solutions to linear differential equations with spatially varying coefficients. It is typically used for a semiclassical calculation in quantum mecha ...

Wentzell

* Alexander D. Wentzell (born 1937), Russian-American mathematician *

Fritz Wentzell __NOTOC__ Fritz Wentzell (29 April 1899 – 1 April 1948) was a German general (Generalleutnant) in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Awards and decorations * Knight's ...

(1899–1948), highly decorated German military leader during World War II Wentzell may also refer to: *

Freidlin–Wentzell theorem In mathematics, the Freidlin–Wentzell theorem (due to Mark Freidlin and Alexander D. Wentzell) is a result in the large deviations theory of stochastic processes. Roughly speaking, the Freidlin–Wentzell theorem gives an estimate for the prob ...

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