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Walther Meißner Institute For Low Temperature Research
Walther () is a masculine given name and a surname. It is a German form of Walter, which is derived from the Old High German ''Walthari'', containing the elements ''wald'' -"power", "brightness" or "forest" and ''hari'' -"warrior". The name was first popularized by the famous epic German hero Walther von Aquitaine and later with the Minnesänger Walther von der Vogelweide. Given name * Walther Bauersfeld (1879–1959), German engineer who built the first projection planetarium * Walther Bothe (1891–1957), German nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate * Walther von Brauchitsch (1881–1948), German World War II field marshal * Walther Dahl (1916–1985), German World War II flying ace * Walther von Dyck (1856–1934), German mathematician * Walther Flemming (1843–1905), German biologist and a founder of cytogenetics * Walther Funk (1890–1960), economist and Nazi official convicted of war crimes in the Nuremberg Trials * Walther Hahm (1894–1951), German World War II general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wouter
Wouter is a Dutch language, Dutch masculine Dutch given name, given name popular in the Netherlands and Belgium. It is the Dutch equivalent of the English name Walter (name), Walter and French name :fr:Gauthier, Gauthier, both of Germanic languages, Germanic origin, meaning "ruler of the army", "ruler of the forest" or "bright army". Wouter is sometimes shortened to Wout. The patronymic surname of Wouter is Wouters. People named Wouter Sports *Wouter olde Heuvel, Dutch speed skater *Wouter Claes, Belgian badminton player *Wouter Mol, Dutch professional road racing cyclist *Wouter Toledo, Dutch figure skater *Wout Poels, Wouter Poels, Dutch professional road cyclist *Wout van Aert, Belgian professional road cyclist *Wouter Wippert, Dutch professional road cyclist *Wouter Jolie, Dutch field hockey player *Wouter Brouwer, Dutch fencer *Wouter van Pelt, Dutch field hockey player *Wouter Corstjens, Dutch-Belgian footballer *Wouter D'Haene, Belgian sprint canoer *Wouter Biebauw, Belgian f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walther Von Dyck
Walther Franz Anton von Dyck (6 December 1856 – 5 November 1934), born Dyck () and later ennobled, was a German mathematician. He is credited with being the first to define a mathematical group, in the modern sense in . He laid the foundations of combinatorial group theory, being the first to systematically study a group by generators and relations. Biography Von Dyck was a student of Felix Klein Felix Christian Klein (; ; 25 April 1849 – 22 June 1925) was a German mathematician and Mathematics education, mathematics educator, known for his work in group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and the associations betwe ... and served as chairman of the commission publishing Klein's encyclopedia. Von Dyck was also the editor of Kepler's works. He promoted technological education as rector of the Technische Hochschule of Munich. He was a Plenary Speaker of the ICM in 1908 at Rome. Von Dyck is the son of the Bavarian painter Hermann Dyck. Legacy T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walther Rathenau
Walther Rathenau (; 29 September 1867 – 24 June 1922) was a German industrialist, writer and politician who served as foreign minister of Germany from February 1922 until his assassination in June 1922. Rathenau was one of Germany's leading industrialists in the late German Empire. During World War I, he played a key role in the organisation of the German war economy and headed the War Raw Materials Department from August 1914 to March 1915. After the war, Rathenau was an influential figure in the politics of the Weimar Republic. In 1921 he was appointed minister of reconstruction and a year later became foreign minister. Rathenau negotiated the 1922 Treaty of Rapallo, which normalised relations and strengthened economic ties between Germany and Soviet Russia. The agreement, along with Rathenau's insistence that Germany fulfil its obligations under the Treaty of Versailles, led right-wing nationalist groups (including a nascent Nazi Party) to brand him part of a Jewish-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walther Nernst
Walther Hermann Nernst (; 25 June 1864 – 18 November 1941) was a German physical chemist known for his work in thermodynamics, physical chemistry, electrochemistry, and solid-state physics. His formulation of the Nernst heat theorem helped pave the way for the third law of thermodynamics, for which he won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is also known for developing the Nernst equation in 1887. He studied physics and mathematics at the universities of Zürich, Berlin, Graz and Würzburg, where he received his doctorate 1887. In 1889, he finished his habilitation at University of Leipzig. Life and career Early years Nernst was born in Briesen, Germany (now Wąbrzeźno, Poland) to Gustav Nernst (1827–1888) and Ottilie Nerger (1833–1876). His father was a country judge. Nernst had three older sisters and one younger brother. His third sister died of cholera. Nernst went to elementary school at Graudenz, Germany (now Grudziądz, Poland). Studies Nernst started ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walther Nehring
Walther Nehring (15 August 1892 – 20 April 1983) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the Afrika Korps. Early life Nehring was born on 15 August 1892 in Stretzin, West Prussia. Nehring was the descendant of a Dutch family who had fled the Netherlands to escape religious persecution in the seventeenth century. His father, Emil Nehring, was an estate owner and officer of the Military Reserve. While Nehring was still a child the family moved to Danzig. Career Nehring joined the military service on 16 September 1911 in the Infanterie-Regiment 152. He became a commissioned ''Leutnant'' on 18 December 1913. On 26 October 1940 he received command of the 18th Panzer Division at Chemnitz, which he commanded during the operations Barbarossa and Typhoon. The division led by Nehring stands accused of war crimes by numerous accounts.Omer Bartov, ''Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich'', Oxford Paperbacks, 1992 Nehring took comma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walther Otto Müller
Walther Otto Müller, also Otto Müller, (20 June 1833 – 17 July 1887, in Gera) was a German botanist and gardner.Frahm & Eggers: ''Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen.'' He was mainly interested in Cryptogamae, in particular lichen and mosses. Müller was the author of some books and several articles in scientific and botanical journals. He monochrome illustrated at least one. He collected plants, lichen and mosses for herbaria to sell the exsiccates as loose-leaf-collections. Several of these exsiccatae issued by him are known, among them ''Die Cladoniaceen von Nord-Deutschland, herausgegeben von W. O. Müller''.Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 ''IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae''. Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany. The topography of the Gera region provided flora and fauna from lowland and highland at one rich spot. Some of his specimens are housed at the Natural History Museum, London, British Museum. Some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walther Müller
Walther Müller (6 September 1905, in Hanover – 4 December 1979, in Walnut Creek, California) was a German physicist, most well known for his improvement of Hans Geiger's counter for ionizing radiation, now known as the Geiger-Müller tube. Walther Müller studied physics, chemistry and philosophy at the University of Kiel. In 1925 he became the first PhD student of Hans Geiger, who had just got a professorship in Kiel. Their work on ionization of gases by collision lead to the invention of the Geiger-Müller counter, a now indispensable tool for measuring radioactive radiation. After some time as professor at the University of Tübingen he worked for the rest of his professional life as industrial physicist (i. e. a physicist working in industrial R&D) in Germany, then as an advisor for the Australian Postmaster-General's Department Research Laboratories in Melbourne,Gerard Ryle, Gary Hughes, "Rocket science", ''Sydney Morning Herald'', 21 August 1999, News Review, p. 40 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walther Meissner
Fritz Walther Meißner (anglicized: ''Meissner'') (16 December 1882 – 16 November 1974) was a German technical physicist. Meißner was born in Berlin to Waldemar Meißner and Johanna Greger. He studied mechanical engineering and physics at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin), his doctoral supervisor being Max Planck. He then entered the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Berlin. From 1922 to 1925, he established the world's third largest helium-liquifier, and discovered in 1933 the Meissner effect,Walther Meißner and R. Ochsenfeld, Naturwissenschaften V21, p. 787 (1933). damping of the magnetic field in superconductors. One year later, he was called as chair in technical physics at the Technical University of Munich. After World War II, he became the president of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities () is an independent public institution, located in Munich. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walther Von Lüttwitz
Walther Karl Friedrich Ernst Emil Freiherr von Lüttwitz (2 February 1859 – 20 September 1942) was a German general who fought in World War I. Lüttwitz is best known for being the driving force behind the Kapp–Lüttwitz Putsch of 1920 which attempted to replace the democratic government of the Weimar Republic with a military dictatorship. Early life Lüttwitz was born on 2 February 1859 in the city of Bodland near Kreuzburg O.S. in Upper Silesia, then part of Prussia (now Bogacica, Poland). His father was Ernst von Lüttwitz (1823–92), an ''Oberförster'' ("head forest warden"), ''Hauptmann'' (captain) and ''Deichhauptmann'' ("overseer of dikes"). His mother was Countess Cecile (1835–1910), the daughter of Count Heinrich Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche und Camminetz. Military career Lüttwitz received his military training in 1878–87, finishing as an officer. He then attended the '' Kriegsakademie'' in 1887–90. Between 1890 and 1912 he served in various army comma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walther Kossel
Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel (; 4 January 1888 – 22 May 1956) was a German chemist and physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond (ionic bond/octet rule), Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel–Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect. Walther was the son of Albrecht Kossel who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1910. Career Kossel was born in Berlin, and began studies at the University of Heidelberg in 1906, but was at the University of Berlin during 1907 and 1908. In 1910, he became assistant to Philipp Lenard, who was also his thesis advisor. Kossel was awarded his Ph.D. in 1910, and he stayed on as assistant to Leonard until 1913. In 1913, the year in which Niels Bohr introduced the Bohr model of the atom, Kossel went to the University of Munich as assistant to Arnold Sommerfeld, under whom he did his Habilitation. Under Sommerfeld, Munich was a theoretical center for the developing atomic theory, e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walther Von Klingen
Walther von Klingen (died 1 March 1284) was a nobleman from the Thurgau area. After the death of his three sons made it impossible for him to found a dynasty, he founded a monastery in Wehr, Baden-Württemberg, Wehr that later moved to Basel and donated generously to several monastic orders. He later became a close associate and supporter of King of Germany Rudolf I of Germany, Rudolf von Habsburg. Eight of his songs, which belong to the Middle High German tradition, has been preserved in the Codex Manesse manuscript. They are conventional canzone songs with themes typical of the Minnesang tradition. Family background Walther III von Klingen was born . He came from an old Thurgau family, originating in the near Märstetten. Around 1200, the family split into two branches. The elder line moved to Altenklingen, whose foundations were subsumed into Altenklingen Castle, while the younger line moved to Hohenklingen Castle. Walther's parents were Ulrich II von Altenklingen and It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walther Hewel
Walther Hewel (25 March 1904 – 2 May 1945) was an early and active member of the Nazi Party who became a German diplomat, an SS-''Brigadeführer'' and one of German dictator Adolf Hitler's personal friends. He served as the liaison officer between '' Reichsminister'' for Foreign Affairs Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hitler's headquarters. Present in the ''Führerbunker'' during the Battle of Berlin, he committed suicide while attempting to escape the Red Army after the breakout from the bunker. Early life Hewel was born in 1904 to Anton and Elsa Hewel in Cologne in the Rhineland, where his father ran a cocoa factory. His father died in 1913, leaving Elsa to run the factory. Hewel attended the '' Gymnasium'' in Cologne and passed his ''Abitur'' in 1923. He went on to attend the Technical University of Munich. That autumn, he joined the ''Stosstrupp Hitler'', a formation of the Nazi Party's SA "brownshirt" stormtroopers – his member number was in the low 200s – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
