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Detlef Schlöndorff
Detlef Schlöndorff (1942–2019) was a German-born nephrologist known for research on chemokines and inflammatory kidney disease, and editor-in-chief of Kidney International from 2012 to 2017.
Detlef Schrempf
Detlef Schrempf, German NBA forward (born 1963), 16 seasons with Dallas, Indiana, Seattle, and Portland; 3x All-Star, 2x Sixth Man of the Year, 1996 NBA Finals with the SuperSonics.
Detlef Schuppan
Detlef Schuppan, born 1954, is a German physician-scientist known for identifying tissue transglutaminase as the celiac autoantigen and developing the first TG2 inhibitor in trials.
Detlef Weigel
Detlef Weigel, born 1961 in Germany, is a plant biologist directing the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, known for LEAFY, FT, and the 1001 Genomes Project.
Detlev Arendt
Detlev Arendt is a German evolutionary biologist and molecular neurobiologist who leads a group at EMBL Heidelberg, known for reconstructing the nervous system of the last common ancestor of bilaterian animals.
Detlev Bronk
Detlev Wulf Bronk (1897–1975) was an American biophysicist who recorded electrical activity in single motor nerve fibers and served as president of Johns Hopkins and Rockefeller University.
Detlev Buchholz
Detlev Buchholz is a mathematical physicist known for rigorous, model-independent results in algebraic quantum field theory, including the Buchholz–Wichmann nuclearity condition, massless scattering theory, and particle weights.
Detlev Kittstein
Detlev Kittstein (Detty, 1944-1996), German field hockey forward; 68 caps for West Germany, Olympic gold at Munich 1972, fourth at Mexico City 1968, 1970 European champion, SC Frankfurt 1880 player and Frankfurt-Höchst coach.
Detlev von Liliencron
Detlev von Liliencron, born Friedrich Freiherr von Liliencron, was a German lyric poet whose impressionist verse made him one of Germany's most celebrated voices in the 1890s.
Dětmarovice Power Station
The Dětmarovice Power Station (Elektrárna Dětmarovice) is a power and heating plant in Dětmarovice in the Czech Republic's Moravian-Silesian Region, built between 1971 and 1976.
Detonating cord
Detonating cord, also called detcord or primacord, is a flexible explosive cord, usually with a PETN core, used to initiate other high explosives in blasting.
Detonation
Detonation is the propagation of a reaction through an explosive medium at a speed greater than sound, driven by a shock wave, distinguishing it from deflagration.
Detonation velocity
Detonation velocity, abbreviated VoD or D, is the speed at which a detonation front travels through an explosive material, one of the principal measures of explosive performance.
Detonator
A detonator, also called a blasting cap, is a small explosive device used to initiate detonation in a larger explosive, invented by Alfred Nobel in 1863.
Detour (1945 film)
Detour (1945) is an Edgar G. Ulmer film noir made at Poverty Row studio PRC, starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage. A hitchhiking pianist assumes a dead man's identity; a National Film Registry classic restored in 2018.
Detour (Cyndi Lauper album)
Detour is the 11th studio album by Cyndi Lauper, released in 2016. It features 12 classic country covers and duets with artists like Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson.
Detour (Kim Petras album)
Detour is Kim Petras' third studio album, released May 29, 2026 on her own BunHead Records after a Republic Records dispute; 13 tracks including SOPHIE's final collaboration "Basketball", with a Rare N' Deluxe edition in September 2026.
Detour Lake
Detour Lake is a large open-pit gold mine in Cochrane District, northeastern Ontario, near the Quebec border. Operated by Agnico Eagle, it is the largest gold-producing mine in Canada.
Detox (One Ok Rock album)
Detox (DETOX) is ONE OK ROCK's 11th studio album (February 21, 2025, Fueled By Ramen), released alongside the band's 20th anniversary; features C.U.R.I.O.S.I.T.Y. with CHICO CARLITO and Paledusk; promoted by the DETOX world tour.
Detoxification
Detoxification, also called biotransformation, is the set of metabolic reactions by which the body chemically alters foreign compounds such as drugs, reducing toxicity and easing excretion.
Detoxification foot baths
Detoxification foot baths, also called ionic foot baths or foot detox, are pseudoscientific devices claimed to pull toxins through the feet; studies, including a 2012 IonCleanse trial, find no detox effect, and water color change comes from electrode corrosion.
Detoxification of Reactive Oxygen Species
Detoxification of Reactive Oxygen Species (Reactome R-HSA-3299685) is a curated human pathway in which superoxide dismutases, catalase, peroxiredoxins, and glutathione peroxidases convert superoxide and hydrogen peroxide to water and oxygen.
DETR
DETR (DEtection TRansformer) is an object detection model introduced in May 2020 by Facebook AI researchers, treating detection as direct set prediction via a transformer encoder-decoder trained end-to-end.
DETRAN
A DETRAN (Departamento Estadual de Trânsito, State Traffic Department) is the state traffic authority in each Brazilian state, responsible for driver licensing and vehicle registration.
Detransition
Detransition: stopping or reversing a gender transition, medical or social. Reported rates range from about 1% surgical regret to 0-9.8% after hormones; definitions and measurement vary widely.
Detrended correspondence analysis
Detrended correspondence analysis (DCA) is an ordination method used in ecology and archaeology, introduced by Hill and Gauch in 1980 to fix distortions in correspondence analysis.
Detrended fluctuation analysis
Detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) is a statistical method that detects long-range correlations in nonstationary time series, introduced by C.-K. Peng and colleagues in 1994 to analyze DNA sequences.
Detrital zircon geochronology
Detrital zircon geochronology measures uranium-lead ages of individual zircon grains separated from sedimentary rocks, identifying sediment sources, correlating successions, and limiting the age of deposition.
Detritivore
Detritivores are invertebrates such as earthworms, termites, and millipedes that feed on dead organic matter or its microbes, raising decomposition rates by about 50% on average and anchoring brown food webs.
Detritus
Detritus is dead organic matter (leaf litter, carrion, faeces, exudates) forming the brown, detrital food web; most primary production, over 80% on land, passes through it, and it acts as both resource and habitat.