All articles starting with D
24,034 articles
Dieter Oesterhelt
Dieter Oesterhelt (1940–2022) was a German biochemist who discovered bacteriorhodopsin, the first known microbial rhodopsin, laying the basis for optogenetics and winning the 2021 Albert Lasker Award.
Dieter Pohl
Dieter W. Pohl (born 1938) is a physicist who invented the scanning near-field optical microscope at IBM Zurich, whose 1982-1984 group broke the Abbé diffraction limit by a factor of 10.
Dieter Rams
Dieter Rams (born 1932, Wiesbaden) is the German industrial designer who led Braun design from 1961 to 1995, co-founded Vitsoe, created the SK 4, 606 shelving, and the Ten Principles for Good Design, "less, but better."
Dieter Richter
Dieter Richter, born 1947 in Hannover, is a German physicist known for using neutron spin-echo spectroscopy to measure polymer motion, directing neutron-scattering institutes at Forschungszentrum Jülich from 1989 to 2015.
Dieter Riedel
Dieter Riedel, born 1947, is a German former footballer who played as a winger for SG Dynamo Dresden and won Olympic gold with East Germany in 1976.
Dieter Schubert
Dieter Schubert is a German former rower who rowed in the 'Dresden Four' and won Olympic gold in the men's coxless fours for East Germany in 1968 and 1972.
Dieter Schwarz
Dieter Schwarz (born 1939, Heilbronn) is a German entrepreneur who built Lidl & Schwarz into the Schwarz Group, parent of the Lidl discount stores and Kaufland hypermarkets.
Dieter Seebach
Dieter Seebach is an organic chemist who spent his career at ETH Zurich, known for umpolung, TADDOL chiral auxiliaries, and beta-peptides, and elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2007.
Dieter Söll
Dieter Söll is a German-born biochemist and molecular biologist at Yale University who studies transfer RNA and pioneered expanding the genetic code with new amino acids.
Dieter Thoma
Dieter Thoma, German ski jumper (born 1969, Hinterzarten), 1990s World Cup star; 1994 Olympic team gold and normal hill bronze, 1998 team silver, 1989/90 Four Hills winner, 1990 ski flying world champion, later ARD commentator.
Dieter Vollhardt
Dieter Vollhardt (born 1951 in Bad Godesberg) is a German theoretical condensed matter physicist who co-founded dynamical mean-field theory and won the 2006 Europhysics Prize.
Dieter Wendisch
Dieter Wendisch (born 1953), East German rower, SC Einheit Dresden; two Olympic rowing golds, eights at Montreal 1976 and coxed fours at Moscow 1980, plus world titles 1975, 1977, 1978.
Dieter Wiedenmann
Dieter Benedikt Wiedenmann (1957-1994) was a West German rower of Ulmer RC Donau who won quadruple sculls gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics by 0.43 seconds and World Championship gold in 1983.
Dieter Zetsche
Dieter Zetsche, born 1953 in Istanbul, is a German engineer who led Chrysler's turnaround from 2000 to 2005 and chaired Daimler, heading Mercedes-Benz Cars, from 2006 to 2019.
Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia
Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia: Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir's first complete recording (2005–2014, Challenge Classics, 29 CDs plus DVD) of Buxtehude's vocal, organ, harpsichord, and chamber music.
Diethanolamine
Diethanolamine, also known as 2,2'-iminodiethanol or diolamine, is a secondary amine with the formula C4H11NO2, made from ethylene oxide and ammonia and used in surfactants, gas purification, and cosmetics.
Diethard Tautz
Diethard Tautz, born 1957, is a German evolutionary and developmental biologist who directed the Department of Evolutionary Genetics at the Max Planck Institute in Plön from 2007 to 2023.
Diethatyl
Diethatyl (diethatyl-ethyl, BAY NNT 6867, 乙酰甲草胺), obsolete chloroacetanilide pre-emergence herbicide first reported 1972; lipid biosynthesis inhibitor (HRAC K3), not EU-approved since 2002, WHO class O.
Diether Lambrechts
Diether Lambrechts is a Belgian epigenetics and cancer biologist who heads the Laboratory of Translational Genetics at VIB-KU Leuven, known for showing that tumor hypoxia alters DNA methylation by reducing TET enzyme activity.
Diether Ocampo
Diether Pascual Ocampo, Filipino actor, singer, model, and comedian; ABS-CBN Star Circle Batch II (1995) leading man known for Soltera, Jologs, Nasaan Ka Man; founder of the KIDS Foundation and Philippine Coast Guard Auxiliary Lieutenant Commander.
Diethofencarb
Diethofencarb (CAS 87130-20-9) is a Sumitomo Chemical carbamate fungicide against Botrytis cinerea gray mold, exploiting negatively correlated cross-resistance with benzimidazole-resistant strains; EU approval expired 31 May 2021, banana import tolerance remains.
Diethyl carbonate
Diethyl carbonate (DEC) is a colorless carbonate ester liquid used as a solvent, fuel additive, and reactant in organic synthesis, and as a low-viscosity co-solvent in lithium-ion battery electrolytes.
Diethyl ether
Diethyl ether, also known as sulfuric ether, is a volatile, extremely flammable liquid that was the first widely used surgical anesthetic and remains an industrial solvent and reaction medium.
Diethyl malonate
Diethyl malonate, also called diethyl propanedioate or malonic ester, is a colorless liquid ester of malonic acid used as a building block in organic synthesis and as a flavoring and fragrance ingredient.
Diethyl phthalate
Diethyl phthalate (DEP) is a clear, colorless, nearly odorless liquid ester of phthalic acid used as a plasticizer for cellulose films and as a solvent and fixative in perfumes and cosmetics.
Diethyl pyrocarbonate
Diethyl pyrocarbonate (DEPC), also called diethyl dicarbonate, is a reagent used to inactivate ribonucleases in RNA work, to label proteins for mass spectrometry, and formerly as a beverage preservative, banned in the United States in 1972.
Diethyl sulfate
Diethyl sulfate is the diethyl ester of sulfuric acid, a colorless oily liquid used industrially as an ethylating agent and classified as probably carcinogenic to humans.
Diethylaminosulfur trifluoride
Diethylaminosulfur trifluoride (DAST, Et₂NSF₃) is a liquid nucleophilic fluorinating reagent reported by William J. Middleton at Du Pont in 1975 that converts alcohols to alkyl fluorides and carbonyls to gem-difluorides.
Diethylcarbamazine
Diethylcarbamazine (DEC), discovered in 1947 and originally sold as Hetrazan, is an anthelmintic that kills filarial worms and serves as the drug of choice for lymphatic filariasis.
Diethyldithiocarbamate
Diethyldithiocarbamate (DDC) is a sulfur-containing chelating ligand and the principal active metabolite of disulfiram, whose sodium salt is the chelating antidote for acute nickel carbonyl poisoning.