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Frito-Lay
Frito-Lay, PepsiCo's convenient foods unit formed from the 1961 Frito Company and H.W. Lay merger and the 1965 Pepsi-Cola merger, makes Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos, Tostitos, and Fritos; headquartered in Plano, TX, with roughly 60% of US salty snacks.
Fritos
Fritos is an American brand of corn chips created in 1932 by Charles Elmer Doolin in San Antonio, Texas, and produced since 1961 by Frito-Lay.
Frits R. Rosendaal
Frits R. Rosendaal (born 1959) is a Dutch physician-scientist, professor of clinical epidemiology at Leiden University, known for identifying genetic and acquired causes of venous thrombosis.
Frits Warmolt Went
Frits Warmolt Went (1903–1990) was a Dutch-American plant physiologist whose 1926 oat coleoptile experiment first demonstrated auxin, and who built the first phytotron at Caltech.
Frits Zernike
Frits Zernike (1888–1966) was a Dutch physicist at the University of Groningen who won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physics for the phase contrast microscope.
Frittata
Frittata: Italian flat, unfolded egg dish, name from friggere (to fry). Eggs beaten lightly with fillings like vegetables, cheese, ham, or pasta; cooked on both sides or finished under a broiler; served in wedges hot or at room temperature.
Fritter
Fritter: a food coated in batter and fried, from Old French friture. Includes fruit, vegetable, and meat fritters, pakora, tempura, and doughnut-family fried doughs; traced to Roman scriblita.
Frittlingen
Frittlingen is a municipality of 2,127 residents in the Tuttlingen district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, first documented in 797 and known for its surgical instrument industry.
Fritware
Fritware, also called stonepaste or siliceous ware, is an artificial Islamic ceramic body of ground quartz, glass frit, and fine white clay, invented to imitate Chinese porcelain; its 10:1:1 recipe is recorded by Abu'l-Qasim Kashani in 1301.
Fritz Arndt
Fritz Arndt (1885–1969) was a German chemist known for the Arndt–Eistert synthesis of carboxylic acids and as a pioneer of resonance theory, teaching for over twenty years in Istanbul.
Fritz Baltzer
Fritz Baltzer (1884–1974) was a Swiss zoologist and embryologist, professor at Bern, known for newt and salamander hybrid merogone experiments on how nucleus and cytoplasm direct development.
Fritz Bauer
Fritz Bauer (1903–1968), German-Jewish jurist and Hessian attorney general; initiator of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials (1963–1965), Remer trial prosecutor, and source of the tip leading to Adolf Eichmann's capture.
Fritz Bleiweiss
Fritz Bleiweiss (Fritz Erich Bleiweiß) was a German race walker, sixth in the 50 km walk at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and a world 20 km record holder.
Fritz Carlson
Fritz David Carlson (1888–1952) was a Swedish mathematician known for Carlson's theorem, Carlson's inequality, and the Carlson–Pólya theorem, and professor at Stockholms högskola from 1927.
Fritz Demopoulos
Fritz Demopoulos, also known as Dai Furei (戴福瑞), is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Qunar, China's online travel search company, and led it as CEO until 2011.
Fritz Feigl
Fritz Feigl (1891–1971) was an Austrian-born Brazilian analytical chemist who founded spot-test analysis, detecting substances in a single drop, after fleeing Nazi Austria in 1938.
Fritz Fischer
Fritz Fischer (Friedrich Fischer, born 1956), German biathlete and coach, SC Ruhpolding; Olympic relay gold 1992, silver 1988, bronze 1984; 1988 World Cup champion; distinct from the historian Fritz Fischer.
Fritz Foerster
Fritz Foerster (1866–1931) was a German chemist who built the Dresden Technische Hochschule into a leading center of electrochemistry and wrote the standard German textbook on the electrochemistry of aqueous solutions.
Fritz Fromm
Fritz Fromm (12 April 1913 – 13 October 2001), German field handball player and coach; won Olympic gold with Germany at Berlin 1936, the only Olympic field handball tournament, then coached West Germany to Field World titles in 1952 and 1955.
Fritz Goos
Fritz Goos was a German physicist at the National Physical Institute in Hamburg who, with Hilda Hänchen, first demonstrated the Goos–Hänchen effect, a small lateral shift of light under total internal reflection, in 1947.
Fritz H. Bach
Fritz H. Bach (1934–2011) was an American transplantation immunologist who enabled the first successful matched bone marrow transplants, helped define HLA class I and II antigens, and led the debate on xenotransplantation.
Fritz H. Schroder
Fritz H. Schröder is a German-born urologist who chaired urology at Erasmus University Rotterdam and initiated the European Randomized study of Screening for Prostate Cancer.
Fritz Haarmann
Fritz Haarmann (Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann, 1879–1925), the "Butcher of Hanover" and "Werwolf von Hannover", murdered at least 24 young men in Hannover 1918–1924, was sentenced to death in December 1924, and beheaded 15 April 1925.
Fritz Haber
Fritz Haber was a German physical chemist who won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for synthesizing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen, and who supervised Germany's first poison-gas attack in World War I.
Fritz Hagmann
Fritz Hagmann (1901–1974) was a Swiss wrestler and Schwinger from Winterthur-Seen who won Olympic gold in freestyle middleweight at Paris 1924, and later won the first Kilchberger Schwinget in 1927.
Fritz Hendrix
Fritz Hendrix (Friedrich Walter Hendrix, 1911-1941) was a German sprinter from Aachen who won 4x100 m relay silver at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics with Körnig, Borchmeyer, and Jonath, and was killed in action in 1941 near Leningrad; distinct from 1904 footballer Fritz Hendricks.
Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche
Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche, born Fritz Hoffmann (1868–1920), was a Swiss banker who founded the pharmaceutical company F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co in Basel in 1896, among the first to manufacture scientifically researched medicines.
Fritz Hofmann (chemist)
Fritz Hofmann (Friedrich Carl Albert Hofmann; 1866–1956) was a German chemist at Bayer who first made synthetic rubber on a technical scale, receiving a patent in 1909.
Fritz Honka
Fritz Honka (Friedrich Paul Honka, 1935–1998) was a German serial killer, the "Frauenmörder von St. Pauli," who murdered four women in Hamburg between 1970 and 1975, hid dismembered remains in his Zeißstraße attic, and inspired Strunk's novel and Akin's film The Golden Glove.
Fritz Ingerslev
Fritz Ingerslev (1912–1994) was a Danish civil engineer and acoustics expert, known as Denmark's 'noise-professor', who led the Acoustics Laboratory and chaired international noise control bodies.