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Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize
The Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize is a biennial $500,000 National Academy of Engineering award, endowed through Ohio University in 1999, recognizing bioengineering achievements in widespread use, from the pacemaker to LASIK and blood glucose testing.
Fritz J. Sedlazeck
Fritz J. Sedlazeck is a computational genomicist and Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Center, known for the open-source long-read tools NGMLR and Sniffles.
Fritz John
Fritz John (1910–1994) was a German-born American mathematician at New York University known for work on partial differential equations and ill-posed problems, and for the John ellipsoid.
Fritz Juliusberg
Fritz Juliusberg (1872–1939) was a German dermatologist born in Breslau who first described pityriasis lichenoides chronica in 1899; he lost his license under the Nazis and died in Berlin in 1939.
Fritz Klein
Fritz Klein, born Fred Klein, was an Austrian-born American psychiatrist and bisexual activist who wrote The Bisexual Option and created the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid.
Fritz Kögl
Fritz Kögl was a German organic chemist (1897–1959) who spent his career at Utrecht University, where he identified the plant growth hormone heteroauxin as indole-3-acetic acid in 1934 and crystallized biotin in 1936.
Fritz Kröhnke
Fritz Kröhnke (1903–1981) was a German chemist and professor in Berlin and Freiburg whose Kröhnke pyridine synthesis, discovered with Wilfried Zecher at Giessen in 1961, remains in use.
Fritz Kuhn
Fritz Kuhn names several figures: Fritz Julius Kuhn (1896-1951), German-American Bund leader convicted of larceny and deported; a 1952 Olympic bobsleigh gold medalist; art smith Fritz Kühn; and a Green politician born 1955.
Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang (1890-1976), Viennese-born film director of Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis, M, and Hollywood noirs such as The Big Heat; fled Nazi Germany in 1933 after a Goebbels job offer.
Fritz Laves
Fritz Laves (1906–1978) was a German-Swiss crystallographer who showed that the Laves phases, a large class of AB₂ intermetallic compounds, arise from close packing of atoms.
Fritz Leiber
Fritz Leiber (Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr., 1910–1992), American fantasy, science fiction, and horror writer, creator of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, coiner of "sword-and-sorcery", winner of six Hugos, three Nebulas, and the SFWA Grand Master Award.
Fritz Ligges
Fritz Ligges (1938–1996), West German equestrian, 'laughing rider'; Olympic eventing bronze 1964 on Donkosak, team jumping gold 1972 on Robin, bronze 1984 on Ramzes; later German junior team coach and founder of Gestüt Ligges.
Fritz Lipmann
Fritz Lipmann (Fritz Albert Lipmann) was a German-born American biochemist who discovered coenzyme A in 1945 and shared the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, later teaching at Harvard and Rockefeller.
Fritz London
Fritz Wolfgang London (1900–1954) was a German-American theoretical physicist who founded quantum chemistry with Walter Heitler in 1927 and, with his brother Heinz, wrote the first theory of superconductivity.
Fritz Machlup
Fritz Machlup (1902–1983) was an Austrian-born economist at Princeton and New York University who coined the term "knowledge industry" and led the American Economic Association.
Fritz Manteuffel
Fritz Manteuffel (Julius Carl Fritz Manteuffel, 1875–1941), German gymnast of the Berliner Turnrat. Won two 1896 Athens Olympic golds in team parallel bars and horizontal bar; 72nd of 135 in the 1900 Paris all-around.
Fritz Melchers
Fritz Melchers (Georg Friedrich Melchers, 1936–2025) was a German immunologist who directed the Basel Institute for Immunology from 1980 to 2001 and discovered the surrogate light chain in B cell development.
Fritz Mietzsch
Fritz Mietzsch was a German chemist at IG Farben's Elberfeld works, later a Direktor at Bayer, who co-synthesized Prontosil in 1932 and helped prepare Atabrine, a quinine substitute.
Fritz Noether
Fritz Noether (1884–1941) was a German applied mathematician who worked on hydrodynamics, turbulence, and singular integral equations, and was executed in the Soviet Union in 1941 on fabricated espionage charges.
Fritz Peter
Fritz Peter was a German mathematician and schoolteacher who earned a Göttingen doctorate under Max Born and proved the Peter–Weyl theorem of 1927 with Hermann Weyl.
Fritz Pfleumer
Fritz Pfleumer (1881–1945) was an Austrian engineer who invented magnetic recording tape, patented in Germany in 1928; AEG acquired his rights in 1932 and developed the Magnetophon.
Fritz Plato
Fritz Plato (1858–1938) was a German chemist and director of the German Institute of Weights and Measures whose 1900 tables gave brewing the degrees Plato scale.
Fritz Pregl
Fritz Pregl (1869–1930) was an Austrian chemist and physician at Graz University who founded quantitative organic microanalysis, analyzing milligram samples, and won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Fritz R. Bühler
Fritz R. Bühler (1940–2017) was a Swiss cardiologist and hypertension researcher who built the hypertension division at University Hospital Basel and helped match blood-pressure drugs to patients.
Fritz Rothe
Fritz Rothe was a German industrial chemist who joined Adolph Frank and Nikodem Caro in 1897 and in 1898 developed the calcium carbide route to calcium cyanamide fertilizer.
Fritz Rottman
Fritz Rottman is an American molecular biologist who discovered the m6A modification of messenger RNA in 1974 and chaired a department at Case Western Reserve University.
Fritz Schaudinn
Fritz Schaudinn was a German zoologist who identified the cause of syphilis in 1905, proved an amoeba causes human dysentery, and named the malaria parasite's stages, dying at 34 from his own self-infection experiments.
Fritz Schmidt
Fritz Schmidt, "Schimmi" (1943–2024), German field hockey midfielder; 146 West German caps 1963–1976, Olympic gold at Munich 1972 despite a hand injury, fourth 1968, fifth 1976; Rüsselsheimer RK player-trainer and master baker.
Fritz Scholder
Fritz Scholder (1937–2005) was an American painter and printmaker of Luiseño descent whose boldly colored images of Native Americans challenged stereotypes and shaped New American Indian Art in the 1970s.
Fritz Schønheyder
Fritz Schønheyder was a Danish physician and biochemist who, working with Henrik Dam, helped discover vitamin K in 1934 and later held the biochemistry chair at Aarhus University.