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Heinrich Trossbach
Heinrich Troßbach was a German track and field athlete, born near Metz in 1903, who specialized in the 110 meters hurdles and was among the world's leading hurdlers of the 1920s.
Heinrich von Kleist
Heinrich von Kleist, full name Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (1777–1811), was a German poet, dramatist, and journalist whose plays The Broken Jug and Penthesilea and novella Michael Kohlhaas are classics.
Heinrich Wangnereck
Heinrich Wangnereck, also spelled Wagnereck, was a German Jesuit theologian and canonist, born in Munich in 1595, who taught at Dillingen and opposed compromise peace in 1646.
Heinrich Weinel
Heinrich Weinel (1874–1936) was a German Protestant theologian and New Testament scholar at the University of Jena, a leading figure of liberal associational Protestantism in Germany.
Heinrich Wieland
Heinrich Wieland was a German organic chemist at the University of Munich who won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on bile acids and formulated the dehydrogenation theory of biological oxidation.
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803–1879) was a Prussian physicist and meteorologist at Berlin who formulated the wind-turning law, introduced monthly isotherms, and directed the Prussian Meteorological Institute.
Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz
Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836–1921) was a German anatomist, physiologist, and pathologist who named the neuron in 1891 and the chromosome in 1888, and described Waldeyer's ring.
Heinrich Wilhelm Poll
Heinrich Wilhelm Poll (1877–1939) was a German anatomist and geneticist who pioneered twin research, built the Hamburgisches Zwillingsarchiv, and was dismissed in 1933 under the Nazi regime.
Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft
The Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft, or Heinrich von Kleist Society, is an international literary and scholarly association dedicated to the German writer Heinrich von Kleist, founded in 1960 and based in Berlin.
Heinz
Heinz, originating with the H.J. Heinz Company founded in 1869, is an American food brand best known for Heinz Tomato Ketchup and its "57 Varieties" slogan.
Heinz 57
Heinz 57 is both the "57 Varieties" slogan coined by H.J. Heinz in the 1890s after seeing a shoe ad, despite the company selling over 60 products, and Heinz 57 Sauce, a 1911 tomato-based steak sauce.
Heinz A. Lowenstam
Heinz A. Lowenstam was a German-born American paleoecologist at Caltech who founded the modern study of biomineralization and discovered magnetite in chiton teeth in 1962.
Heinz Alexander Nathan
Heinz Alexander Nathan, alias Alex Natan (1906–1971), German-born sprinter, journalist, and writer; ran in the SC Charlottenburg 4x100m world-record relay (40.8 s, Breslau 1929), emigrated to Britain in 1933, and became a Worcester schoolmaster and author.
Heinz Arnheiter
Heinz Arnheiter is a Swiss scientist known for research on the Mx gene's resistance to influenza virus and for cloning the mouse microphthalmia gene Mitf, published in 1993.
Heinz Bachmann
Heinz Bachmann was a mathematician whose 1950 Zürich dissertation introduced a hierarchy of normal functions yielding large countable ordinals, including the Bachmann–Howard ordinal, a standard proof-theoretic ordinal of impredicative mathematics.
Heinz Bauer
Heinz Bauer (1928–2002) was a German mathematician and professor at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, known for axiomatic potential theory, where the harmonic spaces called Bauer spaces carry his name.
Heinz Billing
Heinz Billing (1914–2017) was a German physicist who built the first electronic computers in postwar Germany and started the laser-interferometer work behind the 2015 gravitational-wave detection.
Heinz body
Heinz bodies (Heinz-Ehrlich bodies): clumps of denatured, precipitated hemoglobin inside red blood cells, seen with supravital stains; caused by oxidant drugs, toxins, G6PD deficiency, unstable hemoglobins, and thalassemia, and producing bite cells and hemolytic anemia.
Heinz Brandt
Heinz Brandt (Heinz Arthur Brandt, 1907-1944), German Wehrmacht colonel and 1936 Berlin Olympic show jumping team gold medalist on Alchimist; moved Stauffenberg's briefcase bomb at the Wolfsschanze on 20 July 1944, died of wounds next day, posthumous Generalmajor. Not the unionist Heinz Brandt (1909-1986).
Heinz Erzberger
Heinz Erzberger is an aerospace researcher at NASA Ames who designed the air traffic automation algorithms adopted by the FAA, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2010.
Heinz Feldmann
Heinz Feldmann, born 1959 in Lippstadt, Germany, is a virologist who leads filovirus research at NIAID's Rocky Mountain Laboratories and developed the Ervebo Ebola vaccine.
Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat
Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat (1910–1999) was a German-American biochemist and virologist at UC Berkeley who first reassembled a virus from protein and RNA in a test tube.
Heinz Frei
Heinz Frei is a Swiss-born physical chemist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for cobalt oxide water-oxidation catalysts and artificial photosynthesis using sunlight to make fuels.
Heinz Fütterer
Heinz Fütterer, "der weiße Blitz" (White Lightning), German sprinter (1931–2019); triple European champion 1954/1958, equaled Jesse Owens' 100 m world record at 10.2 s in Yokohama 1954, and set a 4x100 m relay world record of 39.5 s in 1958.
Heinz G. Viehe
Heinz G. Viehe (Heinz Günther Viehe, 1929–2010) was a German-born organic chemist and professor at Louvain, known for Viehe's salt and cited in the 2021 Nobel Prize background.
Heinz Georg Baus
Heinz Georg Baus (1934–2016) was a German retail entrepreneur who founded Bauhaus, the DIY home-improvement chain, opening Germany's first self-service store in Mannheim in 1960.
Heinz Guderian
Heinz Guderian (1888–1954), German Generaloberst, creator of the panzer arm and author of Achtung Panzer! (1937); led the 1940 Ardennes thrust and Panzer Group 2 in Barbarossa; later Chief of the General Staff; his memoir Panzer Leader fueled the clean Wehrmacht myth.
Heinz Heinemann
Heinz Heinemann (1913–2005) was a German-born American chemist in heterogeneous catalysis who helped develop 14 commercial processes, held 75 patents, and spent 17 years at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Heinz Hitler
Heinz Hitler (Heinrich Hitler, 1920-1942), nephew of Adolf Hitler via half-brother Alois Jr. and Hedwig Heidemann, was a Wehrmacht officer captured on the Eastern Front who died in Moscow's Butyrka prison in 1942.
Heinz Hopf
Heinz Hopf (1894–1971) was a German-born mathematician who worked in algebraic topology and differential geometry, and gave his name to Hopf algebras and the Hopf fibration.