All articles starting with K

Karl Deutsch

Karl Wolfgang Deutsch (1912–1992) was a social and political scientist born in Prague who taught at MIT, Yale, and Harvard and studied nationalism, international relations, and peace research.

Karl Dönitz (1891–1980), Großadmiral and commander of the Kriegsmarine, built the U-boat wolfpack force in the Battle of the Atlantic, briefly led the Flensburg government as Hitler's successor, and served ten years after conviction at Nuremberg.

Karl Dorsey

Karl James Dorsey ("Shorty"), 1894-1974, American Olympic sailor; won 1932 Los Angeles gold in the 8-metre class aboard Owen Churchill's Angelita, and placed 10th in the same class at the 1936 Kiel Games.

Oct 22, 2026

Karl Drerup

Karl Drerup (1904–2000) was a German-American painter and enamelist, a leader of the mid-century American enameling revival known for Limoges-style painted enamels of landscapes and working people.

Karl Drexel

Karl Drexel (1872–1954) was an Austrian Catholic priest and Christian Social politician from Dornbirn who sat in four parliaments and led the Federal Statistical Office.

Karl Drlica

Karl Drlica (born 1943) is an American molecular biologist at the Public Health Research Institute and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, known for work on DNA gyrase, supercoiling, and fluoroquinolone resistance.

Karl E. Martersteck

Karl E. Martersteck, Jr., born 1934, is an American telecommunications engineer who led the 5ESS digital switch at Bell Laboratories and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992.

Karl E. Taylor

Karl E. Taylor is an American climate scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who has coordinated the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project since 1989 and created the Taylor diagram.

Karl Edward Wagner

Karl Edward Wagner (1945-1994) was an American horror and heroic-fantasy writer, psychiatrist, and editor, creator of the cursed immortal Kane and editor of The Year's Best Horror Stories for DAW Books.

Karl Engelman

Karl Engelman was an American physician-scientist in clinical pharmacology and hypertension, known for his 1967 study showing para-chlorophenylalanine inhibits serotonin synthesis in carcinoid syndrome, and for pheochromocytoma drug tests.

Karl Engler

Karl Engler, born Carl Oswald Viktor Engler (1842–1925), was a German chemist who founded petroleum science, invented the Engler viscometer, and achieved the first complete synthesis of indigo.

Karl Erik Nilsson

Karl-Erik Nilsson (1922-2017), Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler, GAK Enighet Malmö; Olympic light-heavyweight (-87 kg) gold at London 1948 and bronze at Helsinki 1952 and Melbourne 1956; distinct from the football administrator of the same name.

Karl Ernst von Baer

Karl Ernst von Baer, also known as Karl Maksimovich Baer, was a Prussian-Estonian embryologist and naturalist (1792–1876) who discovered the mammalian ovum, described the notochord, and founded comparative embryology.

Karl Etta Eyong

Karl Edouard Blaise Etta Eyong is a Cameroonian center-forward, born in 2003 in Douala, who plays for Levante UD in La Liga and for the Cameroon national team.

Karl Everhard Goebel

Karl Everhard Goebel, full name Karl Immanuel Eberhard Ritter von Goebel (1855–1932), was a German botanist and leading plant morphologist, professor of botany at Munich from 1891 to 1931.

Sep 20, 2026

Karl F. Freed

Karl F. Freed, also known as Karl Frederick Freed, was an American theoretical chemist and polymer physicist at the University of Chicago, known for the lattice cluster theory of polymer blends.

Karl Fischer titration

Karl Fischer titration (KF titration) is an analytical method for determining the water content of liquids, solids, and gases, published by German chemist Karl Fischer in 1935.

Karl Fleschen

Karl Fleschen, born 1955 in Daun, West German middle and long distance runner; two-time European indoor 3000 m champion and member of the 4x1500 m relay world record team (14:38.8, 1977, stood until 2009).

Karl Frederick

Karl Telford Frederick (1881-1963), American pistol shooter and New York lawyer; won three golds at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics including 50 m free pistol (496/600), captained the 1948 U.S. shooting team, and was NRA president.

Karl Frei

Karl Frei (1917-2011), Swiss artistic gymnast from Regensdorf, won rings gold and team silver at the 1948 London Olympics after missing the canceled 1940 Games; club Turnverein Regensdorf.

Karl Freudenberg

Karl Johann Freudenberg (1886–1983) was a German organic chemist, trained in Emil Fischer's laboratory, who established cellulose as a linear glucose polymer and spent over forty years on lignin's constitution.

Karl Friedrich Adolf Wuttke

Karl Friedrich Adolf Wuttke (1819–1870) was a German Lutheran theologian who taught at Breslau, Berlin, and Halle, and wrote the two-volume Handbook of Christian Ethics, translated into English in 1873.

Karl Friedrich August Kahnis

Karl Friedrich August Kahnis (1814–1888) was a German Lutheran theologian who held the chair of dogmatics at Leipzig from 1850 and wrote the three-volume Die lutherische Dogmatik.

Karl Friedrich Bahrdt

Karl Friedrich Bahrdt (1741–1792) was a German Protestant theologian of the Enlightenment who moved from orthodoxy to naturalism and is best known for his freethinking reworking of the Bible, Die neuesten Offenbarungen Gottes.

Karl Friedrich Küstner

Karl Friedrich Küstner (1856–1936) was a German astronomer, director of the Bonn Observatory from 1891 to 1925, and the first to demonstrate the Earth's polar motion experimentally.

Karl Friedrich Meyer

Karl Friedrich Meyer (1884–1974) was a Swiss-born American bacteriologist, virologist, and epidemiologist who spent his career at the University of California, setting canning-industry botulism standards and controlling psittacosis.

Karl Friston

Karl John Friston (born 1959) is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist at University College London, known for developing the neuroimaging methods SPM, VBM, and DCM, and for originating the free-energy principle.

Karl G. Linden

Karl Linden is an environmental engineer and Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder known for UV disinfection of water and the 2020 Clarke Prize.

Karl G. Nicholson

Karl G. Nicholson, also published as Karl Nicholson, is a British physician-scientist, Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Leicester, known for influenza antiviral and vaccine trials.