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Reinhard Bredow
Reinhard Bredow (born 1947, Ilsenburg) is a German former luger for East Germany who won 1972 Sapporo Olympic doubles gold with Horst Hörnlein, tied with Hildgartner/Plaikner, plus 1973 world and 1970, 1972 European titles.
Reinhard Dummer
Reinhard Dummer is a Swiss dermatologist and dermato-oncologist who built the skin cancer program at University Hospital Zurich and led major melanoma immunotherapy trials, including COMBI-AD.
Reinhard Eiben
Reinhard Eiben (born 1951, Crossen, Saxony) is an East German canoe slalom paddler who won the first Olympic men's C-1 gold at Munich 1972 with 315.84 points and the 1973 world C-1 title at Muotathal.
Reinhard Fässler
Reinhard Fässler, also spelled Reinhard Fassler, is an Austrian cell biologist and physician born in 1956 who led integrin research as director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.
Reinhard Gehlen
Reinhard Gehlen (1902–1979) was a German generalmajor who headed Wehrmacht Eastern Front intelligence (Fremde Heere Ost) from 1942, founded the CIA-backed Organisation Gehlen in 1946, and served as first president of the BND from 1956 to 1968.
Reinhard Genzel
Reinhard Genzel is a German astrophysicist who shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center.
Reinhard Hafner
Reinhard Hafner (Häfner), East German football midfielder, 1952-2016. Olympic gold 1976 and bronze 1972 with GDR; 58 caps; Dynamo Dresden 1971-1988, four DDR titles and cups; later coached Dynamo to the 1990 double.
Reinhard Heydrich
Reinhard Heydrich, the Butcher of Prague, was a high-ranking Nazi SS general and Gestapo chief who chaired the Wannsee Conference planning the Final Solution; Czech agents assassinated him in 1942.
Reinhard Hohlfeld
Reinhard Hohlfeld is a German neurologist and neuroimmunologist, professor at Munich University Hospital, known for research on the immunological mechanisms and treatment of multiple sclerosis.
Reinhard Jahn
Reinhard Jahn is a German biochemist and neurobiologist known for work on synaptic vesicles and SNARE proteins; he led the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen.
Reinhard Lauck
Reinhard Lauck (Mäcki/Mecki), 1946-1997, East German defensive midfielder; 33 GDR caps, 1974 World Cup win over West Germany, 1976 Olympic gold; Union Berlin and BFC Dynamo, GDR champion 1979 and 1980.
Reinhard Lipowsky
Reinhard Lipowsky is a German theoretical physicist known for research on membranes and molecular motors, a founding director of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.
Reinhard Lührmann
Reinhard Lührmann, born 1949 in Osnabrück, is a German biochemist known for his work on the spliceosome, the machine that removes introns from messenger RNA precursors.
Reinhard Mey
Reinhard Mey, born 1942, is a German Liedermacher in the French chanson tradition whose hallmark song 'Über den Wolken' has identified him for almost fifty years.
Reinhard Schinke
Reinhard Schinke is a German theoretical physicist who spent his career at Göttingen's Max Planck institutes, known for photodissociation dynamics, ozone theory, and the 1993 monograph Photodissociation Dynamics.
Reinhard Schneider
Reinhard Schneider (born 1968) is a German owner-manager and chief executive of Werner & Mertz in Mainz, the family firm behind the ecological Frosch cleaning brand.
Reinhard Selten
Reinhard Selten (1930–2016) was a German economist at the University of Bonn who shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for analyzing equilibria in non-cooperative games.
Reinhard Strohm
Reinhard Strohm, born in Munich in 1942, is a German musicologist who was Heather Professor of Music at Oxford and won the 2012 Balzan Prize in Musicology.
Reinhard Theimer
Reinhard Theimer (1948-2020), East German hammer thrower for Berliner TSC; two Olympics (7th 1968, 13th 1972), three European medals, and a 76.60 m world record set in Leipzig on 4 July 1974.
Reinhard Woltman
Reinhard Woltman (also spelled Woltmann), born 1757 and died 1837, was a German hydraulic engineer who directed all of Hamburg's water engineering and invented the Woltman Flügel current meter for measuring flow in open channels.
Reinhardt (Overwatch)
Reinhardt Wilhelm is a tank hero in Blizzard's Overwatch, a German armored knight with Rocket Hammer, Barrier Field, Charge, Fire Strike, and Earthshatter. An original launch hero, former Overwatch League staple, and Jeff Kaplan's favorite.
Reinhardt Schuhmann Jr.
Reinhardt Schuhmann Jr. (1914–1996) was an American extractive metallurgist and Purdue University professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976 and co-inventor of the QSL lead-smelting process.
Reinhardtius hippoglossoides
Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, the Greenland halibut, is a commercially important right-eyed flatfish of the North Atlantic, Arctic, and North Pacific Oceans, living in deep water down to 2,000 m.
Reinhart Ahlrichs
Reinhart Ahlrichs (1940–2016) was a German theoretical chemist and professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, best known as the founder of the TURBOMOLE quantum chemistry program package.
Reinheitsgebot
Reinheitsgebot, the German Beer Purity Law, originating in the 1516 Bavarian decree of Wilhelm IV limiting beer to barley, hops, and water; nationalized in 1906, codified in the Vorläufiges Biergesetz, and limited by a 1987 ECJ ruling on imports.
Reinhold Baer
Reinhold Baer (1902–1979) was a German mathematician who worked in group theory, abelian groups, geometry, and topology, giving his name to Baer's criterion, Baer groups, and Baer rings.
Reinhold Becker
Reinhold Becker (born 1959, Troisdorf) is a West German backstroke swimmer, SSF Bonn 1905; 20th in 100 m and 18th in 200 m backstroke at the 1976 Montréal Olympics, 1978 World medley relay silver (heats only).
Reinhold Benesch
Reinhold Benesch (1919–1986) was a Polish-born American biochemist, professor at Columbia University, best known for identifying 2,3-diphosphoglycerate as the molecule that regulates hemoglobin's oxygen affinity, working with his wife and collaborator Ruth Erica Benesch.
Reinhold Blumel
Reinhold Blumel, also written Reinhold Blümel, is a physicist and the Charlotte Augusta Ayres Professor at Wesleyan University, awarded a 2000 PECASE for quantum chaos research.
Reinhold Förster
Reinhold Förster is a German immunologist, professor and director of the Institute of Immunology at Hannover Medical School, known for work on chemokine receptors CCR7 and CXCR5.