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Rainer Blatt
Rainer Blatt, born 1952, is a German-Austrian experimental physicist whose Innsbruck team first teleported an atom's quantum state and created a quantum byte of entangled atoms.
Rainer Friedrich
Rainer W. Friedrich is a Swiss-based systems neuroscientist, a Senior Group Leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel since 2007 who studies olfactory memory in zebrafish.
Rainer Haag
Rainer Haag, born 1968, is a German organic and macromolecular chemist, chair professor at Freie Universität Berlin since 2004, known for dendritic polyglycerol-based antiviral nanoinhibitors and multivalency research.
Rainer Hambrecht
Rainer Hambrecht (born 1961) is a German cardiologist who directs cardiology at Klinikum Links der Weser, Bremen, and led trials showing exercise training restores endothelial function.
Rainer Hedrich
Rainer Hedrich is a German plant biophysicist who introduced the patch-clamp technique into plant science and led the University of Würzburg's molecular plant physiology chair.
Rainer Henkel
Rainer Henkel (born 1964), West German freestyle swimmer, SV Rhenania Köln; 1986 world champion at 400 m and 1,500 m, 1987 European champion, Olympic relay silver 1984 and bronze 1988, 4x200 m relay world record 7:13.10.
Rainer Herges
Rainer Herges (born 1955 in St. Ingbert) is a German organic chemist and professor at Kiel University, known for computer-aided reaction planning and the first stable Möbius aromatic hydrocarbon.
Rainer Hillenbrand
Rainer Hillenbrand is a German physicist working in nanooptics who co-developed s-SNOM and nano-FTIR, leads the Nanooptics Group at CIC nanoGUNE in San Sebastián, Spain, and co-founded Neaspec GmbH.
Rainer Hoft
Rainer Hoft (Rainer Höft), born 1956 in Berlin, East German handball left wing; 96 caps, 169 goals; 1980 Moscow Olympic gold (23-22 OT vs USSR), 1978 World bronze; later a Berlin tax consultant.
Rainer K. Sachs
Rainer K. Sachs (1932–2024) was a German-American mathematical physicist at Berkeley, known for the Sachs–Wolfe effect in cosmology and models of radiation damage to DNA.
Rainer Lohmann
Rainer Lohmann is a German-trained marine chemist, professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island since 2004, known for passive sampling of pollutants and PFAS.
Rainer Ludwig Claisen
Rainer Ludwig Claisen (1851–1930) was a German organic chemist, trained under Kekulé, known for the Claisen condensation and the Claisen rearrangement, the first recorded [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement.
Rainer Maerkle
Rainer Märkle is a venture capitalist and General Partner at HV Capital, where since 2008 he has led seed investments in Zalando and HelloFresh, both of which went public.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), Bohemian-Austrian poet born René in Prague, died in Montreux; author of the Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, and Malte Laurids Brigge, mentored by Lou Andreas-Salomé and Rodin.
Rainer Renkawitz
Rainer Renkawitz is a molecular biologist known for work on gene regulation by nuclear receptors and chromatin insulators, holding the Genetics chair at Giessen from 1991 to 2016.
Rainer Schödel
Rainer Schödel is a German astronomer who, as a PhD student at MPE Garching, was first author of the 2002 Nature paper tracing star S2's orbit around the Milky Way's central black hole.
Rainer Schüttler
Rainer Schüttler (born 1976, Korbach) is a retired German tennis player, 2003 Australian Open runner-up to Agassi, 2008 Wimbledon semifinalist, 2004 Olympic doubles silver medalist, career-high No. 5, later German Billie Jean King Cup captain.
Rainer Seifert
Rainer Seifert (born 1947, Wiesbaden) is a German field hockey player, 1972 Munich Olympic gold medalist with West Germany; 122 caps 1969-80, Rüsselsheimer RK, World bronze 1973/1975, Euro gold 1978; distinct from the FDP politician and painter of the same name.
Rainer Storb
Rainer Storb is a hematologist who joined E. Donnall Thomas's Seattle transplant program in 1965 and helped establish allogeneic stem cell transplantation as a cure for leukemia and aplastic anemia.
Rainer Waser
Rainer Waser (born 1955 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German materials scientist at RWTH Aachen known for work on redox-based resistive switching and memristive devices.
Rainer Weber
Rainer Weber (born 1955) is a Swiss infectious-diseases physician-scientist who led the Clinic for Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology at University Hospital Zurich from 1997 to 2020.
Rainer Weiss
Rainer Weiss (1932–2025) was an American experimental physicist at MIT who conceived the laser interferometer that became LIGO and shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for detecting gravitational waves.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982), German director, screenwriter, actor, and producer; central figure of the New German Cinema who made 44 films, the BRD trilogy, and Berlin Alexanderplatz before dying at 37.
Rainer Zahn
Rainer Zahn is a paleoceanographer at ICREA and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona who studies how past ocean circulation shaped climate, leading a 2010 Nature study on reversed glacial Atlantic flow.
Rainey Bethea
Rainey Bethea (c. 1909 – 1936), Black man hanged August 14, 1936 in Owensboro, Kentucky for the rape of Lischia Edwards; widely recognized as the last public execution in the United States, before roughly 10,000 to 20,000 spectators.
Rainey Qualley
Rainey Qualley, known musically as Rainsford (her birth name), is an American actress and singer-songwriter, daughter of Andie MacDowell, sister of Margaret Qualley; debut in Mighty Fine (2012), country EP Turn Down the Lights, then pop as Rainsford, album Before Blue (2025).
Rainfall simulation
Rainfall simulation is an experimental method that applies artificial rain of controlled intensity and drop size to plots, measuring runoff, infiltration, and erosion since the 1930s.
Rainflow-counting algorithm
The rainflow-counting algorithm is a fatigue analysis method that converts an irregular load history into discrete cycles with ranges and means, introduced by Matsuishi and Endo in 1968.
Rainforest
Rainforest: dense evergreen forest with high rainfall, tropical and temperate types, holding over half of Earth's species on 2–6% of land; four layers, Amazon largest, threatened by deforestation, fire, and climate change.
Rainforest Alliance
Rainforest Alliance: international nonprofit (founded 1986 by Daniel Katz) running the green-frog sustainable agriculture certification for coffee, cocoa, tea, and bananas in 60+ countries; merged with UTZ in 2018; standard v1.4 applies from October 2025.