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Torsten Brezesinski

Torsten Brezesinski is a materials scientist who leads battery research in the KIT/BASF joint laboratory BELLA at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, known for ordered mesoporous electrode materials.

Torsten Burmester

Torsten Burmester, born 1963, is a German SPD politician and former head of the German Olympic Sports Confederation who has served as Mayor of Cologne since 2025.

Torsten C. Schmidt

Torsten C. Schmidt, also known as Torsten Schmidt, is a German environmental chemist who has held the Instrumental Analytical Chemistry chair at Duisburg-Essen since 2006.

Torsten Carleman

Torsten Carleman (1892–1949) was a Swedish mathematician who worked in classical analysis, named the Carleman inequality, Denjoy–Carleman theorem, Carleman estimates, and Carleman linearization, and directed the Mittag-Leffler Institute.

Torsten Frings

Torsten Frings (born 1976, Würselen) is a German former defensive midfielder and coach; 79 caps for Germany, 2002 World Cup runner-up, Bundesliga 2005 with Bayern, Werder Bremen captain, later Darmstadt and Meppen head coach.

Torsten Gutsche

Torsten Gutsche (Torsten René Gutsche), born 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt, German sprint canoeist; with Kay Bluhm won three Olympic K2 golds and one silver (1992, 1996) and 11 world titles.

Torsten Hellman

Torsten Hellman (Torsten J:son Hellman, 1878–1944) was a Swedish anatomist and histologist, professor at Lund University, whose reaction-center hypothesis on lymphatic follicles prevailed over the doctrine that they produce lymphocytes.

Torsten Lindberg

Torsten Lindberg (1917–2009), Swedish goalkeeper, Olympic gold 1948 with Sweden, six Swedish titles with IFK Norrköping, later national team coach and Djurgården champion coach, Hall of Fame 2023.

Torsten May

Torsten May, German boxer born 1969 in Glauchau, 1992 Olympic light-heavyweight gold medalist and 1991 world amateur champion; later IBF cruiserweight title challenger and Cologne boxing coach.

Torsten O. Nielsen

Torsten O. Nielsen is a Canadian pathologist and full professor at the University of British Columbia known for molecular sarcoma diagnostics and co-inventing the FDA-cleared PAM50 breast cancer test.

Torsten Persson

Torsten Persson, born 1954 in Stockholm, is a Swedish economist at Stockholm University whose work with Guido Tabellini helped establish political economy as a subdiscipline.

Torsten Reil

Torsten Reil is a German entrepreneur who co-founded the defense AI company Helsing and earlier founded the games studio NaturalMotion, sold to Zynga in 2014.

Torsten Schwede

Torsten Schwede is a German-Swiss structural bioinformatician and professor at the University of Basel, known for developing SWISS-MODEL and president of the SNSF Research Council since 2025.

Torsten Thunberg

Torsten Thunberg (1873–1952) was a Swedish physiologist who held the chair at Lund University from 1905 to 1938 and pioneered the study of biological oxidation through dehydrogenases.

Torsten Ullman

Torsten Ullman (Torsten Elis Ullman, 1908–1993), Swedish pistol shooter; won 1936 Berlin Olympic gold in 50 m free pistol with world-record 559, bronzes in 1936 rapid-fire and 1948 free pistol, five Olympics, nine world titles.

Torsten Wiesel

Torsten Nils Wiesel is a Swedish-born neuroscientist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with David Hubel for discoveries about processing in the visual system.

Torstenson War

Torstenson War (Torstenssonfejden, Torstenssons krig), 1643–1645 Danish-Swedish conflict within the Thirty Years' War. Lennart Torstensson invaded Denmark without declaration; naval defeats at Kolberger Heide and Fehmarn forced the Peace of Brömsebro, ceding Gotland, Ösel, Jämtland, Härjedalen, and Halland.

Tort

A tort is a civil wrong, an act or omission causing injury or harm to another for which courts impose liability, chiefly through monetary damages.

Tort law of Japan

The tort law of Japan, based on Articles 709 to 724 of the Civil Code, makes a person who negligently infringes another's rights compensate the damage.

Tort law of South Korea

The tort law of South Korea requires a person who willfully or negligently injures another to compensate the damages, governed by Articles 750 to 766 of the Korean Civil Act.

Tort Liability Law of the People's Republic of China

The Tort Liability Law of the People's Republic of China, or Tort Law, was the PRC's first comprehensive tort code, enacted in 2009 and effective 2010.

Torta

Torta: a Mexican sandwich on a bolillo or telera roll filled with meats, cheese, avocado, and chile; also Spanish for cake or pie, Italian for a round cake, and Portuguese for pie. Regional styles include cemitas, guacamayas, and tortas ahogadas.

Tortellini

Tortellini: small ring-shaped stuffed egg pasta from Bologna and Modena in Emilia-Romagna, filled with pork loin, mortadella, prosciutto, Parmigiano and nutmeg, served in broth; official recipe registered in Bologna in 1974, distinct from larger cappelletti.

Tortelosa Montes

Tortelosa Montes is a 294-km mountain range on Saturn's moon Iapetus, approved by the IAU in 2008 and named after a Spanish town ruled by Count Turgis in The Song of Roland; it sits on Iapetus's equatorial ridge.

Torticollis

Torticollis, or wry neck, is a condition in which neck muscles cause the head to tilt or rotate. Most common form is congenital muscular torticollis from sternocleidomastoid shortening, treated with early physical therapy, botulinum toxin, or surgery.

Tortilla

Tortilla: thin round flatbread of Mexican cuisine, corn (nixtamalized masa) or wheat flour; staple since after 300 BCE, base of tacos and burritos, now folic-acid fortified in California.

Tortilla chips

Tortilla chips: fried triangular snacks made from nixtamalized corn masa, popularized by Rebecca Webb Carranza in 1940s Los Angeles; base of nachos, a $2.5 billion U.S. retail category led by Frito-Lay.

Tortilla Flat

Tortilla Flat is a 1935 novel by John Steinbeck portraying paisano drifters in a hillside district above Monterey, California, after World War I, his first successful novel.

Tortious interference

Tortious interference, or intentional interference with contractual relations, is a common law tort covering wrongful interference with contracts or business expectancies, split by the 2020 Third Restatement into contract and economic-expectation torts with distinct elements.

Tortkuduk and Muyunkuduk Mines

The Tortkuduk and Muyunkum (Moinkum) mines are adjacent uranium operations in southern Kazakhstan worked by in-situ recovery and operated by KATCO, a Kazakh-French joint venture created in 1996.