All articles starting with U

Uvs Nuur Basin

Uvs (Uvs Nuur Basin, Ubsunur Hollow) is a transboundary Central Asian lake basin on the Mongolia–Russia (Tuva) border around saline Lake Uvs Nuur; UNESCO World Heritage site since 2003, 12 components, 898,064 ha, snow leopard and argali habitat.

Uvs Nuur Basin Biosphere Reserve

The Uvs Nuur Basin Biosphere Reserve (Mongolian: Увс нуурын хотгор) is a UNESCO biosphere reserve designated in 1997 in western Mongolia, protecting the southern Uvs Nuur Basin.

Uvula

Uvula (palatine uvula), the teardrop of tissue hanging from the soft palate; secretes saliva, seals the nasopharynx during swallowing, aids gag reflex and uvular speech sounds; found only in humans.

Sep 29, 2026

Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty

Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP) is an operation removing excess tissue from the uvula, soft palate, and pharynx, plus the tonsils, to treat snoring and obstructive sleep apnea.

UW–Milwaukee Panther Arena

UW–Milwaukee Panther Arena, also known as the MECCA, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Milwaukee, opened in 1950 and home of the Milwaukee Bucks from 1968 to 1988.

Oct 22, 2026

Uways al-Barawi

Uways al-Barawi (Arabic: أُوَيس البَراوي) was a Somali Sufi scholar from Brava who led the Qadiriya in East Africa and founded the Uwesiya branch, killed in 1909.

Sep 23, 2026

Uways I

Uways I (اویس جلایر), also known as Shaykh Uways, was the first sultan of the Jalayirid dynasty, reigning 1356 to 1374, conquering Azerbaijan and Tabriz and patronizing the arts.

Uwe Ampler

Uwe Ampler (born 1964, Zerbst) is a German former road cyclist for East Germany: 1986 amateur world champion, 1988 Olympic team time trial gold medalist, and four-time Peace Race winner (1987-1989, 1998).

Uwe Benter

Uwe Benter (born 1955) is a German coxswain who steered West Germany's coxed four to Olympic gold in München in 1972, its only rowing gold there.

Uwe Boll

Uwe Boll, German director born 1965 in Wermelskirchen, known for poorly received video game adaptations (House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, BloodRayne, Postal), German tax-shelter financing, boxing his critics, and the 2026 film Citizen Vigilante.

Uwe Daßler

Uwe Daßler (born 1967) is a German former swimmer for East Germany, 1988 Seoul Olympic champion in the 400 m freestyle at world record 3:46.95, with relay silver and 1500 m bronze; later a finance executive.

Uwe Drescher

Uwe Drescher, born 1959, is a German molecular neurobiologist and professor at King's College London known for purifying ephrinA5 and showing Eph/ephrin signaling guides retinal axons.

Oct 20, 2026

Uwe Dühring

Uwe Dühring (born 1955, Berlin), East German rower with SC Dynamo Berlin; gold in the men's eights at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, 1978 world champion, Youth World golds 1972 and 1973.

Oct 10, 2026

Uwe Essmann

Uwe Essmann is a physicist who, with H. Träuble, took the first pictures of the Abrikosov vortex lattice in 1967 using magnetic decoration at the Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung in Stuttgart.

Sep 20, 2026

Uwe H. F. Bunz

Uwe H. F. Bunz is a German materials chemist known for work on conjugated polymers and fluorescent chemosensors, and a professor of organic chemistry at Heidelberg University since 2010.

Uwe Heppner

Uwe Heppner (born 1960 in Merseburg) is a German former rower who won Olympic gold for East Germany in the 1980 quadruple sculls and four world titles.

Uwe Hohn

Uwe Hohn, East German javelin thrower (born Neuruppin), threw 104.80 m in Berlin on 20 July 1984, the first man past 100 m; the 1986 javelin redesign reset records, making his mark an eternal world record.

Uwe Jens Mey

Uwe-Jens Mey (born 1963, Warsaw) is a German speed skater, Olympic 500 m champion at Calgary 1988 for East Germany and Albertville 1992 for reunited Germany, with 1,000 m silver in 1988.

Oct 22, 2026

Uwe Johnson

Uwe Johnson (1934–1984) was a German novelist, translator, and editor who made the division of Germany his central subject; his four-volume Jahrestage (1970–1983) is a major twentieth-century German novel.

Uwe Manthe

Uwe Manthe is a German theoretical chemist and professor at Bielefeld University known for work on quantum dynamics of chemical reactions and the MCTDH method.

Uwe Ohler

Uwe Ohler is a German computer scientist and computational biologist who studies gene regulation with machine learning, holding professorships in Berlin and an adjunct post at Duke.

Uwe Peschel

Uwe Peschel, born 1968 in East Berlin, German road cyclist; son of Axel Peschel; won 1992 Barcelona Olympic gold in the 100 km team time trial, later a Gerolsteiner time-trial specialist and Katusha sports director.

Uwe Platzbecker

Uwe Platzbecker (born 1970 in Dresden) is a German hematologist who led the APL0406 and MEDALIST trials in acute promyelocytic leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes, and directs university hospitals in Leipzig and Dresden.

Uwe Potteck

Uwe Potteck (born 1955, Wittenberge) is a German sports shooter; East Germany's surprise 1976 Montreal Olympic free pistol champion with 573, later 1991 air pistol world champion and brother of Jens Potteck.

Uwe Proske

Uwe Proske (born 1961, Löbau) is a retired German épée fencer, formerly East Germany's best, who won team épée gold for unified Germany at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics after a 34th-place individual finish in Seoul 1988.

Uwe Richard Kortshagen

Uwe Richard Kortshagen is a German-born mechanical engineer and physicist at the University of Minnesota who pioneered nonthermal plasma synthesis of quantum dots and semiconductor nanocrystals.

Uwe Rösler

Uwe Rösler is a German football manager and former forward, born in Altenburg in 1968, who has been head coach of VfL Bochum since October 2025.

Uwe Sauer

Uwe Sauer (born 1963 in Kassel, Germany) is a German microbiologist and systems biologist, Full Professor for Systems Biology at ETH Zurich, known for 13C metabolic flux analysis.