All articles starting with U

Ulrich Papke

Ulrich Papke (born 1962, Neuruppin) is a German flatwater canoeist who with Ingo Spelly won C2 1,000 m gold and C2 500 m silver at Barcelona 1992, plus 11 world championship medals.

Ulrich Pöschl

Ulrich Pöschl, born in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 1969, is an Austrian atmospheric chemist who leads the Multiphase Chemistry Department at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz.

Sep 19, 2026

Ulrich Prediger

Ulrich Prediger is a German entrepreneur and economist who co-founded JobRad in Freiburg in 2008, building it into the market leader in German company-bicycle leasing.

Ulrich R. Christensen

Ulrich R. Christensen, born 1954, is a German geophysicist known for scaling laws of planetary magnetic fields and directorship at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research.

Ulrich Robeiri (Ulrich Dimitri Robeiri, born 1982, Cayenne, Guyane), French right-handed épée fencer with Levallois SC; 2008 Olympic team épée champion, 2014 individual world champion, six-time world team champion, RATP engineer.

Sep 20, 2026

Ulrich S. Schubert

Ulrich S. Schubert, born 1969 in Tübingen, is a German polymer and supramolecular chemist, professor at Friedrich Schiller University Jena since 2007, known for an aqueous polymer redox-flow battery reported in Nature in 2015.

Ulrich Salchow

Ulrich Salchow (Karl Emil Julius Ulrich Salchow), Swedish figure skater born 1877 in Copenhagen, first Olympic figure skating champion (1908), 10-time World champion, ISU president 1925-37, namesake of the salchow jump.

Ulrich Schnaft

Ulrich Schnaft (אולריך שנפט), aka Gavriel Zusman, born 1923 in Königsberg: Waffen-SS soldier who posed as a Jewish refugee, became an IDF artillery officer, spied for Egypt, and was lured back to Israel and imprisoned in 1956.

Ulrich Schneider

Ulrich Schneider is a physicist working on ultracold atoms and quantum gases, Professor of Many-Body Physics at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory since 2021, known for observing the first two-dimensional Bose glass.

Oct 10, 2026

Ulrich Schöllkopf

Ulrich Schöllkopf (1927–1998) was a German organic chemist who coauthored the first phosphonium ylide olefination paper with Georg Wittig and developed the bis-lactim ether method for enantiopure amino acids.

Ulrich Schreck

Ulrich Schreck (Uli Schreck, born 1962) is a German foil fencer and coach: Olympic team gold 1992 and silver 1988, world team champion 1987, German champion 1991, and Germany's national foil coach who trained Benjamin Kleibrink and Peter Joppich.

Ulrich Siebenlist

Ulrich "Uli" Siebenlist (1951–2020) was a German-born American molecular immunologist who spent his career at NIAID in Bethesda, Maryland, known for cloning NF-κB family members and defining how IκB-α releases NF-κB.

Ulrich Siegmund

Ulrich Siegmund (born 1990, Havelberg) is a German AfD politician, Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt member since 2016 for Wahlkreis 05 Genthin, AfD parliamentary group co-chair since 2022, and lead candidate in the AfD's 2026 state election win (about 44 percent).

Ulrich Sigwart

Ulrich Sigwart (born 1941, Wuppertal) is a cardiologist who pioneered coronary stenting (Wallstent, first bailout implantation 1986) and invented alcohol septal ablation for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy; ESC Gold Medal 2025.

Ulrich Steidl

Ulrich Steidl is a physician-scientist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York who directs its cancer center and studies how pre-leukemic stem cells progress into leukemia.

Ulrich Tepaß

Ulrich Tepaß is a German-trained cell biologist and full professor at the University of Toronto who, working on the fruit fly, identified Crumbs, a protein linked to inherited blindness.

Ulrich von Hutten

Ulrich von Hutten (1488–1523), Franconian Imperial knight, neo-Latin poet and Reformation publicist; author of the second Epistolae obscurorum virorum, Arminius dialogues, and Morbus gallicus; died in exile on Ufenau.

Sep 20, 2026

Ulrich W. Paetzold

Ulrich W. Paetzold is a German physicist and professor of next generation photovoltaics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, known for reporting the first all-perovskite tandem solar module in 2022.

Ulrich Wehling

Ulrich Wehling (born 1952, Halle an der Saale), East German Nordic combined skier; won Olympic individual gold at 1972, 1976, and 1980 Winter Games, four world titles, later FIS Nordic combined director 1992-2012.

Oct 10, 2026

Ulrich Westphal

Ulrich Westphal (born 3 May 1910) was a biochemist who worked as Adolf Butenandt's assistant and co-authored the 1934 isolation of progesterone in chemically pure form.

Sep 20, 2026

Ulrich Wiesner

Ulrich Wiesner is a German-born materials chemist at Cornell University known for C'Dots, fluorescent silica nanoparticles used in the first FDA-approved clinical trial of an inorganic material as a drug.

Oct 10, 2026

Ulrich Wolf

Ulrich Wolf, born 1933 in Riesa, Saxony, is a German human geneticist who co-described Wolf–Hirschhorn syndrome in 1965 and held the Freiburg genetics chair from 1972 to 2001.

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (Ulrichsweb) is a serials bibliographic directory first published by R.R. Bowker in 1932, compiled by Carolyn Ulrich; now a ProQuest database covering about 383,000 serials with ISSN, publisher, indexing, and peer-review metadata.

Ulrichsberg

Ulrichsberg names several places in Austria and Germany: a 1,015 m archaeological mountain near Klagenfurt (Mons Carantanus), a market town in Upper Austria (first mentioned 1325), and hamlets in Kupferzell, Grafling, and Roßwein.

Ulrik Gether

Ulrik Gether is a Danish neuroscientist, Professor of Neuropharmacology at the University of Copenhagen since 2001, known for work on the dopamine transporter and G protein-coupled receptors.

Ulrik Lund Andersen

Ulrik L. Andersen is a quantum physicist and professor at the Technical University of Denmark who heads its quantum information group and works on continuous-variable quantum information and sensing.

Ulrika Jonsson

Ulrika Jonsson (Eva Ulrika Jonsson, born 1967, Sollentuna, Sweden) is a Swedish-British TV presenter: TV-am weather presenter 1989, ITV Gladiators host 1992-1999, Shooting Stars team captain, 1998 Eurovision co-host, 2009 Celebrity Big Brother winner.