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Wilhelm (lunar crater)
Wilhelm is a 100.83-km-wide impact crater on the Moon's southern near side at 43.21°S, 20.94°W, IAU-named in 1935 for astronomer Wilhelm IV, Landgrave of Hesse, with satellite craters Wilhelm A through Z.
Wilhelm Ackermann
Wilhelm Ackermann (1896–1962) was a German mathematician and logician of the Hilbert school, best known for the Ackermann function, a computable function that is not primitive recursive.
Wilhelm August Paul Schüffner
Wilhelm August Paul Schüffner (1867–1949) was a German-born Dutch malariologist and professor of tropical hygiene at the University of Amsterdam, known for Schüffner's dots, the red stippling in red cells infected with Plasmodium vivax.
Wilhelm Baldensperger
Wilhelm Baldensperger (1856–1936) was an Alsatian Protestant theologian and New Testament scholar whose 1888 book argued that Jesus saw himself as the apocalyptic Son of Man.
Wilhelm Barthlott
Wilhelm Barthlott (born 1946) is a German botanist at Bonn who discovered the lotus effect of self-cleaning superhydrophobic plant surfaces (1997, with Neinhuis) and the Salvinia effect of underwater air retention (2010).
Wilhelm Batz
Wilhelm Batz, known as Willi Batz, was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace credited with 237 aerial victories in World War II, mostly on the Eastern Front.
Wilhelm Baumann
Wilhelm Baumann (12 August 1912, Berlin – 14 March 1990) was a German field handball player of SC Charlottenburg who won gold with Germany at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the only Games with Olympic field handball, scoring six goals against Switzerland.
Wilhelm Blaschke
Wilhelm Blaschke (1885–1962) was an Austrian mathematician and geometer who spent most of his career at the University of Hamburg, shaping integral geometry, affine differential geometry, and convex geometry.
Wilhelm Bousset
Wilhelm Bousset (1865–1920) was a German New Testament scholar and leading figure of the Göttingen history-of-religions school, whose Kyrios Christos (1913) shaped the study of early Christian veneration of Jesus.
Wilhelm Brandt
Wilhelm Brandt (1855–1915) was a Dutch Reformed minister and New Testament scholar, professor at the University of Amsterdam from 1893, known for his 1893 study of the Passion and Resurrection and for work on Jewish baptism.
Wilhelm Burgdorf
Wilhelm Emanuel Burgdorf (1895–1945), German General der Infanterie, Hitler's Wehrmacht chief adjutant and Chief of the Army Personnel Office; forced Rommel's suicide, witnessed Hitler's testament, died by suicide in the Führerbunker.
Wilhelm Burgdorfer
Wilhelm "Willy" Burgdorfer was a Swiss-born medical entomologist at the NIAID Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, who in 1981 discovered the spirochete causing Lyme disease, named Borrelia burgdorferi in his honor.
Wilhelm Busch
Wilhelm Busch (1832–1908), German humorist poet, draftsman, and painter, creator of Max und Moritz (1865) and precursor of the modern comic; also wrote Die fromme Helene and Eduards Traum.
Wilhelm Camerer
Wilhelm Camerer (1842–1910) was a German physician and physiologist who, as a district medical officer in Württemberg, produced foundational data on infant feeding and childhood metabolism.
Wilhelm Canaris
Wilhelm Franz Canaris (1887–1945), German admiral and chief of the Abwehr, the Wehrmacht military intelligence service, 1935–1944; from 1938 a center of the conservative resistance with Hans Oster; executed at Flossenbürg, 9 April 1945.
Wilhelm Dilthey
Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911), German philosopher of the Geisteswissenschaften; author of Introduction to the Human Sciences (1883); distinguished Verstehen (understanding) from Erklären (explanation) and projected a Critique of Historical Reason.
Wilhelm Dörpfeld
Wilhelm Dörpfeld was a German architect and archaeologist, a pioneer of stratigraphic excavation who worked at Olympia and Pergamon, took over the Troy excavations, and directed the German Archaeological Institute in Athens.
Wilhelm Eduard Weber
Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804–1891) was a German physicist who, with Carl Friedrich Gauss, built the first electromagnetic telegraph in 1833 and named the SI unit of magnetic flux.
Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler
Wilhelm Emmanuel Freiherr von Ketteler was a German Catholic bishop of Mainz from 1850 to 1877 whose social program influenced Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum.
Wilhelm Frick
Wilhelm Frick (1877–1946), German Nazi politician and lawyer; Reich Minister of the Interior 1933–1943, Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia 1943–1945; author of Gleichschaltung and Nuremberg Laws; executed at Nuremberg. Not the Frick art collection.
Wilhelm Fuhrmann
Wilhelm Ferdinand Fuhrmann (1833–1904) was a German mathematician and secondary-school teacher in Königsberg who introduced the Fuhrmann triangle and Fuhrmann circle in an 1890 paper.
Wilhelm Geilmann
Wilhelm Geilmann (1891–1967) was a German analytical and inorganic chemist who taught at Hannover and the University of Mainz and became known for microchemical and trace-analysis methods, above all evaporation analysis.
Wilhelm Gruissem
Wilhelm Gruissem is a German plant molecular biologist, professor of plant biotechnology at ETH Zurich from 2000 to 2022, known for chloroplast gene expression and cassava research.
Wilhelm Guschlbauer
Wilhelm Guschlbauer, born in Paris in 1932, is a molecular biologist and nucleic-acid chemist known for work on triple- and four-stranded DNA structures and the Dam methylase of E. coli.
Wilhelm Gustloff
Wilhelm Gustloff (1895–1936), NSDAP Landesgruppenleiter in Switzerland, assassinated in Davos by David Frankfurter in 1936, stylized as a Nazi "blood witness"; the KdF ship named for him sank in 1945 killing about 9,343.
Wilhelm Hallwachs
Wilhelm Hallwachs, also known as Wilhelm Ludwig Franz Hallwachs, was a German experimental physicist who in 1888 demonstrated that ultraviolet light discharges negatively charged bodies, the photoelectric effect.
Wilhelm Heinrich Erb
Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (1840–1921) was a German neurologist, often called the founding father of German neurology, known for Erb's palsy, electrodiagnosis, the knee jerk, and linking tabes to syphilis.
Wilhelm Heinrich Erbkam
Wilhelm Heinrich Erbkam (1810–1884) was a German Protestant theologian who taught church history at the University of Königsberg from 1847 and traced Anabaptism to Christian mysticism.
Wilhelm His (cardiologist)
Wilhelm His Jr. was a Swiss-born cardiologist who worked in Germany and in 1893 gave the first description of the heart's atrioventricular bundle, now named the bundle of His.
Wilhelm Huck
Wilhelm T. S. Huck (born 1970) is a physical organic chemist and professor at Radboud University Nijmegen, known for droplet microfluidics, out-of-equilibrium reaction networks, and building a synthetic cell.