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Wilhelm II Coast
Wilhelm II Coast, also known as Kaiser-Wilhelm-II.-Land, is a coast of East Antarctica between Cape Penck and Cape Filchner, discovered by the 1901–03 German expedition.
Wilhelm II, German Emperor
Wilhelm II, last German Emperor and King of Prussia (reigned June 1888 to November 1918), dismissed Bismarck, pursued Weltpolitik and naval expansion, issued the 1914 blank cheque, and died in Dutch exile in 1941.
Wilhelm Johannsen
Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen (1857–1927) was a Danish plant physiologist who coined the word "gene" in 1909 and founded the genotype-phenotype distinction through pure-line bean experiments.
Wilhelm Julius Foerster
Wilhelm Julius Foerster (1832–1921) was a German astronomer who directed the Berlin Observatory from 1865 to 1903, co-discovered asteroid (62) Erato, and led Germany's adoption of the metric system.
Wilhelm Julius Mangold
Wilhelm Julius Mangold (1825–1890) was a German liberal Protestant theologian who taught at Marburg from 1857 and Bonn from 1872, known for studies of Romans.
Wilhelm Keitel
Wilhelm Keitel (1882–1946), German field marshal and chief of the OKW from 1938; issued the Commissar Order and Night and Fog Decree; signed the Karlshorst surrender; convicted on all four Nuremberg counts and hanged in 1946.
Wilhelm Kiesselbach
Wilhelm Kiesselbach (1839–1902) was a German ear, nose, and throat physician who spent his career at Erlangen; Kiesselbach's plexus, the source of most nosebleeds, is named for him.
Wilhelm Killing
Wilhelm Killing (1847–1923) was a German mathematician who independently introduced Lie algebras and in 1887 classified the finite-dimensional simple ones over the complex numbers, also working on non-Euclidean geometry.
Wilhelm Kolle
Wilhelm Kolle was a German bacteriologist who trained under Robert Koch, founded cholera protective vaccination, and succeeded Paul Ehrlich as director of two Frankfurt research institutes.
Wilhelm Krause
Wilhelm Krause (1833–1910) was a German anatomist, professor at Göttingen and later Berlin, who first described the encapsulated sensory nerve endings known as Krause end bulbs.
Wilhelm Krek
Wilhelm Krek (1962–2018) was an Austrian-born molecular biologist, professor of cell biology at ETH Zurich from 2003, known for work on E2F-1 and cancer metabolism.
Wilhelm Küchelbecker
Wilhelm Küchelbecker (Вильгельм Кюхельбекер) was a Russian poet and playwright of German descent, a classmate of Pushkin who took part in the Decembrist uprising of 1825 and died in Siberian exile in 1846.
Wilhelm Lamormaini
Wilhelm Lamormaini was a Luxembourg-born Jesuit who served as confessor to Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II from 1624, championed the Edict of Restitution, and founded at least seventeen Jesuit colleges.
Wilhelm Lehmann
Wilhelm Lehmann (1882–1968) was a German poet, novelist, and essayist, born in Venezuela, who won the Kleist Prize in 1923 and shaped younger poets like Günter Eich.
Wilhelm Lenz
Wilhelm Lenz (1888–1957) was a German theoretical physicist who proposed the Ising model of magnetism in 1920 and led theoretical physics at the University of Hamburg from 1921 to 1956.
Wilhelm Lexis
Wilhelm Lexis (1837–1914) was a German statistician and economist known for the Lexis diagram and the Lexis ratio, who taught at Göttingen from 1887 until his death in 1914.
Wilhelm Lindemann
Wilhelm Lindemann (1828–1879) was a German Catholic priest and literary historian whose Geschichte der deutschen Literatur (1866) was the first Catholic history of German literature.
Wilhelm List
Wilhelm List (Siegmund Wilhelm Walther List, 1880-1971), German field marshal who commanded the 14th and 12th Armies and Army Group A in WWII and received life imprisonment at the 1947-48 Hostages Trial in Nuremberg.
Wilhelm Magnus
Wilhelm Magnus (1907–1990) was a German-born American mathematician who created the theory of one-relator groups, proved the Freiheitssatz and the decidability of their word problem, and coauthored the standard textbook Combinatorial group theory.
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre) is a novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published in 1795/96 and widely treated as the founding, paradigmatic Bildungsroman.
Wilhelm Meyer (German philologist)
Wilhelm Meyer (1845–1917) was a German classical philologist and medievalist, recorded as a co-founder of medieval Latin philology, who held the Göttingen chair from 1886.
Wilhelm Mohnke
Wilhelm Mohnke (1911–2001), Waffen-SS general and original member of Hitler's SS bodyguard; commanded the Leibstandarte in the Ardennes and Berlin's government quarter in 1945; investigated but never tried for the Wormhoudt, Normandy, and Malmedy POW killings.
Wilhelm Molitor
Wilhelm Molitor (1819–1880) was a German Catholic priest, poet, novelist, and canonist of the Rhine Palatinate, known for the Marian hymn "O Königin voll Herrlichkeit" and the "Domlieder".
Wilhelm Ostwald
Wilhelm Ostwald, also called Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald, was a Russian-born German chemist who won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on catalysis, chemical equilibria, and reaction velocities.
Wilhelm Pfeffer
Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845–1920) was a German botanist and plant physiologist, ranked with Julius Sachs as a founder of modern plant physiology, and professor of botany at Leipzig.
Wilhelm Pieck
Wilhelm Pieck (Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck, 1876–1960), German communist politician, KPD co-founder and exile chairman, SED co-chairman with Otto Grotewohl 1946–1954, and first President of the GDR 1949–1960.
Wilhelm Raabe
Wilhelm Raabe, who debuted as Jakob Corvinus with Die Chronik der Sperlingsgasse in 1856, was a German novelist of poetic realism ranked with Fontane and Storm.
Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize
The Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize (Wilhelm Raabe-Literaturpreis) is an annual German literary award worth 30,000 euros, given by Braunschweig and Deutschlandfunk for a narrative work in German.
Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), Austrian psychoanalyst and physician, Freud pupil, creator of character analysis and vegetotherapy, sex-pol activist, and originator of the pseudoscientific orgone energy theory and orgone accumulator, died in US federal prison after an FDA case.
Wilhelm Reublin
Wilhelm Reublin, a Swabian former Catholic priest, was a founding figure of Swiss Anabaptism, first preaching against infant baptism in Zürich and winning Waldshut in 1525.