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Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Wilhelm Josef Franz Leeb, German field marshal (1876–1956), Bavarian artillery officer; commanded Army Group C in 1940 and Army Group North at the siege of Leningrad 1941–42; lead defendant in the Nuremberg High Command trial.
Wilhelm Röntgen
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German physicist who discovered X-rays at the University of Würzburg in 1895, winning the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
Wilhelm Röpke
Wilhelm Röpke (1899–1966) was a German economist who taught in exile in Geneva and became an intellectual architect of West Germany's social market economy, the free-market order behind the postwar Wirtschaftswunder.
Wilhelm Roux
Wilhelm Roux (1850–1924) was a German zoologist and anatomist, a founder of experimental embryology known for the 1888 half-embryo experiment and the mosaic theory of development.
Wilhelm Schlenk
Wilhelm Johann Schlenk (1879–1943) was a German chemist who prepared the first organolithium compounds, discovered the first stable organic diradical, and invented the Schlenk line still used for air-sensitive chemicals.
Wilhelm scream
The Wilhelm scream is a stock male scream recorded in 1951 for Distant Drums, named after Private Wilhelm in The Charge at Feather River, revived by Ben Burtt in Star Wars and used in over 400 films.
Wilhelm Specht
Wilhelm Specht (1907–1985) was a German mathematician and professor at the University of Erlangen whose 1935 Specht modules provide the complete irreducible representations of the symmetric groups.
Wilhelm Steinitz
Wilhelm Steinitz (1836–1900), Bohemian-Austrian and later American chess master, first official World Chess Champion 1886–1894; beat Zukertort 12.5–7.5, defended against Chigorin and Gunsberg, lost to Lasker 1894; founder of the positional school.
Wilhelm Stepp
Wilhelm Stepp (1882–1964) was a German physician and internist whose 1909 lipoid-free diet experiments gave early evidence for fat-soluble vitamins, before the vitamin concept existed.
Wilhelm Stuckart
Wilhelm Stuckart (1902–1953), German lawyer and State Secretary in the Reich Interior Ministry from 1935; chief co-drafter of the 1935 Nuremberg Race Laws, Globke's co-commentator, Wannsee Conference participant advocating sterilization of Mischlinge, convicted at Nuremberg's Ministries Case, released with time served.
Wilhelm Ule
Wilhelm Ule, often Willi Ule (1861–1940), was a German geographer and limnologist who extended Forel's water-color scale in 1892 and founded the geographic institute at Rostock.
Wilhelm von Bezold
Wilhelm von Bezold (1837–1907) was a German physicist and meteorologist, professor at Berlin from 1885, known for the von Bezold color effect and as the creator of atmospheric thermodynamics.
Wilhelm von Homburg
Wilhelm von Homburg, stage name of Norbert Grupe (1940–2004), German boxer, wrestler, and actor; famous for his silent 1969 ZDF Sportstudio interview and as Vigo the Carpathian in Ghostbusters II, with his voice dubbed by Max von Sydow.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835), Prussian statesman, founder of the University of Berlin, and philosopher of language; his comparative linguistics (Basque, Sanskrit, Austronesian) founded linguistic relativity and modern language philosophy.
Wilhelm Wagenfeld
Wilhelm Wagenfeld (1900–1990) was a German industrial designer and silversmith who trained at the Bauhaus in Weimar and became known for its 1924 table lamp and mass-produced glassware.
Wilhelm Weinberg
Wilhelm Weinberg (1862–1937) was a German physician and obstetrician in Stuttgart who independently derived the Hardy–Weinberg genotype equilibrium in 1908, becoming a founder of population genetics.
Wilhelm Wien
Wilhelm Wien was a German physicist who won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discoveries on heat radiation, including the displacement law named for him.
Wilhelm Windisch
Wilhelm Windisch (1860–1944) was a German chemist and brewing scientist in Berlin who developed the Windisch–Kolbach unit for measuring malt's starch-converting enzyme strength, published with Paul Kolbach in 1925.
Wilhelm Wirtinger
Wilhelm Wirtinger (1865–1945) was an Austrian mathematician, professor at Innsbruck and then Vienna from 1903 to 1935, known for Wirtinger derivatives and the Wirtinger presentation of knot groups.
Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt was a German physiologist and psychologist who founded experimental psychology as a discipline, establishing the world's first institute of psychology at Leipzig in 1879.
Wilhelm Zaisser
Wilhelm Zaisser (1893–1958), German communist, Soviet GRU agent and Spanish Civil War brigadier general "General Gómez," was the GDR's first Minister for State Security (1950–1953), ousted after the 17 June 1953 uprising.
Wilhelm, German Crown Prince
Wilhelm von Preußen (1882–1951), German Crown Prince, eldest son of Kaiser Wilhelm II; commanded the 5th Army and Army Group Deutscher Kronprinz at Verdun, renounced the throne in 1918, returned 1923, and backed Hitler's 1932 rise.
Wilhelma
Wilhelma, the zoological-botanical garden of Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, is Germany's only combined zoo and botanical garden, founded as a Moorish-style royal park by King Wilhelm I, inaugurated 1846, a zoo since 1952, with 1,200 animal and 8,500 plant species.
Wilhelmina Bay
Wilhelmina Bay is a bay on the Danco Coast of the west Antarctic Peninsula, about 15 miles wide, known for humpback whales feeding on krill each autumn.
Wilhelmina Cooper
Wilhelmina Cooper (Gertrude Behmenburg, 1939-1980), Dutch-born model known as Wilhelmina, record Vogue cover model who co-founded Wilhelmina Models in New York in 1967 with husband Bruce Cooper.
Wilhelmina Geddes
Wilhelmina Geddes (1887–1955) was an Irish stained-glass artist of the Arts and Crafts movement, known for the Ottawa war memorial and Ypres Te Deum window.
Wilhelmina M. Wright
Wilhelmina M. Wright, born 1964, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Minnesota since 2016, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Wilhelmina Models
Wilhelmina Models, founded 1967 in New York by model Wilhelmina Cooper and Bruce Cooper, is a fashion model and talent agency with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and London, run by publicly traded Wilhelmina International (WHLM), organized into Women, Men, Direct, Curve, Showroom, and Fitness boards.
Wilhelmina Mountains
Wilhelmina Mountains (Wilhelminagebergte), mountain range in Sipaliwini District, central Suriname, culminating at Juliana Top, Suriname's highest point (1,230 or 1,280 m); discovered 1901, mostly within the Central Suriname Nature Reserve.
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
Wilhelmina (1880–1962), Queen of the Netherlands 1890–1948 under Emma's regency until 1898; wartime exile in London with Radio Oranje speeches; abdicated for Juliana; longest reigning Dutch monarch.