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Wolfe Tone
Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–1798), Irish Protestant lawyer and pamphleteer, co-founded the Society of United Irishmen in 1791, sought French invasion support for an Irish republic, and died in 1798 after a death sentence.
Wolfen
Wolfen is a 1981 American horror film directed by Michael Wadleigh, based on Whitley Strieber's novel The Wolfen, in which a New York detective uncovers intelligent wolf-like predators.
Wolfenstein
Wolfenstein is a video game franchise of World War II and alternate-history shooters, begun with 1981's Castle Wolfenstein and defined by 1992's Wolfenstein 3D, now produced by MachineGames.
Wolfenstein (2009 video game)
Wolfenstein (2009) is a first-person shooter by Raven Software and Activision, set in Isenstadt, featuring the Thule Medallion and Veil powers, delisted in 2014.
Wolfenstein 3D
Wolfenstein 3D (Wolf3D) is id Software's 1992 shareware first-person shooter published by Apogee, starring B.J. Blazkowicz escaping a Nazi castle; its raycasting engine, episodic model, and 1995 source release founded the modern FPS genre.
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is a 2017 first-person shooter by MachineGames and Bethesda, a direct sequel to Wolfenstein: The New Order set in a Nazi-occupied 1960s America.
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Wolfenstein: The New Order is a 2014 MachineGames first-person shooter, published by Bethesda, rebooting the series in an alternate 1960s where Nazi Germany won WWII; B.J. Blazkowicz fights the Reich, with a Fergus/Wyatt choice and Metacritic 81.
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood (2015) is MachineGames' standalone prequel to Wolfenstein: The New Order, set in 1946, a Return to Castle Wolfenstein homage released May 5, 2015, scoring 76-78 with critics.
Wolfenstein: Youngblood
Wolfenstein: Youngblood is a 2019 co-op first-person shooter by MachineGames and Arkane Studios, set in 1980s Nazi-occupied Paris, starring BJ Blazkowicz's twin daughters; Metascore 69 on PC, user score 2.6.
Wolff algorithm
The Wolff algorithm is a Monte Carlo method for lattice spin models that grows and flips a cluster of aligned spins, devised by Ulli Wolff in 1989.
Wolff Real Estate Partners
Wolff Real Estate Partners is a series of closed-ended real estate funds raised by The Wolff Company, a Scottsdale, Arizona firm focused on value-add multifamily and senior housing.
Wolff rearrangement
The Wolff rearrangement, discovered by Ludwig Wolff in 1902, converts α-diazo ketones into ketenes with loss of nitrogen, enabling one-carbon homologation of carboxylic acids and ring contraction.
Wolff–Kishner reduction
The Wolff–Kishner reduction is an organic reaction converting aldehydes and ketones to hydrocarbons by heating their hydrazones with base, discovered independently by Kishner and Wolff in 1911 and 1912.
Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome
Wolff–Parkinson–White (WPW) syndrome, or pre-excitation syndrome, a congenital cardiac conduction disorder with an accessory pathway bypassing the AV node, causing delta waves and tachycardia; treated mainly by catheter ablation.
Wolff's law
Wolff's law is the principle, formulated by German anatomist Julius Wolff in 1892, that living bone strengthens under stress and is lost where loading is reduced.
Wolfgang A. Herrmann
Wolfgang A. Herrmann (born 1948) is a German inorganic chemist known for methyltrioxorhenium catalysis and N-heterocyclic carbene ligands, and for serving 24 years as president of the Technical University of Munich.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus (Amadé) Mozart, Austrian Classical composer born Salzburg 27 January 1756, died Vienna 5 December 1791; over 600 works catalogued by Köchel, 22 operas including Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte.
Wolfgang Ambros
Wolfgang Ambros, born 1952 in Wolfsgraben, Austria, is a Viennese-dialect singer-songwriter and pioneer of Austropop, known for 'Schifoan', 'Da Hofa', and 'Es lebe der Zentralfriedhof'.
Wolfgang Baumeister
Wolfgang Baumeister, born 1946 in Germany, is a structural biologist and biophysicist who developed cryo-electron tomography and led proteasome structural research at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.
Wolfgang Baumgart
Wolfgang Baumgart (1949-2011), German field hockey player for West Germany; 65 caps 1968-73, Olympic gold 1972 Munich, fourth 1968; SC Frankfurt 1880 club champion. Not the athlete Baum, Wolfgang (b. 1963).
Wolfgang Beermann
Wolfgang Beermann (1921–2000) was a German developmental geneticist who made the giant chromosomes of the midge Chironomus a model for how genes are switched on in differentiating cells.
Wolfgang Behrendt
Wolfgang Behrendt (1936-2026), East German bantamweight boxer; won gold at Melbourne 1956, the first Olympic gold for the GDR, beating Song Soon-Chun 2-1; later a sports photographer for Neues Deutschland.
Wolfgang Berger
Wolfgang H. Berger was a German-born marine geologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography who helped found paleoceanography, studying deep-sea carbonate fossils until his death in 2017.
Wolfgang Bodison
Wolfgang Bodison, American actor and Playhouse West acting teacher, made his debut as Lance Cpl. Harold Dawson in A Few Good Men (1992) with zero prior acting experience; Rob Reiner cast him while he worked as the film's location manager.
Wolfgang Brinkmann
Wolfgang Brinkmann, German show jumper born 1950 in Bielefeld, won team gold at the 1988 Seoul Olympics riding Pedro, led the DRFV 1990–2012 and 2016–2023, and runs bugatti Holding Brinkmann with brands Pikeur and Eskadron.
Wolfgang Busch
Wolfgang Busch is a German-born plant developmental geneticist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, who studies the genetics of root growth and root system architecture.
Wolfgang Domcke
Wolfgang Domcke, born 1948 in Munich, is a German theoretical chemist who held the Chair of Theoretical Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich from 1999 to 2013.
Wolfgang Driever
Wolfgang Driever is a developmental biologist, professor, and chair at the University of Freiburg since 1996, known for the 1988 bicoid morphogen papers and large-scale zebrafish mutagenesis screens.
Wolfgang Engel
Wolfgang Engel (1940–2015) was a German human geneticist and molecular biologist, longtime director of the Institute of Human Genetics at Göttingen, known for research on spermatogenesis and male infertility.
Wolfgang Fabricius Capito
Wolfgang Fabricius Capito, born Wolfgang Köpfel (c. 1478–November 1541), was a German Christian Hebraist and former Catholic churchman who, with Martin Bucer, led Strasbourg's Reformation and co-drafted the Tetrapolitan Confession.