All articles starting with W

Wolfgang Friedrich Gess

Wolfgang Friedrich Gess (1819–1891) was a German Lutheran theologian who taught at Göttingen and Breslau and, with Gottfried Thomasius, was a leading representative of 19th-century Kenoticism.

Sep 20, 2026

Wolfgang G. Zeier

Wolfgang G. Zeier is an inorganic solid-state chemist, professor at the University of Münster since 2020, known for research on solid ionic conductors for solid-state batteries.

Wolfgang Gaede (1878–1945) was a German physicist, professor at Karlsruhe, whose rotary mercury, molecular, and diffusion pumps made sustained high vacuum routine, founding modern high-vacuum technology.

Sep 19, 2026

Wolfgang Gartner

Wolfgang Gartner is the professional alias of Joey Youngman, a Grammy-nominated American electro house producer and DJ who pioneered complextro, adopted the name in 2007, and released the album Weekend in America in 2011.

Wolfgang Götze

Wolfgang Götze (1937–2021) was a German theoretical physicist at the Technical University of Munich who created the mode-coupling theory of the glass transition in supercooled liquids.

Wolfgang Guldenpfennig

Wolfgang Güldenpfennig (Wolfgang Güldenpfennig), East German rower born 1951 in Magdeburg; bronze in single sculls at Munich 1972, Olympic gold in quadruple sculls at Montréal 1976, twice world champion, later coach and Magdeburg sports administrator.

Wolfgang Gunkel

Wolfgang Gunkel (1948-2020), East German rower, not the footballer Wolfgang Funkel; Olympic gold 1972 Munich coxed pair with Lucke and Neubert, world champion 1975 and 1977, later FES boat technician.

Wolfgang H. Binder

Wolfgang H. Binder (born 1969) is a macromolecular chemist who has held the Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg since 2007, known for self-healing polymers.

Sep 17, 2026

Wolfgang H. Marquardt

Wolfgang H. Marquardt (born 1956) is a German chemical engineer known for process systems engineering, who held a chair at RWTH Aachen and led Forschungszentrum Jülich from 2014 to 2023.

Wolfgang Haak

Wolfgang Haak is a German archaeogeneticist leading the Molecular Anthropology group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, known for ancient DNA studies of early farmers.

Wolfgang Hahn

Wolfgang Hahn (1911–1998) was a German mathematician who worked on special functions and orthogonal polynomials, held the mathematics chair at Graz from 1964, and gave his name to the Hahn polynomials.

Wolfgang Hammerschmidt

Wolfgang Hammerschmidt is a German tumor virologist known for his work on the Epstein–Barr virus, who directs the Gene Vectors research unit at Helmholtz Zentrum München and became CSO of the vaccine spin-off EBViously in 2024.

Sep 27, 2026

Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer

Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer, a Linz native, is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) serving as Federal Minister for Economy, Energy, and Tourism.

Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs

Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs (1915–1997) was a German-born mathematician who spent his career at Cornell University, known for Nevanlinna value-distribution theory and the Erdős–Fuchs theorem in additive number theory.

Wolfgang Heiß

Wolfgang Heiß is a German materials scientist and professor at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg who heads the SOPSEM group, known for colloidal nanocrystals and metal-halide perovskite X-ray detectors.

Sep 17, 2026

Wolfgang Helck

Wolfgang Helck (Hans Wolfgang Helck, 1914-1993) was a German Egyptologist and Hamburg professor (1957-1979), founder of Egyptian economic and administrative history, author of Materialien zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte des Neuen Reiches, and co-editor of the Lexikon der Ägyptologie.

Wolfgang Helfrich

Wolfgang Helfrich (1932–2025) was a German physicist who co-invented the twisted-nematic liquid-crystal display with Martin Schadt in 1970 and founded the Helfrich energy theory of membrane elasticity.

Oct 22, 2026

Wolfgang Herrndorf

Wolfgang Herrndorf was a German writer and painter best known for the 2010 novel Tschick, which sold about 3 million copies and was translated into 36 languages.

Wolfgang Hiddemann

Wolfgang Hiddemann is a German hematologist and oncologist who led the German AML Cooperative Group and Low-Grade Lymphoma Study Group trials, including R-CHOP studies, and directed Medizinische Klinik III at LMU Munich from 1998 to 2017.

Oct 22, 2026

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916–1991) was a German writer, painter, and translator counted among the most important postwar German authors, known for Tynset, absurd drama, and his best-selling Mozart biography.

Wolfgang Hillen

Wolfgang Hillen (born 1948, Osnabrück) was a German biochemist and Full Professor of Microbiology at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, known for tetracycline-dependent gene regulation in bacteria and mammalian cells and co-founding TET Systems.

Wolfgang Hoppe

Wolfgang Hoppe (born 1957, Apolda), nicknamed Hoppfried, East German and German bobsleigh pilot; double Olympic champion 1984, six Olympic medals, eight world titles, 33 international medals, later women's national coach.

Wolfgang Hottenrott

Wolfgang Hottenrott (born 13 June 1940, Hannover), nicknamed Hotti, West German rower; Olympic gold in the Deutschland-Achter at Mexico City 1968 and bronze in the coxless pair with Michael Schwan at Tokyo 1964; fifth in the eight at Munich 1972.

Wolfgang Huber (bioinformatician)

Wolfgang Huber is a computational biologist at EMBL Heidelberg known for statistical methods for sequencing data, including DESeq2 and HTSeq, and as a founding member of Bioconductor.

Wolfgang J. Parak

Wolfgang J. Parak (born 1970) is a physicist who studies the biological applications of colloidal nanoparticles, and has been a full professor at Universität Hamburg since 2017.

Wolfgang Joklik

Wolfgang Joklik, known as Bill Joklik, was an Austrian-born American molecular virologist who established how the reovirus genome is organized and transcribed, and who founded the American Society for Virology.

Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky

Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, known as Pief, was a German-born American particle physicist who founded and directed the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center from 1961 to 1984.

Wolfgang Kaiser (German physicist)

Wolfgang Kaiser (1925–2023) was a German experimental physicist and laser pioneer who first demonstrated two-photon absorption in 1961 and led ultrafast laser research at Munich.

Wolfgang Kasper

Wolfgang Kasper is a German internist and cardiologist, medical director at St. Josefs-Hospital Wiesbaden from 1993 to 2016, known for the PE-3 thrombolysis trial in pulmonary embolism.