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Wolfgang Kessling

Wolfgang Kessling (Wolfgang Keßling) is a German physicist and climate engineer, a Transsolar partner in Munich known for low-energy cooling at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport and Gardens by the Bay.

Wolfgang Ketterle

Wolfgang Ketterle, born 1957 in Heidelberg, Germany, is an MIT physicist who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics for observing Bose–Einstein condensation and created the first atom laser in 1997.

Wolfgang Knoll is a biophysicist and surface scientist known for surface-plasmon optics, thin organic films, and biosensors, who led the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz from 1993 to 2008.

Wolfgang Köenig

Wolfgang Koenig is a German cardiologist and professor at the Technical University of Munich whose 1999 study showed C-reactive protein predicts coronary heart disease risk in initially healthy middle-aged men.

Oct 22, 2026

Wolfgang Koeppen

Wolfgang Koeppen (1906–1996) was a German novelist and critic whose trilogy Tauben im Gras, Das Treibhaus, and Der Tod in Rom confronts postwar Germany with its Nazi past.

Wolfgang Köhler

Wolfgang Köhler (1887–1967) was a German-American psychologist who co-founded Gestalt psychology and is best known for his chimpanzee insight experiments on Tenerife, published as The Mentality of Apes in 1925.

Wolfgang Krätschmer

Wolfgang Krätschmer, born 1942 in Berlin, is a German physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics who co-invented the first method for making fullerenes in bulk.

Wolfgang Kroutil

Wolfgang Kroutil, born 1972 in Graz, Austria, is an Austrian chemist and full professor at the University of Graz since 2013 who uses enzymes to shorten synthetic routes to pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals.

Wolfgang Krull

Wolfgang Krull (1899–1971) was a German mathematician, influenced by Emmy Noether, whose name is attached to Krull dimension, Krull rings, Krull valuations, and the Krull topology on Galois groups.

Sep 27, 2026

Wolfgang Kubicki

Wolfgang Kubicki, born in 1952 in Braunschweig, is a German lawyer and Free Democratic Party politician who has led the FDP since May 2026 and previously served as a deputy speaker of the Bundestag.

Wolfgang Langenbeck

Wolfgang Langenbeck (1899–1967) was a German chemist who built the field of organic catalysis in Germany, creating synthetic model catalysts that imitated enzyme action and held professorships at Rostock and Halle.

Wolfgang Linger

Wolfgang Linger (born 1982, Hall in Tirol) is an Austrian doubles luger who with brother Andreas won Olympic gold 2006 and 2010, silver 2014, three world titles, and the 2011/12 World Cup.

Wolfgang Loitzl

Wolfgang Loitzl (born 1980, Bad Ischl) is a retired Austrian ski jumper, WSC Bad Mitterndorf, nicknamed Wuff: 2010 Olympic team gold, seven world titles, 2009 Four Hills winner, retired 2015.

Wolfgang Lubitz

Wolfgang Lubitz (born 1949) is a German chemist known for EPR studies of photosynthesis and hydrogenases, and director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion.

Wolfgang Lutz

Wolfgang Lutz (born 1956 in Rome) is an Austrian demographer, founding director of the Wittgenstein Centre, known for adding education to population forecasting and for Nature papers projecting that world population growth will end this century.

Wolfgang M. Schmidt

Wolfgang M. Schmidt, born 1933 in Vienna, is an Austrian mathematician and University of Colorado Boulder professor best known for the Subspace Theorem, which generalized Roth's theorem in 1972.

Oct 20, 2026

Wolfgang Mager

Wolfgang Mager (born 1952, Kamenz) is an East German rower, two-time Olympic champion (coxless pairs 1972 with Brietzke; coxless fours 1976) and four-time world champion in the coxless fours.

Sep 19, 2026

Wolfgang Marguerre

Wolfgang Marguerre is a businessman who co-founded Octapharma, a Swiss plasma-fractionation company, in 1983, bought out his partner in 1995, and leads it as owner, chairman, and chief executive.

Wolfgang Nordwig

Wolfgang Nordwig (b. 27 August 1943) is an East German former pole vaulter, 1972 Munich Olympic champion at 5.50 m, the first non-US Olympic pole vault gold medalist, 1968 bronze medalist, and 1970 world record holder.

Wolfgang Ostwald

Wolfgang Ostwald (1883–1943), son of Nobel laureate Wilhelm Ostwald, was a German chemist at Leipzig who established colloid science in Germany and wrote its most famous book, The World of Neglected Dimensions (1914).

Wolfgang Overath

Wolfgang Overath (born 1943, Siegburg), German playmaker, one-club man at 1. FC Köln (765 games, 287 goals), 81 West Germany caps, 1966 runner-up, 1970 third, 1974 World Cup winner, later FC president 2004-2011.

Wolfgang Paul

Wolfgang Paul (1913–1993) was a German physicist at the University of Bonn who invented the Paul ion trap and shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Wolfgang Pauli

Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (1900–1958) was an Austrian-born theoretical physicist, professor at ETH Zurich, who won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physics for the exclusion principle and first proposed the neutrino.

Wolfgang Petersen

Wolfgang Petersen (1941-2022) was a German film director from Emden whose Das Boot (1981) earned six Oscar nominations and led to Hollywood blockbusters including In the Line of Fire, Air Force One, The Perfect Storm, and Troy.

Wolfgang Peti

Wolfgang Peti is a structural biologist and professor at UConn Health in Farmington, Connecticut, known for NMR and cryo-EM studies of serine/threonine protein phosphatases like PP2A:B55.

Wolfgang Puck

Wolfgang Puck (born 1949, Austria) is an Austrian-American celebrity chef and restaurateur who opened Spago in West Hollywood in 1982, pioneered California cuisine, gourmet pizza, and open kitchens, and built a brand of more than 100 restaurants including CUT, plus the Oscars Governors Ball.