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Wolfgang Schmidt (aeronautical engineer)
Wolfgang Schmidt, born 1942 in Duisburg, Germany, is a German aeronautical engineer known for computational fluid dynamics, later vice president of technology at Daimler Benz AG.
Wolfgang Schuhmann
Wolfgang Schuhmann (born 1956) is a German electrochemist and analytical chemist, Chair of Analytical Chemistry at Ruhr University Bochum from 2008 to 2025, known for reagentless amperometric biosensors and enzyme-based biofuel cells.
Wolfgang Schwarz
Wolfgang Schwarz (born 1947, Vienna) is an Austrian figure skater, 1968 Grenoble Olympic men's singles champion, twice World and three times European silver medalist behind Emmerich Danzer; later convicted of trafficking (2002) and a kidnap plot (2006).
Wolfgang Seufert
Wolfgang Seufert is a German molecular biologist who holds the Chair of Genetics at the University of Regensburg, known for work on ubiquitin-dependent cyclin proteolysis in budding yeast.
Wolfgang Steglich
Wolfgang Steglich, born 1933 in Kamenz, Saxony, is a German natural-products chemist known for the Steglich esterification, a mild DCC/DMAP method for forming ester bonds.
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans is a German photographer, born in Remscheid in 1968, who in 2000 became the first photographer and first non-British artist to win the Turner Prize.
Wolfgang Tittel
Wolfgang Tittel is a quantum communication physicist, professor at the University of Geneva and Constructor University since 2023, known for quantum key distribution and teleportation over fiber networks.
Wolfgang Tremel
Wolfgang Tremel is a German inorganic and materials chemist, professor at the University of Mainz from 1991 to 2024, known for antibiofilm nanoparticles and flexible calcite spicules.
Wolfgang Tress
Wolfgang Tress is a Swiss-based materials scientist and professor at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences known for his work on ion migration and hysteresis in perovskite solar cells.
Wolfgang Van Halen
Wolfgang Van Halen (born 1991), son of Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli, was Van Halen's bassist from 2007 through A Different Kind of Truth (2012), then built the multi-instrumentalist solo band Mammoth (Mammoth WVH, Mammoth II, The End).
Wolfgang Wernsdorfer
Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, born 1966, is a German experimental physicist working on molecular quantum spintronics and single-molecule magnets, a Humboldt Professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology since 2016.
Wolfgang Wick
Wolfgang Wick (born 1970) is a German neurooncologist, Medical Director of General Neurology at Heidelberg University Hospital since 2014, known for glioblastoma trials, the NOA16 IDH1 vaccine study, and the German Cancer Award.
Wolfgang Wintermeyer
Wolfgang Wintermeyer is a German molecular biologist known for quantitative kinetic work on ribosomal translation, especially how elongation factor G and GTP hydrolysis drive tRNA movement.
Wolfgang Zachariae
Wolfgang Zachariae is a cell biologist who leads the Laboratory of Chromosome Biology at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, studying how protein destruction controls chromosome segregation.
Wolfgang Zimmerer
Wolfgang Zimmerer (born 1940, Ohlstadt) is a West German bobsleigh pilot, 1972 Olympic two-man champion with Peter Utzschneider, four-time world champion, and West German national bobsleigh coach 1976-1984.
Wolfgang, Bishop of Regensburg
Wolfgang (c. 924–994) was a Swabian Benedictine and reforming bishop of Regensburg from 972/73 until his death, canonized by Pope Leo IX in 1052 and venerated as a leading bishop-saint of the Ottonian church.
Wolfhard Almers
Wolfhard Almers is a cell biologist and biophysicist known for discovering the fusion pore in exocytosis; he is Professor Emeritus at the Vollum Institute, OHSU.
Wolfhart Zimmermann
Wolfhart Zimmermann (1928–2016) was a German theoretical physicist who co-developed the LSZ reduction formula with Lehmann and Symanzik and created the forest formula, establishing the BPHZ renormalization scheme; he received the Max Planck Medal in 1991.
Wolfheart
Wolfheart is a melodic death metal band from Lahti, Finland, formed in 2013 by multi-instrumentalist Tuomas Saukkonen, whose self-described winter metal spans seven studio albums.
Wolfiporia
Wolfiporia (Ryvarden & Gilb. 1984), also known via synonyms Poria cocos, W. cocos, W. extensa, fuling or fu-ling, is a Polyporales wood-decay fungus genus whose giant sclerotium is a major traditional Chinese medicine; Asian fuling and North American tuckahoe are distinct species.
Wolfman Jack
Wolfman Jack, born Robert Weston Smith (1938-1995), was an American rock-and-roll disc jockey famous on Mexican border blaster XERF and XERB, in American Graffiti, and as host of The Midnight Special.
Wolfmother
Wolfmother is an Australian hard rock band from Sydney formed around Andrew Stockdale, also known for the 2005 debut album Wolfmother and the Grammy-winning single Woman; original members Chris Ross and Myles Heskett left in 2008.
Wolfoo
Wolfoo is a Vietnamese animated preschool web series about a young wolf cub, produced by SConnect from 2018 and distributed on YouTube in about 20 languages. In 2026 a UK High Court found it copied Peppa Pig sound recordings and ordered all videos removed worldwide.
Wolfpack (naval tactic)
Wolfpack (Rudeltaktik): WWII German U-boat tactic devised by Karl Dönitz, using radio-directed patrol lines converging on Allied convoys for night surface attacks; defeated by HF/DF, air cover, and convoy escorts by May 1943.
Wolfram (film)
Wolfram is a 2025 Australian western by Warwick Thornton, a sequel to Sweet Country, set in 1932 at a tungsten mine where Aboriginal child labourers escape their masters; it premiered at Adelaide and competed at Berlinale 2026.
Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha is an answer engine developed by Wolfram Research that computes answers to natural-language questions from a curated knowledgebase rather than returning web links, launched in 2009.
Wolfram Bode
Wolfram Bode (born 1942) is a German biochemist and protein crystallographer at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry near Munich, known for crystal structures of thrombin, matrix metalloproteinases, and astacin.
Wolfram Goessling
Wolfram Goessling (Wolfram Gössling) is a physician-scientist known for using zebrafish to study liver development, regeneration, and cancer, and for identifying RABL3 mutations in hereditary pancreatic cancer.
Wolfram H. Gerlich
Wolfram H. Gerlich, also known as Wolfram Gerlich, is a German medical virologist born in 1944 who directed the Institute of Medical Virology at Gießen and studied hepatitis B and blood safety.
Wolfram Hörz
Wolfram Hörz (1944–2005) was a German molecular biologist and professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München known for establishing the yeast PHO5 promoter as a model of chromatin-regulated gene expression.