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Wolfram Language

Wolfram Language is a symbolic programming language developed by Wolfram Research, first released in 1988 as the language of Mathematica, where everything is represented as symbolic expressions.

Wolfram Lowe

Wolfram Löwe is a German former forward who spent his whole career, 1964 to 1980, with Lokomotive Leipzig and won Olympic gold with East Germany in 1976.

Wolfram Mathematica

Wolfram Mathematica is a proprietary computer algebra system and technical computing environment from Wolfram Research, first released in 1988 and built on the Wolfram Language.

Oct 10, 2026

Wolfram Meier-Augenstein is a German-born forensic chemist, Professor in Stable Isotope Forensics at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, whose isotope evidence has aided murder and trafficking investigations.

Wolfram Ostertag

Wolfram Ostertag (1937–2010) was a German geneticist and retrovirologist who headed the Heinrich-Pette-Institut's Department of Cell and Virus Genetics in Hamburg, first described AZT's antiretroviral activity in 1974, and developed retroviral vectors for gene therapy.

Wolfram Pernice

Wolfram Pernice is a physicist and professor at the Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik of the University of Heidelberg, a pioneer of neuromorphic photonic computing awarded the 2025 Leibniz Prize.

Wolfram Research

Wolfram Research is an American private software company founded by physicist Stephen Wolfram in 1987 in Champaign, Illinois, known for Mathematica, the Wolfram Language, and the Wolfram|Alpha answer engine.

Wolfram Ruf

Wolfram Ruf (born 1958) is a German physician-scientist in coagulation biology, known for work on tissue factor signaling linking blood coagulation to inflammation, cancer, and angiogenesis.

Sep 20, 2026

Wolfram Saenger

Wolfram Saenger (1939–2026) was a German chemist and crystallographer, professor of crystallography at the Freie Universität Berlin, known for nucleic acid structures, the tetracycline repressor, and cyanobacterial photosystems.

Wolfram Sander

Wolfram Sander (born 1954) is a German physical organic chemist at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, known for generating and spectroscopically observing short-lived reactive intermediates such as carbenes and nitrenes.

Wolfram Schlenker

Wolfram Schlenker is an environmental and agricultural economist who studies how weather and climate affect crop yields, food prices, and migration, and how pollution affects health.

Sep 20, 2026

Wolfram Schultz

Wolfram Schultz is a neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge who studies the neuroeconomics of reward and decision-making, best known for showing that dopamine neurons encode reward prediction errors.

Wolfram syndrome

Wolfram syndrome (DIDMOAD), rare autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder from WFS1 or CISD2 mutations: juvenile diabetes, optic atrophy, deafness, diabetes insipidus; median death age about 30.

Oct 22, 2026

Wolfram von Eschenbach

Wolfram von Eschenbach (c. 1170 to c. 1220) was a Middle High German poet best known for Parzival, the Grail romance composed between 1200 and 1210.

Wolfram-like syndrome

Wolfram-like syndrome (WFLS) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder caused by WFS1 gene mutations, featuring hearing loss from childhood, optic atrophy, and often adult-onset diabetes; it is milder than Wolfram syndrome.

Wolfram‐Hubertus Zimmermann

Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann is a German physician-scientist who has been Professor and Director of Pharmacology and Toxicology at University Medical Center Göttingen since 2008, known for engineered heart muscle grafts in heart-failure trials.

WolframAlpha

WolframAlpha is an answer engine by Wolfram Research, launched in May 2009, that computes factual answers from a curated knowledge base instead of listing web pages.

Wolframite

Wolframite is an iron-manganese tungstate mineral, (Fe, Mn)WO₄, occurring as a series between ferberite and hübnerite; it is the primary ore of tungsten, mined commercially alongside scheelite.

Wolfsangel

Wolfsangel ("wolf's hook", Dopplehaken): German symbol based on a medieval wolf trap, common in heraldry, appropriated by Nazi SS divisions and later neo-Nazi groups; not a genuine rune.

Wolfsbane (character)

Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair), Marvel Comics mutant with lycanthropy who transforms at will into a wolf; first New Mutant, debut Marvel Graphic Novel #4 (1982); later X-Factor and Excalibur member, played by Maisie Williams in the 2020 film.

Wolfsberger AC

Wolfsberger AC (WAC), Austrian football club founded 1931 in Wolfsberg, Carinthia; Bundesliga since 2012, Austrian Cup winners 2025, Europa League group stages 2019/20 and 2020/21, home Lavanttal-Arena.

Wolfsburg

Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony city founded 1 July 1938 as Stadt des KdF-Wagens for Volkswagen workers, renamed 1945; over 125,000 residents, Germany's highest GDP per working person and wages, lowest rent burden.

Wolfspeed

Wolfspeed, Inc., formerly Cree Research, is an American semiconductor company in Durham, North Carolina, that makes silicon carbide and gallium nitride power and RF chips for electric vehicles.

wolfSSL

wolfSSL is a lightweight SSL/TLS library written in ANSI C for embedded and resource-constrained systems, supporting TLS 1.3 and DTLS 1.3 and dual licensed under GPLv3 and a commercial license.

Wolfville

Wolfville is a town in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, home to Acadia University and the centre of the province's wine country, with 11 wineries within 20 km and the Grand-Pré UNESCO site nearby.

Wolfwalkers

Wolfwalkers is a 2020 hand-drawn animated fantasy by Cartoon Saloon, directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart, set in 1650 Kilkenny; the third Irish Folklore Trilogy film, Oscar-nominated and streaming on Apple TV+.

Woli

Woli is a two-row mancala-style sowing game from the Senegal Valley of West Africa, popular among young married women. Played on a 2x6 board with six counters per hole, clockwise sowing, and two-or-three counter captures; most counters wins.

Oct 22, 2026

Wolin Seokbo

Wolin Seokbo is a Korean Buddhist book compiled by King Sejo of Joseon in 1459, combining Sejong's song cycle Wolincheongangjigok with a prose biography of the Buddha.

Wollaston

Wollaston Lake, Saskatchewan's largest entirely in-province lake (2,681 sq km), a bifurcation lake draining 90% to Hudson Bay via the Cochrane River and 10% to the Mackenzie via the Fond du Lac River; named by Peter Fidler in 1807.