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Walter Greiner
Walter Greiner (1935–2016) was a German theoretical physicist at Goethe University Frankfurt, known for predicting superheavy nuclei, initiating the GSI laboratory, and writing widely translated physics textbooks.
Walter Gretzky
Walter Gretzky (1938-2021), Canada's Hockey Dad, father of Wayne Gretzky; built the Brantford backyard rink, coached his son, Order of Canada 2007, charity volunteer.
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius (1883–1969), German-born architect, founded the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1919 and directed it until 1928; designed the Fagus factory and Dessau Bauhaus building, then taught at Harvard and led TAC in the United States.
Walter Grotrian
Walter Grotrian (1890–1954) was a German astronomer and astrophysicist at the Potsdam Observatory who introduced Grotrian diagrams and solved the coronium puzzle by matching coronal lines to iron.
Walter H. Abelmann
Walter H. Abelmann (1921–2011) was a German-born American cardiologist and Harvard Medical School professor who defined high cardiac output states, published over 260 papers, and trained 68 cardiology fellows.
Walter H. Kaye
Walter H. Kaye is an American psychiatrist and eating-disorders researcher who founded the UCSD Eating Disorders Center and studies the neurobiology of anorexia and bulimia.
Walter H. Rice
Walter H. Rice, born Walter Herbert Rice, is an American jurist who served as a federal district judge in Ohio from 1980 to 2026, appointed by Jimmy Carter.
Walter H. Stockmayer
Walter H. Stockmayer (1914–2004) was an American physical chemist at Dartmouth College and a pioneer of polymer science, best known for his 1943 theory of gelation in branched polymers.
Walter Hagen
Walter Hagen (1892-1969), American professional golfer nicknamed Sir Walter; won 11 majors including 5 PGA Championships and 4 British Opens, first American-born Open champion, captain of first six U.S. Ryder Cup teams, first unattached touring pro.
Walter Hallstein
Walter Hallstein (1901–1982), German jurist and diplomat: law professor at Rostock and Frankfurt, State Secretary under Adenauer, namesake of the Hallstein Doctrine, and first President of the EEC Commission 1958–1967, a founding father of the EU.
Walter Hantzsche
Walter Hantzsche (1912–1944) was a German mathematician and topologist known for the Hantzsche–Wendt manifolds, named for his 1935 paper with Hilmar Wendt; he earned his doctorate at Halle in 1937 and died at 31.
Walter Hasenclever
Walter Hasenclever (1890–1940) was a German Expressionist writer and dramatist whose play Der Sohn was the first Expressionist drama to achieve broad success; his anti-war Antigone won the 1917 Kleist Prize.
Walter Hayman
Walter Kurt Hayman (1926–2020) was a British mathematician and leading complex analyst, known for the asymptotic Bieberbach conjecture, Hayman's Alternative, and the first pure mathematics chair at Imperial College London.
Walter Heitler
Walter Heitler (1904–1981) was a German-born theoretical physicist who co-founded quantum chemistry with the 1927 Heitler–London theory of the hydrogen molecule and later developed the Bethe–Heitler radiation theory and cosmic-ray cascade theory.
Walter Hermann Bucher
Walter Hermann Bucher (1888–1965) was an American geologist known for his studies of cryptovolcanic structures and his 1933 book The Deformation of the Earth's Crust; he joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1938.
Walter Hess (Swiss physiologist)
Walter Rudolf Hess was a Swiss physiologist who won half of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for mapping the interbrain's control of internal organs.
Walter Hieber
Walter Hieber (1895–1976) was a German inorganic chemist who pioneered metal carbonyl chemistry, discovered the carbonyl hydrides, and directed inorganic chemistry at the Technische Hochschule München from 1935 to 1964.
Walter Hill
Walter Hill (born 1942, Long Beach, California) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer of The Warriors, 48 Hrs., The Driver, and Hard Times, screenwriter of The Getaway, and producer who helped create the Alien franchise.
Walter Hofmann
Walter Hofmann (born 1949, Sömmerda) is an East German canoe slalom paddler, C-2 specialist, Olympic gold medalist at Munich 1972 with Rolf-Dieter Amend, and world champion in 1971, 1975 (team) and 1977.
Walter Hoppe
Walter Hoppe (1917–1986) was a German crystallographer and electron microscopist who pioneered 3D reconstruction of biological structures from electron micrographs, formulated Molecular Replacement, and proposed ptychography.
Walter Hunziker
Walter Hunziker is a Swiss cell biologist and Research Director at A*STAR's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Singapore, studying epithelial polarity and tight junctions.
Walter Huston
Walter Huston, born Walter Thomas Huston, was a Canadian-born American actor and singer who won an Oscar for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, directed by his son John Huston.
Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson (born 1952, New Orleans) is an American biographer and journalist, former TIME editor, CNN chairman, and Aspen Institute CEO, author of Steve Jobs, Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Elon Musk.
Walter Isard
Walter Isard (1919–2010) was an American economist who founded regional science and peace science, taught at Penn and Cornell, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Walter J. Gehring
Walter J. Gehring (1939–2014) was a Swiss developmental biologist at the University of Basel who discovered the homeobox and the Pax6 master control gene of eye development.
Walter J. Koch
Walter J. Koch is an American cardiovascular pharmacologist and professor at Duke University School of Medicine, known for research on GRK2 in heart failure and the βARKct gene therapy.
Walter J. McNerney
Walter J. McNerney (1925–2005) was an American health services executive who led the Blue Cross Association, helped shape Medicare, and later taught health policy at Northwestern.
Walter J. Paulus
Walter J. Paulus is a Belgian cardiologist and professor of physiology at Amsterdam UMC whose 2013 paradigm paper attributed heart failure with preserved ejection fraction to comorbidity-driven coronary microvascular inflammation.
Walter J. Rogan
Walter J. Rogan is an American physician-epidemiologist who spent his career at NIEHS in North Carolina, known for breast-milk pollutant cohorts, the TLC succimer lead trial, and a 2005 DDT review.
Walter J. Schrenk
Walter J. Schrenk (1933–2018) was an American chemical engineer at Dow Chemical who patented feedblock coextrusion in 1964, developed SARANEX barrier film, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.