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Walther Gerlach
Walther Gerlach (1889–1979) was a German experimental physicist who, with Otto Stern, performed the Stern–Gerlach experiment of 1921–22, the first demonstration that atomic magnetic moments are quantized.
Walther Katzenstein
Walther (Walter) Katzenstein, 1878 Lisbon to 1929 Hamburg, German rower of Germania Ruder-Club Hamburg; won gold in the coxed four at the 1900 Paris Olympics, first German Olympic rowing champion, and placed fourth in the eights.
Walther Kossel
Walther Kossel (1888–1956) was a German physicist who explained ionic bonding as electron transfer to complete outer shells and discovered the X-ray interference patterns called Kossel lines.
Walther Mayer
Walther Mayer (1887–1948) was an Austrian mathematician known for the Mayer–Vietoris sequence in topology and as Albert Einstein's mathematics assistant from 1929 to 1934, later a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Walther Meissner
Walther Meissner (Walther Meißner, 1882–1974) was a German low-temperature physicist who first liquefied helium in Germany in 1925 and, with Robert Ochsenfeld, discovered the Meissner effect in 1933.
Walther Mothes
Walther Mothes is a virologist and cell biologist who has led a laboratory at Yale School of Medicine since 2001, studying how HIV-1, other retroviruses, and SARS-CoV-2 enter cells and spread through the body.
Walther Nernst
Walther Hermann Nernst was a German physical chemist known for the Nernst equation and the third law of thermodynamics, who won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Walther P38
The Walther P38, or P38 Pistol, is a 9 mm semi-automatic service pistol adopted by the Wehrmacht in 1938, the first with a double-action trigger and hammer decocker.
Walther P99
The Walther P99 is a German polymer-frame, striker-fired semi-automatic pistol developed by Carl Walther of Ulm, produced from 1997 to 2023 and carried by James Bond in the late 1990s films.
Walther PP
The Walther PP is a German double-action blowback semi-automatic pistol introduced in 1929 as the Polizei-Pistole, the standard German police sidearm and one of the most copied handguns of the twentieth century.
Walther PPQ
The Walther PPQ is a striker-fired, polymer-framed semi-automatic pistol introduced by German manufacturer Carl Walther in 2011 as a successor to the P99, known for its Quick Defense trigger.
Walther Rathenau
Walther Rathenau (1867-1922), German-Jewish industrialist, AEG board member, writer, and Weimar foreign minister; organized the WWI War Raw Materials Department, signed the 1922 Treaty of Rapallo, and was assassinated by Organisation Consul in Berlin-Grunewald.
Walther Ritz
Walther Ritz (1878–1909) was a Swiss theoretical physicist who formulated the Rydberg–Ritz combination principle for spectral lines in 1908 and created the Ritz method of variational calculation.
Walther Schücking
Walther Schücking was a German jurist, pacifist, and liberal politician who became the first permanent German judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice in 1930.
Walther Stoeckenius
Walther Stoeckenius (1921–2013) was a German-born American cell biologist and biophysicist at UCSF who co-discovered bacteriorhodopsin and helped establish the lipid-bilayer model of biological membranes.
Walther von Brauchitsch
Walther von Brauchitsch (1881–1948), German Generalfeldmarschall, commanded the Heer from February 1938 to 19 December 1941, led the Poland, France, Balkans, and USSR campaigns, was dismissed by Hitler after the Moscow failure, and died in British custody.
Walther von der Vogelweide
Walther von der Vogelweide (about 1170 to 1230) was a Middle High German lyric poet, regarded as the most important German lyricist of the Middle Ages.
Walther von Dyck
Walther von Dyck (1856–1934) was a German mathematician in Munich who founded combinatorial group theory in 1882, led the Technische Hochschule as its first rector, and co-founded the Deutsches Museum.
Walther Wenck
Walther Wenck (1900-1982), German General der Panzertruppe; chief of staff to Guderian after 20 July 1944; commanded the Twelfth Army in the 1945 Battle of Berlin, then led roughly 70,000-100,000 troops and refugees across the Elbe to surrender to US forces.
Walthère Victor Spring
Walthère Victor Spring (1848–1911) was a Belgian chemist and professor at the University of Liège, the first to study the compaction of powders under extreme pressure.
Waltheria indica
Waltheria indica (syn. W. americana), sleepy morning or 'uhaloa, a Malvaceae subshrub native to tropical America, pantropical weed used in traditional medicine for asthma, inflammation, and pain.
Walton Castle
Walton Castle, Felixstowe, Suffolk: a late 3rd-century Roman Saxon Shore fort, later Hugh Bigod's castle and a candidate for Bede's Dommoc, lost to sea erosion by the 18th century; distinct from the Clevedon folly and Camboglanna.
Walton Enterprises
Walton Enterprises, LLC is the Walton family's Delaware holding company and family office, holding most of the family's roughly 45 percent stake in Walmart and centralizing its investments and philanthropy.
Walton family
The Walton family is the American family of Walmart founder Sam Walton, holding roughly 44 percent of Walmart and ranking as the richest family in the United States.
Walton Goggins
Walton Goggins (Walton Sanders Goggins Jr.) is an American actor born in 1971, known for playing Shane Vendrell on The Shield and Boyd Crowder on Justified.
Walton Group (ওয়ালটন গ্রুপ)
Walton Group (ওয়ালটন গ্রুপ) is a Bangladeshi conglomerate centered on Walton Hi-Tech Industries, the country's largest electronics manufacturer, which holds about three quarters of the refrigerator market and exports to more than 50 countries.
Walton L. Fangman
Walton L. Fangman is an American molecular biologist at the University of Washington known for establishing the temporal program of DNA replication in budding yeast.
Walton-on-the-Hill
Walton-on-the-Hill, a village in Reigate and Banstead, Surrey, England, with a scheduled Roman villa on Sandlands Road: identified 1915, excavated 1939-40, rebuilt as a 44 m winged corridor house around AD 180, abandoned before AD 410.
Waltraud Pohland
Waltraud Pohland, also known as Waltraud Strotzer since her 1974 marriage, is a German middle-distance runner who set 800 m and 1500 m world bests in 1969.
Waltz
Waltz: a 3/4-time turning couple dance from Austrian-Bavarian folk roots, fashionable in Vienna from the 1780s. Parent of the fast Viennese waltz (55-60 measures per minute), the English slow waltz, and American styles; UNESCO heritage since 2017.