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Adolescent sexuality in the United States
Adolescent sexuality in the United States covers teen sexual behavior, contraception, STIs, and teen births, and the abstinence-only versus comprehensive sex education debate; 32% of high school students reported ever having sex in 2023.
Adolescentes Orquesta
Adolescentes Orquesta, also written Adolescent's Orquesta, is a Venezuelan salsa orchestra founded in Caracas in 1995 by composer Porfi Baloa, known for "Persona Ideal" and "Anhelo".
Adolf
Adolf, Germanic male given name from Old High German Adalwolf 'noble wolf'; borne by kings and saints, once common in Germany and Scandinavia, now rare after association with Adolf Hitler.
Adolf Bergman
Adolf Bergman (1879–1926), Swedish police officer and tug-of-war athlete with Stockholmspolisens IF; won gold for Sweden in the men's tug-of-war at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, beating Great Britain 2–0.
Adolf Bickel
Adolf Bickel (1875–1946) was a German physician and physiologist, professor of pathologic physiology at the University of Berlin, twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Adolf Butenandt
Adolf Butenandt (Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt, 1903 to 1995) was a German biochemist who won the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for isolating sex hormones and later led the Max Planck Society.
Adolf D. May
Adolf D. May (1927–2023) was a traffic engineer at UC Berkeley known for pioneering freeway ramp metering and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990.
Adolf Damaschke
Adolf Damaschke (1865–1935) was a German schoolteacher, economist, and politician who led the German land-reform movement for nearly four decades, winning a land-reform clause in the Weimar constitution.
Adolf Dassler
Adolf "Adi" Dassler (1900–1978), German shoemaker and founder of adidas, first built sports shoes with brother Rudolf in 1920s Herzogenaurach; after their 1948 split he founded adidas and Rudolf founded Puma.
Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann (Otto Adolf Eichmann), SS-Obersturmbannführer who directed RSHA IV B 4 and organized deportation of over 1.5 million Jews; captured by Mossad in Argentina 1960, tried in Jerusalem, hanged 1962; subject of Arendt's banality-of-evil controversy.
Adolf Eichmann's capture
Adolf Eichmann's capture: Mossad operation of May 11, 1960 that seized the Holocaust deportation organizer, living as Ricardo Klement near Buenos Aires, and brought him to Israel for the 1961 trial; includes Fritz Bauer's tip and UN fallout.
Adolf Engler
Adolf Engler (1844–1930) was a German botanist and plant geographer who directed the Berlin-Dahlem botanical garden and created the most widely accepted classification of all plants.
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, 1832–1901) was a Finland Swedish baron, geologist, and Arctic explorer who led the first complete transit of the Northeast Passage in 1878–1880.
Adolf Fick
Adolf Eugen Fick (1829–1901) was a German-born physician and physiologist who formulated the laws of diffusion in 1855 and the Fick principle for measuring cardiac output in 1870.
Adolf Frey (writer)
Adolf Frey (1855–1920) was a Swiss poet, novelist, and literary historian, professor of German literary history at Zurich from 1898, nominated seven times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Adolf Galland
Adolf Galland (Adolf Joseph Ferdinand Galland) was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace and general who led the fighter arm for most of World War II, with 104 victories.
Adolf Hammerstein
Adolf Hammerstein (1888–1941) was a German mathematician and professor at Kiel whose name is attached to the Hammerstein integral equation and the Hammerstein model in control engineering.
Adolf Hausrath
Adolf Hausrath, who wrote historical novels as George Taylor, was a German Lutheran theologian and church historian, professor at Heidelberg from 1867 to 1906 and a co-founder of the liberal Protestantenverein.
Adolf Heusinger
Adolf Heusinger (1897–1982), German general; Wehrmacht OKH operations chief 1940–44, wounded in the 20 July 1944 Hitler plot; first Generalinspekteur of the Bundeswehr 1957 and NATO Military Committee chairman 1961–64.
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), Austrian-born dictator of Germany and Nazi Party leader from 1921, appointed chancellor January 30, 1933, launched World War II and the Holocaust, and died by suicide in Berlin in April 1945.
Adolf Hitler and vegetarianism
Adolf Hitler's vegetarianism: the dictator self-identified as vegetarian from 1942, called meat "corpse", but ate meat into 1937; Nazi propaganda amplified the image while vegetarian societies were banned in 1935.
Adolf Hitler's rise to power
Adolf Hitler's rise to power: the NSDAP's path from a 1919 fringe party (2.6% in 1928) through Depression-era electoral breakthrough, elite-engineered appointment as chancellor on 30 January 1933, and the Enabling Act to dictatorship by 1934.
Adolf Hurwitz
Adolf Hurwitz (1859–1919) was a German mathematician who held the chair at ETH Zurich from 1892 until his death, known for the Hurwitz zeta function, Hurwitz quaternions, and the Riemann–Hurwitz relation.
Adolf Jellinek
Adolf Jellinek (1821–1893) was a Moravian-born rabbi, scholar, and preacher in Leipzig and Vienna, famed for his sermons, his Bet ha-Midrasch, and studies of the Zohar.
Adolf Klarenbach
Adolf Klarenbach was a religious reformer, teacher, and preacher from the Duchy of Berg, burned as a heretic in Cologne in 1529 alongside Peter Fliesteden.
Adolf Kneser
Adolf Kneser (1862–1930) was a German mathematician who worked on the calculus of variations and linear differential equations, bringing Sturm–Liouville eigenfunction expansions to Dirichlet-level generality.
Adolf Kußmaul
Adolf Kußmaul (1822–1902) was a German physician who described Kussmaul breathing in diabetic coma, Kussmaul's sign, and pulsus paradoxus, and performed the first gastroscopy on a sword swallower in 1868.
Adolf Lindenbaum
Adolf Lindenbaum (1904–1941) was a Polish-Jewish mathematician and logician of the Warsaw school, known for the Lindenbaum–Tarski algebra, Lindenbaum's Lemma, and work on the axiom of choice.
Adolf Lindfors
Adolf Valentin Lindfors (1879–1959), Finnish Greco-Roman heavyweight wrestler from Porvoo; 1911 world silver behind Yrjö Saarela, and Olympic gold at Antwerp 1920 at age 41, oldest Finnish Olympic champion outside artistic events.
Adolf Lorenz
Adolf Lorenz (1854–1946) was an Austrian orthopedic surgeon from Weidenau, Austrian Silesia, known for the bloodless, non-operative treatment of congenital hip dislocation and for his wealthy 1902 American visit.