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Dieter Thoma

Dieter Thoma, German ski jumper (born 1969, Hinterzarten), 1990s World Cup star; 1994 Olympic team gold and normal hill bronze, 1998 team silver, 1989/90 Four Hills winner, 1990 ski flying world champion, later ARD commentator.

Oct 10, 2026

Dieter Vollhardt

Dieter Vollhardt (born 1951 in Bad Godesberg) is a German theoretical condensed matter physicist who co-founded dynamical mean-field theory and won the 2006 Europhysics Prize.

Dieter Wendisch

Dieter Wendisch (born 1953), East German rower, SC Einheit Dresden; two Olympic rowing golds, eights at Montreal 1976 and coxed fours at Moscow 1980, plus world titles 1975, 1977, 1978.

Dieter Wiedenmann

Dieter Benedikt Wiedenmann (1957-1994) was a West German rower of Ulmer RC Donau who won quadruple sculls gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics by 0.43 seconds and World Championship gold in 1983.

Dieter Zetsche

Dieter Zetsche, born 1953 in Istanbul, is a German engineer who led Chrysler's turnaround from 2000 to 2005 and chaired Daimler, heading Mercedes-Benz Cars, from 2006 to 2019.

Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia

Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia: Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir's first complete recording (2005–2014, Challenge Classics, 29 CDs plus DVD) of Buxtehude's vocal, organ, harpsichord, and chamber music.

Diethanolamine

Diethanolamine, also known as 2,2'-iminodiethanol or diolamine, is a secondary amine with the formula C4H11NO2, made from ethylene oxide and ammonia and used in surfactants, gas purification, and cosmetics.

Sep 20, 2026

Diethard Tautz

Diethard Tautz, born 1957, is a German evolutionary and developmental biologist who directed the Department of Evolutionary Genetics at the Max Planck Institute in Plön from 2007 to 2023.

Diethatyl

Diethatyl (diethatyl-ethyl, BAY NNT 6867, 乙酰甲草胺), obsolete chloroacetanilide pre-emergence herbicide first reported 1972; lipid biosynthesis inhibitor (HRAC K3), not EU-approved since 2002, WHO class O.

Sep 21, 2026

Diether Lambrechts

Diether Lambrechts is a Belgian epigenetics and cancer biologist who heads the Laboratory of Translational Genetics at VIB-KU Leuven, known for showing that tumor hypoxia alters DNA methylation by reducing TET enzyme activity.

Diether Ocampo

Diether Pascual Ocampo, Filipino actor, singer, model, and comedian; ABS-CBN Star Circle Batch II (1995) leading man known for Soltera, Jologs, Nasaan Ka Man; founder of the KIDS Foundation and Philippine Coast Guard Auxiliary Lieutenant Commander.

Diethofencarb

Diethofencarb (CAS 87130-20-9) is a Sumitomo Chemical carbamate fungicide against Botrytis cinerea gray mold, exploiting negatively correlated cross-resistance with benzimidazole-resistant strains; EU approval expired 31 May 2021, banana import tolerance remains.

Diethyl carbonate

Diethyl carbonate (DEC) is a colorless carbonate ester liquid used as a solvent, fuel additive, and reactant in organic synthesis, and as a low-viscosity co-solvent in lithium-ion battery electrolytes.

Diethyl ether

Diethyl ether, also known as sulfuric ether, is a volatile, extremely flammable liquid that was the first widely used surgical anesthetic and remains an industrial solvent and reaction medium.

Diethyl malonate

Diethyl malonate, also called diethyl propanedioate or malonic ester, is a colorless liquid ester of malonic acid used as a building block in organic synthesis and as a flavoring and fragrance ingredient.

Diethyl phthalate

Diethyl phthalate (DEP) is a clear, colorless, nearly odorless liquid ester of phthalic acid used as a plasticizer for cellulose films and as a solvent and fixative in perfumes and cosmetics.

Diethyl pyrocarbonate

Diethyl pyrocarbonate (DEPC), also called diethyl dicarbonate, is a reagent used to inactivate ribonucleases in RNA work, to label proteins for mass spectrometry, and formerly as a beverage preservative, banned in the United States in 1972.

Diethyl sulfate

Diethyl sulfate is the diethyl ester of sulfuric acid, a colorless oily liquid used industrially as an ethylating agent and classified as probably carcinogenic to humans.

Diethylaminosulfur trifluoride

Diethylaminosulfur trifluoride (DAST, Et₂NSF₃) is a liquid nucleophilic fluorinating reagent reported by William J. Middleton at Du Pont in 1975 that converts alcohols to alkyl fluorides and carbonyls to gem-difluorides.

Diethylcarbamazine

Diethylcarbamazine (DEC), discovered in 1947 and originally sold as Hetrazan, is an anthelmintic that kills filarial worms and serves as the drug of choice for lymphatic filariasis.

Diethyldithiocarbamate

Diethyldithiocarbamate (DDC) is a sulfur-containing chelating ligand and the principal active metabolite of disulfiram, whose sodium salt is the chelating antidote for acute nickel carbonyl poisoning.

Diethyldithiocarbamic acid

Diethyldithiocarbamic acid, also called ditiocarb or DDC, is a dithiocarbamic acid that forms in the body from the alcohol-aversive drug disulfiram and strongly chelates copper and zinc.

Diethylene glycol

Diethylene glycol (DEG), also called ethylene diglycol, is a colorless, viscous liquid used mostly as a chemical intermediate, known as the toxic contaminant behind recurring mass poisonings, including the 1937 Elixir Sulfanilamide disaster.

Diethylene glycol monoethyl ether

Diethylene glycol monoethyl ether (DEGEE), also known as ethoxydiglycol, Carbitol, or Transcutol, is a water-miscible glycol ether solvent used in coatings, inks, cosmetics, and as a skin penetration enhancer in pharmaceuticals.

Diethylenetriamine

Diethylenetriamine (DETA) is an aliphatic triamine with formula C₄H₁₃N₃, a colorless, hygroscopic liquid with an ammonia-like odor used chiefly as an epoxy resin curing agent.

Diethylpropion

Diethylpropion (amfepramone; Tenuate, Regenon) is a sympathomimetic anorectic prodrug of ethcathinone, FDA-approved in 1959 for short-term obesity treatment, Schedule IV controlled, withdrawn from the EU market in 2023.

Diethylstilbestrol

Diethylstilbestrol (DES) is a synthetic estrogen first made in 1938, prescribed to prevent miscarriage from the 1940s to the 1970s until it was found to cause cancer.

Diethylstilbestrol diphosphate

Diethylstilbestrol diphosphate (fosfestrol, DESP; brands Stilphostrol, Honvan) is the diphosphate ester prodrug of the synthetic estrogen DES, used mainly for prostate cancer; discontinued in the US, thrombosis is a key toxicity.

Diethylstilbestrol syndrome

Diethylstilbestrol syndrome (DES syndrome, ICD-11 LB44.6) is a malformative syndrome in children and grandchildren of women given the synthetic estrogen DES during pregnancy, causing clear cell adenocarcinoma, reproductive tract malformations, infertility, and preterm birth across generations.