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Andreas Schmittner

Andreas Schmittner is a German-born climate scientist and oceanographer who came to Oregon State University in 2005 and studies ocean circulation, the marine carbon cycle, and climate sensitivity.

Sep 27, 2026

Andreas Schwab

Andreas Schwab is a German CDU politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2004 and chaired the Committee on Budgetary Control since 2026.

Andreas Skoglund (born 2001, Kongsberg, Norway) is a Norwegian Nordic combined skier with Molde og Omegn IF; Olympic gold in the 2026 men's team sprint with Jens Lurås Oftebro, plus 4th and 7th individual finishes.

Oct 10, 2026

Andreas Speiser

Andreas Speiser (1885–1970) was a Swiss mathematician and philosopher of mathematics, based in Basel, who edited Euler's collected works and wrote one of the first accounts of finite group theory.

Andreas Stein

Andreas Stein is a materials chemist at the University of Minnesota, on the faculty since 1994, known for templated synthesis of three-dimensionally ordered macroporous solids.

Oct 10, 2026

Andreas Steinhuber

Andreas Steinhuber (1825–1907) was a German Jesuit theologian and cardinal, rector of the Collegium Germanicum in Rome and Prefect of the Congregation of the Index.

Andreas Stjernen

Andreas Stjernen (born 1988, Levanger) is a Norwegian former ski jumper, son of Hroar Stjernen. Olympic team gold at PyeongChang 2018, 2018 ski flying World Cup winner, retired March 2019 after Raw Air.

Andreas Strasser

Andreas Strasser is an Australian molecular biologist who heads the Blood Cells and Blood Cancer Division at WEHI in Melbourne, studying how defective cell death causes cancer.

Sep 19, 2026

Andreas Strüngmann

Andreas Strüngmann is a German physician and entrepreneur who co-founded the generic-drug maker Hexal with his twin brother Thomas in 1986 and became BioNTech's anchor investor.

Andreas Tews

Andreas Tews, German amateur boxer born 1968 in Rostock; flyweight silver for East Germany at Seoul 1988 and featherweight gold for Germany at Barcelona 1992; never turned professional.

Andreas Tittl

Andreas Tittl is a German experimental physicist in nanophotonics, known for metasurface-based biodetection and photonic bound states in the continuum; he directs the Institute of Photonics at TU Hamburg.

Andreas Trumpp

Andreas Trumpp is a German cancer biologist who leads the Division of Stem Cells and Cancer at the German Cancer Research Center and directs the HI-STEM institute in Heidelberg.

Andreas Urs Sommer

Andreas Urs Sommer (born 1972), Swiss philosopher and numismatist, W3 professor of cultural philosophy at Freiburg, author of the Heidelberg Academy's historical-critical Nietzsche-Kommentar volumes and books on values and democracy.

Andreas Vesalius

Andreas Vesalius (Andries van Wesel, 1514–1564), Brussels-born anatomist and Padua professor whose 1543 De humani corporis fabrica, based on his own human dissections, exposed Galen's animal-based anatomical errors and founded modern anatomy.

Andreas von Deimling

Andreas von Deimling is a German neuropathologist who has chaired neuropathology at Heidelberg University since 2007 and developed IDH1-R132H and BRAF-V600E antibodies underpinning WHO glioma classification.

Andreas Wagner

Andreas Wagner is an evolutionary biologist and full professor at the University of Zurich who studies robustness and evolutionary innovation, and who wrote the 2023 book Sleeping Beauties.

Andreas Wallraff

Andreas Wallraff is a physicist and professor of solid state physics at ETH Zurich, known for first observing a single photon interacting with a superconducting circuit and for a loophole-free Bell test.

Andreas Walther

Andreas Walther (born 1980) is a polymer and soft matter chemist, professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since 2020, working on adaptive bioinspired materials and DNA-based synthetic cells.

Andreas Walzer

Andreas Walzer, German track and road cyclist born 1970 in Homburg, Saarland; Olympic gold in the 1992 Barcelona men's team pursuit, 1991 world champion, later ARD commentator and team manager.

Oct 20, 2026

Andreas Wank

Andreas Wank (Andreas Wank-Mockenhaupt, born 1988, Halle (Saale)), German ski jumper, nicknamed Wanki; Olympic team gold Sochi 2014 and silver Vancouver 2010, junior world champion 2008; retired 2019, now a coach in Canada.

Oct 20, 2026

Andreas Wecker

Andreas Wecker, German artistic gymnast born 1970 in Staßfurt, four-time Olympian (1988–2000), 1996 Olympic horizontal bar champion, 1995 world champion, later seed-oil entrepreneur in Oregon.

Andreas Weimann

Andreas (Andi) Weimann, Austrian forward born 1991 in Vienna; Aston Villa, Derby, Bristol City (216 games, 51 goals), Blackburn, Rapid Wien; 26 Austria caps.

Andreas Wellinger

Andreas Wellinger (born 1995, Traunstein) is a German ski jumper for SC Ruhpolding, nicknamed Welle, with 2 Olympic golds and 2 silvers, 19 World Cup wins, and a 2023/24 third-place overall World Cup finish.

Andreas Winter

Andreas Winter (born 1971) is a German quantum information theorist, since 2025 Humboldt Professor at the University of Cologne, known for quantum Shannon theory and counterexamples to additivity conjectures.

Andreas Zezas

Andreas Zezas is a Greek astrophysicist, Professor of Observational Astrophysics at the University of Crete, known for his work on X-ray binary populations in nearby galaxies.

Andreas Zimmer

Andreas Zimmer (born 1959) is a German pharmacologist and molecular psychiatrist who leads the Institute of Molecular Psychiatry at the University of Bonn and studies cannabinoids in aging.

Andreas Zulow

Andreas Zülow is a German amateur boxer, born 1965 in Ludwigslust, who won the lightweight gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics for East Germany.

Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition

Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition was a Swedish 1897 attempt to reach the North Pole by hydrogen balloon; all three men died and were found in 1930.

Andreea Creanga

Andreea A. Creanga is a Romanian-born reproductive and perinatal epidemiologist who led CDC maternal mortality surveillance, won a 2012 Presidential Early Career Award, and directs Maryland's MDMOM program.