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Heinkel He 59 The Heinkel He 59 was a German military aircraft designed in 1930 resulting from a requirement for a torpedo bomber and reconnaissance warplane able to operate with equal facility on wheeled landing gear or twin-float alighting gear.
Heinkel He 60 The Heinkel He 60 was a biplane reconnaissance seaplane designed for use from Kriegsmarine warships of the 1930s. Obsolete and relegated to training roles by the outbreak of World War II, it nevertheless saw action with Spanish Nationalist forces during the Civil War.
Heinkel He 70 The Heinkel He 70 Blitz was designed in the early 1930s to serve as a fast mailplane for Deutsche Lufthansa. Although useful, it had a relatively brief commercial career before it was replaced by types which could carry more passengers.
Heinkel HeS 011 The Heinkel HeS 011 was an advanced World War II jet engine built by Heinkel-Hirth. It featured a then-unique compressor arrangement, combining a three-stage axial compressor with a "diagonal" stage similar to a centrifugal compressor, along with a low-compression impeller in the intake to smooth out airflow.
Heinkel HeS 3 The HeS 3 was the world's first operational jet engine to power an aircraft. Designed by Hans von Ohain while working at Heinkel, the engine first flew as the primary power of the Heinkel He 178 on 27 August 1939.
Heinkel HeS 30 The HeS 30 was an early jet engine, originally designed by Adolf MĂĽller at Junkers, but eventually built and tested at Heinkel. It was possibly the best of the "Class I" engines, a class that included the more famous BMW 003 and Junkers Jumo 004, but work on the design was stopped by the RLM as they felt the Heinkel team should put all their efforts into other designs.
Heinkel HeS 40 The Heinkel HeS 40 was an experimental constant-volume jet engine designed by Adoph MĂĽller's team at Heinkel starting some time in 1940 or 41. It was based on the mechanical layout of the HeS 30, but replaced the conventional flame cans with oversized ones including large poppet valves that sealed off the chambers during firing.
Heinkel HeS 8 The HeS 8 (prefix being an abbreviation for "Heinkel Strahltriebwerk"-Heinkel Jet Engine Works) was an early jet engine designed by Hans von Ohain while working at Heinkel. It was the first jet engine to be financially supported by the RLM, bearing the official name 109-001.
Heinkel Kabine The Heinkel Kabine was a Microcar with initially a 175cc, then a 204cc and later a 198cc single cylinder four stroke engines derived from the famous Tourist scooter. It was built between 1956 and 1965 in Germany (Speyer), Argentina, Ireland (Dundalk) and England (as Trojan 200 Cabincruiser).
Heinkel Wolfe and Yumie Takagi Heinkel Wolfe and Yumie Takagi are a pair of Catholic assassins who work for the Iscariot organisation in the manga Hellsing. Heinkel Wolfe is more cool-headed than the violent and impulsive Yumie, making her an excellent partner for the nun.
Heinlein Prize for Advances in Space Commercialization The Heinlein Prize for Advances in Space Commercialization, generally known as the Heinlein Prize, was founded in 1988 to reward individuals who make practical contributions to the commercialization of space. The Heinlein Prize, offers a cash award of $500,000 to one or more individuals for practical accomplishments in the field of commercial space activities rewarded by the International Aeronautical Congress in Bremen, Germany.
Heinlein Society The Heinlein Society was founded by Virginia Heinlein on behalf of her husband, science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein, to "pay forward" the legacy of the writer to future generations of "Heinlein's Children.
Heino murders The Heino murders were a double murder case in Finland at August 24 2001 when 16-year old Saku Pyry Salo, 17 year-olds Sampsa Valtteri Mäntylä and Jani Petteri Pesola and 18-year old Markus Aarre Walter Österman murdered a businessman Martti Heino and his wife Elise Heino in Loppi.
Heino Puuste Heino Puuste (born 7 September 1955) is a retired javelin thrower who represented the USSR and later Estonia. He finished fourth at the 1980 Summer Olympics and at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics, and won a silver medal at the 1982 European Championships in Athletics.
Heinosuke Gosho Heinosuke Gosho (五所 平之助: Gosho Heinosuke, 1902 - 1981) was a Japanese film director who directed Japan's first talkie, The Neighbor's Wife and Mine, in 1931. His other films include 1936, about the failed coup attempt in Japan which commenced on February 26 1936.
Heinouchi Yoshimasa Heinouchi Yoshimasa (平内ĺ‰ć”ż) was a famous master carpenter, in Edo period Japan, and was the progenitor of a long line of master carpenters. With his son Masanobu he wrote a manual of construction and building design, Shoumei (ĺŚ ćŽ) in 1608.
HeinOnline HeinOnline is an internet service launched in 2000 that is a source of legal information, much like Westlaw and LexisNexis. Like those services, use of HeinOnline requires a subscription, although most law schools provide access to students for free.
Heinrad Heinrad (sometimes spelt Heinlad) is a toy from the Japanese Transformers series - Beast Wars Neo, released in 1999 by Takara. 8 inches in height; the most notable feature is the fully-working analog alarm clock in its belly.
Heinrich (crater) Heinrich is a small lunar impact crater on the Mare Imbrium, a lunar mare in the northwest quadrant of the Moon's near side. It is a circular, bowl-shaped formation very similar to many other comparably-sized craters on the Moon.
Heinrich Abeken Heinrich Abeken (August 19 1809 – August 8 1872), German theologian and Prussian Privy Legation Councillor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin, was born and raised in the city of Osnabrück as a son of a merchant, he was incited to a higher education by the example of his uncle Bernhard Rudolf Abeken. After finishing the college in Osnabrück, he moved in 1827 to visit the University of Berlin to study theology.
Heinrich Adolf Rinne Heinrich Adolf Rinne (January 24, 1819 - July 26, 1868) was a German otologist who was born in Vlotho an der Weser. He received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen and also practiced medicine in the city of Göttingen.
Heinrich Balss Heinrich Balss (3 June 1886 – 17 September 1957) was a German zoologist, specialising in Crustacea, especially decapods. He was chief conservator at the Zoologische Staatssammlung (State Zoology Collection) of the University of Munich, and wrote the sections on decapods and stomatopods in Heinrich Georg Bronn's seminal work "Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs" ('Classes and Orders of the Animal Kingdom').
Heinrich Barth Heinrich Barth (1821-1865), German explorer, was born at Hamburg on February 16 1821, and educated at Berlin University, where he graduated in 1844. He had already visited Italy and Sicily and had formed a plan to journey through the Mediterranean countries.
Heinrich Bär Heinz "Pritzl" Bär (21 March 1913 - 28 April 1957) was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace who served through the whole of World War II. He had a total of 221 victories,Some older sources claims he got 220 victories, but 221 seems to be correct based on his log-book and personal file.
Heinrich Bärmann Heinrich Joseph Bärmann (also spelled Baermann) (1784-1847) was a clarinet virtuoso of the Romantic era who is generally considered as being not only an outstanding performer of his time, but highly influential in the creation of several composers' compositions.
Heinrich Beitzke Heinrich Beitzke (1798-1867) was a German politician and historian, born at Muttrin (Pomerania). He served as a volunteer in the campaign of 1815, studied at the military schools of Coblenz and Mainz, entered the army as an officer in 1817, and retired in 1845 with the rank of major.
Heinrich Bolleter Heinrich Bolleter (born May 13, 1941, ZĂĽrich, Switzerland) was from 1989 to 2006 the bishop of the United Methodist Church of Central and Southern Europe which comprises the countries Albania, Algeria, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Switzerland, and Tunisia.
Heinrich Class Heinrich Claß (* February 29, 1868 in Alzey, †April 16, 1953 in Jena) was a German right-wing politician and president of the Pan-German League from 1908 to 1939. He is commonly known for his books about far-right policy, written under the pseudonym Daniel Frymann or Einhart.
Heinrich Dressel Heinrich Dressel (June 16 1845—July 17 1920) was a German archaeologist. He is best known for several books on Latin inscriptions, and he is the discoverer of the Duenos inscription, one of the oldest extant examples of Old Latin writing.
Heinrich event Heinrich events, named for paleoclimatologist Hartmut Heinrich, are abrupt episodes during the last glacial. Their principal "footprint" is in layers of ice-rafted detritus at intervals in sediment cores from the North Atlantic, but other indications are seen near-globally.
Heinrich Ehrler Heinrich Ehrler (September 14, 1917 - April 4, 1945) was a German World War II fighter ace who served in the Luftwaffe from 1940 until the end of the war. Heinrich Ehrler is a relatively unknown German Ace, as his flying was mostly done on the Northern Front.
Heinrich Ernst von Beyrich Heinrich Ernst von Beyrich (1815-1896), German geologist, was born at Berlin on the 31st of August 1815, and educated at the university in that city, and afterwards at Bonn, where he studied under Goldfuss and Noggerath. He obtained his degree of Ph.
Heinrich Friedrich Weber Heinrich Friedrich Weber (1843-1912) was born in the town of Magdala, near Weimar, son of a merchant. Around 1861 he entered the University of Jena, where Ernst Abbe became the first of two physicists who decisively influenced his career (Weiss 1912, pp.
Heinrich Göbel Heinrich Göbel, or later: Henry Goebel (April 20, 1818 - December 4, 1893), born in Germany, was a precision mechanic and inventor, an early pioneer who independently developed designs for an incandescent light bulb. He married Sophie Lübke in 1844 and, at the age of 31 (in 1849), they emigrated to New York City, living there until his death.
Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde Heinrich Joseph Johannes, Graf von Bellegarde (or sometimes Heinrich von Bellegarde), (August 29, 1756 – 1845), Austrian Generalfeldmarschall and statesman, was born at Dresden, and for a short time served in the Saxon army.
Heinrich Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten Heinrich Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten (15 October 1882 - 14 September 1944) was a German major general and German Resistance fighter in the July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia.
Heinrich Gross Heinrich Gross (November 14, 1915 – December 15, 2005) was an Austrian psychiatrist, medical doctor and neurologist, best known for his proven involvement in the killing of at least nine children with physical, mental and/or emotional/behavioral characteristics considered "unclean" by the Nazi regime. His role in hundreds of other unproven cases of infanticide is unclear.
Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (Leipzig 1823-1889) was an ornithologist, botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century. His father Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (author of Icones Florae Germanicae et Helveticae) was a well-known botanist.
Heinrich Heine Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (born Chaim Harry Heine, December 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was a journalist, an essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets. He is remembered chiefly for selections of his lyric poetry, many of which were set to music in the form of lieder (art songs) by Germanic composers.
Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) in Germany is named after the German poet and political thinker Heinrich Heine, who was born in Düsseldorf in 1797. Since 1965 it has been a fully-fledged university, consisting today of faculties of law, medicine, philosophy, mathematics and natural sciences, and economics.
Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope The Submillimeter Telescope (SMT), formerly known as the Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope, is a submillimeter wavelength radio telescope located on Mount Graham, Arizona. It is a 10m dish inside a building to protect it from bad weather that can be completely rolled away when the telescope is in use.
Heinrich Hirschsprung Heinrich Hirschsprung (February 7, 1836-1908), a Danish Jew of German heritage, was an arts patron and, together with his brother Bernhard Hirschsprung (1834-1909), ran a tobacco manufacturing plant. He was the son of Abraham Marcus (1793-1871) and Petrea Hirschsprung née Hertz (1804-1891).
Heinrich Hoffmann Heinrich Hoffmann (October 12 1885 in FĂĽrth - December 11 1957 in Munich) was a German photographer, who is best known for his numerous pictures of Adolf Hitler. He joined the NSDAP in 1920 and was chosen personally by its new leader Hitler as his official photographer.
Heinrich Hoffmann (author) Heinrich Hoffmann (June 13 1809 in Frankfurt am Main - September 20 1894 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German psychiatrist, who also wrote some short works including Der Struwwelpeter, an illustrated book on misbehaving children.
Heinrich Hollreiser Heinrich Hollreiser (June 24, 1913 - July 24, 2006) was a German conductor. Born in Munich, he attended the State Academy of Music there, and went on to serve as the conductor at the opera houses in Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, Mannheim, and Duisburg.
Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher (November 15, 1757 in Glückstadt, Holstein – December 9, 1830), was a Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy at the University of Copenhagen. Schumacher carried out significant research work on molluscs and assigned systematic names to many taxa.
Heinrich Christian Schwan Heinrich Christian Schwan (April 5 1819 - May 29 1905), a German Lutheran pastor, served as a missionary in Brazil, a pastor in Cleveland, Ohio, and Central District President and General President in the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. Schwan is credited with being the first pastor to erect a Christmas tree in an American church sanctuary and is also known for the Missouri Synod's first exposition of Martin Luther's Small Catechism.
Heinrich Isaac Heinrich Isaac (also Henricus, Arrigo d'Ugo, and Arrigo il Tedesco) (around 1450 – March 26, 1517) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He is regarded as one of the most significant contemporaries of Josquin des Prez, and had an especially large influence on the subsequent development of music in Germany.
Heinrich Jacoby Heinrich Jacoby (1889–1964), originally a musician, was a German educator whose teaching was based on developing sensitivity and awareness. A great role in his researches played the collaboration with the colleague Elsa Gindler, whom he met in 1924 in Berlin.
Heinrich Jalowetz Heinrich Jalowetz (1882-1946) was an Austrian musicologist and conductor who settled in the USA. He was one of the core members of what became known as the Second Viennese School in the orbit of Arnold Schoenberg.
Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger (1819 - 1883) was a leading German Catholic theologian and author of the Enchiridion Symbolorum et Definitionum (Handbook of Creeds and Definitions) commonly referred to simply as "Denzinger".
Heinrich Julius Holtzmann Heinrich Julius Holtzmann (May 7, 1832 - 1910), German Protestant theologian, son of Karl Julius Holtzmann (1804-1877), was born at Karlsruhe, where his father ultimately became prelate and counsellor to the supreme consistory.
Heinrich Khunrath Heinrich Khunrath (circa 1560-September 9, 1605), or Dr Henricus Khunrath as he was also called, was a famous physician, Hermetic philosopher, and alchemist. His most famous work is the Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae (Amphitheater of Eternal Wisdom), a work on the mystical aspects of alchemy, which contains the oft-seen engraving entitled "The First Stage of the Great Work," better-known as the "Alchemist's Laboratory.
Heinrich KlĂĽver Heinrich Kluver (May 25, 1897 - February 8, 1979) was a notable figure in the fields of animal behavior and Gestalt psychology, largely credited with introducing the latter to the United States in the early twentieth century. He collaborated most often and fruitfully with Paul Bucy and made various contributions to neuroanatomy throughout his career.
Heinrich Kreutz Heinrich Carl Friedrich Kreutz (September 8 1854 – July 13 1907) was a German astronomer, most notable for his studies of the orbits of several sungrazing comets, which revealed that they were all related objects, produced when a very large sun-grazing comet fragmented several hundred years previously. The group is now known as the Kreutz Sungrazers, and has produced some of the brightest comets ever seen.
Heinrich Lammasch Heinrich Lammasch (May 21 1853, Seitenstetten - January 6 1920, Salzburg) was an Austrian jurist who served as Minister-President of Austria (or Cisleithania) in 1918. The son of a notary, he was the last Minister-President, as the First Austrian Republic began after his rule with the abolition of the monarchy.
Heinrich Lübbe Heinrich Lübbe (12 January, 1884–14 March, 1940) was a German engineer working for Dutch aircraft designer Anthony Fokker during the First World War, invented the interrupter gear which enabled a machine gun to fire through the arc of a fighter aircraft's propeller without the bullets striking the blades.
Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (December 11 1911 – April 18 1986) was a German naval officer, and a submarine commander during World War II. He was among the top ten Aces of the Deep during the Second Battle of the Atlantic against the Allies, in terms of tonnage of merchant ships sunk.
Heinrich Liebe Fregattenkapitän Heinrich Liebe (29 January 1908 - 27 July 1997) was a highly decorated German naval officer who served as a submarine commander during World War II until transferred to OKM (Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine, German Navy High Command) in July 1941. In August 1944 he was further transferred to the staff of the Commander-in-Chief of Submarines (Befehlshaber der Unterseeboote or BdU), Hans-Georg von Friedeburg.
Heinrich Mann Luiz (Ludwig) Heinrich Mann (March 27, 1871 – March 12, 1950) was a German novelist who wrote works with social themes whose attacks on the authoritarian and increasingly militaristic nature of post-Weimar German society led to his exile in 1933.
Heinrich Mann Prize The Heinrich Mann Prize (German: Heinrich-Mann-Preis) is a literary award given annually by the Berlin Academy of Art (formerly the Academy of Art of Communist East Germany). The prize given for works with socially critical aspects in a character that would honor Heinrich Mann.
Heinrich Marschner Heinrich Marschner (Zittau, 16 August, 1795–Hannover, 16 December, 1861), was a German composer of 23 operas and singspiels who was a rival of Carl Maria von Weber and friend of Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Marschner was widely regarded as one of the most important composers in Europe from about 1830 until the end of the 19th century.
Heinrich MĂĽller Heinrich MĂĽller (born April 28, 1900, Munich; date of death unknown, last seen leaving the FĂĽhrerbunker, April 29, 1945), a German police official, was head of the Gestapo, the political police of Nazi Germany, and played a leading role in the planning and execution of the Holocaust. He disappeared in May 1945 and remains the only senior figure of the Nazi regime who was never captured or confirmed to have died.
Heinrich Melchior MĂĽhlenberg Henry Melchior MĂĽhlenberg (6 September 1711 in Einbeck, October 1787 in Providence, Pennsylvania (today Trappe, PA) is considered as a founder of the German Lutherian municipality in British North America in the 18th century.
Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus (1796-1862) was a German philosopher best known for his exegetical work on philosophy, such as his characterisation of Hegel's dialectic as positing a triad of thesis-antithesis-synthesis.
Heinrich Mucke Heinrich Mucke (April 9, 1806-January 16, 1891) was a prominent Realist painter known for his liturgical and genre paintings as well as frescoes, which still adorn some of Germany's ancient castles and cathedrals. His paintings are hung today in Germany's leading museums, including the National Gallery Berlin, Breslau Museum and the Brunn Museum.
Heinrich Nordhoff Heinrich Nordhoff (January 6 1899 – April 12 1968) was a German engineer famous for his leadership of the Volkswagen company as it was rebuilt after World War II. He is usually referred to as Heinz Nordhoff.
Heinrich Paulus Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus (born 1 September 1761, died 10 August 1851) was a German theologian and critic of the Christian bible. He is known as a rationalist who offered natural explanations for the biblical miracles of Jesus.
Heinrich ReuĂź von Plauen Heinrich ReuĂź von Plauen (died 2 January 1470) was the 32nd Grand Master of the Teutonic Order for a short time between 1469 and 1470. He was the nephew of the previous Grand Master, Ludwig von Erlichshausen and a distant relative to the 27th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, Heinrich von Plauen.
Heinrich Rudolf Hermann Friedrich von Gneist Heinrich Rudolf Hermann Friedrich von Gneist (13 August 1816 – 22 July 1895), German jurist and politician, was born at Berlin, the son of a judge attached to the Kammergericht (court of appeal) in that city.
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 - January 1, 1894) was the German physicist and mechanician for whom the hertz, an SI unit, is named. In 1888, he was the first to demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic radiation by building an apparatus to produce UHF radio waves.
Heinrich Schütz Heinrich Schütz (October 8 (JC), 1585 Köstritz - November 6, 1672 Dresden) was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and is often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi. He wrote what is thought to be the first German opera, Dafne, performed at Torgau in 1627; however, the music has since been lost.
Heinrich Scherk Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk (27 October, 1798 - 4 October 1885) was a German mathematician notable for his work on minimal surfaces and the distribution of prime numbers. He is also notable as the doctoral advisor of Ernst Kummer.
Heinrich Schiff Heinrich Schiff (born 18th November 1951) is a noted Austrian cellist, much in demand as a soloist with the world's leading chamber ensembles and major orchestras. He is also an internationally renowned conductor.
Heinrich Schliemann Heinrich Schliemann (January 6, 1822 Neubukow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin - December 26, 1890 Naples) was a German treasure hunter, an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer, and an important excavator of Mycenaean sites, such as Troy, Mycenae and Tiryns.
Heinrich Stölzel Heinrich Stölzel (1777-1844) was a horn player who developed some of the first valves for brass instruments. He developed the first valve for a brass instrument, the Stölzel valve, in 1814, and went on to develop various other designs, some jointly with other inventor musicians.
Heinrich von Eckardt Heinrich von Eckardt was the ambassador for the German Empire in Mexico, assuming office around 1915 and spending most of his time as ambassador during World War I. After the departure of the more German supported President Victoriano Huerta in 1914, German sentiment for successor Venustiano Carranza was significantly negative; von Eckardt believed Carranza's government bodies were "prototypes of vulgarity and depravity".
Heinrich von Herzogenberg Heinrich Picot de Peccaduc, Freiherr von Herzogenberg (born in Graz on 10 June 1843, died in Wiesbaden 9 October 1900) was an Austrian composer and conductor descended from a French aristocratic family. He studied law and music in Vienna, the latter including composition under Felix Otto Dessoff.
Heinrich von Kittlitz Friedrich Heinrich Freiherr von Kittlitz (February 16, 1799 - April 10, 1874) was a German artist, naval officer, explorer and naturalist. He was a descendant of a family of old Prussian nobility ("Freiherr" meaning "independent lord" - ranking with a baron).
Heinrich von Kleist Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (October 18, 1777 – November 21, 1811) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature, is named after him.
Heinrich von Ofterdingen Heinrich von Ofterdingen is a famous, quasi-fictional Minnesinger who participated in the Sängerkrieg (Minstrels' contest) on the Wartburg. He is chiefly known by the novel of Novalis of the same name and the role of Tannhäuser in Wagner's opera.
Heinrich von Plötzke Heinrich von Plötzke was an officer of the Teutonic Order during the late 13th and early 14th centuries. Born in Płock in Masovia, Poland, he was the hereditary Duke of Płock but never took the formal title due to the conflict of his family with the ruling Piast dynasty of Poland.
Heinrich von Stephan Heinrich von Stephan (January 7, 1831 - April 8, 1897) was a general post director for the German Empire who reorganized the German postal service. He was integral in the founding of the Universal Postal Union in 1874, and in 1877 introduced the telephone to Germany.
Heinrich Wölfflin Heinrich Wölfflin (June 21 1864 – July 19 1945) was a famous Swiss art critic, whose objective classifying principles ("painterly" vs. "linear" and the like) were influential in the development of formal analysis in the History of art during the 20th century.
Heinrich Weber Heinrich Martin Weber (1842–1913) was a German mathematician who specialized in algebra and number theory. He is best known for his text Lehrbuch der Algebra published in 1895 and it is his work in algebra and number theory.
Heinrich Welker Heinrich Johann Welker (September 9, 1912 in Ingolstadt, Germany – December 25, 1981 in Erlangen, Germany) was a German theoretical and applied physicist who invented the transistron. He did fundamental work in III-V compound semiconductors, and paved the way for microwave semiconductor elements and laser diodes.
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (born January 1814 in BrĂĽnn (Moravia); died October 8, 1865 in Nice) was a Moravian-Jewish violinist and composer. Ernst was widely seen as the outstanding violinist of his time and Paganini's greatest successor.
Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz (born October 6, 1836, Hehlen an der Weser, Braunschweig, Germany; died January 23, 1921, Berlin) was a German anatomist, famous for consolidating the neuron theory of organization of the nervous system and for naming the chromosome. He is also known through two anatomical structures of the human body which bear his name: Waldeyer's gland and Waldeyer's tonsillar ring (the lymphoid tissue ring of the nasopharynx).
Heinrich, count von Brühl Heinrich, count von Brühl (August 13, 1700 – October 28, 1763), German statesman at the court of Saxony, was the son of Johann Moritz von Brühl, a noble who held the office of Oberhofmarschall at the small court of Sachsen-Weissenfels.
Heinrich, Hereditary Prince of Hesse Heinrich Donatus, Hereditary Prince of Hesse (Heinrich Donatus Philipp Umberto) (b. 17 October, 1966) is the eldest son and heir of Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, head of the House of Hesse and his former wife, Princess Tatjana of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg.
Heins & LaFarge The New York-based architectural firm of Heins & LaFarge, composed of Philadelphia-born architect George Lewis Heins (1860–1907) and Christopher Grant LaFarge (1862–1938) - the eldest son of the artist John LaFarge, famous especially for his stained glass panels - were responsible most notably for the original Romanesque-Byzantine east end and crossing of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, and for the original Astor Court buildings of the Bronx Zoo, which formed a complete ensemble reflecting the esthetic of the City Beautiful movement.
Heinsberg (district) Heinsberg is a Kreis (district) in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Viersen, district-free city Mönchengladbach, Neuss, Düren and Aachen, and also the Dutch province Limburg.
Heinsius (crater) Heinsius is an eroded lunar crater that lies in the southwestern part of the Moon. It is located to the northwest of the prominent Tycho crater, and rays from that formation pass to the north and south of Heinsius as well as marking the rim and interior with material.
Heinz Auerswald Heinz Auerswald (July 26 1908 - 1970) was a lawyer and member of the SS in Nazi Germany, which he joined in 1933. He was "Kommissar fĂĽr den jĂĽdischen Wohnbezirk" ("commissioner for the Jewish residential district") in Warsaw from April 1941 to November 1942.
Heinz body Heinz bodies (also referred to as "Heinz-Erhlich bodies") are inclusions within red blood cells composed of denatured hemoglobin. They are named after Robert Heinz (1865-1924) a German physician, who in 1890 described these inclusions in connection with cases of hemolytic anemia.
Heinz Beans Heinz Australia makes food products that are enjoyed by families across Australia. Our family favourites include soups, baked beans, spaghetti, sauces, infant and toddler food, fruit, frozen vegetables, frozen meals, desserts and simple, tasty, sexest, gay, and shitful meal solutions.
Heinz Becker Heinz Reinhard Becker (August 26, 1915 - November 11, 1991) was a Major League Baseball first baseman who played for the Chicago Cubs (1943, 1945-46) and Cleveland Indians (1946-1947). Born in Berlin, Germany, he was one of only 28 German-born players in MLB history.
Heinz Dieterich Heinz Dieterich (born 1943 in Rotenburg) is German political analyst, professor of the Universidad AutĂłnoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. After finishing his studies in Frankfurt/Main and Bremen, since the 1970s Dieterich has lived in Latin America, mostly in Mexico.
Heinz Edelmann Heinz Edelmann is a German illustrator and designer. He was born in 1934 in Czechoslovakia He is a well-known illustrator in Europe, but is probably most famous for his art direction and character designs for the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine.
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