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Notable Chess Players

Gary Kasparov See also Deep Blue, Chess Computer The Turk Wolfgang von Kempelen People in the News Recent Obituaries Related Links Biographies by Category Alekhine, Alexander,…

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

(Encyclopedia) Goethe, Johann Wolfgang vonGoethe, Johann Wolfgang vonyōˈhän vôlfˈgäng fən göˈtə [key], 1749–1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist, b. Frankfurt. One of the great…

Max Von Sydow

(Carl Adolf Von Sydow)actor, directorBorn: 4/10/1929Birthplace: Lund, Sweden Versatile character actor equally at home in Hollywood films, like Conan the Barbarian (1981), on TV as in Kojak: The…

Diane Von Furstenberg

fashion designerBorn: 1946 Von Furstenberg is the creator of the now-classic V-neck wraparound knit dress. During the 1970s, when Von Furstenberg introduced the slinky dress, she was selling about…

Ketterle, Wolfgang

(Encyclopedia) Ketterle, Wolfgang, 1957–, German physicist, Ph.D. Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany, 1986. He has been a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology…

Kapp, Wolfgang

(Encyclopedia) Kapp, WolfgangKapp, Wolfgangvôlfˈgäng käp [key], 1858–1922, German right-wing politician. In 1920 he led the uprising known as the Kapp putsch, an armed revolt in Berlin aimed at…

Köhler, Wolfgang

(Encyclopedia) Köhler, WolfgangKöhler, Wolfgangköˈlər [key], 1887–1967, American psychologist, b. Estonia, Ph.D. Univ. of Berlin, 1909. From 1913 to 1920 he was director of a research station on…

Paul, Wolfgang

(Encyclopedia) Paul, Wolfgang, 1913–93, German physicist, Ph.D. Technical Univ., Berlin, 1939. A professor at the Univ. of Bonn from 1952, Paul developed an ion-trap technique (known as the Paul trap…

Pauli, Wolfgang

(Encyclopedia) Pauli, WolfgangPauli, Wolfgangvôlfˈgäng pouˈlē [key], 1900–1958, Austro-American physicist, b. Vienna. He studied first with A. Sommerfeld at Munich and then with Niels Bohr at…

Sawallisch, Wolfgang

(Encyclopedia) Sawallisch, Wolfgang, 1923–2013, German conductor, b. Munich. A specialist in the classical German repertoire, Sawallisch began conducting as a teenager. After World War II, he became…