Famous People with Name Heinz

Heinz Ludwig Fraenkel-Conrat            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Heinz Ludwig Fraenkel-Conrat: was a biochemist, famous for his viral research.Due to the rise of Nazism in Germany he left for Scotland in 1933 and finished his PhD at the University of Edinburgh (1936). After completing his doctorate, he emigrated to the United States, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1941. He worked at a number of institutes before joining the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 1952 where he remained until his death.His most noted research was on the tobacco mosaic virus. He discovered that the genetic control of viral reproduction was RNA and that it is carried in the nucleic core of each virus. In 1955 he and biophysicist Robley Williams showed that a functional virus could be created out of purified RNA and a protein coat. In 1960 he announced the complete sequencing of the 158 amino acids in the virus.

Heinz Nowarra            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Heinz Nowarra: was a German chess master.He tied for 4-6th in Berlin City Chess Championship in 1938 (Kurt Richter won), shared 1st with Berthold Koch and Paul Mross at Berlin 1938 (GER-ch qual),[2] tied for 15-16th at Bad Oeynhausen 1938 (the 5th GER-ch, Erich Eliskase

Heinz Barwich            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Heinz Barwich: was a German nuclear physicist. He was deputy director of the Siemens Research Laboratory II in Berlin. At the close of World War II, he went to the Soviet Union for ten years to work on the Soviet atomic bomb project, for which he received a Stalin Prize. He was director of the Zentralinstitut für Kernforschung (Central Institute for Nuclear Research) at Rossendorf near Dresden, and he was director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia. For a few years, he was an agent-in-place in Russia for a Western intelligence agency, and he defected to the West in 1964.

Heinz Ludwig Ansbacher            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Heinz Ludwig Ansbacher: was an American psychologist.[1] He attended seminars in Adler’s home, sparking his interest in psychology. Through Adler, he met Rowena Ripin, who had her doctoral degree from the University of Vienna. They were married a year later. Although he had no bachelors degree, Ansbacher was admitted to the doctoral program at Columbia University. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on the perception of number as affected by the monetary value of objects, under R.S. Woodward, graduating in 1937. This work concerning the importance of context was cited in the 1939 American Psychological Association Presidential Address.

Heinz Steinberger            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Heinz Steinberger: is a former ice speed skater from Austria, who represented his native country in two Winter Olympics (1976 and 1984), starting Innsbruck, Austria.