Famous People with Name Walther

Walther Flemming            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Walther Flemming: was a German biologist and the founder of cytogenetics.Flemming trained in medicine at the University of Rostock, graduating in 1868. Afterwards. he served in 1870-1871 as a military physician in the Franco-Prussian War. From 1873 to 1876 he worked as a teacher at the University of Prague. In 1876 he accepted a post as a professor of anatomy at the University of Kiel. He became the director of the Anatomical Institute and stayed there until his death.Making use of aniline dyes he was able to find a structure which strongly absorbed basophilic dyes, which he named chromatin. He identified that chromatin was correlated to threadlike structures in the cell nucleus— the chromosomes (meaning coloured body), which were thus named later on by German anatomist Wilhelm von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836-1921).

Walther Penck            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Walther Penck: was an Austrian geographer, born in Vienna as son of geographer Albrecht Penck.Walther Penck worked 1912-1914 in Argentina as a geographer, and is best known for his contributions to the field of geomorphology. In particular he opposed key elements of the Davisian cycle of erosion, concluding that the process of uplift and denudation occur simultaneously, at a gradual and continuous rate.[1] His book, Morphological Analysis of Landforms, was published posthumously in 1924 by his father.

Walther Ritz            Origin/Culture/Country: Swiss

Walther Ritz: was a Swiss theoretical physicist.His father, Rafael Ritz, a native of Valais, was a well-known landscape and interior scenes artist. His mother was the daughter of the engineer Noerdlinger of Tübingen. Ritz studied in Zurich and Göttingen. He is most famous for his work with Johannes Rydberg on the Rydberg-Ritz formula. Ritz is also known for the variational method named after him, the Ritz method. Ritz died in 1909, at the age of 31. According to Forman's Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Ritz contracted tuberculosis in 1900, which led to his death in 1909. According to Ritz's collected works (Œuvres) the disease was pleurisy.

Walther Bensemann            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Walther Bensemann: was a German pioneer of football and founder of the country's major sports publication, Kicker. Bensemann was born in Berlin, Brandenburg, as the son of a Jewish banker. During his time at private school in Montreux, Switzerland, he learned about the new

Walther Meienreis            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Walther Meienreis: was a German Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual épée and team sabre events at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Martina Walther            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Martina Walther: is a German rower.

Bernhard Walther            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Bernhard Walther: was a German merchant, humanist and astronomer based in Nuremberg, Germany. The merchant was a man of large means, which he devoted to scientific pursuits. When Regiomontanus settled in Nuremberg in 1471, they worked in collaboration to build an observatory and a printing press. After the death of Regiomontanus in 1476 at Rome, Walther bought his instruments and continued the observation of planets till his death. His house, purchased in 1509 by Albrecht Dürer, is nowadays a museum.

Arne Roy Walther            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Arne Roy Walther: is a Norwegian diplomat.He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1971. He was the Norwegian ambassador to India from 1994 to 1999, and to Austria from 2002 to 2003. He was the secretary general of the International Energy Forum from 2004 to 2009, and Norwegian ambassador to Japan from 2009.

Aage Walther            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Aage Walther: was a Danish gymnast who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.