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    Industriegebiet-Nord, 19 Hohenstein Düren: 21 Düren-Nord, 22 Düren-Sued Stockum: 31 Stockum-Mitte, 32 Dorney, 33 Stockumer Bruch, 34 Wilhelmshöhe Annen: 41 Tiefendorf...
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    "constant" or the Latin celeritas (meaning 'swiftness, celerity'). In 1856, Wilhelm Eduard Weber and Rudolf Kohlrausch had used c for a different constant...
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    Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1917, he became director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics; he also became a German citizen again, this time...
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  • Perrault French 1696 5+ Grimms' Fairy Tales Kinder- und Hausmärchen Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm German 1812 5+ A Visit from St. Nicholas Clement Clarke Moore English...
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    these estates are still today owned and inhabited by the family. In 1913, Wilhelm II, German Emperor, elevated the respective owners of Heeren Castle to...
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  • October 1596 (buried) 7 months Friedrich Wilhelm II Duke of Saxe-Altenburg 12 February 1603 Friedrich Wilhelm I Duke of Saxe-Weimar 7 July 1602 7 months...
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    Prince-electors as Electors Palatine.[citation needed] Under the art-loving Johann Wilhelm II (r. 1690–1716), a vast art gallery, with a huge selection of paintings...
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    proportional to their distance, formalizing an observation made earlier by Carl Wilhelm Wirtz. Unaware of Friedmann's work, in 1927 Belgian astronomer Georges...
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  • force law with the established laws of electrodynamics, like those of Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Bernhard Riemann and James Clerk Maxwell...
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    in 1889, and George Frederick Charles Searle in 1897, German physicists Wilhelm Wien in 1900 and Max Abraham in 1902, and the Dutch physicist Hendrik Antoon...
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    Lemaître–Tolman Taub–NUT Milne Robertson–Walker Oppenheimer–Snyder pp-wave van Stockum dust Weyl−Lewis−Papapetrou Hartle–Thorne Scientists Einstein Lorentz Hilbert...
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  • Book, Just Tricking, The 13-Storey Treehouse, Treasure Fever! Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (1785–1863 and 1786–1859) – Grimm's Fairy Tales Maria Gripe (1923–2007)...
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    representations Galilean group representations Scientists Sophus Lie Henri Poincaré Wilhelm Killing Élie Cartan Hermann Weyl Claude Chevalley Harish-Chandra Armand...
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    supported the idea of absolute time, while his contemporary Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz maintained that time is only a relation between events and it cannot...
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    dimensionality of the universe is special is first attributed to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who in the Discourse on Metaphysics suggested that the world is...
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    directly measured before Maxwell's equations, in an 1855 experiment by Wilhelm Eduard Weber and Rudolf Kohlrausch. They charged a leyden jar (a kind of...
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  • Wilding (b. 1943, Paraguay/United States), wr. in English & artist Kate Wilhelm (1928–2018, United States), fiction wr. Kim Wilkins (b. 1966, Australia)...
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    its predecessor. The concept of a "general" theory of the subject echoes Wilhelm Ostwald's textbook on "General Chemistry", which Einstein cited in 1901...
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    1090/chel/365. ISBN 978-0-8218-4417-5. MR 2394158. Zbl 1142.53003. Klingenberg, Wilhelm P. A. (1995). Riemannian geometry. De Gruyter Studies in Mathematics. Vol...
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  • Germany, d/f/p) Lambert Schlechter (born 1941, Luxembourg, p/f/nf) August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767–1845, Germany, p/nf) Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829, Germany...
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    writings. According to Sieroka, Weyl also finds influences from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's theory of matter (the theory of monads, etc.) and German idealism...
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    Germany and had elaborate correspondence with the grandfather, Kaiser Wilhelm II. Maurice Frankenhuis would correspond with state and religious leaders...
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    villas. The oldest parts of Düsseldorf are to be found in Golzheim and Stockum, but the Golzheim area was not so built-up that it could not accommodate...
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    the classification of simple Lie algebras was essentially completed by Wilhelm Killing. In 1913 the theorem of highest weight for representations of simple...
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    Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie, Volume 22 (in German). Wilhelm Engelmann. 1894. pp. 151–152. Aubert, V.S. (1889). La République Sud -...
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    16 Philip K. Dick, American science fiction author (d. 1982) Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler, German landowner, politician (CDU), manager and businessman...
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  • Samand Siabandov, Soviet Red Army writer (d. 1989) 1910 – Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch mathematician, pilot, and academic (d. 1944) 1910 – Pauli Murray...
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  • (1971–1974). Little Karim, 71, Pakistani mountaineer, liver cancer. Friedrich-Wilhelm Kiel, 87, German politician, member of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg...
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  • between 1870 and 1900 many scientists used the electrodynamic laws of Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Bernhard Riemann to produce stable...
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