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Walter, Ulrich

Prof. Prof. h.c. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. h.c. Ulrich Walter, physicist, science astronaut

Ulrich Walter was born in 1954 in Iserlohn (North Rhine-Westphalia). After studying physics at the University of Cologne he spent one year at the US research laboratory Argonne National Laboratories, Chicago, then one year as a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley. From there he was appointed to the German astronaut team in 1987 and trained until his shuttle mission D-2 (26 April to 6 May 1993) at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne-Porz and at NASA's Space Centre in Houston.

Walther, Helmut

Helmut Walther, editor and author

Helmut Walther was born in Nuremberg in 1947. After his graduation at the Melanchthon-Gymnasium in Nuremberg he studied law at Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen.

Welpe, Isabell

Prof. Dr. Isabell Welpe, economist

Isabell M. Welpe holds the chair of strategy and organization at the Munich Technical University. She studied management at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. She was visiting professor at the Keck Graduate Institute in Claremont, USA, and postdoctoral fellow at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

Wetz, Franz Josef

Prof. Dr. Franz Josef Wetz, philosopher

Franz Josef Wetz was born in 1958. After studying philosophy, German studies, and theology in Mainz, Frankfurt/M., and Giessen, he received his PhD in 1989 on "Das nackte Daß - Zur Frage der Faktizität" (On the Question of Facticity). He received the dissertation prize of the Justus Liebig University Giessen for this work. His habilitation in philosophy followed in 1992. From 1981 to 1993 he was employed as a research assistant at the Center for Philosophy and Foundations of Science at the University of Giessen.

Wimberger, Gerhard

Prof. Gerhard Wimberger, composer/conductor, deceased 2016

Gerhard Wimberger was born on August 30, 1923, in Vienna. At the Mozarteum in Salzburg he studied composition with Cesar Bresgen and Johann Nepomuk David, as well as conducting with Clemens Krauss and Bernhard Paumgartner. In 1947/48 he was répétiteur at the Vienna Volksoper and from 1948 to 1951 Kapellmeister at the Salzburg Landestheater. From 1953 to 1981 he was head of the conducting class, and from 1969 to 1991 he was a professor at the Mozarteum.

Wuketits, Franz M.

Prof. Dr. Franz Wuketits, evolution theorist/zoologist, deceased 2018

Franz Wuketits was born in 1955. He studied zoology, palaeontology, philosophy, and philosophy of science, received his PhD in 1978 and did his habilitation at the University of Vienna in 1980. From 1979 he was also active in teaching (philosophy of science with a focus on biosciences), as well as lecturing at the University of Graz and at the Vienna University of Technology.

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