Famous People with Name Adolf

Adolf Jäger            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Adolf Jäger: was a German amateur football (soccer) player who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. Jäger played with Altona 93 and would had score over 2000 goals in over 700 amateur matches. However, like many others there is no proof or evidence of this claim.He was a member of the German Olympic squad and played one match in the main tournament and scored the only goal for Germany in the main tournament.

Adolf Krzyk            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Adolf Krzyk: was a Polish soccer goalkeeper.Krzyk represented both Brygada Czestochowa and Polish National Team (where his main rival for starting position was Edward Madejski). Altogether, played 6 games in Polish jersey, allowing 11 goals. His debut took place September 12, 1937 in Warsaw (Poland - Denmark 3-1). Krzyk's last game game in National Team was the 4-2 victory over Hungary (August 27, 1939, Warsaw).

Adolf Kramer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Adolf Kramer: was a Silesian German chess master.Kramer also participated several times in Silesian Chess Congress. He shared 1st with Ertelt and beat him in play-off at Beuthen (Bytom) 1923, shared 1st with Bergmann and lost to him in play-off at Bad Salzbrunn (Szczawno Zdrój) 1924, took 4th at Bad Altheide (Polanica Zdrój) 1926 (Fritz Sämisch won), took 5th at Gleiwitz (Gliwice) 1927 (Ludwig Schmitt and Heinz Foerder won), and took 4th at Reichenbach (Dzierzoniów) 1928 (Gottlieb Machate won).

Adolf (Ado) Kraemer (Krämer)            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Adolf (Ado) Kraemer (Krämer): was a German chess master and problemist.He tied for 2nd-3rd, behind Paul Krüger, at Bad Salzuflen 1925, took 6th at Giessen 1928 (Richard Réti won), and took 9th at Dortmund 1928 (Fritz Sämisch won). and tied for 2nd-3rd, behind Krüger, at Bad Salzuflen 1930.

Adolf Eugen Fick            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Adolf Eugen Fick: was a German physiologist usually credited with the invention of contact lenses. He earned doctorate at Marburg in 1851.In 1845 he introduced Fick's law of diffusion, which governs the diffusion of a gas across a fluid membrane. In 1870 he was the first to devise a technique for measuring cardiac output, called the Fick Principle. In 1887 he constructed and fitted what was to be considered the first successful model of a contact lens: an afocal scleral contact shell made from heavy brown glass, which he tested first on rabbits, then on himself, and lastly on a small group of volunteers. His idea was advanced independently by several innovators in the years that followed.