Famous People with Name Lenz

Sandy Lenz            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sandy Lenz: is a former American figure skater. Lenz was not selected to compete at the 1980 World Championships, but she continued to compete and won the St. Ivel international in Great Britain in the fall of 1980. However, she was then forced to retire due to inju

Josef "Sepp" Lenz            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Josef "Sepp" Lenz: is a West German luger who competed in the 1960s. He won the gold medal in the men's singles event at the 1962 FIL European Luge championships in Weissenbach, Austria. Lenz competed in the men's singles event at the 1964 Winter Olympics, but was severely injured at the luge track in Igls and did not compete as a result.

Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz: was a Russian physicist of Baltic German ethnicity. He is most noted for formulating Lenz's law in electrodynamics in 1833. After completing his secondary education in 1820, Lenz studied chemistry and physics at the University of Dorpat. He traveled with the navigator Otto von Kotzebue on his third expedition around the world from 1823 to 1826. On the voyage Lenz studied climatic conditions and the physical properties of seawater. The results have been published in "Memoirs of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences" (1831).

Wilhelm Lenz            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Wilhelm Lenz: was a German physicist, most notable for his invention of the Ising model[1] and for his application of the Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector to the (old) quantum mechanical treatment of hydrogen-like atoms.[2] In 1906, Lenz graduated from the Klinger-Oberralschule, a non-classical secondary school in Frankfurt-am-Main, and went to study mathematics and physics at the University of Göttingen. From 1908 to 1911, Lenz studied under Arnold Sommerfeld, at the University of Munich, and he was granted his doctorate[3] on March 2, 1911. Upon graduation, he stayed on at the University, became Sommerfeld’s assistant on April 1, 1911, and he completed his Habilitation on February 20, 1914, becoming a Privatdozent on April 4, 1914.

Otto Lenz            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Otto Lenz: was a German politician (CDU), serving from 1951 – 1953 as Head of the Chancellery and from 1953 until his death as a member of the German Bundestag. He was also a signatory of the founding declaration of the CDU.He became director of the Ministry’s press