Famous People with Name Wentzel

Gregor Wentzel            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Gregor Wentzel: was a German physicist known for development of quantum mechanics. Wentzel, Hendrik Kramers, and Léon Brillouin developed the Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin approximation in 1926.Wentzel began his university education in mathematics and physics in 1916, at the University of Freiburg. During 1917 and 1918, he served in the armed forces during World War I. He then resumed his education at Freiburg until 1919, when he went to the University of Greifswald. In 1920, he went to the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) to study under Arnold Sommerfeld. Wentzel was awarded his doctorate in 1921 [1] and completed his Habilitation in 1922. He remained at LMU as a Privatdozent until he was called to the University of Leipzig in 1926 as an extraordinarius professor of mathematical physics

Marco Wentzel            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Marco Wentzel: is a rugby union player, formerly with Leicester Tigers, now with Leeds Carnegie in the Guinness Premiership. Wentzel plays as a lock or in the back-row. He signed a new deal with Leeds which he also captains despite an offer from French side Toulouse.