Famous People with Name Horner

Norman Frederick Horner            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Norman Frederick Horner: was an English first class cricketer who played two games for Yorkshire CCC in 1950 before moving to Warwickshire County Cricket Club in 1951. He retired in 1965 to concentrate on landscape gardening and his work as a groundsman.

Robert Horner            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Robert Horner: was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for Berkshire. Horner, who represented Berkshire in the Minor Counties Championship between 1994 and 1999, made a single List A appearance for the team, during the 1995 N

Silke Hörner            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Silke Hörner: is a German former breaststroke swimmer, a leading member of the 1980s East German swimming team. She won two Olympic gold medals, in the 200 m breaststroke and 4×100 m medley relay at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, and set four individual world recor

Oliver C.M Horner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Oliver C.M Horner: was an American water polo player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Leopold Horner            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Leopold Horner: was a German chemist and published in a modified Wittig reaction using phosphonate-stabilized carbanions now called the Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction or HWE reaction or Horner-Wittig reaction. Horner started studying chemistry at the University of Heidelberg and later with Heinrich Wieland at the University of Munich. After he received his Ph.D and his habilitation he worked at the Polymer Research Institute in Frankfurt. In 1953 he became professor at the University of Mainz.