Famous People with Name Walther

Walther Emanuel Funk            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Walther Emanuel Funk: prominent Nazi official. He served as Minister for Economic Affairs in Nazi Germany from 1937 to 1945.

Walther Hermann Nernst            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Walther Hermann Nernst: German physicist who is known for his theories behind the calculation of chemical affinity as embodied in the third law of thermodynamics,

Walther Von Der Vogelweide            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Walther Von Der Vogelweide: the most celebrated of the Middle High German lyric poets.

Walther Bothe            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Walther Bothe: a German physicist, mathematician, chemist, and Nobel Prize laureate who with Max Born invented the coincidence circuit.

Walther Flemming            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Walther Flemming: was a German biologist and the founder of cytogenetics.Flemming trained in medicine at the University of Rostock, graduating in 1868. Afterwards. he served in 1870-1871 as a military physician in the Franco-Prussian War. From 1873 to 1876 he worked as a teacher at the University of Prague. In 1876 he accepted a post as a professor of anatomy at the University of Kiel. He became the director of the Anatomical Institute and stayed there until his death.Making use of aniline dyes he was able to find a structure which strongly absorbed basophilic dyes, which he named chromatin. He identified that chromatin was correlated to threadlike structures in the cell nucleus— the chromosomes (meaning coloured body), which were thus named later on by German anatomist Wilhelm von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836-1921).

Paul G Walther            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Paul G Walther: is a retired American basketball player.A 6'2" guard/forward from the University of Tennessee, Walther played six seasons (1949-1955) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Minneapolis Lakers, Indianapolis Olympians, Philadelphia Warriors, and Fort Wayne Pistons. He averaged 7.7 points per game in his career and appeared in the 1952 NBA All-Star Game.

Johann Gottfried Walther            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Johann Gottfried Walther: was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era. Walther was most well-known as the compiler of the Musicalisches Lexicon (Leipzig, 1732), an enormous dictionary of music and musicians. Not only was it the first dictionary of musical terms written in the German language, it was the first to contain both terms and biographical information about composers and performers up to the early 18th century. In all, the Musicalisches Lexicon defines more than 3,000 musical terms; Walther evidently drew on more than 250 separate sources in compiling it, including theoretical treatises of the early Baroque and Renaissance. The single most important source for the work was the writings of Johann Mattheson, who is referenced more than 200 times.

Martina Walther            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Martina Walther: is a German rower.

Bernhard Walther            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Bernhard Walther: was a German merchant, humanist and astronomer based in Nuremberg, Germany. The merchant was a man of large means, which he devoted to scientific pursuits. When Regiomontanus settled in Nuremberg in 1471, they worked in collaboration to build an observatory and a printing press. After the death of Regiomontanus in 1476 at Rome, Walther bought his instruments and continued the observation of planets till his death. His house, purchased in 1509 by Albrecht Dürer, is nowadays a museum.

Arne Roy Walther            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Arne Roy Walther: is a Norwegian diplomat.He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1971. He was the Norwegian ambassador to India from 1994 to 1999, and to Austria from 2002 to 2003. He was the secretary general of the International Energy Forum from 2004 to 2009, and Norwegian ambassador to Japan from 2009.