* Walter Herrmann, Argentinian basketball player

According to Walter B. Gibson ’ s book The Magic Masters, they " implanted the name Herrmann quite firmly there.

Many Argentine internationals have played in Atenas, namely Fabricio Oberto, Walter Herrmann, Marcelo Milanesio, Héctor Campana, Patricio Prato, Gabriel Mikulas, Diego Lo Grippo, Fernando Prato, Bruno Lábaque, Leonardo Gutiérrez, Juan Manuel Locatelli, Diego Osella, Carlos Cerutti and Juan Espil, among others.

In October 1981, endocrinologist Étienne-Émile Baulieu, a consultant to Roussel-Uclaf, arranged tests of its use for medical abortion in eleven women in Switzerland by gynecologist Walter Herrmann at the University of Geneva's Cantonal Hospital, with successful results announced on April 19, 1982.

* 1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist ( b. 1889 )

* 1878 – Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist ( d. 1909 )

* 1911 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and inventor, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1988 )

* 1886 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist ( d. 1976 )

* 1976 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist ( b. 1886 )

To combat the stability problems and limited voltage gain due to the Miller effect, the physicist Walter H. Schottky invented the tetrode tube in 1919.

Walter Houser Brattain ( February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987 ) was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the transistor.

Walter Gilbert ( born March 21, 1932 ) is an American physicist, biochemist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate.

* February 10 – Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1987 )

* March 4 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist ( b. 1886 )

* September 1 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1911 )

** Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1902 )

* July 23 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist ( d. 1976 )

* March 9 – Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

In 1980, physicist Luis Alvarez ; his son, geologist Walter Alvarez ; and nuclear chemists Frank Asaro and Helen V. Michael from the University of California, Berkeley discovered unusually high concentrations of iridium in a specific layer of rock strata in the Earth's crust.

Among the many guests is physicist Pierre Curie ( Walter Pidgeon ), an extremely shy and absentminded man completely devoted to his work.

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hans Walter ( born February 9, 1954 ) is a German physicist / engineer and a former DFVLR astronaut.

The Schottky diode ( named after German physicist Walter H. Schottky ; also known as hot carrier diode ) is a semiconductor diode with a low forward voltage drop and a very fast switching action.

People like the architect Walter Gropius, physicist Albert Einstein, painter George Grosz and writers Arnold Zweig, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Tucholsky made Berlin one of the major the cultural centers of Europe.

Walter Henry Zinn: Nuclear physicist, University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory

* 1924 – Walter Brattain, BA Physics, physicist, co-inventor of the transistor, Nobel Prize winner.

* Walter Kaufmann ( physicist ), physicist

* Walter Bar ( born 1938 ), Swiss fencer

They lived comfortably at 2 Bolton Gardens, South Kensington, where Helen Beatrix was born on 28 July 1866 and her brother Walter Bertram on 14 March 1872.

* Walter E. Boomer ( born 1938 ), retired former four-star General and Assistant Commandant of the United States Marine Corps and business executive

* Walter Orange ( vocals, drums ) – born December 10, 1946, Florida.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Their son Walter was born in 1868, their daughters Elizabeth in 1871 and Emma in 1873.

Sir Harold ( Harry ) Walter Kroto, FRS ( born 7 October 1939 as Harold Walter Krotoschiner ), is a British chemist and one of the three recipients to share the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley.

Frankenheimer was born in Queens, New York, the son of Helen Mary ( née Sheedy ) and Walter Martin Frankenheimer, a stockbroker.

In 1938 Walter Krivitsky, ( born Samuel Ginsberg ) a former GRU officer in Paris who had defected to France the previous year, travelled to the United States and published an account of his time in " Stalin's secret service.

An example of the abandonment of mixed race children in the 1920s is given in a report by Walter Baldwin Spencer that many mixed-descent children born during construction of The Ghan railway were abandoned at early ages with no one to provide for them.

Timothy Walter " Tim " Burton ( born August 25, 1958 ) is an American film director, film producer, writer and artist.

Tony and Mary owned a cucumber farm in Canning, Ontario where Walter Gretzky was born and raised and where he met Wayne's mother, Phyllis Hockin.

Raleigh was born to a Protestant family in Devon, the son of Walter Raleigh and Catherine Champernowne.

Walter and Alma's daughter, named Manon after Walter's mother, was born in 1916.

* June 9 – Walter Besant, English writer ( born 1836 )

* September 21 – Walter Breuning, American supercentenarian, world's oldest man, last living man born in 1896 ( d. 2011 )

* Walter Nash, former Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand, was born in the town.

* Walter Block ( born 1941 ), American economist, author

Walter Frederick " Fritz " Mondale ( born January 5, 1928 ) is an American Democratic Party politician who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States ( 1977 – 1981 ) under President Jimmy Carter, and as a United States Senator from Minnesota ( 1964 – 1976 ).

Walter Frederick Mondale was born in Ceylon, Minnesota, the son of Claribel Hope ( née Cowan ), a part-time music teacher, and Theodore Sigvaard Mondale, a Methodist minister.

Richard Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in the village of Pontrhydyfen, Neath Port Talbot, Wales.

Owen was probably born in about 1400, and may have gone to war in the service of Henry V's steward Sir Walter Hungerford in 1421 in France.

Thomas Cromwell was born around 1485 in Putney, Surrey, the son of Walter Cromwell, a blacksmith, fuller, and cloth merchant, and owner of both a hostelry and a brewery.