* Rudolf Hiestand, " Zum Leben und Laufbahn Wilhelms von Tyrus.

Myelin was discovered in 1854 by Rudolf Virchow.

The Mössbauer effect, or recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence ‎, is a physical phenomenon discovered by Rudolf Mössbauer in 1958.

In 1887, Heinrich Rudolf Hertz discovered the photoelectric effect that was explained in 1905 by Albert Einstein ( Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 ).

Its ruins were discovered in 1942 by archaeologist Ahmed Badawy, and were excavated in 1955 by Rudolf Anthes.

He also discovered the works of Rudolf Steiner.

In 1913, the owner of the spa, Rudolf, joined together with Weber, the owner of a mineral water source discovered in 1866.

The name was first applied by Colin Groves and Vratislav Mazák to KNM-ER 992, a mandible discovered near Lake Rudolf ( now Lake Turkana ), Kenya in 1975, which became the type-specimen of the species.

Eric Austen is said to have " discovered that the ' gesture of despair ' motif had long been associated with ' the death of man ', and the circle with ' the unborn child '," possibly referring to images in Rudolf Koch's The Book of Signs, ( Das Zeichenbuch, 1923 ) an English edition of which had been published in 1955.

Sadi Carnot and Rudolf Clausius discovered the Second Law of Thermodynamics in the 19th century.

When Hélène discovered that Vetsera had sent Rudolf a personally engraved cigarette case, she raged: " She is compromising herself when she is scarcely seventeen years old and so is ruining not only her life but also that of her brothers and sisters and mother ..."

Homo rudolfensis was a species of the genus Homo that is known only through a handful of representative fossils, the first of which was discovered by Bernard Ngeneo, a member of a team led by anthropologist Richard Leakey and zoologist Meave Leakey in 1972, at Koobi Fora on the east side of Lake Rudolf ( now Lake Turkana ) in Kenya.

Finally in 1912 Rudolf Schlechter switched the name again to Aa, as more species were being discovered making the new name more significant.

The myelin sheath of long nerves was discovered and named by German pathological anatomist Rudolf Virchow in 1854.

During World War II he discovered the work of Rudolf Kompfner in a British radar lab, where he had invented the traveling-wave tube ; Pierce worked out the math for this broadband amplifier device, and wrote a book about it, after hiring Kompfner for Bell Labs.

He later discovered plasma physicists were applying similar techniques to plasma waves, and that he had rediscovered some results of Rudolf Peierls explaining the diffusion of heat in solids by non-linear phonon interactions.

And lottery being a game of chance, from here Burke takes us through Alexander Flemming's chance discovery of penicillin, to Rudolf Virchow's observation that contaminated water is related to health, to Schliemann's search for the City of Troy, the theft of a discovered treasure, and to Virchow's criminology.

Rudolf Ondrejka discovered the following 3x3 magic square of nine Chen primes:

Honorius IV appointed the envoy Archbishop of Mainz, fixed a date for the coronation, and sent Cardinal John of Tusculum to Germany to assist Rudolf I's cause.

* March 10 – Johann Rudolf Glauber, German-Dutch alchemist and chemist ( approximate date ; d. 1670 )

Rudolf Thurneysen postulated a date before 808 on grounds that the reference to the death of Bran Ardchenn mac Muiredaig ( d. probably 795 ), king of Leinster, should be attributed to political sympathies in the reign of his successor Fínsnechta mac Cellaig ( d. 808 ).

From about the date of 1042 onwards, however, the account is Lampert's own and he carries the history from there up to the year 1077, when the Swabian duke Rudolf of Rheinfelden was crowned anti-king by the dissident barons opposed to Henry IV.

* 1944 – Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp.

Bultmonn said, “ As from now on there are only believers and unbelievers, so there are also now only saved and lost, those who have life and those who are in death ” – Rudolf Bultmann, The Gospel of John, p. 155

The death of Adrian V in the following month rendered the negotiations with Rudolf fruitless.

In 1291, the cantons of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden united to defend the peace upon the death of Emperor Rudolf I of Habsburg.

* January 20 – Matthias becomes Holy Roman Emperor upon the death of Rudolf II.

On the death of Meinhard, Duke of Upper Bavaria and Count of Tyrol, in 1363, Upper Bavaria was claimed by the sons of the emperor Louis IV, and Tyrol by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria.

Nikitchenko dissented against the three acquittals and argued for a death sentence for Rudolf Hess.

* Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, the widow of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, married Count Elemér Lónyay de Nagy-Lónya et Vásáros-Namény after the death of her first husband, to the disgust of her family.

Emperor Henry III had promised his liensman Berthold of Zähringen the Duchy of Swabia, but this was not fulfilled as upon Henry's death his widow Agnes of Poitou in 1057 appointed Count Rudolf of Rheinfelden.

Spandau Prison was a prison situated in the borough of Spandau in western Berlin, constructed in 1876 and demolished in 1987 after the death of its last prisoner, Rudolf Hess, to prevent it from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.

For many years before his death, Rudolf had tried to secure the election of his eldest son Albert ( Albrecht ) as his successor.

In 1889, Elisabeth's life was shattered by the death of her only son, thirty-year-old Crown Prince Rudolf.

The Federal Charter of 1291 was probably prompted by the death of Rudolf I of Habsburg on 15 July 1291 and created a defensive alliance.

Olsen's death, his sons Rudolf Olsen and Thomas Fredrik Olsen took over the company.

According to Rudolf Schröck, author of Das Doppelleben des Charles A. Lindbergh ( Heyne Verlag, 2005 ), from 1957 until his death in 1974, Charles had an affair with Brigitte Hesshaimer, a Bavarian woman 24 years his junior, that produced three children, whom he supported financially.

Karl Ludwig renounced his succession rights a few days after Rudolf ’ s death, meaning his oldest son, Archduke Franz Ferdinand became heir presumptive.

The Vienna Circle published a collection, called Einheitswissenschaft ( Unified science ), edited by Rudolf Carnap, Philipp Frank, Hans Hahn, Otto Neurath, Joergen Joergensen ( after Hahn's death ) and Charles W. Morris ( from 1938 ), whose aim was to present an unified vision of science.

During one such flight, Major Rudolf Anderson, Jr., USAF, was killed when his U-2 was shot down by Soviet-operated SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missiles near Banes, Cuba, becoming the crisis ' only combat death.

* Rudolf Berthold, high-ranking German ace shot to death by German communists in 1920.

Rudolf is reported to have proposed a similar suicide pact to the twenty-four year old Kaspar a month prior to his death at Mayerling, which she rejected, presuming it to be a joke.

In 1889 Rudolf and Baroness Mary Vetsera, his lover, were found shot to death in the Mayerling incident.

In 1624 Opitz was appointed councilor to Duke George Rudolf of Liegnitz ( Legnica ) and Brieg ( Brzeg ) in Silesia, and in 1625, as reward for a requiem poem composed on the death of Archduke Charles of Austria, was crowned poet laureate by Emperor Ferdinand II, who a few years later ennobled him under the title " von Boberfeld.

The charter was set up as a canon for judicature and defense purposes ( only two of seven paragraphs address foreign dangers ), probably prompted by the death of Rudolf I of Habsburg on 15 July 1291 to ensure legal certainty.