Wald
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Surname
- Kenneth Wald (born 1982) Sales Consultant U.S. Born
- Abraham WaldAbraham Wald- See also :* Sequential probability ratio test * Wald distribution* Wald–Wolfowitz runs test...
(1902–1950), Hungarian mathematician of German descent - Carol WaldCarol WaldCarol S. Wald was an American artist who was also widely known for her talents as an illustrator. Her collages and paintings appeared in Time, Fortune, and Ms, and on the covers of Business Week, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and Saturday Review.Carol Wald was born in Detroit, Michigan,...
(1935-2000), American artist. - Charles F. WaldCharles F. WaldGeneral Charles "Chuck" F. Wald is the former Deputy Commander of United States European Command. He retired on July 1, 2006, and was succeeded by General William E. Ward....
- Diane WaldDiane WaldDiane Wald is an American poet. Her most recent poetry collection is Wonderbender . She has published poems in literary journals and magazines including The American Poetry Review, Skanky Possum, Fence, The Hat, Verse, and The Paterson Review. She was born in Paterson, New Jersey. She earned a B.A....
- Eduard WaldEduard WaldEduard Wald was a Communist politician, trade unionist and member of the German Resistance against Nazism.- Biography :...
(1905-1978), German Resistance member, politician, unionist - Florence WaldFlorence WaldFlorence Wald was an American nurse, former Dean of Yale School of Nursing, and largely credited as "the mother of the American hospice movement".-Biography:...
(1917-2008), "mother of the American hospice movement" - George WaldGeorge WaldGeorge Wald was an American scientist who is best known for his work with pigments in the retina. He won a share of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit.- Research :...
(1906–1997), American biologist and Nobel Laureate - Jerry WaldJerry WaldJerry Wald was an American producer and screenwriter for motion pictures and radio shows.Born Jerome Irving Wald in Brooklyn, New York, he had a brother and sons who were active in show business. Jerry began writing a radio column for the New York Evening Graphic while a student at New York...
(1911–1962), American film producer and screenwriter - Lillian WaldLillian WaldLillian D. Wald was a nurse; social worker; public health official; teacher; author; editor; publisher; activist for peace, women's, children's and civil rights; and the founder of American community nursing...
(1867–1940), American nurse and social worker - Nicholas WaldNicholas WaldProfessor Sir Nicholas John Wald, MB, BS, DSc , FRCP, FFPH, FRCOG, FMedSci, CBiol, FlBiol, FRS is Professor of Environmental and Preventive Medicine at at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, part of Queen Mary, University of London....
British professor, Fellow of the Royal SocietyRoyal SocietyThe Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"... - Orli WaldOrli WaldOrli Wald was a member of the German Resistance in Nazi Germany. She was arrested in 1936 and charged with high treason, whereupon she served four and a half years in a women's prison, followed by "protective custody" in Nazi concentration camps until 1945, when she escaped...
(1914-1962), German Resistance member, concentration camp survivor, "Angel of Auschwitz" - Patricia WaldPatricia WaldPatricia McGowan Wald is an American judge. Wald served as the chief judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and served as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.Wald graduated from Connecticut College in 1948 and earned...
- Robert WaldRobert WaldRobert M. Wald is a physicist who specializes in general relativity and the thermodynamics of black holes. He is well known as the author of a widely used graduate textbook, General Relativity . Wald is a professor at the Enrico Fermi Institute and the University of Chicago...
(born 1947), American physicist - Warren WaldWarren WaldWarren Wald was a former Pop Idol contestant who became famous across Britain in 2003 after performing the 1980s hit song "Eye of the Tiger" in the Pop Idol auditions.-Pop Idol:...
(born 1980), English Pop Idol contestant - Russell Wald (born 1970), American
Place name
In Germany:- Wald, Baden-WürttembergWald, Baden-WürttembergWald is a municipality in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany....
- Wald, Upper PalatinateWald, Upper PalatinateWald is a municipality in the district of Cham in Bavaria in Germany....
, in the district of Cham, BavariaBavariaBavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany... - Wald (Allgäu)Wald (Allgäu)Wald is a municipality in the district of Ostallgäu in Bavaria in Germany....
, in the district of Ostallgäu, Bavaria
In Switzerland:
- Wald, BerneWald, BerneWald is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.-History:On January 2004 it incorporated the two independent municipalities of Zimmerwald and Englisberg.*Englisberg, population: 201...
- Wald, Appenzell
- Wald, ZurichWald, ZurichWald is a municipality in the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.-History:Wald is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1217. In the year 1621 the municipality received market rights....
In Austria:
- Wald am SchoberpassWald am SchoberpassWald am Schoberpass is a municipality in the district of Leoben in Styria, Austria, with Liesing and Melling. Schober Pass is a high mountain pass within the municipality....
, in Styria - Wald im PinzgauWald im PinzgauWald im Pinzgau is a municipality in the district of Zell am See , in the state of Salzburg in Austria. The population is 1176.-Municipal divisions:...
, in Salzburger Land
Other
- Wald testWald testThe Wald test is a parametric statistical test named after Abraham Wald with a great variety of uses. Whenever a relationship within or between data items can be expressed as a statistical model with parameters to be estimated from a sample, the Wald test can be used to test the true value of the...
, a test in statistics - WALD International, a tuning company in JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
- We Almost Lost DetroitWe Almost Lost DetroitWe Almost Lost Detroit, a 1975 Reader's Digest book by John G. Fuller, presents a history of Fermi 1, America's first commercial breeder reactor, with emphasis on the 1966 partial nuclear meltdown. It was republished in 1984 by Berkley....