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3 unusual facts about Fuchs


Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev

This became a topic of his Master's thesis titled "On the expansion of transcendental function in partial fractions. After publishing his thesis Bukreev went abroad and took lectures of Karl Weierstrass, Lazarus Fuchs, and Leopold Kronecker in Berlin. Bukreev undertook research on Fuchsian functions under Fuchs' guidance, which he completed in 1888 and which became the basis of his doctoral thesis "On the Fuchsian functions of rank zero" defended in 1889.

Fuchs' dystrophy

Mutations in collagen VIII, a major component of Descemet’s membrane secreted by endothelial cells, have been linked to the early-onset FED.

Petroleum jelly

It was recommended in the Porsche owner’s manual as a preservative for light alloy (alleny) anodized Fuchs wheels to protect them against corrosion from road salts and brake dust.


Abelian group

See the books by Irving Kaplansky, László Fuchs, Phillip Griffith, and David Arnold, as well as the proceedings of the conferences on Abelian Group Theory published in Lecture Notes in Mathematics for more recent results.

Albrecht Meyer

Leonhart Fuchs was a child prodigy, matriculating from Erfurt University by the age of twelve, and then obtaining a degree in medicine at Ingolstadt.

Bitch Slap

However, instead of thanking him, Trixie kills Fuchs using a hidden throwing star.

Chappaqua Orchestra

Soloists such as Vanessa L. Williams, Ruth Laredo, Joseph Fuchs, Kikuei Ikeda, Jerome Rose, Jon Manasse, Tim Fain, and others have appeared with the orchestra.

Dana Fuchs

With Jack Livesy, Fuchs wrote and performed songs on the soundtrack for the Big Beach production of Laurie Collyer's independent film Sherrybaby including the opening and closing title songs.

Daniel Fuchs

In 1995, Criss Cross was remade as The Underneath by director Steven Soderbergh, with credit given to Fuchs.

DRG Class ET 85

After this conversion an order for 32 new vehicles of this type was delivered to Fuchs and BBC to be built from 1927 to 1933.

Duo de l'ouvreuse de l'Opéra-Comique et de l'employé du Bon Marché

The work was written in March 1888 for a revue entitled Cent moins un staged at the house of the singer and patroness Madame Henriette Fuchs and was first performed at Fuch's house by Elisabeth Fuchs (her daughter) and Julien Tiersot (a music critic) in April 1888.

Franz Fuchs

In 2007, the criminal case was portrayed in the docudrama Franz Fuchs - Ein Patriot, the role of Franz Fuchs was played by Austrian Karl Markovics.

In computer games Hitman: Codename 47 and Hitman: Contracts, a character named Frantz Fuchs is an Austrian terrorist, who served in Hitlerjugend as a youngster, planning to blow up a hotel at which a peace summit is being held.

Gösta Ekman

He is married to artist Marie-Louise Ekman (previously married as Marie-Louise De Geer Bergenstråhle, née Fuchs).

Internet and Society

Fuchs argues that not just any type of Internet studies is needed, but a primarily theoretically informed theory of Internet and society, and that such a theory should be critical in nature (Critical Internet Theory/Research).

Jason Fuchs

Fuchs wrote, produced and starred in the 2006 short film Pitch, which made its premiere at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

Jim Fuchs

In 1981 he co-founded, together with George Steinbrenner, the Silver Shield Foundation, after the two friends had discussed the funeral of a slain police officer that Fuchs had attended, which left him wondering how the officer's children would be taken care of following their father's death.

Johann Nepomuk Fuchs

Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs (1774–1856), German chemist and mineralogist, known as Johann Nepomuk Fuchs until 1854

Joseph Colon Trabotto

Fuchs, Historical Material in the Responsa of Rabbi Israel Bruna, PhD Thesis, Yeshiva University, 1974.

Lillian Fuchs

Lillian Fuchs made her New York début on the violin in 1926, but soon switched to viola at the urging of Franz Kneisel (she was once heard to say, much to the great surprise of the auditors present, that it had never been her idea to play the viola, as she considered the instrument to be too big for her!).

Lillian Fuchs began her musical studies as a pianist, later studying violin with her father and afterwards with Franz Kneisel (former concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and first violinist of the Kneisel Quartet) at the Institute of Musical Art, now the Juilliard School.

Michael J. Fuchs

Fuchs is also Chairman of the Bryant Park Corporation and is credited for being the inventor of the HBO Bryant Park Summer Movie Festival, one of New York's most popular free Summer events.

Peter Fuchs

In 1855 Peter Fuchs returned to Cologne, where he created such large sandstone reliefs and statue groups as the Four Prophets (1858) for the Mariensäule in the Gereonsdriesch and the life-size figures of SS Dionysius and Reinold (1866–1871) for the west front of St. Mauritius.

Peter Paul Fuchs

In 1936 Fuchs was engaged as conductor and repetiteur for the German Theater in Brno, Czechoslovakia.

Polizeiruf 110

Peter Borgelt as Hauptmann, later Kriminalhauptkommissar Peter Fuchs (84 episodes, 1971–1991)

Richard Fuchs

A film about the life of Richard Fuchs,The Third Richard (the first two being Wagner and Strauss) has been produced by his grandson Danny Mulheron.

Ruth Fuchs

Ruth Fuchs, née Gamm (born December 14, 1946 in Egeln, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German politician and former athlete.

Saponin

The research groups of Professor Hendrik Fuchs (Charité University, Berlin, Germany) and Dr David Flavell (Southampton General Hospital, United Kingdom) are working together toward the development of Gypsophila saponins for use in combination with immunotoxins or other targeted toxins for patients with leukaemia, lymphoma and other cancers.

Theodore Hall

Igor Kurchatov, a brilliant scientist and the head of the Soviet atomic bomb effort, probably used information provided by Klaus Fuchs to confirm corresponding information provided earlier by Hall.

Thomas Fuchs

Thomas Fuchs (born October 21, 1978) is the author and maintainer of script.aculo.us, a JavaScript library for web user interface enhancement, as well as several other widely used open source libraries.

Tim Perkis

"Six Fuchs" 2004 Wolfgang Fuchs (reeds), Tom Dill(tpt), Gino Robair(perc), John Shiurba(gtr), Matthew Sperry(bass), and Perkis(electronics).

Ultimate Chopper

The first Ultimate Chopper infomercial featured an Austrian man named Horst Fuchs as the product demonstrator and Stuart Pankin as the co-host.

Waggonfabrik Fuchs

The company was taken over in 1930 by the Vereinigung Westdeutscher Waggonfabriken (Westwaggon) and the majority of shares sold in 1940 to the Dillinger Hütte that, due to its location in the Saargebiet, sold its share of Fuchs in 1957 to the International Harvester Company, who switched its production to combine harvesters.


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