Hans Walter
Hans Walter (August 9, 1889 – January 14, 1967) was a Swiss rower who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics and in the 1924 Summer Olympics.
In 1920 he was part of the Swiss boat, which won the gold medal in the coxed fours event. He was also a member of the Swiss eights which was eliminated in the first round of the eights competition.
Four years later he won the gold medal as part of the Swiss boat in the coxed fours competition again. He also competed with the Swiss team in the coxless fours event and won the bronze medal.
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Hans-Walter Rix
Hans-Walter Rix is a German astronomer and director of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg. He is the son of the linguist Helmut Rix.
He was educated at the University of Freiburg, the University of Munich and the University of Arizona, Tucson, where he received his Ph.D. in Astronomy in 1991. He was Hubble Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton 1991-1994, then returned to the University of Arizona, and has been director of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg since 1999.
Rix has been working on the evolution of galaxies. His doctoral thesis was titled Disk Components in Early Type Galaxies and he has, as of 2011, published 290 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has made important contributions to the structure and dynamics of galaxies, to the evolution of galaxies since the early epochs of the Universe, and the formation of our own Milky Way and its satellites.
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