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# Wilhelm Winter

Wilhelm Winter (born 1968) is a German mathematician, specializing in operator algebras (and particularly C*-algebras).

## Education and career

Winter received in 1996 his Diplom from the Heidelberg University and in 2000 his doctorate (Promotion) from the University of Münster with thesis advisor Joachim Cuntz and thesis Covering Dimension for Nuclear C*-Algebras. At the University of Münster he was a research assistant from 2001 to 2007 and habilitated there in 2006 in Münster. In Fall 2002 he was a visiting assistant professor at Texas A & M University. From 2007 to 2011 he was at University of Nottingham, first as a lecturer and later as a reader. Winter is a professor of mathematics at the University of Münster since 2011.
In 2010 he received with Andrew Toms the G. de B. Robinson Award. In 2018 Winter was an invited speaker with talk Structure of nuclear C*-algebras: From quasidiagonality to classification, and back again at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro.

## Selected publications

* Toms, Andrew S.; Winter, Wilhelm (2008). "Z-stable ASH algebras" (PDF). Canadian Journal of Mathematics. 60 (3): 703–720. doi:10.4153/cjm-2008-031-6. S2CID 14434376.
* Toms, A. S; Winter, W (2009). "Minimal dynamics and the classification of C*-algebras". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (40): 16942–16943. Bibcode:2009PNAS..10616942T. doi:10.1073/pnas.0903629106. PMC 2761370. PMID 19805164.
* Winter, Wilhelm (2010). "Decomposition rank and Z-stability". Invent. Math. 179 (2): 229–301. Bibcode:2010InMat.179..229W. doi:10.1007/s00222-009-0216-4. S2CID 123088958.
* Winter, Wilhelm (2012). "Nuclear dimension and Z-stability of pure C$^*$-algebras". Invent. Math. 187 (2): 259–342. Bibcode:2012InMat.187..259W. doi:10.1007/s00222-011-0334-7. S2CID 123701167.
* Christensen, Erik; Sinclair, Allan M; Smith, Roger R; White, Stuart A; Winter, Wilhelm (2012). "Perturbations of nuclear C$^*$-algebras". Acta Math. 208 (1): 93–150. arXiv:0910.4953. doi:10.1007/s11511-012-0075-5. S2CID 115171105.
* Blackadar, Bruce; Robert, Leonel; Tikuisis, Aaron P; Toms, Andrew S; Winter, Wilhelm (2012). "An algebraic approach to the radius of comparison". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 364 (7): 3657–3674. arXiv:1008.4024. doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-2012-05538-3. S2CID 18090006.
* Sato, Yasuhiko; White, Stuart; Winter, Wilhelm (2015). "Nuclear dimension and Z-stability". Invent. Math. 202 (2): 893–921. arXiv:1403.0747. Bibcode:2015InMat.202..893S. doi:10.1007/s00222-015-0580-1. S2CID 27821911.
# Wilkes University Election Statistics Project

The Wilkes University Election Statistics Project is a free online resource documenting Pennsylvania political election results dating back to 1796.
Currently, the database documents Pennsylvania's county-level vote totals for President, Governor, United States Senator, and Congressional elections back to 1796. The database also contains directories for members of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly and the Pennsylvania General Assembly, dating back to 1682.
According to the database's designer, Wilkes University Professor Harold E. Cox, "No other state has anything like it." The project's impetus began in 1996, when Cox inquired about 19th century election statistics, only to find that the data would cost $1,000.
The project has been cataloged by the Pennsylvania State University Libraries and the Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania. It has been cited as a source in academic books about the Supreme Court of the United States, Communist politicians in Pennsylvania, and a survey of state-level political parties.
# Wilhelmina van Sluyters

Wilhelmina Geertruida Henriette van Sluyters (10 March 1852 – 23 November 1926), also known as Mina van Sluyters or Mina van Sluijters, was a Dutch stage actress known for her association with the Salon des Variétés in Amsterdam.

## Biography

Van Sluyters was born in The Hague on 10 March 1852 to Jacobus Bernardus van Sluyters and Henriëtte Antonia Nanette Picéni, who were both actors.
She was associated with the Salon des Variétés in Nes, Amsterdam between 1869 and 1876. At the salon, she was the successor of the actress Jeanette Corijn-Heilbron.
On 16 June 1876, van Sluyters married Johannes Leonardus Warnas, son of Johannes Josephus Warnas and Elisabeth Geertruida de Vos. Her husband was an apothecary for the Dutch military in the Dutch East Indies. Upon her marriage, she moved to the East Indies with her husband.
She continued acting in the 1880s and 1890s, performing in Lion van Lier and playing the role of Arend in Jacob van Lennep's Een Amsterdamse Jongen.
Van Sluyters died on 23 November 1926 in The Hague.
# Willapa

Willapa may refer to:
* Willapa people, an Athapaskan-speaking people in Washington, United States
* Willapa River, river on the Pacific coast of southwestern Washington, United States
* General Miles, a ship
* Willapa Electric Company, an electric railway and electric utility company incorporated on August 2, 1913
* Willapa Bay, a bay located on the southwest Pacific coast of Washington state in the United States
* Willapa Hills, a geologic, physiographic, and geographic region in southwest Washington
# William Drury Lowe

William Drury Lowe may refer to:
* William Drury Lowe (landowner, born 1753), British merchant of Bread Street made High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1795
* William Drury Lowe (landowner, born 1802), British landowner made High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1854
# William DuBois (writer)

William DuBois (November 29, 1903 – March 16, 1997) was an American playwright, novelist and longtime editor of The New York Times Book Review.

## Biography

William DuBois was born in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1903, to parents Virginia Markel DuBois and William Henry Thompson DuBois. He graduated from Columbia University in 1925 with a degree in journalism and upon graduation went to work at The New York Times in 1926. He went on to become an editor for the New York Times Book Review where he wrote reviews and articles. DuBois retired from The Times in 1973.
DuBois wrote a number of Broadway plays including Pagan Lady (1930) and I Loved You Wednesday (1932). DuBois wrote the play Haiti (1938) for the Federal Theatre Project. The play was produced by the Negro Theatre Unit and presented at the Lafayette Theatre in Harlem and toured to Boston.$^{:319}$ The play's authorship has often been misattributed to the black scholar W. E. B. Du Bois because of the similarity of names.
His novels include The Island in the Square (1947), set in New York City in the 1920s; A Season to Beware (1956), about the worlds of journalism and publishing, and The Falcon's Shadow (1958), about the travails of the theater. He also worked as a silent writer with Frank G. Slaughter on 27 of his historical novels.
# William Falkner

William Falkner may refer to:
* William Faulkner (born William Cuthbert Falkner, 1897–1962), American author
* William Falkner (divine) (died 1682), English cleric with the Anglican Church
* William Clark Falkner (c. 1826–1889), American soldier, businessman, author and the great-grandfather of William Faulkner
* Bill Falkner, member of the Missouri House of Representatives
# Will Starr

Will Starr (27 April 1922 – 6 March 1976) was a Scottish solo accordionist.

## Early life

Will Starr was born William Starrs, the oldest son of a family of eight, in the mining village of Croy in Central Scotland.
At the age of two, Will attempted to play his first tune, "Poor Old Joe", on a melodeon belonging to his father, Joseph Starrs. His family recognised the musical potential in young William and encouraged him to continue playing the melodeon. Later he progressed from the melodeon to the chromatic button accordion which he played for the remainder of his life.
Will frequently played at local events and social functions accompanied by his sister Rosie, a singer.

## Teenage Years

At the age of thirteen, while making a solo guest appearance at a County Dinner in the Grand Hotel in Glasgow, Will was introduced by Sir Ian Colquhoun to Jock Kilpatrick, the manager of the Pavilion Theatre in Glasgow. Jock invited him to join the cast as a solo performer, and after being granted permission to take time off school, Will began his initially part-time professional stage career.
On leaving school at fourteen, Will began working in the mines. When at the age of eighteen in World War II he became eligible for service in the armed forces, he was exempted as an already working miner.
Will recorded his first 78 record for Parlophone at the age of 18. The music was of his own composition and was named "Jacqueline" (which is almost always referred to erroneously as "The Jacqueline Waltz") after his then girlfriend.

## Adult Years

Although Will Starr travelled the world as an international performer, he always returned to Croy during his breaks from performing.
Will Starr died from cancer of the spine in his home town of Croy on 6 March 1976 and was buried in the Starr family grave in Howe Road Cemetery, Kilsyth, Stirlingshire.
# William Cochran (tenor)

William Cochran (23 June 1943 — 16 January 2022) was an American Heldentenor who achieved an international career.

## Life

Born in Columbus, Ohio, Cochran studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and with Martial Singher. He attended the Music Academy of the West in 1967 and 1968. A winner of the Lauritz Melchior Heldentenor Foundation Award, he debuted with the Metropolitan Opera as Vogelgesang in Wagner's Die Meistersinger, in 1968. The following year, he appeared as Froh in Wagner's Das Rheingold with the San Francisco Opera.
In 1974, Cochran first sang at Covent Garden, as Laca in Janáček's Jenůfa, conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras. In 1975, he performed the title role of Wagner's Lohengrin at the New Orleans Opera, and, in 1977, sang in Janáček's Katya Kabanova at San Francisco, alongside Elisabeth Söderström, Chester Ludgin and Susanne Marsee. He returned to that company in 1997, for Herod in Salome by Richard Strauss. For the Opera Company of Boston, the tenor appeared in Zimmermann's Die Soldaten as Desportes in 1982 and in Janáček's The Makropoulos Case in 1986, both conducted and directed by Sarah Caldwell.
Cochran returned to the Met as Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, with Jessye Norman in the title role, in 1984. The singing-actor was a member of the Oper Frankfurt for several years. He appeared at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich as Laca, Svatopluk Cech in Janáček's The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to the Moon and to the 15th Century, the Elector in Henze's Der Prinz von Homburg, as Wagner's Siegfried, and Aegisth in Elektra by Richard Strauss. He also sang at the Hamburg State Opera and the Vienna State Opera, among others. His roles also include operas such as Mozart's Idomeneo, Cherubini's Médée (with Anja Silja in the title role), Les Troyens by Berlioz, Meyerbeer's La juive, Verdi's Otello, Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov (as Grigori), Busoni's Doktor Faust, Shostakovitch's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress. He retired from the stage in 2001.
His discography includes Act I of Die Walküre (as Siegmund with Helga Dernesch as Sieglinde, conducted by Otto Klemperer, 1969–70), Doktor Faust (as Mephistopheles, with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 1969), Mahler's Eighth Symphony (conducted by Bernard Haitink, 1971), Hindemith's Mathis der Maler (as Schwalb, with Fischer-Dieskau and James King, conducted by Rafael Kubelík, 1979), and Die Soldaten (with Nancy Shade, 1988–89).

## Videography

* Zimmermann: Die Soldaten (N. Shade; Kontarsky, Kupfer, 1989) [live] Kultur
# William Gladstone Ross

William Gladstone Ross (January 14, 1889 – January 14, 1948) was a lawyer and political figure in Saskatchewan. He represented Moose Jaw City from 1927 to 1929 and from 1934 to 1944 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Liberal.
He was born near Moose Jaw, the son of George M. Ross and Flora McGillivray, and was educated there and at Queen's University. Ross then studied law and was called to the Saskatchewan bar in 1915. In the same year, he married Dorothea L. Scott. He served on the Moose Jaw City Council. In 1917, Ross ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the provincial assembly. He was first elected in a 1927 by-election held after William Erskine Knowles was named a judge; he was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1929. Ross was president of the Moose Jaw Red Cross Society and served on the board of governors for the Moose Jaw General Hospital. After leaving politics, Ross was named to the Saskatchewan Court of King's Bench. He died of cancer in Rochester, Minnesota.
# Willamette (steamer)

Willamette (Chinese: 威林密; pinyin: Wēilínmì) was an American steamer that was later purchased by China and saw action during the Taiping Rebellion.

## History

Willamette was ordered by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and built in Wilmington, Delaware as a three-masted schooner. On 5 August 1850, captained by E. W. Willet, Willamette departed Philadelphia for Astoria, Oregon Territory, sailing around Cape Horn. Willamette arrived on 9 March 1851, and was further fitted as a steamer. She began running routes along the Willamette River, carrying mail between Portland and Astoria under Captain Durbrow. However, operating the ship along this route proved too expensive. In August 1852, after "a few trips", she was transferred to San Francisco where she served along the Sacramento River. There, she was sold to the California Steam Navigation Company and transferred to China.
From January 1856, Willamette began operating along the Pearl River between Hong Kong and Canton, where she was commanded by William Curry of Savannah, Georgia. In October, her service was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second Opium War.
By 1858, the ship was acquired by the American trading house Russell & Company. Around August 1861, the managing partner of Russell & Co. in Shanghai, Edward Cunningham, persuaded Chinese merchants and compradors to invest in ownership of the ship, in order to entice the Chinese in the steamship business.
In March or April 1862, Viceroy of Liangjiang Zeng Guofan purchased the ship for use as an auxiliary vessel in the Jiangsu region. She saw service during the Taiping Rebellion as a part of a "mosquito fleet" under the Imperialist forces. By 1868, she had grown decrepit, and Jiangsu Governor Ding Richang ordered her to be sold. She was sold in late 1868.

## Citations

* ↑ Keeler 1985, p. 56.
* 1 2 Wright 1895, p. 35.
* ↑ Gaston 1911, p. 265.
* ↑ Victor 1888, p. 256.
* ↑ Wood 1859, p. 428.
* ↑ US Department of State 1869, pp. 111–113.
* ↑ Quimby & Fernald 1986, p. 123.
* ↑ Hao 1970, pp. 26–27.
* 1 2 Chen 2013, p. 4.
* ↑ Li 2012, p. 480.
# Willi Schlamm

William 'Willi' S. Schlamm (originally Wilhelm Siegmund Schlamm, June 10, 1904 – September 1, 1978) was an Austrian-American journalist.

## Biography

Schlamm was born into an upper middle class Jewish family in Przemyśl, Galicia, in the Austrian Empire. He became a Communist early in life, and when he was 16 years old was invited to the Kremlin to meet Vladimir Lenin. After completing secondary school, he became a writer with the Vienna Communist newspaper, Die Rote Fahne. He left the Communist Party in 1929 and joined the left-wing magazine Die Weltbühne in 1932. His book Diktatur der Lüge: Eine Abrechnung mit Stalin (Dictatorshop of Lies: A Reckoning with Stalin) was published in Zurich in 1937. He was in correspondence with Otto Rühle and Alice Rühle-Gerstel, sending them a copy. Rühle sent a reply in August 1937.
Later, Schlamm moved to the United States, where he worked for Henry Luce, the publisher of Life, Time and Fortune magazines. He became a U.S. citizen in 1944 alongside code breaker Jeremy Spiro.
Schlamm encouraged William F. Buckley, Jr. to found the conservative magazine, National Review, with Buckley as the sole owner. Schlamm became a senior editor but was later fired by Buckley. He then became associate editor of the John Birch Society's journal, American Opinion. After writing for conservative magazines, he returned to Germany in 1972, where he was a controversial columnist for Axel Springer's Die Welt am Sonntag and published the magazine Die Zeitbühne. He died in 1978 in Salzburg.
Schlamm is remembered for having coined the saying, "The trouble with socialism is socialism. The trouble with capitalism is capitalists." After World War II, he worked as journalist for German newspaper Die Welt.
# William Beckley (Carmelite)

William Beckley (died 1438) was an English Carmelite.

## Life

Beckley was born in Kent, probably in the neighbourhood of Sandwich, where he appears to have entered the order of the Carmelites in early life.
While still young he proceeded to Cambridge, where the Carmelites had had a house since the year 1291. Here he seems to have taken his doctor's degree in divinity, and to have established a considerable reputation as a theologian. Bale praises his modesty of speech, and his firm proceedings against evildoers in all the assemblies ("conventibus") over which he presided. This incidental remark would alone prove him to have been a man of mark among the English Carmelites, even without the next sentence, in which we are told that while Beckley was engaged in the king's business Thomas Walden used to protect his interests at Cambridge against the complaints of his fellow-doctors there. Tanner makes mention of a letter from the chancellor and University of Cambridge to the provincial chapter of the Carmelites at Northampton, referring to a charge that had been brought against Beckley for his absence from the university anno primo regentiæ for which offence he had been suspended. He also notices Walden's reply to this letter.
In his old age, after having spent many years at Cambridge, Beckley seems to have withdrawn to his native place, Sandwich, where, according to Bale, he became head of the Carmelite friary, and devoted the remainder of his life to study.
On his death, which occurred in 1438, he was buried in Sandwich, and the Latin verses inscribed upon his tomb, and probably written by himself, are preserved in Weever's Funeral Monuments.
Dempster has claimed Beckley as a Scottish monk, and gives several details of his life, how he was exiled from Scotland and took up his abode in France, whence he was recalled by James III, but apparently preferred to remain in England when once he set foot in that country on his return journey. But the authorities to whom Dempster appeals, Gilbert Brown (died 1612), and P. M. Thomas Sarracenus, an ex-professor of Bologna, can hardly be accepted as sufficient testimony for these statements in the face of so much contrary evidence. The tradition of a residence in France may, contain some degree of truth when we consider Bale's plain statement as to Beckley's being employed in royal business, and his subsequent statement that Beckley delivered declamations to the nobility and chief officers in many parts of England, and in Calais also.
The chief works assigned to him are similar in their titles to those of most mediaeval theologians, and consist of "Quodlibeta", "Quæstiones Ordinariæ", "Conciones Variæ", and one which, had it been preserved, might perhaps have been of some interest, entitled De Fraterculorum Decimis.
# William Kington (Europeans cricketer)

William Miles Kington DSO (25 April 1876 – 20 October 1914) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
The son of the cricketer William Kington, he was born at Cheltenham in April 1876. He was educated at Glenalmond College, before attending the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He graduated from there into the Royal Welch Fusiliers as a second lieutenant in September 1896, with promotion to lieutenant following in March 1899. Kington served in the Second Boer War, where he was present at the Relief of Ladysmith and the Battle of Colenso. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in October 1902, having previously been mentioned in dispatches in September 1901. In August 1902, he was seconded for service with the South African Constabulary, an appointment which lasted until 1904. He was promoted to captain in April 1906, having spent the period since his service in South Africa as an adjutant to Volunteer and Territorial Battalions.
While serving in British India, Kington made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Europeans in 1911 against the Parsees at Poona in the Bombay Presidency Match. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 3 runs by M. D. Parekh in the Europeans first innings, while in their second innings he was dismissed for a single run by the same bowler. Kington served in the First World War with the Royal Welch Fusiliers, travelling with them to France in August 1914. He was killed in action in October 1914, while attacking a German position near Zonnebeke in Belgium, during the course of which he was struck by a shell and killed instantly. His body was never recovered, with him being commemorated on the Menin Gate. Kington was survived by his wife, Edith, and their son. His uncle's, Philip Kington and Beresford Baker, both played first-class cricket.
# William Jameson

William Jameson may refer to:
* William Jameson (religious controversialist) (fl. 1689–1720), Scottish teacher and religious controversialist
* William Jameson (botanist, born 1796) (1796–1873), Scottish-Ecuadorian botanist
* William Jameson (botanist, born 1815) (1815–1882), Scottish botanist and doctor in India
* William James Jameson (1898–1990), United States federal judge
* William Jameson, member of the Jameson whiskey dynasty and manager of the Marrowbone Lane Distillery
# William James Wintle

William James Wintle (1861–1934) was an English journalist and writer.

## Life

Wintle's family was from Gloucestershire. He was educated at the Sir Walter St John's Grammar School For Boys, in Battersea. He then was headmaster of a school for a time.
By 1896 Wintle was writing for the Windsor Magazine. He then joined the Harmsworth staff, working for Lord Northcliffe. There he worked on magazines, and the Harmsworth Encyclopaedia, a part-published (=serialized) work. Later he was director of a publishing house.
As naturalist, Wintle was known as a shell collector; his collection went to that of Arthur Blok. He became a fellow of the Zoological Society during 1899. He joined the Malacological Society of London also, during 1916, and was its Secretary during 1919; he was elected to the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland during 1917.
Interested in Christian religion, Wintle donated to the Anglican church in Chiswick. He spent time on Caldey Island with the Benedictines there. A British Museum list of those presenting zoology specimens during 1920 includes a Brother W. J. Wintle. He later became a Roman Catholic convert.

## Works

One of Wintle's pieces of journalism, Life in Our New Century from 1901, was published originally in the Harmsworth Magazine.
Wintle also composed and published various books:
* Armenia and its Sorrows (1896), prompted by the Hamidian massacres. A letter of endorsement from W. E. Gladstone to Wintle was used to publicise the book.
* Paradise Row and Some of its Inhabitants (1897)
* Recreations with a Pocket Lens (1911)
* Nights with an Old Lag (1911)
* Pilgrim Songs on the King's Highway (1911)
* The Songs of Old England (1912)
* Ghost Gleams. Tales of the Uncanny (1921). These are regarded as ghost stories for children, and A Light in the Dormitory has been included in an anthology.
Wintle wrote for the Sunday School Union, using the pseudonym "John Upton" for a weekly article for the Union's Sunday School Chronicle. With them he published:
* The Story of Florence Nightingale (1896)
* The Story of Albert the Good (Prince Consort) (1897)
* Dr. J. L. Phillips ... A Biographical Sketch (1898) with Mary Phillips; biography of James Liddell Phillips (1840–1895)
* The Story of Victoria, R.I.: Wife, Mother, Queen (1901)
* Florence Nightingale and Frances E. Willard: the Story of Their Lives, with Florence Witts, undated
According to his obituary, Wintle also wrote a Life of Charles Spurgeon.