Ernst Bessey
Ernst Athearn Bessey( February 20, 1877 – July 17, 1957) was an American mycologist, botanist and plant pathologist who served Professor of Mycology and Botany and Dean of the Graduate School at Michigan State University.
He was the son of another famous botanist, Charles Edwin Bessey.
Bessey was born in Ames, Iowa, where his father was professor of botany at Iowa Agricultural College.
In 1884 he moved to Lincoln, Nebraska when his father moved to the University of Nebraska.
Bessey attended the University of Nebraska, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1896, a Bachelor of Science in 1897, and a Master of Arts in 1898.
He then moved to Germany where he did his doctoral work at the University of Halle under the supervision of Georg Klebs.
After completing his Ph.D. in 1904 he served as an agricultural explorer United States Department of Agriculture visiting Russia, Central Asia and Algeria.
After returning to the United States he worked for the USDA and Louisiana State University before moving to Michigan Agricultural College( now Michigan State University) in 1910.
Bessey remained at Michigan State until his retirement in 1946.
He served as Acting Dean of the Division of Applied Science from 1927 to 1930 and Dean of the Graduate School from 1930 to 1944.
He was a founding member of the Mycological Society of America and served as its president in 1941.
Ernst Bessey Hall at Michigan State University is named in his honor.
Anton Graff
Anton Graff( 18 November 1736 – 22 June 1813) was an eminent Swiss portrait artist.
Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Heinrich von Kleist, Frederick the Great, Friederike Sophie Seyler, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn and Christian Felix Weisse.
His pupils included Emma Körner, Philipp Otto Runge and Karl Ludwig Kaaz.
Gérard Raulet
Gérard Raulet( 9 August 1949) is a French philosopher, Germanist, and translator, specializing primarily in the thought of Herbert Marcuse and Ernst Bloch.
Friedrich Paschen
Louis Carl Heinrich Friedrich Paschen( 22 January 1865- 25 February 1947), was a German physicist, known for his work on electrical discharges.
He is also known for the Paschen series, a series of hydrogen spectral lines in the infrared region that he first observed in 1908.
He established the now widely used Paschen curve in his article Über die zum Funken ü bergang in Luft, Wasserstoff und Kohlensäure bei verschiedenen Drücken erforderliche Potentialdifferenz.
He is known for the Paschen- Back effect, which is the Zeeman effect's becoming non-linear at high magnetic field.
He helped explain the hollow cathode effect in 1916.
Hans Maier (rower)
Johann Adolf Friedrich Maier( 13 June 1909 – 6 March 1943) was a German rower who competed in three Olympic games from 1928 to 1936.
In Los Angeles, he won a silver medal, along with Karl Aletter, Walter Flinsch and Ernst Gaber in the coxless four.
In Berlin, he won a gold medal, along with Paul Söllner, Walter Volle, Fritz Bauer and Ernst Gaber in the coxed four.
He was killed during World War II while serving in North Africa.
Gustav Maier was his elder brother with whom he had competed in the 1928 Olympics.
Ernst Ferand
Ernst Thomas Ferand( 1887-1972)( also known as" Ernest Ferand" and" Ernst Ferand- Freund") was a Hungarian music educator and musicologist.
Eugen Kahn
Eugen Kahn( born 20 May 1887 in Stuttgart, Germany- died January 1973 in Houston, Texas) was a German psychiatrist.
His" habilitation" supervisors were Emil Kraepelin and Ernst Rüdin.
Erich Löwenhardt
Erich Loewenhardt (7 April 189710 August 1918) was the 3rd highest German flying ace with 54 victories during the First World War, behind only Manfred von Richthofen and Ernst Udet.
Jim Dunn (writer)
Jim Dunn is a television writer and producer best known for working on shows such as" The Dead ZoneCrisis" and" Hand of God".
He frequently collaborates with his writing partner Sam Ernst.
In 2010, he and Ernst co- created the Syfy supernatural drama series" Haven", based upon the Stephen King short story" The Colorado Kid".
Haven ran for 6 broadcast cycles in over 80 countries, completing 78 episodes.
Although Dunn and Ernst had moved on to other shows after Season 3, they returned to write a time- travel episode exploring Haven's past for the show's final season.
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.

Question: Were Friedrich Paschen and Ernst Bessey of the same nationality?
Answer: no