Heck
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Heck or Hecke may refer to:
- Another, less religious and often humorous, way of referring to HellHellIn many religious traditions, a hell is a place of suffering and punishment in the afterlife. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as endless. Religions with a cyclic history often depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations...
(see minced oathMinced oathA minced oath is an expression based on a profanity or a taboo term that has been altered to reduce the objectionable characteristics.Many languages have such expressions...
). - Heck reactionHeck reactionThe Heck reaction is the chemical reaction of an unsaturated halide with an alkene and a base and palladium catalyst to form a substituted alkene. Together with the other palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions, this reaction is of great importance, as it allows one to do substitution...
, a chemical reaction that forms a substituted alkene - Hecke algebraHecke algebraIn mathematics, the Iwahori–Hecke algebra, or Hecke algebra, named for Erich Hecke and Nagayoshi Iwahori, is a one-parameter deformation of the group algebra of a Coxeter group....
- Heck cattleHeck cattleHeck Cattle are a hardy breed of domestic cattle. They are the result of an attempt to breed back the aurochs, which became extinct in 1627, from modern aurochs-derived cattle...
- Hecke characterHecke characterIn number theory, a Hecke character is a generalisation of a Dirichlet character, introduced by Erich Hecke to construct a class ofL-functions larger than Dirichlet L-functions, and a natural setting for the Dedekind zeta-functions and certain others which have functional equations analogous to...
- Heck horseHeck horseHeck horse is a horse breed that resembles the extinct wild equine, the Tarpan, . The breed was created by the German zoologist brothers Heinz Heck and Lutz Heck, director of the Berlin Zoo, at the Tierpark Hellabrunn in Germany in their attempt to breed back the tarpan...
- Hecke operatorHecke operatorIn mathematics, in particular in the theory of modular forms, a Hecke operator, studied by , is a certain kind of "averaging" operator that plays a significant role in the structure of vector spaces of modular forms and more general automorphic representations....
- Parnall HeckParnall Heck|-See also:...
, a 1930s British four-seat cabin monoplane - NOAAS Heck (S 591)NOAAS Heck (S 591)NOAAS Heck , previously USC&GS Heck, was a Rude-class hydrographic survey ship that served in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1967 to 1970 and in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 1970 to 1995....
, originally USC&GS Heck, a survey ship in service with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1967 to 1970 and with the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 1970 to 1995
People
- Alfons HeckAlfons HeckAlfons Heck was born in the Rhineland. From 1938 through the end of World War II, he was a member of Hitler Youth, eventually becoming a Hitler Youth Officer and a fanatical adherent of Nazism’s ideologies...
(1928–2005), German American human rights activist - Dieter HeckingDieter HeckingDieter Hecking is a German football manager and former professional player who works as head coach of 1. FC Nuremberg. He played for both Hannover 96 and Eintracht Braunschweig...
(born 1964), German football player - Dieter Thomas HeckDieter Thomas HeckDieter Thomas Heck is a German television presenter, singer and actor.- Life :...
(born 1937), German television presenter - Don HeckDon HeckDon Heck was an American comic book artist best known for co-creating the Marvel Comics character Iron Man, and for his long run penciling the Marvel superhero-team series The Avengers during the 1960s Silver Age of comic books.-Early life and career:Born in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New...
(1929–1995), American comic book artist - Erich HeckeErich HeckeErich Hecke was a German mathematician. He obtained his doctorate in Göttingen under the supervision of David Hilbert. Kurt Reidemeister and Heinrich Behnke were among his students....
(1887–1947), German mathematician - Heinz HeckHeinz HeckHeinz Heck was a German biologist and director of zoo in Munich . Heck worked on the breeding back projects of the Heck Horse, which strove to recreate the Tarpan , and the Heck Cattle, which was to recreate the aurochs, both of which...
(1894–1982), German biologist - Joe HeckJoe HeckJoseph John “Joe” Heck is the U.S. Representative for Nevada’s 3rd congressional district and is a member of the Republican Party...
, Nevada politician - Lutz HeckLutz HeckLudwig George Heinrich Heck, called Lutz Heck was a German zoologist, animal researcher, an animal book author and director of the large zoo in the German capital city .Together with his brother Heinz Heck, also a zoologist and director of the largest zoological garden in southern...
(1892–1983), German zoologist - Peter HeckPeter HeckPeter Jewell Heck is an American science fiction and mystery author. His books include the "Mark Twain Mysteries"—historical whodunits featuring the famous author as a detective—and four books in the "Phule's Company" series, in collaboration with Robert Asprin, best described as...
, American science fiction author - Paul Heck (born 1967), American music producer
- Richard F. HeckRichard F. HeckRichard Fred Heck is an American chemist noted for the discovery and development of the Heck reaction, which uses palladium to catalyze organic chemical reactions that couple aryl halides with alkenes....
, American chemist - Rose Marie HeckRose Marie HeckRose Marie Heck , commonly known as Rose Heck among residents, is an American Republican Party politician, who is currently the mayor of Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey. Heck also served in the New Jersey General Assembly, where she represented the 38th legislative district from 1991 to 2003...
(born 1932), American politician - Victor HeckVictor HeckVictor Heck, born David Nordhaus, July 20, 1967, in St. Louis, Missouri, is an American editor and horror fiction author whose novels and short stories are published under his pen name. He is the former owner/operator of DarkTales Publications...
(born 1967), American editor and horror fiction author - Johan Van HeckeJohan Van HeckeJohan Jozef Marie Clara Van Hecke is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Flanders with the Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade.He is also a...
(born 1954), Belgian politician - Preben Van HeckePreben Van HeckePreben Van Hecke is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team Topsport Vlaanderen.- Palmares :* Schaal Sels-Merksem * Profronde van Fryslan...
(born 1982), road bicycle racer - Stefaan Van HeckeStefaan Van HeckeStefaan Van Hecke is a Belgian politician. He is member of the Belgium parliament for the ecological party Groen!. He was first elected in June 2007.-Biography:...
, Belgian politician
Places
- Heck, Dumfries and GallowayHeck, Dumfries and GallowayHeck is a hamlet in the local government area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.Heck is southeast of the town of Lochmaben and is north of the village of Hightae.-External links:*...
, Scotland - Heck, North YorkshireHeck, North YorkshireHeck is a civil parish in the English county of North Yorkshire.The main settlement is Great Heck, there is also Little Heck at . For the purposes of local administration Heck forms part of the district of Selby; before April 1974 it was part of Osgoldcross Rural District and the West Riding of...
, England - contains the settlements of Great Heck and Little Heck