Scheele
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Scheele is a surname
of Germanic
origin.
Scheele may refer to:
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
of Germanic
Germanic languages
The Germanic languages constitute a sub-branch of the Indo-European language family. The common ancestor of all of the languages in this branch is called Proto-Germanic , which was spoken in approximately the mid-1st millennium BC in Iron Age northern Europe...
origin.
Scheele may refer to:
- Carl Wilhelm ScheeleCarl Wilhelm ScheeleCarl Wilhelm Scheele was a German-Swedish pharmaceutical chemist. Isaac Asimov called him "hard-luck Scheele" because he made a number of chemical discoveries before others who are generally given the credit...
(1742–1786), German-Swedish pharmaceutical chemist - Karin ScheeleKarin ScheeleKarin Scheele is an Austrian social democratic politician and was a member of the European Parliament from 1999 till 2008., parlament.gv.at , Retrieved January 17, 2011 In December 2008, she entered the regional government of her native Land of Lower Austria to become secretary in charge of...
(b. 1968), Austrian politician; member of the European Parliament since 1999 - Leonard A. ScheeleLeonard A. ScheeleLeonard Andrew Scheele was an American physician and public servant. He was appointed the seventh Surgeon General of the United States from 1948 to 1956.-Early years:...
(1907–1993), American physician; Surgeon General of the United States from 1948–56 - Nick ScheeleNick ScheeleSir Nicholas Scheele is a former Chancellor of the University of Warwick and formerly President and Chief Operating Officer of Ford Motor Company...
(b. 1944), American businessman; chief operating officer of Ford Motor Company - Thomas von ScheeleThomas von ScheeleThomas von Scheele is a left-handed Swedish table tennis player. He won a gold medal in the double event of the World Table Tennis Championships in 1991 with Peter Karlsson. He also won several medals in the European Table Tennis Championships. He later became a coach of Sweden's women table...
(b. 1969), Swedish championship table tennis player
- Scheele (crater)Scheele (crater)Scheele is a tiny, bowl-shaped lunar impact crater that lies on the Oceanus Procellarum, to the south of the small crater Wichmann. To the southwest is the flooded crater Letronne...
, the lunar impact crater