Blau
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Blau may refer to:
As a surname
- blueBlueBlue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour corresponding to an equal...
in German and Catalan (cp. Tramvia Blau, a blue streetcar line in Barcelona) - Blau (Danube)Blau (Danube)The Blau is a 15 km long river in Baden-Württemberg, southern Germany, and a left tributary of the Danube. The source of the Blau is the karst spring of Blautopf, in the town Blaubeuren, in the Swabian Jura. It flows east through Blaustein to the city of Ulm, where it empties into the...
, a tributary of the Danube in Germany - Prussian bluePrussian bluePrussian blue is a dark blue pigment with the idealized formula Fe718. Another name for the color Prussian blue is Berlin blue or, in painting, Parisian blue. Turnbull's blue is the same substance but is made from different reagents....
(Berliner Blau, Preussisch Blau), a very dark blue pigment - Blau gasBlau gasBlau gas was an artificial illuminating gas similar to propane, named after its inventor, Dr. Hermann Blau of Augsburg, Germany. It was manufactured by decomposing mineral oils in retorts by heat and compressing the resulting naphtha until it liquefied. It was transported in this condition, and...
, an artificial illuminating gas - Blau spaceBlau spaceBlau space consists of the multidimensional coordinate system, created by considering the set of socio-demographic variables as dimensions. All socio-demographic characteristics are potential elements of Blau space, including continuous characteristics such as age, years of education, income,...
, named after Peter Blau - Fall Blau (Operation BlueOperation BlueCase Blue , later renamed Operation Braunschweig, was the German Armed Forces name for its plan for a 1942 strategic summer offensive in southern Russia between 28 June and November 1942....
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As a surname
- Amram BlauAmram BlauAmram Blau was a Haredi rabbi from the Hungarian community of Jerusalem. He was one of the founders of the fiercely Anti-Zionist Neturei Karta.Blau was born in Jerusalem, and grew up in the Meah Shearim neighbourhood...
, an Israeli Naturei-Karta rabbi - Dick BlauDick BlauDick Blau is an artist and a major figure producing and theorizing photography of the family.-Education:Blau holds a BA in English from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University...
(born 1943), a Professor of Film at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - Karl BlauKarl BlauKarl Blau is an indie rock and folk musician based in Anacortes, Washington, and member of the Knw-Yr-Own/K Records collective. His music is eclectic, incorporating elements of folk, dub, R&B, bossa nova, grunge, hip hop, drone, and worldbeat....
, a musician based in Anacortes, Washington - Lajos BiróLajos BiróLajos Bíró was a Hungarian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who wrote many films from the early 1920s through the late 1940s. He was born in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary and eventually moved to the United Kingdom where he worked as a scenario chief for London Film Productions run by...
(born Blau), (1880–1948), Hungarian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter - Ludwig Blau, Hungarian scholar and publicist
- Marietta BlauMarietta BlauMarietta Blau was an Austrian physicist. After having obtained the general certificate of education from the girls' high school run by the Association for the Extended Education of Women, she studied physics and mathematics at the University of Vienna from 1914 to 1918; her Ph. D...
(1894–1970), Austrian physicist - Peter BlauPeter BlauPeter Michael Blau was an American sociologist and theorist. Born in Vienna, Austria, he immigrated to the United States in 1939. He received his PhD at Columbia University in 1952, and was an instructor at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan from 1949–1951, before moving on to teach...
(1918–2002), Austrian Jewish sociologist - Yosef BlauYosef BlauYosef Blau is an Orthodox rabbi. He currently serves as the Mashgiach ruchani at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He is also the president of the Religious Zionists of America.-Education:...
, Orthodox rabbi - Herbert BlauHerbert BlauA director and theoretician of performance, Herbert Blau is Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University of Washington...
(born 1926), director and theoretician of performance