Diels

American  

[deelz, deels] / dilz, dils /

noun

1. Otto 1876–1954, German chemist: Nobel Prize 1950.

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Example Sentences

I can just hear the players during the first rehearsal of “Laughing to Forget,” asking composer Natacha Diels, “You want us to do what?”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2018

She had numerous lovers there, including, almost simultaneously, senior Nazi official Ernst “Putzi” Hanfstaengl; the first head of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels; and a Soviet spy who was later executed by Stalin.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2015

She became great pals with Rolf Diels, the Chief of the Secret Police, who looked like a Hollywood gangster, with "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, who swore that she was just the woman Hitler needed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dieldrin, named for a German chemist, Diels, is about 5 times as toxic as DDT when swallowed but 40 times as toxic when absorbed through the skin in solution.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

For the sacredness of the number three and its multiples, see Diels, Sibyllinische Blätter, p.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde