c.m. wieland

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Chris·toph Mar·tin

[kris-tawf mahr-teen] , 1733–1813, German poet, novelist, and critic.

Hein·rich

[hahyn-rikh] , 1877–1957, German chemist: Nobel prize 1927.

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Wieland¹ (ˈviːlant)

—n
	the German name for Wayland

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Wieland² (German ˈviːlant)

—n
	Christoph Martin (ˈkrɪstɔf ˈmartiːn). 1733--1813, German writer, noted esp for his verse epic Oberon (1780)

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Wieland Wie·land (vē'länt'), Heinrich Otto. 1877-1957.

German chemist. He won a 1927 Nobel Prize for his research on bile acids.

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