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Wassermann

test for syphillis, 1909, from German bacteriorologist August Paul Wassermann (1866-1925), who devised it in 1906.

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Wasserman or Wassermann is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Aaron E. Wasserman (1920–2015), American food scientist
  • Aharon Wasserman (born 1986), American entrepreneur and software designer
  • Anatoly Wasserman (born 1952), Russian journalist and political pundit
  • August von Wassermann (1866-1925), German bacteriologist
  • Bob Wasserman (1934-2011), American politician and police chief, Mayor of Fremont, California (2004-2011)
  • Casey Wasserman (born 1974), American entertainment executive and owner of the Los Angeles Avengers Arena Football League team
    • Wassermann, formerly Wassermann Media Group, a marketing and talent agency, founded by Casey Wasserman
  • Dale Wasserman (19142008), American playwright
  • Dan Wasserman, American political cartoonist
  • Debbie Wasserman Schultz (born 1966), American politician from Florida
  • Dora Wasserman (1919–2003), actress and founder of the Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre in Montreal
  • Edward Wasserman, American professor of psychology at the University of Iowa
  • Ehren Wassermann (born 1980), American baseball pitcher
  • Elchonon Wasserman (1874-1941), Lithuanian rabbi and rosh yeshiva
  • Eva Wasserman-Margolis, American composer, conductor and clarinet player
  • Gordon Wasserman, Baron Wasserman (born 1938), member of the UK House of Lords
  • Harvey Wasserman (born 1945), American journalist
  • Jack Wasserman (1927-1977), Canadian newspaper columnist
  • Jakob Wassermann (1873-1934), German writer and novelist
  • James Wasserman (born 1948), American author and occultist
  • Jeffrey Wasserman (1946-2006), American artist
  • Jerry Wasserman (born 1945), American actor
  • John L. Wasserman (1938-1979), American entertainment critic for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1964 - 1979
  • Kathryn Wasserman Davis (1907-2013), American philanthropist and foundation executive
  • Kimberly Wasserman, American environmentalist
  • Kevin 'Noodles' Wasserman (born 1963), American lead guitarist and background vocalist for The Offspring
  • Larry A. Wasserman, Canadian statistician
  • Lew Wasserman (1913-2002), American film and entertainment agent and studio executive
  • Mel Wasserman (1932-2002), American businessman, entrepreneur and founder of CEDU Education
  • Noam T. Wasserman, American academic
  • Paul Wasserman (1934–2007), American entertainment publicist
  • Philip Wasserman (1828–1895), mayor of Portland, Oregon
  • Rick D. Wasserman (born 1973), American actor
  • Rob Wasserman (1952–2016), American composer and bass player
  • Robin Wasserman (born 1978), American novelist
  • Ron Wasserman (born 1961), American composer
  • Ruth Wasserman Lande (born 1976), Israeli diplomat, lecturer and social activist
  • Sandra Wasserman (born 1970), Belgian tennis player
  • Sheldon Wasserman (born 1961), Wisconsin State Assembly member
  • Stanley Wasserman (born 1951), American statistician
  • Tony Wasserman, American computer scientist
  • Václav Wasserman (1898–1967), Czechoslovak screenwriter, film actor and director
  • Walter Wassermann (1883–1944), German screenwriter
  • Zbigniew Wassermann (1949-2010), Polish politician

Usage examples of "wassermann".

They included, among German writers, Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Jakob Wassermann, Arnold and Stefan Zweig, Erich Maria Remarque, Walther Rathenau, Albert Einstein, Alfred Kerr and Hugo Preuss, the last named being the scholar who had drafted the Weimar Constitution.

His nine servants all had to take a Bible test and a Wassermann test before he hired them, and they had to attend family prayers.

Imagine estimating philosophers by their chest expansions, their blood pressures, their Wassermann reactions!

The Wassermann reaction on the spinal fluid was--we will say--negative.

Roheim, Jacob Breuer, Richard Krafft-Ebing, Paul Ehrlich, Robert Koch, Wagner von Jauregg, August von Wassermann, Gregor Mendel, Erich Tschermak, Paul Corremans.