WYOMING (Wyoming), staff in the west the USA. 253,6 thousand êì2. The population of 470 thousand person (1993). Adm. ts. - Cheyenne.

VAJPREHT (Weyprecht) Charles (1838-81), the Austrian polar explorer. In 1872-74 supervised together with J.Pajerom expedition on vessel "Tegethof" which has discovered Franz Josef land (1873).

VAJROCHANA (sanskr. Irradiant), in the Buddhism of a Mahajana and vadzhrajany - budda, releasing light. In vadzhrajane it was figured by a white, with chakroj in an arm{a hand}.

WEISS (Weiss) Peter (1916-82), the german writer. From 1939 cable cores in Sweden. Novels, the trilogy " the Aesthetics of resistance " (1975-81), about the modern working-class movement. Mnogochislennnye the plays distinguished acute publitsistichnostju, a social - critical and moral - humanistic problematics (including documentary anti-fascist "Investigation", 1965).

VAJSKOPF (Weisskopf) Victor Frederik (r. 1908), the physics - theorist, the foreign member of the Russian Academy of Science (1991; foreign member AN the USSR with 1976). Was born in Austria, worked in Germany and Denmark, with 1937 in the USA. In 1961-65 director of the European nuclear research centre. The main{basic} transactionses on nuclear physics and fundamental particles, a quantum theory of a field and a quantum electrodynamics.

VAJSKOPF (Vejskopf) Frants Charles (1900-55), the german writer. Many years of cable cores in Prague. Anti-fascist novels ("Tempting", other title "Lissi", 1937), a cycle of novels about disintegration of an austro-hungarian monarchy " Children of the time " (50th). Publicism.

VAJSFELD Ilya Veniaminovich (r. 1909), the Russian critic and the theorist of kino, the honored worker of arts of Russia (1969), the doctor of art criticism. Transactionses in range of motion picture arts. Professor VGIKa (with 1967).

VAJTARANI (sanskr. Ferrying), in mythology induizma the sacred river separable alive from a kingdom dead.

VAJTS (Waitz) George (1813-86), the german historian. Transactionses on a history of official bodies and the social system of medieval Germany. In feudalism saw political attitudes{relations}, founded on vassalitete in combination to system of benefices.

VAJTS (Waitz) Greta (r. 1953), Norwegian sportsmenka (track and field). One of the strongest marafonok the world in 1980th. CHempionka the world (1983) and the silver prize-winner of Olympic Games (1984.) 9-fold winner of a traditional marathon in New York (1978-80, 1982-86, 1988) and twofold a traditional marathon in the London (1983, 1986).

VAJTSZEKKER (Weizsaecker) Victor a background (1886-1957), the german doctor - neurologist, the representative of a psychosomatic direction to medicine.

VAJTSZEKKER (Weizsaecker) Charles Fridrih a background (r. 1912), german physics and the philosopher, brother R.Vajtszekkera. The director (1969-80) Institutes Maksa of the Planck on probe of living conditions in the technological world (SHtarnberg, Bavaria). Transactionses on a nuclear physics, an astrophysics and a cosmogony, philosophy of a nature and philosophical problems of natural sciences.

VAJTSZEKKER Rihard a background (r. 1920), the president of Germany in 1984-94. With 1969 in structure of a guiding of Christian Democrat union (HDS). In 1981-84 ruling burgomaster Zap. Berlin.

VAJSHESHIKA, one of 6 orthodox (admitting authority ved) systems of indian philosophy. It is based by Canada. In polemic with the Buddhism settled substantial existence of grades alongside with things. In the atomistic concept vajsheshiki, as against ancient greek atomistov, the cause of motion of atoms considers supernatural force - adrishta (invisible).

VAJSHII (sanskr)., members of one of 4 varn in Other. India, all over again integrated full obshchinnikov, basically of farmers, breeders, and later and dealers, some handicraftsmen. In Middle Ages to vajshii ranked only dealers.

FROND (from grech. baion - a palm branch), leaves of ferns.

VAJJAN-KUTJURE Pol (1892-1937), the French writer. The collection of stories " the Dancing party blind " (1927), the autobiographical book "Childhood" (it is published 1938). The book " On a service of reason " (1937).

VAK, see. The maximum attestative committee.

VACANCY, one of kinds{views} of structural defects of a crystal lattice - point of the lattice in which there is an atom or an ion (vakansionnyj a unit).