Zeiss

Zeiss or Zeiß may refer to:

People

• Carl Zeiss (1816–1888), German optician and entrepreneur
• Emil Zeiß (1833–1910), German Protestant minister and painter
• Juan Pablo Zeiss (born 1989), Argentine rugby union player

Companies

• Carl Zeiss AG, German manufacturer of optics, industrial measurements and medical devices founded by Carl Zeiss
• Carl Zeiss Foundation, holding company for several Zeiss companies
• Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, a Zeiss subsidiary
• Carl Zeiss SMT, a Zeiss subsidiary
• Schott AG, a Zeiss subsidiary

Institutions and organizations

• Carl-Zeiss-Gymnasium Jena, a school in Jena, Germany.
• FC Carl Zeiss Jena, football club founded in 1903 by workers at Carl Zeiss optics company

Technologies

• Zeiss formula, a formula for depth of field calculations.
• Zeiss projector, a line of planetarium projectors manufactured by one of the Zeiss companies
• Zeiss Planar, a photographic lens patented by the Zeiss company in 1896
• Zeiss Sonnar, a photographic lens patented by the Zeiss company in 1924
• Zeiss Tessar, a photographic lens patented by the Zeiss company in 1902

Other uses

• 851 Zeissia, an S-type asteroid named for Carl Zeiss
• Zeiss (comics), DC Comics villain

See also

• Zeis (disambiguation)