Ritz

Ritz, Walter, 1878-1909, Swiss physicist. He taught at the universities of Zürich and Göttingen. Ritz's combination principle, confirmed by later research, stated that the frequencies of spectral lines could be expressed as differences between a relatively small number of "terms," later identified by Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist, as the permissible energy levels of the radiating atoms. Ritz also developed important theories of radiation, magnetism, and electrodynamics.

Ritz or The Ritz can refer to:

Hotels

• Ritz Hotel, a hotel overlooking Green Park in London
• Hotel Ritz Madrid, a hotel in Madrid, Spain
• Hôtel Ritz Paris, a hotel in Paris, France
• The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, LLC, parent company to the Ritz-Carlton hotel brand
• Ritz-Carlton a chain of hotels

People

• César Ritz (1850–1915), hotelier
• Walter Ritz (1878–1909), theoretical physicist
• Rosalie Ritz (1923–), pioneering courtroom artist
• Gerry Ritz (1951–), Canadian federal politician
• David Ritz, author
• The Ritz Brothers, comedy team from the 1920s through the 1960s
• Ritz Malheur, a fictational character in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

Music

• "Puttin' on the Ritz", a popular song by Irving Berlin
• "Ritz" (Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel song), a rock song by Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
• The Ritz (quartet), a barbershop quartet that won the International Championship in 1991
• From The Ritz To The Rubble, song by Arctic Monkeys

Television, theatre, and films:

• The Ritz (TV series), a BBC television series in 1987
• The Ritz (play), a Broadway play by Terrence McNally
• The Ritz (film), the film version of the play

Rock clubs

• Ritz (rock club), a rock club in New York City in the 1980s
• Ritz (Austin, Texas), a 1970s Austin, Texas rock club, in which Roky Erickson recorded a live album
• The Ritz (Manchester), a Manchester, England rock club, in which Ian Gillan and The Charlatans have both recorded

Other uses

• Ritz Camera Centers, in the United States
• Ritz Video, a chain of video rental stores in the United Kingdom that was bought out by Blockbuster Inc.
• Ritz Crackers, a brand of snack crackers
• Ritz (crater), a lunar impact crater located on the far side of the moon
• Ritz Malheur, a major character in the Final Fantasy Tactics Advance game
• Ritz Metro, a Mexican snack
• Ritz Newspaper, sometimes Ritz Magazine, the defunct monthly UK fashion and gossip periodical published by David Bailey and David Litchfield