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Abeles
Abeles is an English and Jewish surname, derived from the biblical name Abel. Notable people with the surname include: * Benjamin Abeles (1925-2020), American physicist *Edward Abeles (1869–1919), American actor *Florin Abelès (1922-2005), French physicist * John H Abeles (born 1945), American businessman *Kim Victoria Abeles (born 1952), American artist *Michele Abeles (born 1977), American artist *Peter Abeles (1924–1999), Australian businessman * Marcus Abeles (1837–1894), Austrian physician * Moshe Abeles (born 1936), Israeli brain researcher *Norman Abeles (born 1928), Austrian-born American psychologist * Ruth Abeles (born 1942), Israeli Olympic gymnast *Sigmund Abeles (born 1934), American Figurative Artist See also *Abele (other) Abele may refer to: * Abele (village), a small village or hamlet in the city of Poperinge, in the Belgian province of West-Flanders * Abele (surname) * Abele, tropical cyclone, 2010 * Abelé, a Champagne house * ''Abele'' (oper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Victoria Abeles
Kim Victoria Abeles (born August 28, 1952) is an American interdisciplinary artist and Emeritus, professor emeritus. She was born in Richmond Heights, Missouri, and currently lives in Los Angeles. She is described as an activist artist because of her work's social and political nature. She is also known for her feminist works. Abeles has exhibited her works in 22 countries and has received a number of significant awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship. Aside from her work as an artist, she was a professor in public art, sculpture, and drawing at California State University, Northridge from 1998 to 2009, after which she became professor emeritus, professor emerita in 2010. Early life and education Kim Victoria Abeles was born in Richmond Heights, Missouri. As a child, she spent some time living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, an experience which she says influenced her work ''The Smog Collector.'' Kim Abele's main influences for her sculptures and installations stem from the urban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigmund Abeles
Sigmund Abeles (born 1934) is an American figurative artist and art educator. His work embodies the "expressive and psychological aspects of the human figure; an art focused on the life cycle." He taught art for 27 years at various institutions including Swain School of Design, Wellesley College, Boston University, the National Academy, and the Art Students League of New York. Currently Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire, Abeles works full-time in his NYC and upstate NY studios. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards for printmaking, drawing, painting, and sculpture, including Pastel Society of America Hall of Fame honoree in 2004 and most recently the Artists' Fellowship 2017 Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal. His work can be found in many public institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Abeles was one of three artists fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Abeles
Sir Peter Emil Herbert Abeles, AC (25 April 192425 June 1999) was an Australian transportation magnate. A refugee from Hungary, he became a businessman in Australia, and was knighted in 1972. Career Abeles was born in Vienna, in Austria, but grew up in Budapest. When Germany occupied Hungary in 1944, Abeles, who was Jewish, was sent to a Nazi work camp. He later became a cabaret entrepreneur, working in Romania, where in 1947 he met and married his first wife, Claire Dan, a cabaret performer. In 1949 they migrated to Australia. After doing small business by selling books and clothing, he quickly befriended George Rockey, a fellow Hungarian immigrant. The pair bought two trucks, which they named "Samson" and "Delilah," and set up a transport company, Alltrans. In 1967, Alltrans merged with Thomas Nationwide Transport, the combined companies trading as TNT-Alltrans. Under Abeles' guidance as managing director, TNT quickly expanded, and by the 1980s had established a presenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Abeles
Benjamin Abeles (23 June 192514 December 2020) was an Austrian-Czech physicist whose research in the 1960s in the US on germanium–silicon alloys led to the technology used to power space probes such as the ''Voyager'' spacecraft. He grew up in Austria and Czechoslovakia and arrived in the UK in 1939 on one of the ''Kindertransport'' missions. He completed his education after the war in Czechoslovakia and Israel (from 1949), obtaining a doctorate in physics. He then lived and worked as a research physicist in the US and retired in 1995. His honours include the 1979 Stuart Ballantine Medal and his induction into the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame (1991). Early life and education Born in Vienna in 1925, Abeles lived in Czechoslovakia from 1934. In July 1939, aged 14, he was one of hundreds of Jewish children brought from Prague to London through the efforts of British humanitarian Nicholas Winton, an example of the various ''Kindertransport'' missions that saved many such chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshe Abeles
Moshe Abeles ( he, משה אבלס; born 1936 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli brain researcher and neurophysiologist. He is emeritus professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the Life Science Faculty of Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan. Biography Moshe Abeles is born in 1936 in Tel Aviv, then Mandatory Palestine, now in Israel. His father,dr. Walter Abeles (1903-1985) was physician, political activist and diplomat, who led the Jerusalem District direction of Clalit Health Services and in the 1960's years was Israel's ambassador to Colombia and then to Costa Rica and Nicaragua. The mother, Cecilia born Nehamkis, was clothing designer and voluntary teacher of sewing at schools for poverty-stricken girls in Jerusalem În 1947 Abeles moved with his family to Jerusalem and learned at the Hebrew University Secondary School. then Abeles served in the Nahal paratroopers and in 1956 began medicine studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In the first years of his stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Abeles
Michele Abeles is an American visual artist and photographer. Life and work Michele Abeles was born in 1977 in New York. She graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis, and has an M.F.A. in photography from Yale University. Her photographs combine everyday objects such as bottles, pots, rocks, and scraps of paper with flashes of bright color and fragments of male bodies. Exhibitions Selected solo exhibitions *''Zebra,'' 47 Canal, New York (2016) *''Baby Carriage on Bike or Riot Shield as Carriage,'' Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015) *''Find Out What Happens When People Start Getting Real,'' Sadie Coles HQ, London (2014) *E''nglish for Secretaries,'' 47 Canal Street, New York (2013) *''Αγγλικά για Γραμματείς,'' Andreas Melas & Helena Papadopoulos, Athens (2013) *''Frame, Frieze,'' New York (2012) *''Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:,'' 47 Canal, New York (2011) Selected group exhibitions *''DIDING – An Interior That Remains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Abeles
Edward Abeles (November 4, 1869 – July 10, 1919) was an American actor. He appeared in eight films between 1914 and 1918. Before working for Famous Players-Lasky, of which he was one of the founding members, he had a lengthy stage career. Abeles was a lawyer and worked as a reporter before he became an actor. After debuting in the play ''Alabama'' as a "tiny southern boy", his early experiences in acting included appearing in several musical productions as "Anna Held's juvenile man". He starred in the 1906 Broadway hit ''Brewster's Millions''. He later starred in the first film version of the play, directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Abeles was born in St. Louis, Missouri. On July 10, 1919, he died of pneumonia at Dr. MacWilliam's Private Sanatarium in New York City, New York, aged 49. Selected filmography *'' Brewster's Millions'' (1914) *''The Making of Bobby Burnit'' (1914) *''The Lone Wolf'' (1917) * ''Opportunity Opportunity may refer to: Places * Opportunity, Montana, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John H Abeles
John H. Abeles is an American-based venture investor, director, consultant, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He was a director of the International Opera Alliance, New York and was a member of The Players Club, a theatre-themed social club. He also was on the board of the New Group, a theater organization in New York. He served on the advisory board of the College of Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley. Abeles is the president and founder of MedVest, Inc. He is the managing member of Dalyda Finance LLC. Abeles is the founder, sole investor and general partner of Northlea Partners LLLP. He is chairman of UniMedica Inc. Abeles is the founder and chairman of BryoLogyx, which licensed a synthetic form of bryostatin-1 from Stanford University for the use in cancer immunotherapy and adjunctive therapy. Abeles received his medical degree as well as a degree in pharmacology from the University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Abeles
Marcus Mordechai Abeles (8 August 1837 – 31 December 1894) was a physician and ''Privatdozent'' at the University of Vienna. Biography Marcus Abeles was born in 1837 in Nedražice, Kostelec, Bohemia, to Elisabeth () and Samuel Abeles. Having completed a classical course at Prague he was matriculated at the University of Vienna in 1858, and was graduated from there in 1863 with the degree of M.D. Abeles did not at once become a practitioner, but continued his technical training at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus of Vienna. At the conclusion of his studies he left Europe and settled in Cairo, Egypt, where he soon gained a high reputation and commanded a large practise, besides occupying the position of director of the European Hospital there. His professional career in Egypt terminated in Alexandria, to which city he removed on being delegated by the Austrian government to the International Sanitary Commission. In 1870 Abeles returned to Europe and settled in Carlsbad, practising ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Abeles
Norman Abeles (born April 15, 1928) is an Austrian-born psychologist. He is a university professor and a former president of the American Psychological Association. Biography Abeles was born in 1928 in Vienna, Austria. He earned an undergraduate degree from New York University and a PhD from The University of Texas at Austin. He was the 1997 president of the American Psychological Association (APA). Abeles is an emeritus professor of psychology at Michigan State University (MSU). Michigan State University. Retrieved March 2, 2014. He is the former director of MSU's psychological clinic. Much of Abeles's work has centered on [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Abeles
Ruth Abeles-Peled (רות אבלס; born August 7, 1942) is an Israeli former Olympic gymnast. She was born in Haifa, Israel, and is Jewish. Gymnastics career She competed for Israel at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, in gymnastics at the age of 18. In the Women's Individual All-Around, she came in 93rd out of 124 gymnasts, in the Women's Floor Exercise she came in 79th, in the Women's Horse Vault she came in 100th, in the Women's Uneven Bars she came in tied for 55th, and in the Women's Balance Beam she came in tied for 108th. When she competed in the Olympics she was tall and weighed . At the 1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships The 15th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held on July 3–8, 1962 in Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia, this being the 3rd time that Prague hosted these championships. These were the last championships China competed in until 1 ..., she helped the Israeli team gain 15th place as she finished in 67th place i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florin Abelès
Florin Abelès (October 20, 1922 – April 12, 2005) was a French physicist, specialized in optics. In his 1949 doctoral thesis, Abelès developed a transfer-matrix formalism to compute the transmission and reflection of light by thin dielectric layers. When Lyman G. Parratt performed the first x-ray reflectometry experiment in 1954, he developed an equivalent recursion method. Nowadays, Abelès matrices or Parratt recursion are exchangeably used in investigations of multilayers by x-ray reflectometry, neutron reflectometry, or ellipsometry. In 1969, Abelès founded the journal ''Optics Communications ''Optics Communications'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier. It covers all fields of optical science and technology and was established in 1969. Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in: *Chemical ...''. He served as editor-in-chief until 1993. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Abeles, Florin 1922 births 2005 deaths People from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
