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Couper
Couper is a surname. It may refer to: * Archibald Scott Couper, scientist * Heather Couper, British astronomer * James Couper (other) * Scott Couper, American football player * William Couper (bishop), 17th-century Scottish bishop and theologian * William Couper (sculptor), 20th-century American sculptor * William Couper (naturalist), 19th-century Canadian naturalist See also * Couper Islands, Nunavut, Canada * Cooper (surname) Cooper is an English surname originating in England; see Cooper (profession). Occasionally it is an Anglicized form of the German surname Kiefer. Cooper is the 8th most common surname in Liberia and 27th most common in England. A *Adam Cooper ... {{surname Surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Couper
Heather Anita Couper, (2 June 1949 – 19 February 2020) was a British astronomer, broadcaster and science populariser. After studying astrophysics at the University of Leicester and researching clusters of galaxies at Oxford University, Couper was appointed senior planetarium lecturer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. She subsequently hosted two series on Channel 4 television – ''The Planets'' and ''The Stars'' – as well as making many TV guest appearances. On radio, Couper presented the award-winning programme ''Britain’s Space Race'' as well as the 30-part series ''Cosmic Quest'' for BBC Radio 4. Couper served as president of the British Astronomical Association from 1984 to 1986 and was Astronomy Professor in perpetuity at Gresham College, London. She served on the Millennium Commission, for which she was appointed a CBE in 2007. Asteroid 3922 Heather is named in her honour. Early life Born on 2 June 1949 in Wallasey, Cheshire, Couper was the only child of Geor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Scott Couper
Archibald Scott Couper (; 31 March 1831 – 11 March 1892) was a Scottish chemist who proposed an early theory of chemical structure and bonding. He developed the concepts of tetravalent carbon atoms linking together to form large molecules, and that the bonding order of the atoms in a molecule can be determined from chemical evidence. Life and work Couper was the only surviving son of a wealthy textile mill owner near Glasgow. He studied at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh and intermittently in Germany during the years 1851-54. He began the formal study of chemistry at the University of Berlin in the autumn of 1854, then in 1856 entered Charles Adolphe Wurtz's private laboratory at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris (now the University of Paris V: René Descartes). Couper published his "New Chemical Theory" in French in a condensed form on 14 June 1858, then in detailed papers simultaneously in French and English in August 1858. Couper's idea that carbon atoms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Couper
Scott Couper (born January 6, 1970) is a Scottish former American football player. He played at wide receiver, most notably for the Scottish Claymores of NFL Europe. Career Couper's first experience of American football came with the amateur British American Football league, playing eight seasons for the Glasgow Lions. Couper also played for Strathclyde University's setup in the British Collegiate American Football League in 1991, going all the way to the playoffs. Scottish Claymores In 1995 he was signed by the newly founded Claymores to fulfill their contingent of National (non-American) players; NFL Europe rules required a number to be on the roster and at least one to compete in every other series of downs. Couper, wearing uniform number 81, played in nine of the Claymores' ten seasons of existence, initially retiring in 2001 before making a comeback in 2003. Couper amassed over 100 receptions and scored 10 touchdowns in his time with the club, and was voted the league-wide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Couper (sculptor)
William L Couper (September 20, 1853 – June 23, 1942) was an American sculptor. Life and career Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Couper studied in Munich and Florence, and remained in the latter city for 22 years before returning to the United States and establishing himself in New York in 1897 as a portraitist and sculptor of busts in the modern Italian manner. He and Thomas Ball purchased a three-story brick building on 17th Street in Manhattan to serve as shared studio space. He married Eliza Chickering Ball, daughter of sculptor Thomas Ball (1819–1911), in Florence in 1878. He was also a colleague of Daniel Chester French. He sculpted the figure of the Roman goddess ''Flora'' for the exhibit of the Apollinaris Company at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. At the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901 his work won a bronze medal. Couper retired from sculpting in 1913. Couper is well known for his winged figures, such as the ''Recording Angel'' at the Couper family pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Couper (naturalist)
William Couper ( fl. 1850s–1886) was an American entomologist and naturalist who came to prominence during the later half of the 19th century in Canada. The better known period of his life spans from the 1850s to 1886. Biography Effectively nothing is known of Couper's early life, although it is speculated that he was born in Sheldon, Vermont. He came to Canada and established himself in Toronto likely around 1843 (he later noted having lived there for 17 years, and left the city in 1860). A conference by Henry Holmes Croft, a University College teacher, spurred him into collecting his first specimens. A few years later his collections of insects and various related structures (nests, cocoons, galleries...) were noticed and praised in '' The Canadian Journal'', an interest he would maintain (1863 he noted these collections to amount to 6 000 specimens). These collections were prized in 1856. Although entomology and ornithology (particularly the former) were his main inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Couper (other)
James Couper may refer to: *James Couper (politician) (1870–1946), Scottish politician *James Couper (rugby union) (1873–1917), Scotland international rugby union player *James Couper (astronomer) (1752–1836), professor of astronomy at the University of Glasgow *James Hamilton Couper (1794–1866), American malacologist *James Couper, of the Couper baronets *James Couper (academic), identified Manganism See also * *James Cooper (other) James Cooper may refer to: Arts and entertainment *James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851), American writer *James Cooper (artist) (fl. 1940), African-American cane carving artisan * James Cooper (producer), British podcaster Politics *James Cooper (P ... * Couper (other) {{hndis, Couper, James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Couper (bishop)
William Couper (or Cowper) (1568–1619) was a Bishop of Galloway in Scotland. Life The son of John Couper, merchant-tailor, of Edinburgh, he was born in 1568. After receiving some elementary instruction in his native city, and attending a school at Dunbar for four years, he entered in 1580 the university of St. Andrews, where he graduated M. A. in 1583. He then went to England, where he was for some years assistant-master in a school at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. Returning to Edinburgh he was licensed a preacher of the church of Scotland in 1586, and admitted minister of the parish of Bothkennar, Stirlingshire, in August 1587, whence he was translated to the second charge of Perth in October 1595. He was a member of six of the nine assemblies of the church from 1596 to 1608. Although one of the forty-two ministers who signed the protest to parliament, 1 July 1606, against the introduction of episcopacy, in 1608 he attended the packed assembly regarded by the presbyterians a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Couper Islands
The Couper Islands are an island group located inside western Coronation Gulf, south of Victoria Island, in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. Other island groups in the vicinity include the Berens Islands, Black Berry Islands, Deadman Islands, Lawford Islands, Leo Islands The Leo Islands are an island group located inside western Coronation Gulf, south of Victoria Island, in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. Other island groups in the vicinity include the Berens Islands, Black Berry Islands, Couper Islands, D ..., and Sir Graham Moore Islands. The community of Kugkluktuk (formerly Coppermine) is located to the southwest. References Islands of Coronation Gulf Uninhabited islands of Kitikmeot Region {{KitikmeotNU-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooper (surname)
Cooper is an English surname originating in England; see Cooper (profession). Occasionally it is an Anglicized form of the German surname Kiefer. Cooper is the 8th most common surname in Liberia and 27th most common in England. A *Adam Cooper (dancer) (born 1971), actor, choreographer, dancer and theater director *Adrian Cooper (born 1968), American football tight end * Adrienne Cooper (1946–2011), American Yiddish singer, musician and activist *Afua Cooper (born 1957), Jamaican-Canadian poet and academic * Alan Cooper (bishop) (1909–1999), British Anglican bishop *Alan Cooper (born 1952), American creator of Visual Basic * Alan Cooper (biblical scholar), American *Albert Cooper (other), multiple people * Alex Cooper (architect) (born 1936), American architect *Alex Cooper (sailor) (born 1942), Bermudian Olympic sailor *Alex Cooper (footballer) (born 1991), Scottish footballer *Alexander Cooper (1609–1660), English painter *Alfred Cooper (other), multipl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
