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Eckhardt
Eckhardt is a surname and less commonly a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname *Danielle Eckhardt (born 1982), American painter * Edris Eckhardt (1905–1998), American ceramic and glass artist * Elizabeth Eckhardt May (1899-1996), American home economist *Franz Eckhardt (born 1927), Austrian bobsledder * Fred Eckhardt (1926–2015), American brewer and writer *Fritz Eckhardt (1907-1995), Austrian actor, director, and writer *Gisela Eckhardt (born 1926), German physicist and co-developer of the Raman laser * Jeffrey Edward Eckhardt (born 1965), English footballer * Gregory Eckhardt (born 1989), American soccer player *Jacob Eckhardt (1835–1881), American Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly * Johann Georg von Eckhart (1664–1730), German historian and linguist * Johann-Heinrich Eckhardt (1896–1945), German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II * Johnny Eckhardt (1911–1991), American freak show performer *Julius Eckhardt Raht (1826– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisela Eckhardt
Gisela Eckhardt (28 October 1926 – 30 January 2020) was a German physicist and co-developer of the Raman laser. Early years Eckhardt grew up as a child of a Frankfurt electrical wholesaler, who died when she was only 13 years old. She became interested in physics at the age of 12 while at the Wöhler School in Frankfurt. After graduation she studied physics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. She graduated in 1952 with a diploma, with a diploma thesis on the extension of the scope of Christiansen filters to the infrared. In 1958 she received her doctorate. Career She then went to the United States together with her husband Wilfried, who also received his PhD in physics shortly before. There, they first worked for the electronics group RCA, where they had to go to another laboratory of the group, since married couples were not hired there at the time. While her husband was in Princeton's main lab, she was in the semiconductor lab in Somerville, at a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Eckhardt (trader)
William Eckhardt is a trader. Education Eckhardt never finished his PhD in mathematics, claiming that he left graduate school for the trading pits after an unexpected change of thesis advisors. Despite leaving academia prematurely, Eckhardt has published several papers in academic journals. In 1993, Eckhardt's article "Probability Theory and the Doomsday Argument" was published in the philosophical journal ''Mind''. His follow-up article, "A Shooting-Room view of Doomsday" was published in ''The Journal of Philosophy'' in 1997. Both articles make arguments skeptical of the Doomsday Argument The Doomsday Argument (DA), or Carter catastrophe, is a probabilistic argument that claims to predict the future population of the human species, based on an estimation of the number of humans born to date. The Doomsday argument was originally p ... as formulated by John Leslie. In 2006, he published "Causal time asymmetry" in the journal ''Studies In History and Philosophy of Modern Physic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danielle Eckhardt
Danielle Eckhardt (born 1982), is an American painter, who is known primarily for her paintings on spirituality, surrealism and (PTSD). Her art work familiar to the community of Virginia Beach received wide coverage at various art exhibitions. Eckhardt has headlined number of festivals and exhibitions across the Washington metropolitan area The Washington metropolitan area, also commonly referred to as the National Capital Region, is the metropolitan area centered on Washington, D.C. The metropolitan area includes all of Washington, D.C. and parts of the states of Maryland, Virgin .... References American surrealist artists 1982 births Women surrealist artists Artists from Virginia People from Reston, Virginia American contemporary painters Living people 20th-century American women artists Maryland Institute College of Art alumni 21st-century American women {{US-painter-1980s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maik Eckhardt
Maik Eckhardt (born 4 June 1970 in Bad Berleburg) is a German sport shooter who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics, in the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ..., in the 2004 Summer Olympics, in the 2008 Summer Olympics, and in the 2012 Summer Olympics. References 1970 births Living people[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meister Eckhart
Eckhart von Hochheim ( – ), commonly known as Meister Eckhart, Master Eckhart claimed original name Johannes Eckhart, was a German Catholic theology, theologian, philosopher and German mysticism, mystic, born near Gotha (town), Gotha in the Thuringia, Landgraviate of Thuringia (now central Germany) in the Holy Roman Empire. Eckhart came into prominence during the Avignon Papacy at a time of increased tensions between monastic orders, diocesan clergy, the Franciscan Order, and Eckhart's Dominican Order of Preachers. In later life, he was accused of heresy and brought up before the local Franciscan-led Inquisition, and trie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Eckhardt (lawyer)
William G. Eckhardt is a lawyer, a professor of law at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, and formerly a military officer, where his most notable case was the prosecution of Captain Ernest Medina, for the My Lai Massacre.My Lai lawyer reflects on ethics of war '''', June 3, 2006 Professor Eckhardt received his B.A., with honors from the in 1963 where he was a member of the Sigma C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Eckhardt
Walter Eckhardt (March 23, 1906 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Hesse-Nassau – January 1, 1994) was a German politician, who represented the All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights (GB/BHE) and subsequently the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU). He was a member of the Parliament of Bavaria, a member of the Bundestag and a Member of the European Parliament. Eckhardt was until 1943 a high-ranking official (Ministerialrat) in the Reichs Ministry of Finance. In 1943 he joined the German army and was captured in early 1945 by the British. He remained in captivity until 1948. Following his repatriation he settled in Munich where he worked as a lawyer and became politically active. In 1949 he was elected president of the German Union and became a member of the directorate of the All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights the following year. He was elected to the Parliament of Bavaria in 1950, serving until 1954. He was elected to the Bundest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pietasters
The Pietasters are an American eight-piece ska/soul band from Washington, D.C., with additional members from Maryland and Virginia. History In 1990, Stephen Jackson and Chris Watt met at Virginia Tech, through mutual friend Tal Bayer, who was attending nearby Radford University, and they formed a ska band called the Slugs with their former schoolmate Tom Goodin, and an architecture classmate, Ben Gauslin. They changed their name to the Dancecrashers for a few months, before taking the name the Pietasters. The newly formed band convinced the local college booking agency to bring the band Bad Manners from England to perform at the Virginia Tech auditorium, with themselves as the opening act. This was their first public performance, following shows they had staged in the living room of Jackson and Watt's rental house. The two bands later toured the U.S. and Europe together. In the early 1990s, a similar band from the DC area, the Skunks, asked the Pietasters to play a local ska nig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Eckhardt
Tonya Maxene Price (née Harding; born November 12, 1970) is an American former figure skater, retired boxer and a reality television personality. Born in Portland, Oregon, Harding was raised primarily by her mother, who enrolled her in ice skating lessons beginning at three years old. Harding spent much of her early life training, eventually dropping out of high school to devote her time to the sport. After climbing the ranks in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships between 1986 and 1989, Harding won the 1989 Skate America competition. She became the 1991 and 1994 U.S. champion before being stripped of her 1994 title, and 1991 World silver medalist. In 1991, she became the first American woman and the second woman in history (after Midori Ito) to successfully land a triple Axel in competition. Harding is a two-time Olympian and a two-time Skate America Champion. In January 1994, Harding became embroiled in controversy when her ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, orchestrated an atta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert C
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Eckhardt
Peter Ralph Eckhardt (born 10 September 1960) is an Australian slalom canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s the early 1990s. He finished 20th in the C-1 event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci .... ReferencesSports-reference.com profile 1960 births Australian male canoeists Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Living people Olympic canoeists for Australia Canoeists from Melbourne {{Australia-canoe-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
