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Felisa Vergara
Felisa is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: ;given name: *Felisa Batacan, Filipino journalist and writer of crime and mystery fiction *Felisa Miceli (born 1952), Argentine economist *Felisa Núñez Cubero (1924-2017), Spanish physicist * Felisa Rincón de Gautier (1897–1994), Puerto Rican politician *Felisa Wolfe-Simon Felisa Wolfe-Simon is an American microbial geobiologist and biogeochemist. In 2010, Wolfe-Simon led a team that discovered GFAJ-1, an extremophile bacterium that they claimed was capable of substituting arsenic for a small percentage of its p ..., American microbial geobiologist and biogeochemist ;surname: * Amedeo Felisa (born 1946), CEO of Ferrari and Aston Martin {{given name, type=both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felisa Batacan
Maria Felisa H. Batacan is a Filipino journalist and a writer of crime and mystery fiction. Her work has been published in the Philippines and abroad under the name F.H. Batacan. Biography She was a fellow at the 1996 Dumaguete National Writers' Workshop. Batacan worked in the Philippine intelligence community and then became a broadcast journalist.Christian (2010), p. 291. She attended the University of the Philippines Diliman, where she pursued a master's degree in Arts Studies.Hildago (2006), p. 79. In 1999 her manuscript, ''Smaller and Smaller Circles'', won the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature Grand Prize for the English Novel. This novel was published in 2002 by the University of the Philippines Press. Although most Filipino English-language fiction works garner a single print run of only 1,000 copies, ''Smaller and Smaller Circles'' had been reprinted four times by the year 2006, for a total of 6,000 copies.Hidalgo (2006), p. 78. The novel was one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felisa Miceli
Felisa Miceli (born 26 September 1952) is an Argentine economist, and a former Minister of Economy and Production of Argentina. She was appointed by President Néstor Kirchner on January 28, 2005, in place of Roberto Lavagna, and was the first woman ever to lead that ministry. She resigned to the position on July 16, 2007, as prosecutors stepped up an investigation into a bag of cash found in her ministry offices. Biography Born in Carlos Casares, Buenos Aires Province, Miceli was a student of Lavagna's at the University of Buenos Aires. She was a left-wing activist in the 1960s, and later served as Director-Secretary of the Bank of the Province of Buenos Aires during Aldo Ferrer's tenure as bank president between 1983 and 1987. She then worked in Lavagna's consultant firm, ''Ecolatina'', in the beginning of the 1990s. In May 2002, during the presidency of Eduardo Duhalde and at the height of the Argentine economic crisis, she became part of Lavagna's team as a representative of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felisa Núñez Cubero
Felisa Núñez Cubero (January 21, 1924 - August 10, 2017) was a Spanish physicist. She was the first female professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Career She graduated in Chemical Sciences in 1946 in Valladolid, and began working with Professor Velayos, who greatly influenced her scientific vocation, orienting it towards physics and directing his doctoral thesis in the area of magnetism. In 1958 she received her doctorate in physics from the UCM with a thesis on permanent magnets and three years later she obtained a scholarship from the Ramsay Memorial Fellowship Trust to expand her research activity at the University of Nottingham, working on magnetic domains with Professor Bates. Her work is cited in the books ''Modern Magnetism of Bates'' and ''Magnetism of Rado and Shull'', whose four volumes constitute an authentic encyclopedia of magnetism. In her academic life she carried out teaching activities, starting as assistant and associate professor at the Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felisa Rincón De Gautier
Felisa Rincón de Gautier (born Felisa Rincón Marrero)This name uses Spanish marriage naming customs; the first is the maiden family name '' "Rincón"'' and the second or matrimonial family name is ''"Gautier"''. (also known as Doña Fela) (January 9, 1897 – September 16, 1994) was a Puerto Rican politician who served as the mayor of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. She was the first woman to be elected as the Mayor of a capital city in The Americas. Early years Rincón de Gautier was born on January 9, 1897 in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. The oldest of all siblings (Felisa, Josefina, Cecilia, Esilda, Ramón, Rafael, Enrique and Rita), she was politically influenced by her father, attorney Enrique Rincón Plumey, family of an earlier Mayor of Yabucoa. Her mother, teacher Rita Marrero Rivera, died when she was around 11 years old. However, her father was determined to give her the best education possible. She went to school in Fajardo, Humacao and Santurce although she did not grad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felisa Wolfe-Simon
Felisa Wolfe-Simon is an American microbial geobiologist and biogeochemist. In 2010, Wolfe-Simon led a team that discovered GFAJ-1, an extremophile bacterium that they claimed was capable of substituting arsenic for a small percentage of its phosphorus to sustain its growth, thus advancing the remarkable possibility of non-RNA/DNA-based genetics. However, these conclusions were immediately debated and criticized in correspondence to the original journal of publication, and have since come to be widely disbelieved. In 2012, two reports refuting the most significant aspects of the original results were published in the same journal in which the original findings had been previously published. Education and career Wolfe-Simon did her undergraduate studies at Oberlin College and completed a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Chemistry and a Bachelor of Music in Oboe Performance and Ethnomusicology at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She received her Doctor of Philosophy in oceanog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
