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Fossum (surname)
Fossum is a Norwegian surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Casey Fossum (born 1978), American baseball player *Eric Fossum (born 1957), American professor and inventor * Iver Fossum (born 1996), Norwegian association footballer * Jon Fossum (1923–2007), Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party *Karin Fossum (born 1954), Norwegian author *Marita Fossum (born 1965), Norwegian author *Michael E. Fossum (born 1957), American astronaut * Per Fossum (1910–2004), Norwegian alpine skier who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics *Sindre Fossum Beyer (born 1977), Norwegian politician for the Labour Party *Thor Fossum Thor Fossum (29 June 1916 – 21 August 1993) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was born in Bærum. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legis ... (1916–1993), Norwegian politician * Tryggve Fossum, Norwegian computer architect {{surname, Fossum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casey Fossum
Casey Paul Fossum (born January 6, 1978) is a former professional pitcher. Previously, he played for the Boston Red Sox (2001–2003), Arizona Diamondbacks (2004), Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2005–2007), Detroit Tigers (2008), and New York Mets (2009) of Major League Baseball, and the Hanshin Tigers (2010) of Nippon Professional Baseball. He bats and throws left-handed. Personal life Casey Fossum is currently retired from playing Big League baseball and resides in his hometown, Waco, Texas. Casey is married to Kadette Cooper Fossum, a '97 Midway graduate and an '01 Texas Tech Alumna. Casey is involved in his community in helping youth baseball players through the Little League and Select Baseball teams. He lives in Waco, TX, with his wife and their indoor mini horses Duey, Houdini, and Lieuy. He also helps his wife, Kadette, rescue and retrain retired thoroughbred racehorses. Early years and college Fossum was born in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. He attended Midway High School in Waco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Fossum
Eric R. Fossum (born October 17, 1957) is an American physicist and engineer, which with the help of other JPL scientists, co-developed some features of the CMOS sensor, CMOS image sensor. He is currently a professor at Thayer School of Engineering in Dartmouth College. Early years and education Fossum was born and raised in Simsbury, Connecticut and attended public school there. He also spent Saturdays at the Talcott Mountain Science Center in Avon CT which he credits for his lifelong interest in science, engineering and mentoring students. He received his B.S. in engineering from Trinity College (Connecticut), Trinity College in 1979 and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Yale University in 1984. Academic career Eric R. Fossum was a member of the Electrical Engineering faculty at Columbia University from 1984 to 1990. At Columbia University, he and his students performed research on Charge-coupled device, CCD focal-plane image processing and high speed III-V CCDs. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iver Fossum
Iver Tobias Rørvik Fossum (born 15 July 1996) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for KV Kortrijk. Club career Strømsgodset Born and raised in Klokkarstua, Fossum started his career at the local club Huringen IF.Bekreftet: Fossum klar for Hannover nettavisen.no, 23 December 2015 After Fossum lost his father in a car accident when he was 14 years old in 2011, the Fossum-family moved to Drammen, to have the opportunity to fulfill their – Iver and his brother Emil Fossum – dreams of becoming professional football players. Soon after, he joined |
Jon Fossum
Jon Fossum (23 February 1923 – 10 July 2007) was a Norwegian orienteer and politician for the Conservative Party. He was born at Hvalstad. In his younger days he was an active sportsman, representing Asker SK. In addition to ski jumping and cross-country skiing, he competed in orienteering. In the latter sport he won five national championships; three of which in relay races with his two brothers. Fossum was first elected to Asker municipal council in 1963, and was mayor of Asker municipality from 1968 to 1980. He was also a five-term member of Akershus county council. He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years base ... from Akershus during the term 1965–1969. During his time as mayor, Asker experienced populati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Fossum
Karin Fossum (born 6 November 1954) is a Norwegian author of crime fiction, often referred to as the "Norwegian queen of crime". Early life Karin Mathisen was born on 6 November 1954 in Sandefjord, in Vestfold county, Norway. She currently lives in Sylling, near Oslo. Fossum debuted as a poet with ''Kanskje i morgen'', her first collection published in 1974 when she was just 20. It won Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris. For a time she worked in hospitals, nursing homes and assisted with rehabilitation of drug addicts. Writing career Fossum began her literary career as a poet. She is the author of the internationally successful Inspector Konrad Sejer series of crime novels, which have been translated into 25 languages and honoured with several awards. She won the Glass Key award for her novel ''Don't Look Back'', which also won the Riverton Prize, and she was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger in 2005 for ''Calling Out For You''. La ragazza del lago, intern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marita Fossum
Marita Fossum (born 14 March 1965) is a Norwegian writer. Her literary debut was the novel ''Verden utenfor'' (2002). She was awarded the Brage Prize in 2005 for the novel ''Forestill deg''. Awards *''Tanums Kvinnestipend'' 2005 *Brage Prize The Brage Prize (Norwegian: ''Brageprisen'') is a Norwegian literature prize that is awarded annually by the Norwegian Book Prize foundation (''Den norske bokprisen''). The prize recognizes recently published Norwegian literature. The Brage Priz ... 2005 References 1965 births Living people 21st-century Norwegian novelists Norwegian women novelists 21st-century Norwegian women writers {{Norway-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael E
SS ''Michael E'' was a cargo ship that was built in 1941. She was the first British Catapult Aircraft Merchant ship: a merchant ship fitted with a rocket catapult to launch a single Hawker Hurricane fighter to defend a convoy against long-range German bombers. She was sunk on her maiden voyage by a German submarine. Description ''Michael E'' was built by William Hamilton & Co Ltd, Port Glasgow. Launched in 1941, she was completed in May of that year. She was the United Kingdom's first CAM ship, armed with an aircraft catapult on her bow to launch a Hawker Sea Hurricane. The ship was long between perpendiculars ( overall), with a beam of . She had a depth of and a draught of . She was and . She had six corrugated furnaces feeding two 225 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of . The boilers fed a 443 NHP triple-expansion steam engine that had cylinders of , and diameter by stroke. The engine was built by David Rowan & Co Ltd, Glasgow. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Per Fossum
Per Fossum (July 27, 1910 – December 24, 2004) was a Norwegian alpine skier who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics The 1936 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IV Olympic Winter Games (german: IV. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 ( bar, Garmasch-Partakurch 1936), were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 16 ..., when he finished ninth in the alpine skiing combined event. External links Alpine skiing 1936 1910 births 2004 deaths Norwegian male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for Norway Alpine skiers at the 1936 Winter Olympics {{Norway-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sindre Fossum Beyer
Sindre Fossum Beyer (born 10 October 1977) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He studied economics and administration at Telemark University College from 1998 to 2000, and marketing at BI Norwegian Business School from 2000 to 2002. After one year in the Norwegian People's Aid, he was hired as political adviser in the Labour Party in 2003. In 2007 he was hired as information director in the Labour Party, as well as studying public relations and strategic communication at master's level at the BI Norwegian Business School. On the local level Fossum Beyer was a member of Porsgrunn municipal council from 1995 to 1999 and Telemark county council from 1999 to 2003. He served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Telemark during the terms 2005–2009. In total he met during 7 days of parliamentary session. In 2009 he was appointed as a political adviser with responsibility for press contact in the Office of the Prime Minister as a part of Stolten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thor Fossum
Thor Fossum (29 June 1916 – 21 August 1993) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was born in Bærum. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years bas ... from Akershus in 1961, and was re-elected on one occasion. He had previously served in the position of deputy representative in the period 1958–1961, but during this whole period he met as a regular representative since Halvard Manthey Lange had been appointed to the Cabinet. References * 1916 births 1993 deaths Labour Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting 20th-century Norwegian politicians Bærum politicians {{Norway-politician-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tryggve Fossum
Tryggve Fossum is a Norwegian computer architect at Intel. He transferred there from DEC, where he was a lead architect of Alpha Alpha (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἄλφα, ''álpha'', or ell, άλφα, álfa) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of one. Alpha is derived from the Phoenician letter aleph , whic ... processors, after working on several VAX processors. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Computer hardware engineers Digital Equipment Corporation people Intel people Norwegian engineers Place of birth missing (living people) {{europe-compu-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
