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Frisch
Frisch is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aileen Frisch, South Korean luger *Arno Frisch, Austrian actor * Cyrus Frisch, Dutch film director * David Frisch (American football), American football player *David H. Frisch (1918–1991), American physicist *Deborah Frisch, American psychologist * Frankie Frisch (1898–1973), American baseball player * Irene Frisch (born 1931), Holocaust survivor and author *Johan Dalgas Frisch (born 1930), Brazilian engineer and ornithologist * Johann Leonhard Frisch (1666–1743), German linguist, entomologist and ornithologist * Karl von Frisch (1886–1982), Austrian ethologist *Martin Frisch (1899–1959), Hungarian/American mechanical engineer * Max Frisch, Swiss playwright, and novelist * Morten Frisch, Danish epidemiologist * Otto Robert Frisch (1904–1979), Austrian-British physicist *Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (1895–1979), Norwegian economist * Uriel Frisch (born 1940), French mathematical physicist See also * Frisc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Frisch
Max Rudolf Frisch (; 15 May 1911 – 4 April 1991) was a Swiss playwright and novelist. Frisch's works focused on problems of identity, individuality, responsibility, morality, and political commitment. The use of irony is a significant feature of his post-war output. Frisch was one of the founders of Gruppe Olten. He was awarded the 1965 Jerusalem Prize, the 1973 Grand Schiller Prize, and the 1986 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Biography Early years Frisch was born in 1911 in Zürich, Switzerland, the second son of Franz Bruno Frisch, an architect, and Karolina Bettina Frisch (née Wildermuth). He had a sister, Emma (1899–1972), his father's daughter by a previous marriage, and a brother, Franz, eight years his senior (1903–1978). The family lived modestly, their financial situation deteriorating after the father lost his job during the First World War. Frisch had an emotionally distant relationship with his father, but was close to his mother. While at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch
Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (3 March 1895 – 31 January 1973) was an influential Norwegian economist known for being one of the major contributors to establishing economics as a quantitative and statistically informed science in the early 20th century. He coined the term econometrics in 1926 for utilising statistical methods to describe economic systems, as well as the terms microeconomics and macroeconomics in 1933, for describing individual and aggregate economic systems, respectively. He was the first to develop a statistically informed model of business cycles in 1933. Later work on the model together with Jan Tinbergen won the two the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969. Frisch became dr.philos. with a thesis on mathematics and statistics at the University of Oslo in 1926''.'' After his doctoral thesis, he spent five years researching in the United States at the University of Minnesota and Yale University. After teaching briefly at Yale from 1930-31, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankie Frisch
Frank Francis Frisch (September 9, 1898—March 12, 1973), nicknamed "The Fordham Flash" or "The Old Flash", was an American Major League Baseball player and manager of the first half of the twentieth century. Frisch was a switch-hitting second baseman who threw right-handed. He played for the New York Giants (1919–1926) and St. Louis Cardinals (1927–1937). He managed the Cardinals (1933–1938), Pittsburgh Pirates (1940–1946) and Chicago Cubs (1949–1951). He is a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum. He is tied with Yogi Berra for most World Series doubles at 10 and holds the record for the most World Series hits at 58 for a player who never played for the New York Yankees, exceeded only by Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle. Early life Born in the Bronx, New York City, Frisch attended Fordham Preparatory School, graduating in 1916. He went on to Fordham University where he continued to star in four sports: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frisch School
The Frisch School, also known as Yeshivat Frisch , is a coeducational, Modern Orthodox, yeshiva high school located in Paramus, in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It was founded in 1972 by Rabbi Menachem Meier and Alfred Frisch. The school primarily serves the Jewish communities of northern New Jersey, and New York. Frisch School is located at 120 West Century Road in Paramus. The campus has 41 classrooms, a learning center, six science laboratories, gymnasium, library, music and art studios, a Beit Midrash, a makerspace (fab lab), and a publications room. Outdoors, the campus has a softball field, tennis courts, a basketball-hockey, and a soccer field encircled by a running track. The campus is named in honor of Henry Swieca, who donated the campus. History Founded in 1972 by Rabbi Menachem Meier and Alfred Frisch, the school had been located at E. 243 Frisch Court in Paramus, on a plot of land. For the 2007–08 school year, Frisch moved to 120 West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Robert Frisch
Otto Robert Frisch FRS (1 October 1904 – 22 September 1979) was an Austrian-born British physicist who worked on nuclear physics. With Lise Meitner he advanced the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission (coining the term) and first experimentally detected the fission by-products. Later, with his collaborator Rudolf Peierls he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940. Early life Frisch was born in Vienna in 1904 to a Jewish family, the son of Justinian Frisch, a painter, and Auguste Meitner Frisch, a concert pianist. He himself was talented at both but also shared his aunt Lise Meitner's love of physics and commenced a period of study at the University of Vienna, graduating in 1926 with some work on the effect of the newly discovered electron on salts. Nuclear physics After some years working in relatively obscure laboratories in Germany, Frisch obtained a position in Hamburg under the Nobel Prize-winning scientist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Von Frisch
Karl Ritter von Frisch, (20 November 1886 – 12 June 1982) was a German-Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz. His work centered on investigations of the sensory perceptions of the honey bee and he was one of the first to translate the meaning of the waggle dance. His theory, described in his 1927 book ''Aus dem Leben der Bienen'' (translated into English as ''The Dancing Bees''), was disputed by other scientists and greeted with skepticism at the time. Only much later was it shown to be an accurate theoretical analysis. Early life Karl von Frisch was the son of the surgeon and urologist Anton von Frisch (1849–1917), by his marriage to Marie Exner. Karl was the youngest of four sons, all of whom became university professors. Von Frisch was of partial Jewish heritage. Karl studied in Vienna under Hans Leo Przibram and in Munich under Richard von Hertwig, initially in the field of med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uriel Frisch
Uriel Frisch (born in Agen, in France, on December 10, 1940) is a French mathematical physicist known for his work on fluid dynamics and turbulence. Biography From 1959 to 1963 Frisch was a student at the École Normale Supérieure. Early in his graduate studies, he became interested in turbulence, under the mentorship of Robert Kraichnan, a former assistant to Albert Einstein. Frisch earned a Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of Paris, and since then he has worked at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He retired in 2006, and became a director of research emeritus at CNRS.Curriculum vitae retrieved 2012-03-05. Frisch's wife Hélène is also a physicist, and the grand daughter of mathematician Paul Lévy [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frisch Family
Frisch is a Norwegian family of German origin, of which many members were associated with the Kongsberg Silver Mines for several centuries since the 17th century. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, family members were noted as goldsmiths in Oslo. Its most famous member is Ragnar Frisch, the first Nobel laureate in economics. It is descended from Christopher Frisch (born 1615), who came from Germany to work for the Kongsberg Silver Mines in Norway. He was the father of Petter Christophersen Frisch (1640–1703) (also spelled Pieter Frisk). His sons were Paul Pettersen Frisch (1665–1730) and Christopher Pettersen Frisch (1672–1726). Paul Pettersen Frisch was married to Anne Antoniusdatter Nolt (born before 1678), daughter of Antonius Nolt (a German immigrant who also worked at the Kongsberg Silver Mines) and Barbro Hansdatter Schröder (1641–1712), a daughter of Hans Andersen Schröder (born ca. 1610–1615 in Sweden, died 1675). Paul Frisch and Anne Nolt were the parents o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Frisch
Martin Frisch (November 22, 1899 – June 16, 1959)''Power Plant Engineering.'' Volume 63, Nr. 7-12, 1959. p. 4 was a Hungarian/American mechanical engineer, director of Foster Wheeler Corporation in New York City, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the "development of modern practices in fuel pulverizing and steam generation.",''Mechanical Engineering,'' Volume 74. 1952. p. 611 and as recipient of the 1958 ASME MedalASME. ''Mechanical Engineering,'' Volume 80. 1958. Biography Early life and education Frisch was born 1899 in Csebze, Hungary, now Cebza in Timiș County in Romania. He came with his family to the United States in 1909, where they settled in St. Louis, and naturalized in 1917.''Who was who in American history-science and technology: a component of who's who in American history.'' Marquis Who's Who, 1 dec. 1976. p. 210. Frisch was named after his father, also engineer and inventor, who filed his first patent request from St. Louis in 1914. After regul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Dalgas Frisch
Johan Dalgas Frisch (born 1930) is a Brazilian engineer and ornithologist. Biography Frisch was born in São Paulo in 1930, the son of Danish immigrants Svend Frisch and Ellen Margareth Dalgas Frisch, who came to reside in Brazil in 1927. His maternal grandfather was Enrico Dalgas, a famous Danish forester. From an early age, he observed local birds and their behavior, an interest encouraged by his father. Svend Frisch was an artist who among other things drew Brazilian birds, eventually including some illustrations for books he coauthored with Johan. In 1950, Frisch enrolled in the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie in São Paulo, graduating with a degree in industrial engineering in 1955. His first job was at a power line factory. In 1958, he travelled to his employer's headquarters in Scotland. He made use of this opportunity to meet European ornithologists, and was introduced to their collections of recordings of bird songs. On returning to Brazil, Frisch started recording b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aileen Frisch
Aileen Christina Frisch (born 25 August 1992) is a South Korean- Slovenian luger. Frisch competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics and 2022 Winter Olympics for South Korea. Sports career In 2012, Frisch became the world junior female singles luge champion, competing as a German. Frisch failed to make the German luge team for the 2014 Winter Olympics. She retired from luging in 2015 at age 22. After her retirement, she was contacted by German coaches hired by South Korea to become a naturalized South Korean and join the South Korean luge team. At first, she refused, but in 2016, she consented and acceded to a second request when she started missing the competitions. In December 2016, she became a South Korean citizen so she could legally compete on the South Korea team at the 2018 Winter Olympics. She also competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics. See also *South Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics South Korea competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, from 9 to 25 Februa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyrus Frisch
Cyrus Frisch (born 1969 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch avant-garde film maker. ''Filmmaker'' magazine called him the wild man of Dutch film. According to Holland Film, Frisch is one of the most daring film makers currently working in the Netherlands. His debut feature film ''Forgive Me'', meant as a critique of reality-TV culture, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2001 and set his name as a controversial filmmaker. Frisch himself plays the lead in that film. He pretends to be a devilish director without any ethical boundaries in search for the ultimate, exciting (fiction) film. He uses a group of (real) social outcasts and mentally handicapped as actors. Frisch is known to have made the first fictional feature film shot with a mobile phone: '' Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad in Afghanistan'', that premiered at major film festivals: the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2007, Tribeca Film Festival 2007, the San Francisco International ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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