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Flier (surname)
Flier or Flyer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Jaap Flier (born 1934), Dutch ballet dancer and choreographer *Jeffrey Scott Flier (born 1948), American physician, endocrinologist, researcher and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University *Manon Flier (born 1984), Dutch volleyball player *Natasha Flyer (born 1969), American earth scientist and applied mathematician *Yakov Flier (1912-1977), Russian concert pianist and teacher {{surname, Flier See also * Van der Flier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaap Flier
Jaap Flier (27 February 1934 – 18 March 2022) was a Dutch dancer and choreographer. Life and career Flier was born in Scheveningen, Netherlands, and studied with Sonia Gaskell. He made his debut as a dancer in 1950 with Ballet Recital and then took a dance position with Netherlands Ballet. He made his debut as choreographer with ''The Trial'' in 1955. He also appeared as a dancer in the film ''Karneval'' in 1961. Flier was a founding member of Netherlands Dance Theatre in 1959 and worked as one of its principal dancers. He served as director of the Australian Dance Theatre Australian Dance Theatre (ADT), known as Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre from 1993 to 1999, is a contemporary dance company based in Adelaide, South Australia, established in 1965 by Elizabeth Cameron Dalman . The ADT was the first moder ... from 1973 to 1975 and director of the Dance Company (NSW) in Sydney from 1975 to 1976. He then returned to the Netherlands where he worked teaching dance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Scott Flier
Jeffrey Flier is an American physician, endocrinologist, widely cited scientist, ''Higginson Professor of Medicine and Physiology, and Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor'' at Harvard Medical School. He was the 21st Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University from 2007 to 2016. Early life and career Flier was born in New York City, and grew up in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx. He is the son of Milton R. Flier, a World War II C-47 pilot and businessperson, and Dorothy (Kroll) Flier, who taught junior high school mathematics. He graduated in 1964 from the Bronx High School of Science, and 1968 from the City College of New York. He was in the first entering class of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1968, and graduated in 1972 with the Elster Prize for highest academic standing.An opponent to healthcare for all. After two years of internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai Hospital, he spent four years in the Public Health Service as a clinical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manon Flier
Manon Nummerdor-Flier (born 8 February 1984 in Nieuwleusen, Overijssel) is a retired volleyball player from the Netherlands, who plays as an opposite. Career Flier was named Most Valuable Player at the 2007 FIVB World Grand Prix in Ningbo, PR China, where the Dutch national team won the gold medal. Flier lost the bronze medal at the 2010–11 CEV Champions League after her team Scavolini Pesaro was defeated 3–1 by the Turkish Fenerbahçe Acıbadem. She was individually awarded "Best Spiker". In July 2011, Toray Arrows announced that she was joining for the 2011–12 season. Flier won the bronze medal with Igtisadchi Baku in the 2013–14 Azerbaijan Super League and the Best Server award. In 2015, she played with the Dutch National Team at the 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan. Flier started her volleyball career at Flash Nieuwleusen in 1992 and is the most experienced player of the current team with 406 international matches. Personal Flier is married to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasha Flyer
Natasha Flyer (born 1969) is an American earth scientist and applied mathematician known for her expertise on radial basis functions. She works as a research scientist in the Analytics and Integrative Machine Learning laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and is also an affiliate of the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Education and career Flyer majored in geological sciences at Northwestern University, graduating with a bachelor's degree there in 1993. She went to the University of Michigan for graduate study in atmospheric and space science, and completed her Ph.D. in 1999. Her dissertation was ''The Effect of Upper Level Features in The Atmosphere on Linear Theory and Linearized Benjamin-Davis-Ono Theory for Internal Gravity Waves''. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research from 1999 to 2000, and continued her postdoctoral study with the support of an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yakov Flier
Yakov Vladimirovich Flier (russian: Я́ков Влади́мирович Флие́р; , 1912 – December 18, 1977; last name also spelled Fliere or Fliyer) was a Jewish Russians, Russian concert pianist and teacher. Flier was born in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Imperial Russia, Russia. He studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory with Konstantin Igumnov. By the 1930s, he had become one of the most prominent Russian concert pianists. He mainly performed Romantic music, although he also played some works by contemporary Russian composers Dmitry Kabalevsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, German Galynin, Sergei Prokofiev and Rodion Shchedrin. He taught piano for many years at the Moscow Conservatory. His notable students include Rodion Shchedrin, Viktoria Postnikova, Mikhail Pletnev, Lev Vlassenko, Natasha Vlassenko, Tatiana Ryumina, Mikhaïl Faerman, Bella Davidovich, Sergey Musaelyan, Regina Shamvili, Shoshana Rudiakov, Mikhail Rudy, Mark Zeltser, Vladimir Feltsman, Samvel Alumian, Mūza Rubacky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
