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Goldstone (surname)
Goldstone is a surname. It is often the anglicized form of the Jewish surname Goldstein. Notable people with the surname include: *Anthony Goldstone (1944—2017), English pianist *Basil Goldstone (1909–1988), British Liberal Party activist * Blanche Goldstone (1914–2002) American actress, stage name Tracey Roberts *Sir Frank Walter Goldstone (1870—1955), British teacher, trade unionist and politician *Gary Goldstone (born 1976), South African football defender *Henry Goldstone (before 1498—1547)), English politician *Jack Goldstone (born 1953), American political scientist and sociologist *James Goldstone, (1931—99), American director *Jeffrey Goldstone (born 1933), British-American theoretical physicist * Jules Goldstone (1900—80), American entertainment attorney *Michael Goldstone, American music industry executive *Richard Goldstone (born 1938), South African judge and international war crimes prosecutor *Robert Goldstone, American professor of psychology *Steve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglicized Form
The anglicisation of personal names is the change of non-English-language personal names to spellings nearer English sounds, or substitution of equivalent or similar English personal names in the place of non-English personal names. Anglicisation of personal names Classical, Medieval and Renaissance figures A small number of figures, mainly very well-known classical and religious writers, appear under English names—or more typically under Latin names, in English texts. This practice became prevalent as early as in English-language translations of the New Testament, where translators typically renamed figures such as Yeshu and Simon bar-Jonah as Jesus and Peter, and treated most of the other figures in the New Testament similarly. In contrast, translations of the Old Testament traditionally use the original names, more or less faithfully transliterated from the original Hebrew. Transatlantic explorers such as Zuan Chabotto and Cristoforo Colombo became popularly known as John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goldstein (surname)
Goldstein (; ( yi, גולדשטײַן, he, גולדשטיין) is a surname of Yiddish origin, that is widespread among Ashkenazi Jews. It translates to "gold stone" in English. Notable people with the surname include: Arts * Adam Goldstein (1973–2009), American musician and disc jockey known as DJ AM * Alisa M. Goldstein, American genetic epidemiologist * Boris Goldstein (1922–1987), Soviet violinist * Brett Goldstein (born 1980), British actor and comedian * Chaim Itsl Goldstein (born 1900), Polish author * Doug Goldstein (born 1971), American TV screenwriter, producer and director * Elliot Goldstein (born 1938), American actor known as Elliott Gould * Fanny Goldstein (librarian) (1895–1961) * Harvey Goldstein (born 1944), American bass guitarist known as Harvey Brooks * Jack Goldstein, (1945–2003), Canadian-American performance and conceptual artist * Jack Goldstein (born 1986), vocalist for the British band Fixers * Jean-Isidore Goldstein (1925–2007), Romani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Goldstone
Anthony Goldstone (25 July 1944 – 2 January 2017) was an English pianist, known for his eclectic repertoire. He also played a prominent part in promoting works for piano duo with his wife Caroline Clemmow. Early life Goldstone was born on 25 July 1944 in Liverpool. He grew up in Sale and attended Brooklands Primary School there, then Manchester Grammar School. Eschewing a scholarship to Cambridge, he entered the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), then known as the Royal Manchester College of Music (RMCM). There he studied with Derrick Wyndham, and later in London with Maria Curcio. Solo career After his 1965 debut with the Royal Manchester College of Music orchestra under John Barbirolli, he went on to success in international piano competitions, and his London debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1969. Among many concerto appearances, his most notable may have been at the Last Night of the Proms in 1976, in which he played Benjamin Britten's Diversions for piano left hand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basil Goldstone
Basil Eric Goldstone (October 1909 – 1 December 1988) was a British Liberal Party activist. Goldstone studied at Richmond Hill School and Dover College before joining the Royal Air Force.''The Times Guide to the House of Commons'' (1964), p. 25 He stood repeatedly for the Liberal Party in general elections, but was never elected: in Hendon in 1935, Petersfield in 1945, Dover in 1950 and 1959, Basingstoke in 1964, Peterborough in 1966, Norfolk South in 1970, and Harlow in February and October 1974.''The Times Guide to the House of Commons'' (1974), p. 140 He served for some years on Kingsclere and Whitchurch Rural District Council. Later in life, Goldstone worked as a hospital catering officer. In 1976–77, he served as the president of the Liberal Party. A long-term supporter of animal rights Animal rights is the philosophy according to which many or all sentient animals have moral worth that is independent of their utility for humans, and that their most basic inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blanche Goldstone
Tracey Roberts (born Blanche Goldstone, – February 8, 2002) was an American actress who became an acting coach. Her name was sometimes seen as Tracy Roberts. Early years Roberts was born in Little Falls, New York. She attended Cornell University and the University of Michigan before moving to New York City to study at the Actors Studio. She also worked as a model for illustrators. Two of her siblings went on to work in entertainment, Ann Marcus as a TV writer and producer and Raymond Goldstone as a writer for TV and films. Career Roberts had the female lead in the film '' Fort Defiance'' (1951) and acted in ''Anything Goes'', ''Actors in Sin'' (1952) and ''Hollywood or Bust'' (1956). On stage, she appeared in ''It's Been Wonderful'', ''Paradise Lost'', ''Winter Kill'', ''Hedda Gabler'', ''Orpheus Descending'', ''The Seagull'', and ''The Women''. After Roberts's acting opportunities began to diminish, she took a friend's advice and began to teach acting. She was artistic dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Frank Walter Goldstone
Sir Frank Walter Goldstone (7 December 1870 – 25 December 1955) was a British teacher, trade unionist and politician. Biography Goldstone was born in Bishopwearmouth, County Durham (now Sunderland) on 7 December 1870. The third son of a stained-glass artist, he attended Borough Road Traininge College, Isleworth after completing education at Diamond Hall in Millfield. From 1891 to 1910, Goldstone was an assistant master at Bow Street school in Sheffield. In 1895, he had married Elizabeth Alice Henderson of Whittingham, Northumberland. They had two children, Elsie (born 1897) and Frank (born 1899). A member of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), he became president of the subgroup National Federation of Class Teachers in 1902, a member of the Executive Committee of the NUT in 1902 and Chair of its Law Committee in 1904. In 1910, he stepped up his participation in the NUT, serving as Organization Secretary (1910–1918), Assistant Secretary (1918–1924) and finally Genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Goldstone
Gary Alexander Goldstone (born 24 July 1976 in Durban) is a South African association football defender for Premier Soccer League club Bloemfontein Celtic. *Previous clubs: Cherrians Football Club, Maritzburg United, AmaZulu, Ajax Cape Town, Kaizer Chiefs Kaizer Chiefs Football Club (often known as Chiefs) are a South African professional football club based in Naturena, Johannesburg South, that plays in the Premier Soccer League. The team is nicknamed ''AmaKhosi'', which means "Lords" or "Chie ... References 1976 births South African men's soccer players Living people Bloemfontein Celtic F.C. players Soccer players from Durban Kaizer Chiefs F.C. players Men's association football defenders Maritzburg United F.C. players AmaZulu F.C. players Manning Rangers F.C. players {{SouthAfrica-footy-defender-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Goldstone
Henry Coldston or Goldstone (by 1498–1547), was an English politician. He was Mayor of Salisbury from 1537–1538. He was a Member Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in ... (MP) of the Parliament of England for Salisbury in 1539. Early life Henry Coldston was christened near Warminster, Wiltshire. Later life He was buried at St. Edmund's church. References 15th-century births 1547 deaths English MPs 1539–1540 Politicians from Salisbury Mayors of Salisbury {{16thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Goldstone
Jack A. Goldstone (born September 30, 1953) is an American sociologist, political scientist, and historian, specializing in studies of social movements, revolutions, political demography, and the 'Rise of the West' in world history. He is an author or editor of 13 books and over 150 research articles. He is recognized as one of the leading authorities on the study of revolutions and long-term social change. His work has made foundational contributions to the fields of cliodynamics, economic history and political demography. He was the first scholar to describe in detail and document the long-term cyclical relationship between global population cycles and cycles of political rebellion and revolution. He was also a core member of the "California school" in world history, which replaced the standard view of a dynamic West and stagnant East with a ‘late divergence’ model in which Eastern and Western civilizations underwent similar political and economic cycles until the 18th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Goldstone
James Goldstone (June 8, 1931 – November 5, 1999) was an American film and television director whose career spanned over thirty years. Career Goldstone was noted for the momentum and "fifteen-minute cliffhangers" that he brought to TV pilots such as '' Star Trek'' ("Where No Man Has Gone Before", 1966), '' Ironside'', and '' The Bold Ones: The Senator''. His later career helped pioneer the concept of "thirty-second attention span" pacing over detailed content in his dramatizations of Rita Hayworth, Calamity Jane, and the Kent State shootings for which he won the Emmy. He directed several feature films, including the large-scale suspense ''Rollercoaster'' (1977). During his Hollywood career, he directed Paul Newman, Robert De Niro, George Segal, Robert Shaw, James Garner, Richard Dreyfuss and Sidney Poitier and collaborated with composer and musician, Lalo Schifrin. He "discovered" Tiny Tim. In addition to his work in film and television, Goldstone was a longtime leade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Goldstone
Jeffrey Goldstone (born 3 September 1933) is a British theoretical physicist and an ''emeritus'' physics faculty member at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics. He worked at the University of Cambridge until 1977. He is famous for the discovery of the Nambu–Goldstone boson. He is currently working on quantum computation. Biography Born in Manchester, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, (B.A. 1954, Ph.D. 1958). He worked on the theory of nuclear matter under the guidance of Hans Bethe and developed modifications of Feynman diagrams for non-relativistic many-fermion systems, which are currently referred to as Goldstone diagrams. Goldstone was a research fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1956 to 1960 and held visiting research posts at Copenhagen, CERN and Harvard. During this time, his research focus shifted to particle physics and he investigated the nature of relativistic field theories with spontaneously broken symmetries. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Goldstone
Jules Conrad Goldstone (1900–1980) was an entertainment attorney who took part in the early Hollywood antitrust suits. Born to a Jewish family, Goldstone was a native of Schenectady, NY. He attended the University of Michigan Law School. Goldstone was an early Hollywood agent, representing Elizabeth Taylor Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. ...,"Cover Story: A star is born - Elizabeth Taylor remains Hollywood's biggest star. But in a major new biography she emerges as a victim of fame, thrust into acting as a child, forever responding to reality by drawing on the roles she played in the movies. The Guardian's three-part serialisation begins today." ''Guardian'' ondon, England 11 Feb. 1995, p. 12. ''Gale OneFile: News'', link.gale.com/apps/doc/A170646015/STND?u=wik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
