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Gey
Gey is a surname. Notable people with this surname include: *George Otto Gey, American scientist *Jesse Gey, American field hockey player *Konstantin Gey, Soviet revolutionary and politician *Leonhard Gey, German painter and art professor *Matthias Gey, German fencer *Steven Gey, Florida State University law professor See also * Gēy, an endonym for Harar, Ethiopia, East Africa * Gey-Gel State Reserve, a nature reserve in Azerbaijan * Gay (other) {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Otto Gey
George Otto Gey ( ; July 6, 1899 – November 8, 1970) was the cell biologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital who is credited with propagating the HeLa cell line from Henrietta Lacks' cervical tumor. He spent over 35 years developing numerous scientific breakthroughs under the Johns Hopkins Medical School and Hospital. Early life and education Gey was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 6, 1899, the son of German immigrants Frank and Emma Gey. He had an older brother and younger sister. Gey's parents immigrated from Germany, and according to the 1910 United States Census, they lived in suburban Pittsburgh. Gey graduated Peabody High School, and received undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1920. He worked as a carpenter and a mason to help pay his way through college. Around 1926, he married Margaret K. (1900–1989), and they later moved to Baltimore where he would earn his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University. Gey was in medical school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Gey
Steven G. Gey (April 6, 1956 – June 9, 2011) was an American legal academic and one of the leading U.S. scholars on religious liberties and free speech. Early life and education Gey was born and raised in Pensacola, Florida. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Eckerd College in 1978 and a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School in 1982. As a law student, he worked as the articles editor of the ''Columbia Law Review''. Career Before joining the faculty at the Florida State University College of Law, Gey practiced law for two years at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City, where he did extensive pro bono work, often on behalf of those facing the death penalty. Gey worked as the David and Deborah Fonvielle and Donald and Janet Hinkle Professor at Florida State University. His scholarship includes ''Cases and Materials on Religion and the State'' and dozens of articles on religious liberties, free speech, and constitutional interpretation. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantin Gey
Konstantin Veniaminovich Gey (russian: Константин Вениаминович Гей; 1896 – February 25, 1939) was a Russian Communist Party functionary of Estonian origin, a participant in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Soviet politician. A member of the Bolshevik Party since 1916, Gey was instrumental in securing Soviet control in the city of Pskov. Gey was born in St. Petersburg in 1896. He was a candidate member of the Bolshevik Central Committee from 1924 until 1934 and was the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Byelorussia from 1930 until 1932. Gey was demoted from the Central Committee in 1934. During the final months of the Great Purge, he was arrested in 1938 and executed by shooting in 1939. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956. A street in Pskov Pskov ( rus, Псков, a=pskov-ru.ogg, p=pskof; see also names in other languages) is a city in northwestern Russia and the administrative center of Pskov Oblast, lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonhard Gey
Christian Ludwig Leonhard Gey (27 June 1838, Hanover - 21 September 1894, Dresden) was a German history painter and art professor. Life and work His father, , was a Royal Court opera singer. From 1854 to 1856, he was enrolled at the Technical University of Hanover, where he was a student of Conrad Wilhelm Hase. Later, he studied in Düsseldorf, Berlin and Dresden, where he worked in the studios of Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld. In 1884 he became a Professor. After 1888, he was the head of the master classes in Drawing from Life at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. In addition to his paintings, he created several murals, in halls at Marienburg Castle (1860–63) and at Albrechtsburg, where he executed a wall mural showing Augustus, Elector of Saxony, and his wife Anne addressing the people of Meissen (1877). Another mural, depicting the announcement of the Peace of Westphalia, at the town hall in Osnabrück (1880), was destroyed during World War II World War&nb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthias Gey
Matthias Gey (born 7 July 1960) is a German fencer. He won silver medals in the team foil events at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October .... References External links * 1960 births Living people German male fencers Olympic fencers of West Germany Fencers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for West Germany Olympic medalists in fencing People from Tauberbischofsheim Sportspeople from Stuttgart (region) Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics {{Germany-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse Gey
Jesse Gey (born July 1, 1985) is an American field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na .... References External links * 1985 births Living people American female field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for the United States Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Norristown, Pennsylvania 21st-century American sportswomen {{US-fieldhockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gēy
Harar ( amh, ሐረር; Harari language, Harari: ሀረር; om, Adare Biyyo; so, Herer; ar, هرر) known historically by the indigenous as Gey (Harari: ጌይ ''Gēy'', ) is a List of cities with defensive walls, walled city in eastern Ethiopia. It is also known in Arabic as the City of Wali, Saints ( ar, مدينة الأَوْلِيَاء). Harar is the capital city of the Harari Region. The ancient city is located on a hilltop in the eastern part of the country and is about five hundred kilometers from the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa at an elevation of . For centuries, Harar has been a major commercial center, linked by the trade routes with the rest of Ethiopia, the entire Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Asia, and through its ports, the outside world. Harar Jugol, the old walled city, was listed as a World Heritage Site in 2006 by UNESCO in recognition of its cultural heritage. Because of Harar's long history of involvement during times of trade in the Arabian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
