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Gowers is a surname of Welsh origin. Notable people with the name include: * Andrew Gowers (born 1957), financial journalist and media strategist **Gowers Review of Intellectual Property, 2006 * Andrew Gowers (footballer) (born 1969), Australian rules footballer * Ashley Gowers (born 1994), English cricketer * Billy Gowers (born 1996), Australian rules footballer * Bruce Gowers (1940–2023), British television director and producer * Emily Gowers (born 1963), British classical scholar * Ernest Gowers (1880–1966), author of writing style guides * Gillian Gowers (born 1964), English badminton player * Ken Gowers (1936–2017), English rugby league player * Patrick Gowers (1936–2014), English music composer * Peter Gowers (born 1972), British businessman * Timothy Gowers, FRS (born 1963), British mathematician **Gowers norm, in additive combinatorics * Trevor Gowers (1945–1996), Australian rules footballer * Walter Gowers (1903–1965), English footballer and rugby leag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Gowers
Andrew Gowers (born 1957) was appointed editor of the ''Financial Times'' in October 2001. He resigned from this post in November 2005 citing "strategic differences". In March 2012 he was appointed Director of External Relations at the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME). Education Gowers was educated at the Trinity School of John Whitgift, an independent school for boys in Shirley in the London Borough of Croydon, followed by Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Gowers Review of Intellectual Property On Friday, 2 December 2005, he was commissioned by Gordon Brown to lead an independent review of intellectual property rights in the UK, known as the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property. Amongst other things, this review was set up to consider the implications of extending the copyright on sound recordings in the UK. Lehman Brothers In June 2006 Gowers joined Lehman Brothers in London as head of corporate communications, and stayed until the late 2008 collapse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Gowers
Peter Gowers (born 28 September 1972) is a British businessman, and the former chief executive of the hotel chain Travelodge UK. Early life From 1991 to 1995 Gowers studied law at Keble College, Oxford, gaining a first class BA. He was President of the Oxford Union Society in the spring of 1994. Career Gowers worked at the management consulting firm Arthur D. Little in his first job, as an analyst. Gowers joined InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) in 1999. He was IHG's strategy officer, then from 2005 to 2007 their chief marketing officer. He then became the boss of their Asia-Pacific region. He left IHG when the Great Recession hit and their Asia-Pacific region was split into smaller business divisions. In July 1999 Gowers joined Bass. He became the chief executive of the self-storage firm Safestore in 2011. He spent two years at the helm of the company. Gowers became the chief executive of Travelodge UK on 25 November 2013, succeeding Grant Hearn. He said he was "delighted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gower (other)
Gower may refer to: People * Gower (surname), including a list of people with the name *Baron Gower and Earl Gower, subsidiary titles of the Duke of Sutherland *Gower Champion (1919–1980), American actor, theatre director and dancer Places United Kingdom *Gower Peninsula, in South Wales **Lordship of Gower, an ancient district, the original meaning of the name Gower **Gower (UK Parliament constituency) ** Gower (Senedd constituency), of the Senedd **Gower (electoral ward), an electoral ward of Swansea, Wales *Gower (Llanrwst electoral ward), in Conwy, North Wales *Gower Street (London) United States *Gower Township, Cedar County, Iowa *Gower, Missouri *Gower Gulch (Death Valley), California *Gower Street (Los Angeles), California * Gower's Island, Tennessee Other uses * ''Gower'' (magazine), journal of the Gower Society *Gower Publishing, an imprint of Ashgate Publishing *Gower, a fictional character in Shakespeare's ''Henry V Henry V may refer to: People * Henry V, Duke of Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gowers' Sign
Gowers's sign is a medical sign that indicates weakness of the proximal muscles, namely those of the lower limb. The sign describes a patient that has to use their hands and arms to "walk" up their own body from a squatting position due to lack of hip and thigh muscle strength. It is named after William Richard Gowers.W. R. Gowers. A manual of the nervous system. Philadelphia; 2nd edition, volume 1, 1895. __TOC__ Associations Gowers's sign is classically seen in Duchenne muscular dystrophy where it is mostly evident at 4–6 years, but also presents itself in centronuclear myopathy, myotonic dystrophy and various other conditions associated with proximal muscle weakness, including Becker muscular dystrophy, dermatomyositis and Pompe disease. For this maneuver, the patient is placed on the floor away from any objects that could otherwise be used to pull oneself to a standing position. It is also used in testing paraplegia. See also * Spinal muscular atrophy Spinal muscular a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Richard Gowers
Sir William Richard Gowers (; 20 March 1845 – 4 May 1915) was a British neurologist, described by Macdonald Critchley in 1949 as "probably the greatest clinical neurologist of all time". He practised at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptics, Queen Square, London (now the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery) from 1870–1910, ran a consultancy from his home in Queen Anne Street, W1, and lectured at University College Hospital. He published extensively, but is probably best remembered for his two-volume ''Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System ''(1886, 1888), affectionately referred to at Queen Square as the ''Bible of Neurology''. Education and early life William Richard Gowers, son of Hackney ladies' bootmaker William Gowers, was born above his father's shop in Mare Street, Hackney. By the time he was 11 his father and all three of his siblings had died, and his mother returned to live in Doncaster leaving the boy with Venables relatives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Frederick Gowers
Sir William Frederick Gowers, KCMG (31 December 1875 – 7 October 1954) was a British colonial administrator who was Governor of Uganda from 1925 to 1932. Early years Gowers was born 31 December 1875 in London. He was educated at Rugby School and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1898 with a First in the Classical Tripos. He retained his interest in the classics throughout his life. He went to Africa in 1899 as an employee of the British South Africa Company (BSA) and became an assistant Native Commissioner in Matabeleland, in what is now western Zimbabwe, leaving this post in 1902. He was the elder brother of Ernest Gowers. Nigeria In 1902, Gowers resigned from the BSA and joined the Colonial Service, taking the job of third-class resident in Northern Nigeria. He took up this post two years after the Protectorate of Nigeria had been declared, and saw the occupation of the Moslem Emirates of the region under Frederick Lugard's policy of indirect rule. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Gowers
Walter Gowers (first ¼ 1903 – third ¼ 1965) was a professional rugby league and association football (soccer) footballer who played in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. He played representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain (non-Test matches), and Lancashire, and at club level for Platt Lane ARLFC (in Wigan), the Rochdale Hornets (two spells), and St. Helens ( Heritage № 450), as a goal-kicking , i.e. number 1, and club level association football (soccer) for Preston North End (reserves in 1926), as a full-back. Background Walter Gowers' birth was registered in Wigan district, Lancashire, England, he worked as a gardener, he lived at High Birch Terrace, Rochdale, and he died aged 62 in Rochdale district, Lancashire, England. Playing career International honours Walter Gowers represented Great Britain in non-Test matches on the 1928 Great Britain rugby league tour of Australia and New Zealand, scoring 27-goals. County honours Walter Gowers represented Lancashi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Gowers
Trevor Gowers (26 April 1945 – 9 June 1996) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family Trevor's son Andrew Gowers played 140 games for and between 1986 and 1999. Trevor's grandson Billy Gowers played 33 games for the Western Bulldogs The Western Bulldogs are a professional Australian rules football team that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition. Founded in 1877 as the Footscray Football Club, and based in West Footscray in the o ... between 2018 and 2020. Notes External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gowers, Trevor 1945 births 1996 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Richmond Football Club players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gowers Norm
In mathematics, in the field of additive combinatorics, a Gowers norm or uniformity norm is a class of norms on functions on a finite group or group-like object which quantify the amount of structure present, or conversely, the amount of randomness. They are used in the study of arithmetic progressions in the group. They are named after Timothy Gowers, who introduced it in his work on Szemerédi's theorem. Definition Let f be a complex-valued function on a finite abelian group G and let J denote complex conjugation. The Gowers d-norm is :\Vert f \Vert_^ = \sum_ \prod_ J^ f\left(\right) \ . Gowers norms are also defined for complex-valued functions ''f'' on a segment = , where ''N'' is a positive integer. In this context, the uniformity norm is given as \Vert f \Vert_ = \Vert \tilde \Vert_/\Vert 1_ \Vert_, where \tilde N is a large integer, 1_ denotes the indicator function of 'N'' and \tilde f(x) is equal to f(x) for x \in /math> and 0 for all other x. This definiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Gowers
Sir William Timothy Gowers, (; born 20 November 1963) is a British mathematician. He is Professeur titulaire of the Combinatorics chair at the Collège de France, and director of research at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1998, he received the Fields Medal for research connecting the fields of functional analysis and combinatorics. Education Gowers attended King's College School, Cambridge, as a choirboy in the King's College choir, and then Eton College as a King's Scholar, where he was taught mathematics by Norman Routledge. In 1981, Gowers won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad with a perfect score. He completed his PhD, with a dissertation on ''Symmetric Structures in Banach Spaces'' at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1990, supervised by Béla Bollobás. Career and research After his PhD, Gowers was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College. From 1991 until his return to Cambridge in 1995 he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Gowers
William Patrick Gowers (5 May 1936 – 30 December 2014) was an English composer, mainly known for his film scores. Early life and education Born in Islington, Gowers was the son of Stella Gowers (née Pelly) and Richard Gowers, a solicitor. His great-grandfather was the neurologist Sir William Richard Gowers, and his grandfather was the civil servant and writer Sir Ernest Gowers. He was educated at Radley College and later read music at Cambridge University. Whilst at Cambridge, he composed music for the Cambridge Footlights and taught composition part-time. He completed his doctorate, on the music of Erik Satie, in 1966.Whiting, Steven Moore, ''Satie the Bohemian: From Cabaret to Concert Hall''. Oxford University Press/Clarendon Press (Oxford, UK), , p. 3 (1999; reprinted 2002). Career Gowers served as assistant conductor of Bill Russo's London Jazz Orchestra. In 1964, he was music director of the Royal Shakespeare Company's productions of ''Marat/Sade'' in the West End ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gowers Review Of Intellectual Property
The Gowers Review of Intellectual Property was an independent review of UK intellectual property (IP) focusing on UK copyright law that was published in December 2006. The then Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown commissioned Andrew Gowers to lead the review in December 2005. The Review was published on 6 December 2006 as part of the Chancellor's annual pre-budget report. The review concludes that the UK's intellectual property system is fundamentally strong but made 54 recommendations for improvements. Recommendations Instruments - Balance * 1 - "Amend section 60(5) of the Patents Act 1977 to clarify the research exception to facilitate experimentation, innovation and education" * 2 - "Enable educational provisions to cover distance learning and interactive whiteboards by 2008 by amending sections 35 and 36 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988" * 3 - "The European Commission should retain the length of protection on sound recordings and performers’ rights at 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
