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Halvorsen
Halvorsen is a Norwegian patronymic surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aasmund Halvorsen Vinje (1851–1917), Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party * Asbjørn Halvorsen (1898–1955), Norwegian footballer. * Birger Halvorsen (1905–1976), Norwegian high jumper * Einfrid Halvorsen, Norwegian politician for the Labour Party * Gail Halvorsen (1920–2022), American command pilot * Gunnar Halvorsen (1945–2006), Norwegian politician for the Labour Party * Harald Halvorsen (other), multiple people * Håvard Halvorsen, Norwegian football defender * Hjalmer S. Halvorsen (1884–1970), American politician * Jan Halvor Halvorsen, Norwegian football manager * Johan Halvorsen (1864–1935), Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist * Johan Magnus Halvorsen, Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party * John Halvorsen, Norwegian long-distance runner * Katherine Halvorsen, American statistician * Kathy Halvorsen, American environmental scientis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gail Halvorsen
Colonel Gail Seymour "The Candy Bomber" Halvorsen (October 10, 1920 – February 16, 2022) was a senior officer and command pilot in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the "Berlin Candy Bomber" or "Uncle Wiggly Wings" and gained fame for dropping candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift from 1948 to 1949. Halvorsen grew up in rural Utah and always had a desire to fly. He earned his private pilot's license in 1941 and then joined the Civil Air Patrol. He joined the United States Army Air Forces in 1942 and was assigned to Germany on July 10, 1948, to be a pilot for the Berlin Airlift. Halvorsen piloted C-47s and C-54s during the Berlin airlift ("Operation Vittles"). During that time he founded "Operation Little Vittles", an effort to raise morale in Berlin by dropping candy via miniature parachute to the city's residents. Halvorsen began "Little Vittles" with no authorization from his superiors but over the next year became a national hero with support ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Halvorsen Sons
Lars Halvorsen Sons was an Australian pleasure craft and boat building company, described as "one of the most famous amesin Australian marine engineering". Early history Halvorsen Boats traces its roots to 1887 when Halvor Andersen, a farmer, launched his first wooden craft near Arendal in the south of Norway. His son Lars followed in his father's footsteps and became a boat builder. After Lars lost his fortune in the post WW1 recession, with the sinking of his uninsured sailing ship ''Nidelv''- the first of her voyages not to be insured, Lars moved from Norway to Cape Town, South Africa in 1922 to start over. Lars built a successful boatbuilding and repair business but, with five sons, realised there would not be enough business there to create the family business he envisioned. History Lars and his eldest son Harold moved to Sydney, Australia, in late 1924, and the rest of the family arrived at the end of December. From 1925 through 1976 the family enterprise built 1,299 cra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristin Halvorsen
Kristin Halvorsen (born 2 September 1960) is a Norwegian politician of the Socialist Left Party. She served as Minister of Finance from 2005 to 2009 and as Minister of Education from 2009 to 2013. She also served as the party's leader from 1997 to 2012 and a member of parliament representing Oslo, from 1989 to 2013. Taking over as leader of the Socialist Left Party in 1997, she established an unprecedented level of consensus within the party. At the 2005 election, the party received a disappointing 8.8% share of the vote, and in 2009 down further, to 6.2%. She stepped down as leader in 2012, and was succeeded by Audun Lysbakken on 11 March. The Socialist Left, in coalition with the Labour Party and the Centre Party, won Norway's September 2005 parliamentary elections. The resulting Red-Green coalition government marked the first time that the Socialist Left Party was included in the cabinet. Halvorsen took office as Minister of Finance, becoming the first woman to hold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asbjørn Halvorsen
Asbjørn Halvorsen (3 December 1898 – 16 January 1955), nicknamed Assi, was a Norwegian footballer, who played as a centre-half for Sarpsborg FK and Hamburger SV. He was capped 19 times playing for Norway, and was a part of the Norwegian team who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was later Secretary general of the Norwegian Football Association, and acted as head coach of the Norwegian national team. He is regarded as the architect behind the Norwegian "Bronze Team" that finished third in the 1936 Olympics. Personal life Halvorsen was born in Sarpsborg, the son of baker Christian Halvorsen and Jakobine Dorthea Thronsen. He established himself as a ship broker in Hamburg, and his first marriage was with a German citizen. He married for a second time in 1951 with Sigrid Helga Willadsen. Playing career Halvorsen was a centre-half who played 19 times for the Norwegian national team, and won the Norwegian Cup in 1917 as captain of Sarpsborg FK. Aged 18 years and 318 days ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Bahr Halvorsen
Otto Bahr Halvorsen (28 May 1872 – 23 May 1923) was a Norwegian lawyer and politician from the Conservative Party, who served as the 14th prime minister of Norway from 1920 to 1921 and again in 1923 up until his death in office. Background Halvorsen was born in Kristiania (now Oslo, Norway) to Otto Hellen Halvorsen (1840-1921) and Karine Christine Christiansen (1847-1927). He attended Kristiania Cathedral School. He studied law at the University of Kristiania where he completed his examen artium in 1890. As a licensed attorney, in 1904 he opened a law firm in Kristiania. Political career In 1912 Halvorsen was first elected to the Storting from the neighborhood of Gamle Aker in the district of St. Hanshaugen in Kristiania. Halvorsen served Kristiania in the Parliament from the Conservative Party from 1913 to 1923. He became Prime Minister during 1920 while also serving as Minister of Justice. He again became Prime Minister in May 1923 while simultaneously serving as Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Halvorsen
Johan Halvorsen (15 March 1864 – 4 December 1935) was a Norwegian composer, conducting, conductor and violinist. Life Born in Drammen, he was an accomplished violinist from a very early age and became a prominent figure in Norwegian musical life. He received his musical education in Kristiania (now Oslo) and Stockholm, and was a concertmaster in Bergen before joining the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. He was a concertmaster in Aberdeen, then a professor of music in Helsinki, and finally became a student once again, in Saint Petersburg, St Petersburg, Leipzig (with Adolph Brodsky), Berlin (with Adolf Becker), and Liège (with César Thomson). Returning to Norway in 1893, he worked as conducting, conductor of the theatre orchestra at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen and of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. He became concertmaster of the Bergen Philharmonic in 1885, and principal conductor in 1893. In 1899 he was appointed conductor of the orchestra at the newly opened National The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Halvor Halvorsen
Jan Halvor Halvorsen (born 8 March 1963, in Bamble) is a former Norwegian football player and the current manager of Lyn. Club career Halvorsen started his youth career in Pors, debuting at the age of fifteen and a half. He has also played for clubs like Brann, Rosenborg and Hertha Berlin. In 1992, he became Danish cup winner playing for AGF Aarhus. National team Halvorsen has five caps for the Norwegian national team. Managerial career Since 1996 Halvorsen has worked as football manager, managing top teams from Norway and Sweden. In 1999, he took over as manager for Start and led the club to promotion to the Norwegian Premier League. In 2000, he led the recently promoted side to the semi-finals of the Norwegian Football Cup. After being relegated to Adeccoligaen, he once again led the club to promotion back to the Norwegian Premier League in 2001. In 2003, he joined Sogndal and helped the club to an 8th-place finish in his first season in charge of the Norwegian Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tore Halvorsen
Tore H. Halvorsen (59 ) is the Senior Vice President of Subsea Technologies division at FMC Technologies, a division focused on technology and systems for the exploration, drilling and developing of offshore oil and gas fields, including deepwater oil and gas production using subsea separation, boosting and processing systems. Prior to his promotion in 2011, Halvorsen was Senior Vice President of Global Subsea Production Systems (2007), a division that handles subsea production systems in Europe, Africa, Canada and Asia. Halvorsen has also served as the Vice President og Subsea Systems Eastern Hemisphere (2004). His first director appointment, as Managing Director of FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS, came in 1994 following FMC Technologies´ purchase of Kongsberg Offshore in 1993. Halvorsen earned his master´s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim (now called the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Norwegian, Norwayan, or Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Magnus Halvorsen
Johan Magnus Halvorsen (10 June 1853 – 14 February 1922) was a Norwegian politician for the Moderate Liberal Party. Biography Halvorsen was born at Ålesund in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. He was a merchant by profession. He started his business career as a sales representative at Vanylven in Sunnmøre. In 1874 he became a director at Selje forbruksforening in Nordfjord. He later worked as a representative for several factories and businesses in Bergen. In 1881, he established himself as a merchant in Trondheim with a fish wholesaler. Halvorsen was a member of the city council of Trondheim 1895-1904 and again from 1910. He represented the city in the Norwegian Parliament 1898-1900 and 1903–12. He was Minister of Finance A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation. A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", " .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Einfrid Halvorsen
Einfrid Daghild Halvorsen (born 13 October 1937) is a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party. She was mayor of Skien from 1983 to 1986, a State Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government and Labour from 1986 to 1987 and Minister of Administration and Consumer Affairs from 1988 to 1989. After quitting politics, she worked as secretary-general of Mental Helse from 1991 to 2005. Career She was born in Skien as a daughter of Einar O. Gunnestad (1910–1951) and Dagmar Stålhave (1902–1974). She started out as a trade unionist, chairing the Union of Employees in Commerce and Offices locally in Skien from 1971 to 1974. She was then a national board member from 1976, and central board member from 1980 to 1984. As a politician, she was a deputy member of Skien school board before serving on the city council (executive committee) from 1971 to 1979. She was elected as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from the constituency Telemark for two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trygve Halvorsen
Trygve Halvorsen (unknown – unknown) was a Norwegian chess player, two-times Norwegian Chess Championship winner (1933, 1934). Biography In the 1930s Trygve Halvorsen was one of the leading Norwegian chess players. He twice in row won the Norwegian Chess Championship: in 1933 and 1934. Trygve Halvorsen played for Norway in the Chess Olympiads: * In 1930, at reserve board in the 3rd Chess Olympiad in Hamburg (+2, =4, -8), * In 1931, at third board in the 4th Chess Olympiad in Prague (+3, =7, -5), * In 1958, at second reserve board in the 13th Chess Olympiad in Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ... (+2, =2, -4). References External links *Trygve Halvorsenchess games at 365chess.com Year of birth missing Year of death missing Norwegian chess players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Halvorsen
Katherine Taylor Halvorsen is an American statistician and statistics educator whose research topics have included statistical significance for contingency tables, and the conditional logistic regression method for analysis of multiple risk factors in case–control studies. She was co-author of four editions of ''Mathematics Education in the United States'', a quadrennial review publication of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and serves on the Mathematical Sciences Academic Advisory Committee of the College Board. Education and career Halvorsen is a graduate of the University of Michigan. After earning master's degrees from Boston University and in 1978, the University of Washington, she completed her Ph.D. in biostatistics in 1984 at the Harvard School of Public Health, with the dissertation ''Estimating Population Parameters Using Information from Several Independent Sources'' supervised by Frederick Mosteller. She is a professor emerita of mathematics and st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
