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Hamer (surname)
Hamer (said Hay-mer) is an English and Dutch surname. ''Hamer'' is Dutch and Middle English for "hammer", and often is a metonymic occupational name, e.g. referring to a smith. In English the name could also be toponymic, suggesting an origin in Hamer, Lancashire. an Hamers at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands. People with this surname include: * (born 1962), American artist and entrepreneur * |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Hamer
Dean Hamer (; born May 29, 1951) is an American geneticist. He is known for his research on the role of genetics in sexual orientation and for a series of popular books and documentaries that have changed the understanding and perceptions of human sexuality and gender identity. Education and career Born in Montclair, New Jersey, Hamer obtained his BA at Trinity College, CT, and his PhD from Harvard Medical School. He was an independent researcher at the National Institutes of Health for 35 years, where he was the Chief of Gene Structure and Regulation Section at the U.S. National Cancer Institute; upon retirement in 2011 he was designated ''Scientist Emeritus''. Hamer has won numerous awards including the Maryland Distinguished Young Scientist Award, the Ariens Kappers Award for Neurobiology, ''New York Times'' book-of-the year author, and an Emmy Award. Biotechnology research Hamer invented the first method for introducing new genes into animal cells using SV40 vectors whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladys Hamer
Gladys Hamer (27 May 1884 – 13 March 1967) was a British stage and film actress. She appeared in a number of silent and early sound films. Selected filmography * '' Mary-Find-the-Gold'' (1921) * '' Monty Works the Wires'' (1921) * '' The Rest Cure'' (1923) * ''This Freedom'' (1923) * '' Not for Sale'' (1924) * '' His Grace Gives Notice'' (1924) * '' Money Isn't Everything'' (1925) *'' The Gold Cure'' (1925) * '' Confessions'' (1925) * ''Every Mother's Son'' (1926) * '' The Magician'' (1926) * '' Passion Island'' (1927) * '' Sailors Don't Care'' (1928) * '' Smashing Through'' (1929) * ''Alf's Carpet'' (1929) * '' Kissing Cup's Race'' (1930) * ''Lord Richard in the Pantry'' (1930) * ''Number, Please'' (1931) * ''Sunshine Susie'' (1931) * '' Double Dealing'' (1932) * ''Great Stuff'' (1933) * ''Easy Money'' (1934) * ''Three Witnesses'' (1935) * ''That's My Uncle ''That's My Uncle'' is a 1935 British comedy film directed by George Pearson and starring Mark Daly, Richard Cooper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Hamer
Gerald Hamer (16 November 1886 – 6 July 1972) ftvdb.bfi.org.uk; accessed 27 June 2015. was a British actor, born at Llandudno, as Geoffrey Earl Watton to John Watton and Evelyn Clara (née Earl). Hamer worked in the United States, where he played primarily British characters in Hollywood films. He made a number of appearances in the Basil Rathbone series of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garry Hamer
Garry Hamer (born 13 February 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Football Geelong (VFL) Hamer was a half forward, defender and ruckman, recruited to Geelong from Lemnos, a Shepparton-based club. He made his debut in the opening round of the 1961 VFL season against Collingwood, one of eight appearances he would make that year. In 1962 he was one of three Geelong players to appear in all 21 games. This included both the drawn preliminary final against Carlton and the controversial five-point loss in the replay a week later. On 6 July 1963 he was a member of the Geelong team that were comprehensively and unexpectedly beaten by Fitzroy, 9.13 (67) to 3.13 (31) in the 1963 Miracle Match. He played eight games in 1963 and didn't feature in Geelong's premiership team, but did play in the Geelong reserves grand final win. The following year he again won a premiership with the reserves, after making only five a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Hamer-Webb
Gabriel Morgan Hamer-Webb (born 7 November 2000 in Bath, Somerset, Bath, England) is an English professional rugby union footballer. He plays as a winger (rugby union), winger for Bath Rugby, Bath. Hamer-Webb was a pupil at Beechen Cliff School and had trials at Southampton F.C., Southampton, Bristol City F.C., Bristol City and Yeovil Town F.C., Yeovil Town football clubs before taking up a place on the school's Academic and Sporting Excellence (AASE) partnership with Bath Rugby. He signed a senior academy contract with the club ahead of the 2019-20 season, and he made his debut in a Premiership Rugby Cup defeat against Exeter Chiefs on 21 September 2019. He made his Premiership Rugby, Premiership debut as a head injury replacement for Max Wright (rugby union), Max Wright against Wasps RFC, Wasps on 2 November 2019, before scoring his first Try (rugby), try for the club against Ulster Rugby, Ulster in the European Rugby Champions Cup two weeks later. On 10 January 2020, Alan Dic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Hamer
Fritz Hamer (22 November 1912, Hamburg - 13 January 2004, Sarasota, Florida) was an outstanding German botanist who worked in Central America, specializing in orchids. Biography Hamer received a business education and was employed by a Dutch export company. In 1937 the company sent him to Venezuela; and in 1938 to Guatemala, where he joined World War II. In 1942 he returned to Germany and served in the army during the Russian campaign. In 1948, at the end of the war, he returned to Guatemala and established himself in El Salvador, where he created a company to import and distribute machinery and equipment. His interest in families of orchids began in 1960 when he saw a specimen of ''Miltonia'', of which he made a beautiful illustration. He then took to the road and began to take photographs, make illustrations, and write descriptions. But he noticed the lack of literature on orchids. In 1925 there were 63 species in 28 genera, described by Standley and S. Calderón, and nothin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Hamer (British Army Officer)
Major Major (commandant in certain jurisdictions) is a military rank of commissioned officer status, with corresponding ranks existing in many military forces throughout the world. When used unhyphenated and in conjunction with no other indicators ... Frank Hamer Military Cross, MC with Bar (25 June 1919 – 2 April 2009) was a British Army officer and group personnel director of Cadbury Schweppes. Early life He was educated at Bolton School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. During The War Hamer was awarded his first MC at the Second Battle of El Alamein while a lieutenant in the 4th Durham Survey Regiment RA. He was awarded the bar to his MC after the invasion of Sicily while surveying German positions. After The War Hamer returned to Cambridge and finished off his studies also collecting a Blue for soccer, to go with his freshman Blue in athletics he gained before the war. After his studies he moved to Birmingham taking a job at Cadbury, ending his career as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Hamer
Francis Augustus Hamer (March 17, 1884 – July 10, 1955) was an American lawman and Texas Ranger who led the 1934 posse that tracked down and killed criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Renowned for his toughness, marksmanship, and investigative skill, he acquired status in the Southwest as the archetypal Texas Ranger. Hamer also led the fight in Texas against the Ku Klux Klan, starting in 1922, as senior captain of the Texas Rangers, and he is believed to have saved at least 15 people from lynch mobs. He was inducted into the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame. His professional record and reputation are controversial, particularly with regard to his willingness to use extrajudicial killing even in an increasingly modernized society. Hamer has been described by biographer John Boessenecker as "one of the greatest American lawmen of the twentieth century". Early years Frank Hamer was born in 1884 in Fairview, Wilson County, Texas, where his father operated a blacksmit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Mary Hamer
Frances Mary Hamer (1894–1980) was a British chemist who specialized in the sensitization compounds used for photographic processing for which she held many patents. She was very active in the Allied efforts to enhance aerial photography during World War I. Life Frances was born on 14 October 1894 to Sir William Heaton Hamer (1862–1936) and Agnes Conan in Kentish Town, London. Her father studied medicine at Cambridge and in 1912 was named Medical Officer of Health of the London County Council. Education Hamer attended the same school as her mother and aunts on both sides of the family, the North London Collegiate School. Hamer was named after the founder of the school, and her godmother, educator Frances Mary Buss. Hamer graduated in 1916 and that same year, she read chemistry at Girton College, Cambridge. However, at that time, women were not allowed to earn college degrees at Cambridge. She went on to earn her doctorate in chemistry in 1924 from the University of London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forrest Hamer
Forrest Hamer (born 1956) is an American poet, psychologist, and psychoanalyst. He is the author of three poetry collections, most recently ''Rift'' (Four Way Books, 2007). His first collection, ''Call & Response,'' (Alice James Books) won the Beatrice Hawley Award, and his second, ''Middle Ear'' (Roundhouse Press), received the Northern California Book Award. He has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the California Arts Council, and he has taught at the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshops. His poetry has been anthologized in ''Poet’s Choice: Poems for Everyday Life, The Geography of Home: California’s Poetry of Place, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, Blues Poems,'' ''Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry,'' and three editions of ''The Best American Poetry''; and has appeared in many magazines and literary journals including ''The American Poetry Review,'' Beloit Poetry Journal, Kenyon Review, Callaloo, Ploughshares,'' ''She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Hamer
Ferdinandus Hubertus Hamer C.I.C.M. (born 21 August 1840 in Nijmegen, Netherlands, died 23 July 1900 in To Tsjeng, Inner Mongolia, China) was a Catholic missionary to China and bishop who was killed in the Boxer Rebellion in China. Biography Father Ferdinand Hamer was one of the first group of five missionary priests and brother from the congregation of Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae who went to Inner Mongolia in China from Belgium in 1865. His three colleagues, among them the congregation's leader, Father Theophiel Verbist, died quickly, and then Father Hamer was left to return alone, although he had some lay workers to help him. Later, he became better with the language and the missionary work. In 1878, he was the first bishop to have responsibility for the apostolic vicariate of Gansu. In 1889 he was sent by the Pope to the apostolic vicariate of Southwest-Mongolia. Although he had problems again with language, the Chinese noted his extraordinary helpfulness and dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
