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Hoberman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Ben Hoberman (1922–2014), American radio executive *Brent Hoberman, founder of Lastminute.com * Chuck Hoberman, American designer and architect *David Hoberman (born 1952), American film producer * Haggai Hoberman, Israeli journalist and author *J. Hoberman, American film critic * John Hoberman, Professor of Germanic languages at the University of Texas at Austin * John Milton Hoberman, American author * Mary Ann Hoberman (born 1930), American writer *Nicky Hoberman (born 1967), South African artist * Perry Hoberman, American artist See also * Hoberman Arch *Hoberman sphere A Hoberman sphere is an isokinetic structure patented by Chuck Hoberman that resembles a geodesic dome, but is capable of folding down to a fraction of its normal size by the scissor-like action of its joints. Colorful plastic versions have becom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Hoberman
Bernard Gilbert "Ben" Hoberman (July 21, 1922 – May 3, 2014) was an American radio executive credited with pioneering the all-talk format by launching it at KABC (AM) in Los Angeles, California in 1960. Biography Hoberman was born to a Jewish family in Chisholm, Minnesota. His first job in radio was as an announcer at a station in Hibbing, Minnesota when he was 18. In 1942, he enlisted in the United States Army and was assigned to the Armed Forces Network in Europe. After the war, he worked as general manager at several stations in the Midweast, including a stint as station manager of WDET-FM in Detroit, a public service station owned by the United Auto Workers, before becoming general manager of WABC radio in New York City. In 1960, he took over as general manager of KABC radio in Los Angeles and originated the all-talk format. The format was highly successful and would spread throughout the United States in the 1970s. In 1979, Hoberman left KABC to become president ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brent Hoberman
Brent Shawzin Hoberman (born 25 November 1968) is a British entrepreneur and investor. During the dot-com boom, he co-founded lastminute.com with Martha Lane Fox in 1998, where he was CEO from its inception, before selling the business to Sabre in 2005 for £570m. Hoberman's other business involvements include Made.com, which he co-founded in 2010 and went public in 2021 as a ' pandemic star' before falling into administration in late 2022. He is also co-founder of startup accelerator Founders Factory, tech community Founders Forum, and $270m seed fund firstminute capital. Technology businesses co-founded by Hoberman have cumulatively raised over $1 billion. Outside of business, Hoberman sits on the advisory boards of The Royal Academy, the UK Government Digital Service and the WEF Digital Europe Group, as well as advising the British government on technology. He previously chaired the Oxford Foundry, the Royal Foundation Taskforce on the Prevention of Cyberbullying for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Hoberman
Chuck Hoberman (born 1956) is an artist, engineer, architect, and inventor of folding toys and structures, most notably the Hoberman sphere. Early life and education Hoberman's father was an architect, and his mother, Mary Ann Hoberman, was a children's book author. He wanted to be an artist from an early age, doing drawing and painting, and eventually taking courses at Cooper Union in New York City. He studied liberal arts at Brown University, and went on to earn a bachelor's degree in sculpture from Cooper Union in 1979, and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University. At some point during his education, he was asked to produce a sculpture that could move. He made a work that unrolled colored plastic sheets on the floor, and he became fascinated with kinetic art. Finishing his formal education, he then went to work for a robotics engineering firm, where he added computer modeling (CAD-CAM) to his skills. After six years, he left to pursue his artis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hoberman
David Elliot Hoberman (born September 19, 1952) is an American film and television producer, best known as the co-creator and executive producer of the USA Network television series ''Monk'', and the founder and co-owner of Mandeville Films. He has produced over 40 films in his career, including the 2010 drama film ''The Fighter'', for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Early life Hoberman was born on September 19, 1952, the son of radio executive Ben Hoberman (1922–2014) and his wife Jacklyn (née Kanter; 1922–2013). Hoberman has an older brother, Thomas (Tom), an entertainment lawyer, and a younger sister, Joan (Joanie). He is from a Jewish family. Career Beginnings Hoberman began his showbiz career with a mailroom job at the American Broadcasting Company, and later joined Norman Lear's Tandem Productions. In 1985, he joined the Walt Disney Studios as a film executive, and before that, he served as a talent agent at the International Creative M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haggai Hoberman
Haggai Hoberman ( he, חגי הוברמן; b. 24 Nisan 1959) is an Israeli journalist and author. Biography Haggai Hoberman grew up in Haifa. He served in the Nahal brigade in Kfar Etzion. Subsequent to completing his army service, he worked as a welder in the Amgazit factory. In 1984, he moved to Netzarim for three years and then to Bnei Darom. Journalism career He began his journalistic career at Zra'im, a Bnei Akiva newspaper. Later, he served as night editor at HaTzofe. He was the paper's settlement affairs correspondent for fourteen years. In 2007, after HaTzofe was bought out, he became the military affairs correspondent for Makor Rishon. Published works *''Eretz Moledet'' (1994): (lit. Homeland) Touring Israel through its past, pub. Bet El Publishing * ''Yichudo shel Kfar'' (2003): (lit. Uniqueness of the Village) the story of Kfar Haroeh * ''Shorashim Becholot'' (2005): (lit. Roots in the Sand) the story of Gush Katif from its beginning to the end * ''Keneged Kol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hoberman
Dr. John Milton Hoberman is a Professor of Germanic languages within the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of numerous books and articles on sports, specifically on their cultural impact, their relationship with Race (classification of human beings), race, and the issue of Doping (sport), doping. He is a European cultural and intellectual historian, who has interests in :de:Sportwissenschaft, Sportwissenschaft and the history of racial ideas. He has published nearly one hundred sports articles and books in American newspapers and magazines and in Der Spiegel. As he is fluent in Scandinavian languages as well as German, he was e.g. co-editor for the North American sport historians of their special issue on 'German sports history.John Hoberman & Arnd Krüger (eds.). Journal of sport history 17(2) 1990 He is a Fellow of the European committee for sports history. ''Testosterone Dreams'' His most recent book, ''Testosterone Dreams' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Milton Hoberman
Dr. John Milton Hoberman is a Professor of Germanic languages within the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of numerous books and articles on sports, specifically on their cultural impact, their relationship with race, and the issue of doping. He is a European cultural and intellectual historian, who has interests in Sportwissenschaft and the history of racial ideas. He has published nearly one hundred sports articles and books in American newspapers and magazines and in Der Spiegel. As he is fluent in Scandinavian languages as well as German, he was e.g. co-editor for the North American sport historians of their special issue on 'German sports history.John Hoberman & Arnd Krüger (eds.). Journal of sport history 17(2) 1990 He is a Fellow of the European committee for sports history. ''Testosterone Dreams'' His most recent book, ''Testosterone Dreams'', is a history of the use of hormone treatments for lifestyle and performa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Ann Hoberman
Mary Ann Hoberman (August 12, 1930 – July 7, 2023) was an American author of over 30 children's books. Biography Early life Hoberman was born on August 12, 1930, in Stamford, Connecticut, but because her father changed jobs frequently, her family moved to New York City, New Jersey, New Haven, Connecticut, and eventually back to Stamford. Hoberman had a love for books from a young age, although she had few growing up during the Great Depression. In high school, Hoberman worked on the school's newspaper and was the editor of the yearbook. The first woman in her family to attend college, Hoberman attended Smith College, majoring in History, where she worked on the school's newspaper. During her senior year at Smith College, she married Norman Hoberman. Their son Chuck Hoberman invented the Hoberman sphere Professional life Hoberman co-founded a children's theatre group called "The Pocket People", as well as a group that performed dramatized poetry readings called "Women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicky Hoberman
Nicky Hoberman (born 1967) is a South African-born, London-based fine artist/painter whose style includes the use of photorealism combined with caricature, and illogical figures on a background of flat, even spaces. Early life and education Nicky Hoberman was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1967. She attended Worcester College of Oxford University from 1986–89, where she received an MA in Modern History. From 1989-1993 she went to the Parsons School of Design in Paris and received a BA in Fine Art. In 1992 Hoberman attended the Yale Summer School of Art in the USA, and received an MA in Painting from the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, where she attended from 1994-1995. Career and Honors Beginning in the mid-1990s, Hoberman has had a number of group and solo exhibitions in the United States, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, New Zealand, and England. In 1996 she was chosen for the 1996 New Contemporaries at Tate Liverpool. She was also included in Saa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perry Hoberman
Perry Hoberman (born 1954), is an installation artist who has worked extensively with machines and media. His career has included stints with Laurie Anderson and the USC Interactive Media Division. He has taught at the Cooper Union School of Art, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the graduate Computer Art Department in the school of Visual Arts in New York. He is currently an Associate Research Professor in the Interactive Media Division at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television, as well as a visiting artist at the California Institute of the Arts. His work is included in collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Education Hoberman started at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art in Philadelphia in 1972, and earned his bachelor's degree from Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont (1974–77). In 1978, he participated in an independent study program at Whitney Museum in New York. Work Hoberman's work focuses on the interactive nature of p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoberman Arch
The Hoberman Arch was the centerpiece of the Olympic Medals Plaza in downtown Salt Lake City during the 2002 Winter Olympics. Following the Olympics the arch was moved to the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Cauldron Park where, along with the Olympic cauldron, it was one of the main highlights and an important part of Salt Lake's Olympic legacy. In August 2014, the arch was removed from the park and a new public display location has not yet been found. Design and history The arch was designed by Chuck Hoberman to be used as a mechanical curtain for the Olympic Medal Plaza's stage. It is a semi-circular aluminum structure, which opened like the iris of a human eye. The arch design was inspired by Utah's natural stone arches, such as Delicate Arch. At the time of its construction the arch was the largest unfolding structure in the world. It took Hoberman four months to design the arch (with support from Buro Happold). Specialized knuckle assemblies, which allowed the arch to expand and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
