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Kistler (surname)
Kistler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Cyrill Kistler (1848–1907), German composer * Darci Kistler (born 1964), American ballerina * Lynton Richards Kistler (1897–1993), American master printmaker, small book publisher, and author * Rives Kistler (born 1969), American judge * Stefan Kistler (1900–?), German soldier and skier, competitor in the 1928 Winter Olympics (military patrol) * Steven Kistler (1900–1975), American scientist, inventor of aerogels * Walter Kistler Walter P. Kistler (1918 – November 2, 2015) was a physicist, inventor, and philanthropist, born in Biel, Switzerland. Kistler was a life member of the Swiss Physical Society and a member of AIAA and ISA, which presented him the Life Achieveme ... (1918–2015), Swiss physicist and inventor See also * Kistler (other) {{surname, Kistler German-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyrill Kistler
Cyrill Kistler (12 May 1848 in Großaitingen, Swabia, Germany – 1 January 1907 in Bad Kissingen, Lower Franconia, Germany) was a German composer, music theoretician, Music educator and Music publisher. Life Born into a Swabian family of craftsmen, Kistler attended the ''Lehrerseminar'' (Teacher seminar) in Lauingen (Swabia) from 1864 to 1867. Subsequently, he firstly worked as a teacher at various places in Middle Swabia. However, when he was no longer content with this way of making a living, he, instead, concentrated merely on making and composing music. From 1876 to 1878, he was a student at the ''Königliche Musikschule'' (Royal Music School) in Munich in the subjects organ and composition; one of his teachers was Josef Rheinberger. Afterwards, in 1883, he took over the position of a teacher for Music theory at the ''Fürstliches Konservatorium'' (Baronial Academy of Music) at Sondershausen. In 1876, he got to know Richard Wagner at Bayreuth, whose work exerted a deep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darci Kistler
Darci Kistler (born June 4, 1964) is an American ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for choreographer George Balanchine. Early life Kistler was born in Riverside, California, the fifth child (with four older brothers) of a medical doctor and his wife. Her brothers excelled in amateur wrestling, and she followed them into water-skiing, basketball, football and horseback riding. Ballet career At age 4, Kistler received her first tutu and began ballet training that same year. She claimed although she was always athletic, she could never keep to her brothers—so ballet turned out to be one cornerstone she had mastered. After seeing a ballet performance of Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, she decided she wanted to take up ballet herself. She studied with Mary Lynn at Mary Lynn's Ballet Arts and later with Irina Kosmovska in Los Angeles. In early 1979, Kistler was selected to study at New York City Ballet's School of American Ballet (SAB), where she met George Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynton Richards Kistler
Lynton Richards Kistler (1897–1993) was an American master printmaker, small book publisher, and author. He became known as the best stone lithographer in the United States, at the peak of his career in 1950s. He owned and operated the lithography press, ''Kistler of Los Angeles''. Biography Lynton Richards Kistler was born August 30, 1897, in Los Angeles, California. He is descendant on his paternal side from northern Switzerland and southern Germany people, which had settled in Kistler Valley in Pennsylvania, and his maternal side was from England. His father, William A. Kistler had owned for 30 years ''Kistler Printing and Lithography'', a Los Angeles-based lithography and letterpress shop. He attended Hollywood High School and Manual Arts High School. During World War I in 1917 to 1918, he served in the United States Army. In the late 1920s, Kistler learned lithography in this father's shop. Early in his career he befriended and worked with Merle Armitage, and artists Jean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Master Printmaker
Master printmakers or master printers are specialized technicians who hand-print editions of an artist's or printmaker's print-based artwork. Master printmakers often own and/or operate their own printmaking studio or print shop. Business activities of a Master printshop may include: publishing and printing services, educational workshops or classes, mentorship of artists, and artist residencies. Training for master printmakers varies by technique, geography, and culture. Master printmakers are almost always trained by other master printmakers. The Tamarind Institute is one formal institution mandated to train master lithographers, located in New Mexico. In the 20th century in Britain there was a federation of master printers called the ''British Printing Industries Federation'', renamed the ''British Federation of Master Printers'' (BFMP) in the 1930s and then again renamed the ''British Printing Industries Federation'' in the 1970s. Notable people in the US Contemporary maste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rives Kistler
Rives Kistler (born 1949) is an American attorney and judge in the state of Oregon. After college and law school on the East Coast, he moved to Oregon where he worked in private practice before joining the Oregon Department of Justice. Kistler then joined the Oregon Court of Appeals before appointment to the Oregon Supreme Court in 2003. Education Rives Kistler earned his undergraduate degree at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, earning a BA.Appellate Courts Supreme Court Rives Kistler Age: 54. The Oregonian, April 28, 2004. He then earned a master's degree at the University of North Carolina before attending law school. Justice Kistler graduated '' summa cum laude'' from Georgetown University Law Center in 1981. After graduation, he served as a law clerk for Charles Clark, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and for Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. of the Supreme Court of the United States. Legal career On completing his clerkshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Patrol At The 1928 Winter Olympics
At the 1928 Winter Olympics, in St. Moritz, Switzerland, a military patrol competition was held. Because of a snowstorm the night before the competition, the start of the event was delayed 45 minutes to the cleaning up of the track. The competition was contested over a 30 km distance with an elevation difference of 1100 metres. The starting point was on a height of 2,108 metres, the highest point at 2,877 metres, and the goal in the valley at 1,850 metres. (Norwegian), p. 11. Nine countries with 36 military patrol runners participated in this event. The event was held on Sunday, February 12, 1928. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Kistler
Samuel Stephens Kistler (March 26, 1900 November 6, 1975) was an American scientist and chemical engineer, best known as the inventor of aerogels, one of the lightest known solid materials. Biography Kistler, the son of a shopkeeper, was born in the small town of Cedarville in the far northeastern corner of California. The family moved to the larger Santa Rosa when Kistler was 12, where he first became interested in chemistry. When he entered the College of the Pacific in 1917, however, his plan was to learn to play the cello, then pursue a degree in agriculture. Instead, he ended up taking every science course available, and after three years he moved to Stanford University and obtained a B.A. in chemistry, followed by a chemical engineering degree. He never did learn to play the cello. After a brief spell working for the Standard Oil Company of California, he returned to academia, teaching chemistry at the College of the Pacific until 1931, when he transferred to the University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Kistler
Walter P. Kistler (1918 – November 2, 2015) was a physicist, inventor, and philanthropist, born in Biel, Switzerland. Kistler was a life member of the Swiss Physical Society and a member of AIAA and ISA, which presented him the Life Achievement Award in 2000. He held patents on more than 50 inventions in the scientific and industrial instrumentation fields, and had published a number of papers in scientific and trade journals. He was a major donor to a eugenics research organization, the Pioneer Fund. Education and first inventions Kistler studied sciences at the University of Geneva and earned a master's degree in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. While subsequently head of the Instrumentation Lab at the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works, Winterthur, he pioneered a new measurement technology using Piezo-electric quartz crystals as the transduction element in accelerometers, load cells, and pressure gauges. This new technology was made possib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kistler (other)
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Kistler may refer to: Places * Kistler, Pennsylvania, a borough in Mifflin County * Kistler Creek, a tributary of Maiden Creek in Berks County, Pennsylvania *Kistler Valley, two locations; Antarctica and Pennsylvania * Kistler Vineyards, in Sonoma Valley, California Other * Kistler Group, sensors and sensor electronics for measuring pressure, force, torque and acceleration * Kistler Aerospace, former name of Rocketplane Kistler, company attempting to develop fully reusable vehicles See also * Kistler (surname) Kistler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Cyrill Kistler (1848–1907), German composer * Darci Kistler (born 1964), American ballerina * Lynton Richards Kistler (1897–1993), American master printmaker, small book publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |