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Korn (surname)
Korn is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alejandro Korn, Argentine physician, psychiatrist, philosopher, reformist and politician * Arthur Korn (1870–1945), devised practical phototelegraphy in 1902, father-in-law of Theresa * Arthur Korn (architect) (1891–1978), architect and urban planner * David Korn (computer scientist), programmer, created the KornShell * Dieter Korn (1958), German paleontologist specializing in ammonites * Granino Arthur Korn (1922–2013), a German-born physicist, son of Arthur Korn * Jim Korn, retired professional ice hockey player * Jiří Korn, Czech musician and actor * M. F. Korn, American science fiction author * Marian Korn (1914–1987), Czechoslovakian-born printmaker * Theresa Marie Korn (1926–2020), American engineer, daughter-in-law of Arthur Korn * Walter Korn (1908–1997), Prague-born author of chess opening books ; See also: * Kornhill * Kornhill, Halmstad, Sweden Halmstad () is a port, university, industr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejandro Korn
Alejandro Korn (3 May 1860 – 9 October 1936) was an Argentine psychiatrist, philosopher, reformist and politician. For eighteen years, he was the director of the psychiatry hospital in Melchor Romero (a locality of La Plata in Buenos Aires). He was the first university official in Latin America to be elected thanks to the student's vote. He is considered to be the pioneer of Argentine philosophy. Along with Florentino Ameghino, Juan Vucetich, Almafuerte and Carlos Spegazzini, he is considered to be one of ''the five wise men'' of La Plata. Biography Childhood, youth and family Alejandro Korn was born in San Vicente, Buenos Aires. His father, Carlos Adolfo Korn, was a liberal German-Prussian doctor and soldier, who had refused to take part in the repression that followed the worker's strike in the textile sector during the Social Revolution in 1848. Sentenced to death, he fled to Switzerland on horseback. There, he studied Medicine and met his future wife, María Vere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Korn
Arthur Korn (20 May 1870 – 21 December/22 December 1945) was a German physicist, mathematician and inventor. He was involved in the development of the fax machine, specifically the transmission of photographs or telephotography, known as the Bildtelegraph, related to early attempts at developing a practical mechanical television system. Life Born in Breslau, Korn was the son of a Jewish couple, Moritz and Malwine Schottlaender. He attended gymnasia in Breslau and Berlin. He then studied physics and mathematics in Leipzig at the age of 15, from where he graduated in 1890. Afterwards, he studied in Berlin, Paris, London and Würzburg. In 1895, he became a lecturer in law at the University of Munich, and was appointed professor in 1903. In 1914, he accepted the chair of physics at the Berlin Institute of Technology. Dr. Korn, being of Jewish descent, was dismissed from his post in 1935 with the rise of the Nazi Party. In 1939 he left Germany with his family and moved to the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Korn (architect)
Arthur Korn (4 June 1891 – 14 November 1978) was a German architect and urban planner who was a proponent of modernism in Germany and the UK. Life and career Born in Breslau (now Wroclaw) in Silesia in 1891. Between 1909 and 1911 he studied at the Königliche Kunst- und Kunstgewerbeschule (Royal Art and Crafts School) in Berlin. After World War I he worked briefly at the office of expressionist architect Erich Mendelsohn. In the 1920s he was active in the modernist architectural movement in Berlin, and associated with Bauhaus architects such as Walter Gropius and Ernst May. He was a member of Der Ring Berlin architectural collective. He published his influential work ''Glas. Im Bau und als Gebrauchsgegenstand'' (published in English as ''Glass in Modern Architecture'') in 1929. After the Nazi rise to power he was forbidden to practice as an architect in Germany on account of being Jewish. He moved first to Yugoslavia, then, in 1938, to London. There he joined the Modern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Korn (computer Scientist)
David G. Korn (August 28, 1943) is an American UNIX programmer and the author of the Korn shell (''ksh''), a command line interface/programming language. Education and work David Korn received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1965 and his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 1969. After working on computer simulations of transsonic airfoils and developing the Korn airfoil, he switched fields to computer science and became a member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories in 1976. He developed Korn shell in response to problems he and his colleagues had with the most commonly used shells at the time, Bourne shell and C shell. The Korn shell pioneered the practice of consultative user interface design, with input from Unix shell users, and from mathematical and cognitive psychologists. The user interface, which included a choice of editing styles (the choices included styles based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dieter Korn
Dr. Dieter Korn (born 1958)Eugene V. Coan, Alan R. Kabat & Richard E. Petit (15 February) 2009American Malacological Society. 830 pp. + 32 pp. (Annex of Collations). is a German scientist and paleontologist specializing in research on ammonites and goniatites.Web site He received his Ph.D. in 1996 from the and is employed by the in , in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granino Arthur Korn
Theresa Marie Korn (née McLaughlin, November 5, 1926 – April 9, 2020) was an American engineer, radio enthusiast, and airplane pilot. The first woman to earn an engineering degree from what is now Carnegie Mellon University, she was the author of multiple books on engineering and mathematics. A fictionalized version of Korn is one of the characters in the novel ''Kay Everett Calls CQ'' by Amelia Lobsenz (Vanguard Press, 1951), describing a girls' summer road trip adventure in the 1940s with ham radio and flying components. Life Theresa McLaughlin was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on November 5, 1926, the daughter of a civil engineer. When she was one year old, a storm damaged her family home, breaking her nose, and the family moved to Greensburg, Pennsylvania, where she grew up. As a high school student, she became a ham radio operator in 1941, and flew Atlantic reconnaissance patrols as an airplane pilot for the Civil Air Patrol, becoming the youngest pilot and radio operat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Korn
James Allen Korn (born July 28, 1957 in Hopkins, Minnesota), is an American former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played in the National Hockey League with five teams between 1979 and 1990. Internationally he played for the American national team at two World Championships. Life and career Korn moved to Minnetonka, Minnesota, at the age of 6 months with his family, where he grew up and attended Hopkins High School. He was drafted in the fifth round, 73rd overall, by the Detroit Red Wings in the 1977 NHL Amateur Draft. He played for the Providence College Friars for four seasons, from 1975 to 1979, where he was a second team All American in his senior season. He played in the National Hockey League with the Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs, Buffalo Sabres, New Jersey Devils and Calgary Flames. Korn was also drafted by the New England Whalers of the World Hockey Association The World Hockey Association (french: Association mondiale de hockey) was a professional ice hoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiří Korn
Jiří Korn (born May 17, 1949 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech recording artist and actor. Korn is a highly acclaimed musician in his native Czechoslovakia, and remains after his five decade long career one of the most prominent Czech singer-songwriters, but is internationally perhaps best known for his single ''Miss Moskva'', which received radio play in most European countries, including France, Germany, Croatia, Hungary and Norway. Biography Jiří Korn began his music career with the rock band Rebels in its 1967 establishment. The group disbanded in 1970; one album, ''Šípková Růženka'', was released during this period. In the early 1970s Korn joined the band Olympic. He also became a solo artist and released his first album ''LP 01''. His single ''Yvetta'' (1972), written by Karel Svoboda, became his first solo hit. In 1977 and 1978, Korn was 3rd and 2nd place respectively in the Zlatý slavík music poll of popular Czechoslovakia music artists, which was frequent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marian Korn
Marian Korn (1914–1987) was a Czechoslovakian printmaker. She was born February 15, 1914, in Chomutov, Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1931, she moved to Prague, and in 1931, she graduated from the Women's College of Prague. She married in 1938, and emigrated to the United States in 1939. In 1949, she moved to Tokyo with her entrepreneur husband Frank and two daughters. In 1970, Korn accompanied one of her daughters to the atelier of Gaston Petit, where the daughter had been taking lessons. The daughter eventually became an art historian specializing in Japanese art, and, at the age of 56, Korn began her printmaking career by making woodcuts and linocuts. Her honors included a full membership in Shuyōkai (1984) and an associate membership in Kokugakai (1985). She died in Tokyo on February 24, 1987. Oeuvre Her first prints were representational, often with Japanese themes. By 1974, some were completely abstract, and by 1982, the majority were abstract. Her ''catalogue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theresa Marie Korn
Theresa Marie Korn (née McLaughlin, November 5, 1926 – April 9, 2020) was an American engineer, radio enthusiast, and airplane pilot. The first woman to earn an engineering degree from what is now Carnegie Mellon University, she was the author of multiple books on engineering and mathematics. A fictionalized version of Korn is one of the characters in the novel ''Kay Everett Calls CQ'' by Amelia Lobsenz (Vanguard Press, 1951), describing a girls' summer road trip adventure in the 1940s with ham radio and flying components. Life Theresa McLaughlin was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on November 5, 1926, the daughter of a civil engineer. When she was one year old, a storm damaged her family home, breaking her nose, and the family moved to Greensburg, Pennsylvania, where she grew up. As a high school student, she became a ham radio operator in 1941, and flew Atlantic reconnaissance patrols as an airplane pilot for the Civil Air Patrol, becoming the youngest pilot and radio operat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Korn
Walter Korn (May 22, 1908 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) – July 9, 1997 in San Mateo, California, United States) was an Austro-Hungarian writer of books and magazine articles about chess. Despite his status as a writer, there is no known record of him playing tournament chess, and few chess players ever met him. One of his few known games is a draw against a 13-year-old Gordon Crown, published in the April 1943 issue of ''Chess''. Korn was a FIDE International Judge for chess compositions and contributed the entire topic of chess for the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (1972). Korn was the writer of ''Modern Chess Openings'' (''MCO'') (revised editions 7 through 12, 13th revised by Nick de Firmian), which was considered an authoritative work on the openings of chess. A new edition of ''MCO'' would come out every five years or so, and it was essential reading for tournament chess players. In later years, Korn enlisted the help of top players, such as Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kornhill
Kornhill and Kornhill Gardens are apartment buildings on the northern slope of Mount Parker (Hong Kong), Mount Parker, in Quarry Bay, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. Kornhill is a private housing estate and Kornhill Gardens is a Private Sector Participation Scheme estate. The total population is approximately 30,000. History The name comes from a small hill within the area close to the foot of Mount Parker. Kornhill was the site of the company residence of the senior manager of the Taikoo Sugar Refinery and the first senior manager was Ferdinand Korn. The hill was almost levelled by the early 1980s, and can hardly be recognised. The modern-day housing estate was constructed in concert with the Island line (MTR), MTR Island line and opened by 1987. Modern development There are a total 44 blocks, with heights ranging from 20 to 34 storeys, including 42 conventional residential buildings, one block of serviced apartments, and an office tower. The residential blocks in Kornhill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
