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Kantrowitz
Kantorowicz or Kantrowitz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Kantorowicz: * Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz, German historian, member of the George-Kreis (1895–1963) * Hermann Kantorowicz, German jurist and civil lawyer (1877–1940) Kantrowitz: * Adrian Kantrowitz (1918–2008), American cardiac surgeon * Arthur Kantrowitz (1913–2008), American scientist, engineer, and educator * Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz (September 9, 1945 – July 10, 2018) was an American essayist, poet, academic, and political activist. Early life Born Melanie Kaye in 1945 in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, her parents had angli ... (1945–2018), American essayist, poet, activist and academic {{surname, Kantorowicz German-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Kantrowitz
Adrian Kantrowitz (October 4, 1918 – November 14, 2008) was an American cardiac surgeon whose team performed the world's second heart transplant attempt (after Christiaan Barnard) at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York on December 6, 1967. McRae, Donald (2006). ''Every Second Counts: The Race to Transplant the First Human Heart'', New York: Penguin (Berkley/Putnam). The infant lived for only six hours. At a press conference afterwards, Kantrowitz emphasized that he considered the operation to have been a failure. Kantrowitz also invented the intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP), a left ventricular assist device (L-VAD), and an early version of the implantable pacemaker. In 1981, Kantrowitz became a founding member of the World Cultural Council. Early life and education Kantrowitz was born in New York City on October 4, 1918. His mother was a costume designer and his father ran a clinic in the Bronx, and his grandparents were from Vermont. Adrian told his mother as a thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Kantrowitz
Arthur Robert Kantrowitz (October 20, 1913 – November 29, 2008) was an American scientist, engineer, and educator. Kantrowitz grew up in The Bronx and graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School.Overbye, Dennis"Arthur R. Kantrowitz, Whose Wide-Ranging Research Had Many Applications, Is Dead at 95" ''The New York Times'', December 9, 2008. Accessed December 9, 2008. He earned his B.S., M.A. and, in 1947, his Ph.D. degrees in physics from Columbia University. Early life Kantrowitz was born in New York City on October 28, 1913. His mother was a costume designer and his father ran a clinic in the Bronx. As a child, Arthur built an electrocardiograph from old radio parts, working with his brother Adrian (who would go on to perform the first heart transplant in the United States.)Hoffman, Jascha"Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, Cardiac Pioneer, Dies at 90" ''The New York Times'', November 19, 2008. Accessed November 19, 2008. Career During his graduate studies at Columbia, Kantrowitz s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz (September 9, 1945 – July 10, 2018) was an American essayist, poet, academic, and political activist. Early life Born Melanie Kaye in 1945 in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, her parents had anglicized their last name from Kantrowitz prior to her birth. Her grandparents emigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe.Kaye/Kantrowitz and Klepfisz. ''The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology'', 1986, , pg. 264. She later added Kantrowitz to her name to honor her Jewish roots. Kaye/Kantrowitz was active in the Harlem Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. When she was 17, she worked with the Harlem Education Project. About this she said "It was my first experience with a mobilizing proud community and with the possibilities of collective action." Kaye/Kantrowitz associated her activism with her Jewish upbringing,Kaye/Kantrowitz and Klepfisz. ''The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology'', 1986, , p. 324. stating that it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz
Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz (May 3, 1895 – September 9, 1963) was a German historian of medieval political and intellectual history and art, known for his 1927 book '' Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite'' on Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, and ''The King's Two Bodies'' (1957) on medieval and early modern ideologies of monarchy and the state. He was an elected member of both the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Career Early life and education Kantorowicz was born in Posen (then part of Prussia) to a wealthy, assimilated German-Jewish family, and as a young man was groomed to take over his family's prosperous liquor distillery business. He served as an officer in the German Army for four years in World War I. After the war, he matriculated at the University of Berlin to study economics, at one point also joining a right-wing militia that fought against Polish forces in the Greater Poland Uprising (1918–1919) and helped put down the Spartaci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Kantorowicz
Hermann Ulrich Kantorowicz (18 November 1877, Posen, German Empire – 12 February 1940, Cambridge) was a German jurist. He was a professor at Freiburg University (1923-1929), and a Visiting Professor, Columbia University (1927), as well as at Kiel University (1929-1933). He was dismissed from Kiel on political and antisemitic grounds in 1933, and became lecturer at the 'University in Exile' and at City College, New York, 1933–34. Then he was lecturer at the London School of Economics, All Souls College Oxford and Cambridge University, 1934–37, and Assistant Director of Research in Law, Cambridge, 1937-1940. Report on German war guilt issue Kantorowicz caused heated debate when details of his report for the parliamentary investigative committee on the question of Germany's guilt in triggering World War I became known.Hermann Kantorowicz: ''Gutachten zur Kriegsschuldfrage 1914.'' eport on the War guilt question 1914from the estate of Imanuel Geiss, 1967 Contrary to the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |