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Meyerson
Meyerson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * A. Frederick Meyerson (1918–2009), New York politician and judge * Agda Meyerson (1866–1924), Swedish nurse and healthcare profession activist * Bernard S. Meyerson (born 1954), American physicist * Charlie Meyerson, American journalist * Émile Meyerson (1859–1933), Polish-born French chemist and philosopher of science * Golda Meyerson, better known as Golda Meir (1898–1978), Russian-born Israeli politician * Harold Meyerson (born 1950), American columnist * Jin Meyerson (born 1972), American painter * Jonah Meyerson (born 1991), American actor * Morton Meyerson (born 1938), American businessman See also *Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas *Meyerson Hall of the University of Pennsylvania, housing its University of Pennsylvania School of Design, School of Design *Meyerson convention a defensive bidding convention in bridge *Myerson *Meyer (other) {{surname, Meyerson Surnames of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morton Meyerson
Morton Herbert Meyerson (born 3 June 1938) is an American computer industry executive who held positions in the Ross Perot-founded Electronic Data Systems and subsequently at Perot Systems and General Motors. Ross Perot paid $10 million for naming rights to Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, home to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Early life and education Meyerson was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1938. His mother was a pianist and actively volunteered at the Fort Worth VA Hospital. His father owned Meyerson insurance agency. When he was 10, Morton's brother Sandy died from cancer. Meyerson was raised in a Jewish household, and is Jewish as well. Meyerson attended Paschal High School, where he played football, sang in the choir, and was senior class president. He then graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and philosophy. At UT, he was a member of Sigma Alpha Mu, Texas Cowboys, the UT chorus, and student government. In 1991, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jin Meyerson
Jin Meyerson (born 1972, Incheon, South Korea) is an American artist previously based in Brooklyn, New York, later dividing his time between Paris and Seoul. Biography Born in Incheon, South Korea, and given up for adoption during the Korean War, Jin Meyerson grew up in rural Minnesota, adopted into a Jewish-Swedish family, before pursuing his education in fine arts. He received his BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1995, and his MFA from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1997. Meyerson has shown work internationally in several exhibitions and galleries including ''High Cholesterol Moment'' at Zach Feuer Gallery in New York, ''The Triumph of Painting'' at the Saatchi Gallery in London and at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris. With a disposition for large scale painting of high detail, the work draws varied responses from critics, claiming to recognize a wide range of influences, and identifying Meyerson's underlying ambition "to hold his own with the big gun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agda Meyerson
Agda Meyerson (1 February 1866 – 27 December 1924) was a Swedish nurse who became an activist to improve the education, pay and working conditions of her profession. She served as vice chair of the in 1910 and on the board of numerous nursing facilities. She is recognized as one of the pioneers of the profession in Sweden. Early life Agda Sofia Meyerson was born as a twin with on 1 February 1866 in Stockholm, Sweden to Betty (née Hirsch) and Herman August Meyerson. Her parents were Swedish Jews and belonged to the Mosaic Assembly. Her mother had been educated and though she participated in the ''mikveh'' before marriage, she did not shave her head. Herman was a wholesaler, who later worked as the Assistant Director of the Scandinavian Bank. Her paternal grandfather, Lesser Meyerson (also Meijerson) was a manufacturer and leader in the Mosaic community. Her maternal grandparents, Simon and Thèrése (née Suber) Hirsch were of German and French heritage and also operated a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Meyerson
Harold Meyerson (born 1950) is an American journalist, opinion columnist and socialist. In 2009 ''The Atlantic Monthly'' named him one of "the most influential commentators in the nation" as part of their list "The Atlantic 50." Early life and education Meyerson was born to a Jewish family in Los Angeles. He was educated in the Los Angeles public schools and at Columbia University. The son of long time leaders in California of the Socialist Party of America, he was active in the 1970s in the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee. Career Meyerson is editor-at-large of ''The American Prospect'' and was an opinion columnist for ''The Washington Post'' from 2003 until 2015, when he was fired by the latter. Some speculate that the firing was politically motivated and related to the 2016 electoral season and the rise of Bernie Sanders. He served as executive editor of the '' L.A. Weekly'' from 1989 through 2001, and continues to write about California politics in the ''Los Angele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Meyerson
Émile Meyerson (; 12 February 1859 – 2 December 1933) was a Polish-born French epistemologist, chemist, philosopher of science and Zionist activist. Meyerson was born in Lublin, Poland. He died in his sleep of a heart attack at the age of 74. Biography Meyerson was born Ezryel-Szoel-Froim Meyerson to a Jewish family. He was educated at the University of Heidelberg and studied chemistry under Robert Wilhelm Bunsen. In 1882 Meyerson settled in Paris. He served as foreign editor of the Havas news agency, and later as the director of the Jewish Colonization Association for Europe and Asia Minor. He became a naturalized French citizen after World War I. Thomas Kuhn cites Meyerson's work as influential while developing the ideas for his main work ''The Structure of Scientific Revolutions''. In ''La Déduction relativiste'', Meyerson expressed the view that Einstein's general theory of relativity was a new version of the identification of matter with space Space is a thre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonah Meyerson
Jonah Meyerson (born September 20, 1991) is an American actor and television producer Early life and education Meyerson was born in New York City. He is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School, and the University of Pennsylvania as a member of the class of 2013. At UPenn, he was the head writer for and a cast member of Penn's Mask and Wig Club, the nation's oldest collegiate all-male musical comedy troupe. Meyerson also performed with Penn's improv comedy troupe, Without a Net. and was a 2013 member of Penn's Friars Senior Society. Career Meyerson made his acting debut in Wes Anderson's 2001 award-winning film ''The Royal Tenenbaums''. He played Uzi, the older son of Chas, played by Ben Stiller, and the grandson of characters played by Gene Hackman and Anjelica Huston. Meyerson was nominated for a Young Artists' award for his work on the film. He starred in '' Griffin and Phoenix'', a Lifetime channel film also released on DVD. His work on that film earned him his second Young Artis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Meyerson
Charlie Meyerson is a radio and Internet journalist. Meyerson was the morning news anchor and Chicago City Hall reporter for WXRT-FM from 1979 to 1989, during which he also served as an adjunct newswriting instructor at Columbia College Chicago from 1982 to 1986. In October 1989, he left WXRT to become news director, morning news anchor and public affairs director at WNUA-FM, where he served until 1998, also freelancing as columnist for the ''Wednesday Journal'' newspaper of Oak Park, Illinois, from 1991 to 1993. In 1998, he began an almost 11-year run a''Tribune Daywatch''columnist, editor Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information. The editing process can involve correction, condensation, organization, a ... and senior producer at chicagotribune.com, the Chicago Tribune Internet edition, and as a contributor to newscasts on WGN-AM 720 in Chicago. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meyerson Hall
Meyerson Hall is a building in West Philadelphia, and the site of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. The building, designed by the architecture firm of Martin, Stewart, Noble & Class, was constructed in 1967 in reinforced concrete, brick cavity wall, and asbestos, with a total area of the building is . It is named for Martin Meyerson, President of the University of Pennsylvania from 1970 to 1981. Meyerson Hall is located at the corner of Walnut Street (Philadelphia), Walnut and South 34th Streets in University City, Philadelphia, University City. Immediately adjacent to the south is the Fisher Fine Arts Library, designed by Frank Furness and completed in 1890. Immediately to the west is the College Green. The building currently houses the main offices of the following departments of the School of Design: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Historic Preservation, and City and Regional Planning. Fine Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meyerson Convention
The Meyerson convention is a defensive bidding convention to an opponent opening bid of one notrump. Double shows at least four cards in a major and at least four cards in a minor, with both suit lengths totalling at least nine cards. A 2 bid shows at least four cards in each major. The other suited 2-level bids are natural; they simply show cards in the bid suit. After a player doubles using the Meyerson convention, his partner may bid 2 to ask the doubler to bid his longer suit or pass if that suit is clubs. Doubler's partner may also bid 2 to ask the doubler to bid his major suit. Any other bid that doubler's partner makes is natural. The Meyerson convention may be used in either direct or balancing position, and it may also be used against strong or weak one notrump openings. The Meyerson convention is named after its inventor, Adam Meyerson of Los Angeles, California. The convention is quite similar to another convention known alternatively as Woolsey, after Kit Woolse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golda Meir
Golda Meir (; 3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978) was the prime minister of Israel, serving from 1969 to 1974. She was Israel's first and only female head of government. Born into a Jewish family in Kyiv, Kiev, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine), Meir immigrated with her family to the United States in 1906. She graduated from the Wisconsin State College of Milwaukee, Milwaukee State Normal School and found work as a teacher. While in Milwaukee, she embraced the Labor Zionist movement. In 1921, Meir and her husband Third Aliyah, immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, settling in Merhavia (kibbutz), Merhavia, later becoming the kibbutz's representative to the Histadrut. In 1934, she was elevated to the executive committee of the trade union. Meir held several key roles in the Jewish Agency for Israel, Jewish Agency during and after World War II. She was a signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948. Meir was elected to the Knesset in 1949 and served as Labor Minister of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas, Texas
Dallas () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the most populous city in and the county seat, seat of Dallas County, Texas, Dallas County, covering nearly 386 square miles into Collin County, Texas, Collin, Denton County, Texas, Denton, Kaufman County, Texas, Kaufman, and Rockwall County, Texas, Rockwall counties. With a 2020 United States census, 2020 census population of 1,304,379, it is the List of United States cities by population, ninth-most populous city in the U.S. and the List of cities in Texas by population, third-most populous city in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. Located in the North Texas region, the city of Dallas is the main core of the largest metropolitan area in the Southern Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of founder and first president Benjamin Franklin, who had advocated for an educational institution that trained leaders in academia, commerce, and public service. The university has four undergraduate schools and 12 graduate and professional schools. Schools enrolling undergraduates include the College of Arts and Sciences, the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Wharton School, and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, School of Nursing. Among its graduate schools are its University of Pennsylvania Law School, law school, whose first professor, James Wilson (Founding Father), James Wilson, helped write the Constitution of the United States, U.S. Cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
