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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 School of Design * Meyerson convention a defensive bidding convention in bridge *Myerson *Meyer (other) Meyer may refer to: People *Meyer (surname), listing people so named *Me ... [...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 ... [...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 Angeles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morton Meyerson
Morton Herbert Meyerson 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 company. When he was 10, Morton's brother Sandy died from cancer. Meyerson attended Paschal High School, where he played football, sang in the choir, and served as student body 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. Career Meyerson began working for Bell Helicopter in 1963, and then worked at Ele ... [...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] |
Émile Meyerson
Émile Meyerson (; 12 February 1859 – 2 December 1933) was a Polish-born French epistemologist, chemist, and philosopher of science. Meyerson was born in Lublin, Poland. He died in his sleep of a heart attack at the age of 74. Biography Meyerson 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, which he considered "the postulate upon which the whole (Cartesian) system rests."Quoted in Arthur O. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Meyerson
Charlie Meyerson is a radio and Internet (and on rare occasionTV 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 aTribune Daywatchcolumnist, editor and senior producer Producer or producers may refer to: Occupations *Producer (agriculture), a farm operator *A stakeholder of economic production *Film producer, supervises the making of films **Executive producer, contributes to a film's budget and usually does not ... at chicagotribune.com, the Chicago Tribune Internet edition, and as a contributor to newscasts on WGN-AM 72 ... [...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 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 and South 34th Street in University City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Immediately adjacent to the south is the Fisher Fine Arts Library The Fisher Fine Arts Library was the primary library of the University of Pennsylvania from 1891 to 1962. The red sandstone, brick-and-terra-cotta Venetian Gothic giant—part fortress and part cathedral—was designed by the acclaimed P ..., designed by Frank Furness and completed in 1890. Immediately to the west is the College Green, the heart of the ... [...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, ; ar, جولدا مائير, Jūldā Māʾīr., group=nb (born Golda Mabovitch; 3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978) was an Israeli politician, teacher, and ''kibbutznikit'' who served as the fourth prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. She was the first woman to become head of government in Israel. Born in Kyiv in the Russian Empire, she immigrated to Wisconsin, United States as a child with her family in 1906, and was educated there, becoming a teacher. After getting married, she and her husband emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1921, settling on a ''kibbutz''. Meir was elected prime minister of Israel on 17 March 1969, after serving as labour minister and foreign minister. The world's fourth and Israel's only woman to hold the office of prime minister, and the first in any country in the Middle East, she has been described as the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics. Meir was Prime Minister during the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Israel was caught off guard and suffered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas, Texas
Dallas () is the third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County with portions extending into Collin, Denton, Kaufman and Rockwall counties. With a 2020 census population of 1,304,379, it is the ninth most-populous city in the U.S. and the third-largest 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 United States and the largest inland metropolitan area in the U.S. that lacks any navigable link to the sea. The cities of Dallas and nearby Fort Worth were initially developed due to the construction of major railroad lines through the area allowing access to cotton, cattle and later oil in North and East Texas. The construction of the Interstate Highway System reinforced Dallas's prominen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universities by numerous organizations and scholars. While the university dates its founding to 1740, it was created by Benjamin Franklin and other Philadelphia citizens in 1749. It is a member of the Ivy League. The university has four undergraduate schools as well as twelve graduate and professional schools. Schools enrolling undergraduates include the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Wharton School, and the School of Nursing. Among its highly ranked graduate schools are its law school, whose first professor wrote the first draft of the United States Constitution, its medical school, the first in North America, and Wharton, the first collegiate business school. Penn's endowment is US$20.7 billio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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