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Mieczysław G. Bekker
Mieczysław Gregory Bekker (1905–1989) was a Polish engineer and scientist. Bekker was born in Strzyżów, near Hrubieszów, Poland and graduated from Warsaw Technical University in 1929. Early career Bekker worked for the Polish Ministry of Military Affairs (1931–1939) at the Army Research Institute (''Wojskowy Instytut Badań Inżynierii'') in Warsaw. There he worked on systems for tracked vehicles to work on uneven ground. In the Invasion of Poland he was in a unit that retreated to Romania and then he was moved to France in 1939. In 1942 he accepted the offer of the Government of Canada to move to Ottawa to work in armored vehicle research. He entered the Canadian Army in 1943 as a researcher and reached the rank of lieutenant colonel. Decommissioned in 1956, he moved to the U.S. Career in the United States He was assistant professor at the University of Michigan and worked in the Army Vehicle Laboratory in Detroit. In 1961 he joined General Motors to work on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bekker Mieczyslaw
Bekker was first ever mentioned in the Torah in the form of the clan of the Bekkerrites. The addition of '-rite' to a surname indicates plural or a group of people. The original ancestor to South African Bekker's left Prussia in 1644 from Königsberg. A Bekker husband and wife were sent to their deaths from Trompsø, Norway to the concentration camps, WWII. Bekker is also Dutch language, Dutch and Low German occupational surname, ''bekker'' is a regional form of Dutch ''bakker'' ("baker"). Notable people with the surname include: *Amore Bekker (born 1965), South African radio personality *Andries Bekker (born 1983), South African rugby player *Andriëtte Bekker (born 1958), South African statistician *August Immanuel Bekker (1785–1871), German philologist and critic *Balthasar Bekker (1634–1698), Dutch divine and author of philosophical and theological works *Byron Bekker (born 1987), South African speedway rider *Carel N Bekker (born 1983),South African Karate Champion, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
