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Ruffini Corpuscle By Angelo Ruffini
Ruffini is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alessandro "Sandro" Ruffini (1889–1954), Italian actor and voice actor *Angelo Ruffini (1864–1929), Italian histologist and embryologist * Attilio Ruffini (1924–2011), Italian politician *Ernesto Ruffini (1888–1967), Archbishop of Palermo * Frederick Ernst Ruffini (1851-1885), American architect *Giovanni Ruffini (1807–1881), Italian poet and librettist *Giulano Ruffini (born 1945), French art collector *Giuseppe or Joseph Ruffini (1690 - 1749), Italian-Austrian painter * Luca Ruffini (born 1997), Italian footballer * Oscar Ruffini (1858-1957), American architect *Paolo Ruffini (1765–1822), Italian mathematician and philosopher *Paolo Ruffini (actor) (born 1978), Italian actor and presenter *Patrick Ruffini, Republican Party pollster and political strategist *Remo Ruffini (businessman) (born 1961), Italian billionaire businessman * Silvia Ruffini (1475–1561), Italian noble woman and mistress of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandro Ruffini
Alessandro "Sandro" Ruffini (21 September 1889 – 29 November 1954) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Born in Rome, Ruffini appeared in 64 films between 1913 and 1954, and was also active in theatre and radio. He was well known for his beautiful "aristocratic" voice and dubbed the voices of many actors for the Italian versions of their films, including Leslie Howard in ''Gone with the Wind'', Clifton Webb in '' Laura'', and Charlie Chaplin in '' Limelight''. Selected filmography * '' Odette'' (1916) * ''The Last Tsars'' (1928) * ''Giallo'' (1933) * ''White Amazons'' (1936) * ''The Knight of San Marco'' (1939) * ''The Daughter of the Green Pirate'' (1940) * '' Abandonment'' (1940) * ''Eternal Melodies'' (1940) * '' Schoolgirl Diary'' (1941) * ''The Two Tigers'' (1941) * ''Pirates of Malaya'' (1941) * '' Fedora'' (1942) * '' The Testimony'' (1946) * '' Lost in the Dark'' (1947) * '' Cab Number 13'' (1948) * '' The Two Sisters'' (1950) * '' Sunday Heroes'' (1952) * ''Ivan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Ruffini (mathematician)
Paolo Ruffini (Valentano, 22 September 1765 – Modena, 10 May 1822) was an Italian mathematician and philosopher. Education and Career By 1788 he had earned university degrees in philosophy, medicine/surgery and mathematics. His works include developments in algebra: * an incomplete proof (Abel–Ruffini theorem) that quintic (and higher-order) equations cannot be solved by radicals (1799), * Ruffini's rule which is a quick method for polynomial division, * contributions to group theory. He also wrote on probability and the quadrature of the circle. He was a professor of mathematics at the University of Modena and a medical doctor including scientific work on typhus. Group theory In 1799 Ruffini marked a major improvement for group theory, developing Joseph Louis Lagrange's work on permutation theory ("Réflexions sur la théorie algébrique des équations", 1770–1771). Lagrange's work was largely ignored until Ruffini established strong connections between permutat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Ruffini
Stefano Ruffini (Rome, 14 June 1963 – Naples, 7 December 2006) was an Italian singer and voice actor. He performed songs of Grazia Di Michele "Canto bolero" (1988) and "Si chiama Helene" (1989) at the Sanremo Music Festival.Marcello Giannotti ''L'enciclopedia di Sanremo: 55 anni di storia del festival'' 2005 8884403790 p.75 "Di Michele, Grazia - ... Per due volte è stata presente al Festival anche come autrice, nel 1988 (Canto bolero) e nel 1989 (Si chiama Helene), per Stefano Ruffini in gara tra le Nuove reposte." References 1963 births 2006 deaths 20th-century Italian male singers Singers from Rome {{Italy-singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Ruffini
Simone Ruffini (born 7 December 1989) is an Italian swimmer who specializes in long-distance freestyle swimming, especially open water swimming. He won the gold medal in the Men's 25 km open water swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships The 16th FINA World Aquatics Championships, FINA World Championships (russian: Чемпионат мира по водным видам спорта 2015), also Aquatics 2015, were held in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015. Russia host .... References 1989 births Living people Italian male swimmers Italian male long-distance swimmers Olympic swimmers for Italy Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Universiade medalists in swimming Sportspeople from the Province of Macerata FISU World University Games gold medalists for Italy Swimmers of Gruppo Sportivo Esercito Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade European Open Water Swimming Championships medalists 21st-century Italian people {{Italy-swimming-bio- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Ruffini
Silvia Ruffini (1475 – Rome, 6 December 1561) was a 16th-century Italian noble woman and mistress of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese before he becomes pope (Pope Paul III from 1534); she was the mother of his four children. Biography She was the daughter of Rufino Ruffini and Giulia (her last name is unknown), and they lived in a palace in the Colonna neighborhood. She had four brothers (Giacomo, Girolamo, Ascanio and Mario) and two sisters (Camilla and Ippolita). At some time around 1496 she married a Roman merchant Giovanni Battista Crispo, with whom she had three sons: Sallustio, Virgilio and Cardinal Tiberio Crispo. Her husband Crispo died in 1501; she may already have been romantically involved with Cardinal Farnese by then. Ruffini was introduced to Alessandro Farnese by his sister Giulia (mistress to Pope Alexander VI), and the Cardinal offered to be her escort through Rome. The first daughter of Ruffini and Alessandro Farnese, Costanza, was probably born already in 1500 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remo Ruffini (businessman)
Remo Ruffini (born August 1961) is an Italian billionaire businessman, the chairman and CEO of the fashion company Moncler. He controls Ruffini Partecipazioni Srl that owns 19.3% of Moncler. Early life Remo Ruffini is the son of Gianfranco Ruffini who, in the 1970s, was owner of a clothing company in New York City called Gianfranco Ruffini Ltd. His mother, Enrica, owned a clothing company as well. Career Ruffini started his career in the US, working for his father's eponymous clothing company, Gianfranco Ruffini Ltd. At 23, he returned to Italy and founded a company, New England, which he sold sixteen years later (in 2000) to Stefanel Group. That same year, he started working as a creative consultant for the holding company which owned Moncler. In 2003, Ruffini took over Moncler, which was almost bankrupt at the time, and transformed the company by reinventing the brand. Ten years later, in December 2013, Ruffini took the company public by listing it on Milan's stock exchange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Ruffini
Patrick Ruffini is a Republican Party pollster and political strategist in the United States. He founded Engage, LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based political media firm, and now runs the political research and intelligence firm, Echelon Insights Biography Background Ruffini grew up in France, Italy, and Greenwich, Connecticut, and graduated high school in 1996 from Greenwich High School.Lightman, David (March 24, 1993)Constituents Cool To Clinton's Budget ''Hartford Courant'' (report on 14-year-old Ruffini speaking at town hall in Greenwich for Congressman Chris Shays, criticizing the British health care system) He is a 2000 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and currently resides in the Washington, D.C. suburbs. Career Ruffini began blogging in 2001, and has been a front-page contributor for RedState and Townhall.com. In the 2004 election, Ruffini served as webmaster for the Bush-Cheney campaign. Following the 2008 election, Ruffini co-authored the Rebuild the Party pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Ruffini (actor)
Paolo Ruffini (born 26 November 1978, in Livorno) is an Italian actor, film director and presenter. Life Ruffini was born in Livorno in 1978, he made his debut in show business by participating in commercials and in Paolo Virzì's film Ovosodo, in which he played the role of a disliked classmate of the main character. For several years he worked as an animator in many vacation villages. Passionate about cinema, in 2001 he founded the cinema association ''Nido del Cuculo'', with which he organizes events, festivals, film festivals (including the ''Joe D'Amato Horror Festival'' dedicated to Joe D'Amato), produces documentaries, plays (among all ''Io Doppio'') and musicals in which he often plays the role of actor and author. In 2002 he won the ''Cercasi VJ'' contest on Mtv. For more than three years he hosts programs such as '' MTV on the beach'', '' Hitlist Italia'', '' MTV Mobile Chart'' and '' Select''. In 2005 he leaves the music network and starts to collaborate with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Ruffini
Oscar Ruffini (10 April 1858–18 January 1957) was an architect in San Angelo, Texas. He was the first civic architect in the city and was responsible for many buildings across West Texas in the last 20 years of the 19th century. Early life Oscar Ruffini was born on 10 April 1858 to Germans Ernest Ruffini and Adelaide Reihme, who migrated to the United States of America shortly after their marriage in 1848. Oscar and his siblings, Frederick Ruffini, Frederick, Alvin, Clara, and Camilla, were raised in Cleveland, Ohio. Documentation on Oscar's life before his arrival in San Angelo, Texas is spotty, but at 14 he and Frederick were apprenticed to a Cleveland-based architect. Oscar went independent four years later, while Frederick remained under the architect's tutelage. Architectural career From 1875 to 1877, Oscar worked for an architect in Cincinnati named George W. Rapp. From 1878 to 1880, he may have been residing and studying in Paris, though it is not known where exac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelo Ruffini
Angelo Ruffini (Pretare of Arquata del Tronto; 1864–1929) was an Italian histologist and embryologist. He studied medicine at the University of Bologna, where beginning in 1894 he taught classes in histology. In 1903 he attained the chair of embryology at the University of Siena. He was the first to describe small encapsulated nerve endings (mechanoreceptors) which were to become known as Ruffini corpuscles. He used a gold chloride stain on his microscope slides in order for to view the tiny corpuscles. Ruffini was a pioneer in the study of amphibian gastrulation, providing a comprehensive and detailed description on the formation of "bottle cells". He published these findings in a book titled ''Fisiogenia'' (1925). Relationship with Sir Charles Sherrington Between 1896 and 1903, Ruffini corresponded regularly with Sir Charles Sherrington Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was an eminent English neurophysiologist. His experimental research ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luca Ruffini
Luca Ruffini (born 2 May 1997) is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender for Serie D The Serie D () is the top level of semi-professional football in the country. The fourth tier of the Italian league system, the competition sits beneath the third professional league, Serie C. It is administered by the Lega Nazionale Dilettant ... club Calvina Sport. References External links * * * 1997 births Living people AS Pro Piacenza 1919 players Feralpisalò players UC AlbinoLeffe players Serie C players Italian men's footballers Men's association football defenders Footballers from the Province of Brescia {{Italy-footy-defender-1990s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Ruffini
Joseph or Giuseppe Ruffini (1690 - February 7, 1749) was an Italian-Austrian painter, mainly active in Germany. Biography He was born in Merano in the Tyrol. He trained with his father, and by 1711 he had moved to work in Munich in Bavaria. He is best known for his late-Baroque cycle of paintings for the Ottobeuren Abbey Ottobeuren is a Benedictine abbey, located in Ottobeuren, near Memmingen in the Bavarian Allgäu, Germany. For part of its history Ottobeuren Abbey was one of the 40-odd self-ruling imperial abbeys of the Holy Roman Empire and, as such, was a vi .... He died in Bavaria. References 1690 births 1749 deaths People from Merano 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian emigrants to Austria 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
