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Selinger
Selinger (also Sellinger) ( he, זלינגר) is a surname, originally an Ashkenazi Jewish surname of German origin. Notable people with the surname include: * Al Sellinger (1914–1986), American cyclist * (1912–2002), Austrian Benedictine abbot * Arie Selinger (born 1937), Israeli volleyball coach * Avital Selinger (born 1959), Israeli volleyball player * Ben Selinger (born 1939), Australian chemist and author * Christine Selinger (fl. from 2009), Canadian paracanoeist * Emily Selinger (1848–1927), American painter, writer, poet, educator * Greg Selinger (born 1951), Canadian politician * Jerry Selinger (1935–2017), Canadian football player * Joe Selinger (fl. 1956–1960), Canadian ice hockey player * Joseph A. Sellinger (1921–1993), American Catholic priest and university president ** Sellinger School of Business and Management * Patricia Selinger, American computer scientist * Philip R. Sellinger (born 1954), American lawyer * Robin Selinger (fl. from 1995), Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Selinger
Gregory Francis Selinger (born February 16, 1951) is a Canadian former politician who served as the 21st premier of Manitoba from 2009 until 2016, leading an NDP government. From 1999 to 2009 he was the Minister of Finance in the government of his immediate predecessor, Gary Doer. Selinger was the member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for St. Boniface from 1999 until his resignation in early 2018. His party was defeated by Brian Pallister and the Progressive Conservatives in the 2016 Manitoba general election. Early life and education Selinger was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, the son of Margaret Eva (Crawford) and Nicodemus Selinger. He came to Manitoba from Saskatchewan as a child with his single mother, who ran a small clothing store in Winnipeg. Selinger received a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Manitoba, a Master of Public Administration from Queen's University, and a PhD from the London School of Economics. Before entering politics, he worke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelomo Selinger
Shelomo Selinger (born May 31, 1928) is a sculptor and artist living and working in Paris since 1956. Biography Selinger was born to a Jewish family in the small Polish town of Szczakowa (today part of Jaworzno) near Oświęcim (Auschwitz''Le Petit Larousse'' 2008, éd. Larousse, Paris 1141). He received both a traditional Jewish upbringing and a Polish public school education. In 1943 he was deported with his father from the Chrzanów ghetto to the Faulbrück concentration camp in Germany. Three months later his father was murdered and Selinger remained alone in the camp. His mother and one of his sisters also perished during the Holocaust. Selinger survived nine German death camps: Faulbrück, Gröditz, Markstadt, Fünfteichen, Gross-Rosen, Flossenburg, Dresden, Leitmeritz and finally Theresienstadt, as well as two death marches. He was discovered, still breathing, on a stack of dead bodies when the Terezin camp was liberated in 1945 by the Red Army. The Jewish milita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Selinger
Robin Lillian Blumberg Selinger (''née'' Blumberg) is an American materials scientist. She is professor of physics at Kent State University and the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute. In 2016, Selinger became the first female Kent State University faculty member to be elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Early life and education Robin Lillian Blumberg was born to parents Elliott and Louise Blumberg in Arlington, Texas, United States. Growing up, her family attendeCongregation Beth-El (Fort Worth)where she was one of the first girls to celebrate a bat mitzvah. As a high school student at Fort Worth Country Day School, Selinger received a four-year corporate-sponsored National Merit scholarship after scoring high on standardized tests. Following high school, Selinger enrolled at Harvard-Radcliffe College for her undergraduate degree in Physics. She remained at Harvard University for her graduate degrees in the same field. While completing her studies, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Selinger
Benjamin Klaas Selinger FRACI CChem (born 23 January 1939) is an Australian chemist, for many years a professor with the chemistry department of the Australian National University, later head of department and Professor Emeritus. He is perhaps best known as a consumer advocate and author. His ''Chemistry in the Marketplace'', first published in 1968, is from June 2017 in its sixth edition. History Selinger was born in Sydney, the eldest son of German-Jewish refugees Hilde Selinger (died 19 May 1994) and Herbert Selinger (died 1973). His father, who was naturalized as an Australian citizen in 1944, was an electrical engineer and lecturer at the N.S.W. University of Technology. He is credited with inculcating in his son the need to investigate the workings of things. He grew up in the Sydney suburb of Oatley, and was educated at Mortdale Public School and Sydney Boys' High School. After completing his (then compulsory) National Service training he enrolled at the University of Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Selinger
Patricia G. Selinger is an American computer scientist and IBM Fellow, best known for her work on relational database management systems. Education She received A.B. (1971), S.M. (1972), and Ph.D. (1975) degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard University. Biography She played a fundamental role in the development of System R, a pioneering relational database implementation, and wrote the canonical paper on relational query optimization. She is a pioneer in relational database management and inventor of the technique of cost-based query optimization. She was a key member of the original System R team that created the first relational database research prototype. The dynamic programming algorithm for determining join order proposed in that paper still forms the basis for most of the query optimizers used in modern relational systems. She also established and led IBM’s Database Technology Institute, considered one of the most successful examples of a fast technology pip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Selinger
Emily Selinger (, McGary; February 22, 1848 – July 16, 1927) was an American painter of still life and floral, author of travel writing and poetry, and an educator. Early life and education Emily Harris McGary was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, February 22, 1848. Her parents were James and Elizabeth Otis Paine (Keller) McGary. She was a descendant on her father's side of Flora McDonald. Her father, a planter, amassed a fortune in the East India trade. He died just before the American Civil War, and his family were stripped of the large fortune left them through the mismanagement of a relative and by the war. The mother took her three young daughters to Providence, Rhode Island, to educate them. Selinger was a precocious child, showing aptitude for anything in the line of music, art and language. She finished the high school course in Providence, studied with private tutors, and ended with a course in the Cooper Institute School of Design in New York City. With art, she stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Selinger
Joe Selinger is a Canadian retired ice hockey goaltender who was an All-American for Michigan State and led the team it its first NCAA tournament appearance in 1959. Career Selinger was the starting goalie for the Regina Pats when the team won the Abbott Cup in 1955. The following fall he began attending Michigan State University and would help turn around a moribund program. To that point, MSU had finished in either last or second-last in the WIHL and had never finished with a record of even .400. While he was on the freshman team, the Spartans continued that trend and won one of eighteen conference games. When Selinger made the varsity team the following season the team still finished in last place, but quintupled their WIHL victory totals while lowering the team's goals against by 25. Both the team and Selinger improved during his second year and the team finished 5th in their conference while producing the first winning season in program history (12–11). Selinger was named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avital Selinger
:''This article may be expanded with text from WikiProject Volleyball:To do – biographies'' Avital Haim Selinger (born 10 March 1959 in Haifa, Israel) is a retired volleyball player and head coach, who twice represented the Netherlands at the Summer Olympics of 1988 and 1992. He is the son of volleyball coach Arie Selinger Aryeh "Lonk" Selinger (born 5 April 1937) is an Israeli volleyball manager and former player. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest volleyball coaches of all time. Selinger has served as the head coach of the USA Women's Team in the years .... After taking the command as head coach of the Swiss club Voléro Zürich in April 2015, he guided them to the bronze medal at the 2015 FIVB Club World Championship. See also * List of select Jewish volleyball players References 1959 births Living people Dutch men's volleyball players Israeli men's volleyball players Israeli Jews Israeli emigrants to the Netherlands Dutch Jews Dutch voll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arie Selinger
Aryeh "Lonk" Selinger (born 5 April 1937) is an Israeli volleyball manager and former player. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest volleyball coaches of all time. Selinger has served as the head coach of the USA Women's Team in the years 1975–1984, a team that would go on to win the Bronze medal in the 1982 World Championship and the Silver Medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, USA. Selinger won gold, silver and bronze as a coach in games and championships worldwide, including a Silver Medal for the Men's Team of the Netherlands at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci .... See also * List of select Jewish volleyball players References Jewish volleyball players Israeli men's volleyball playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Selinger
Jerome "Jerry" Selinger (July 17, 1935 - June 16, 2017) was a Canadian football player who played for the Ottawa Rough Riders. He won the Grey Cup with them in 1960, 1968 and 1969. He played college football at St. Joseph's College in Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ..., winning a national title as a member of the Pumas' 1956 squad. References 1935 births 2017 deaths Canadian football offensive linemen Players of Canadian football from Saskatchewan Ottawa Rough Riders players Saint Joseph's Pumas football players {{Canadianfootball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Selinger
Christine Selinger is a Canadian paracanoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. She won her first international medal at the 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, then subsequently won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a gold in the V-1 200 m LTA and a silver in the K-1 200 m TA events. At the 2011 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged she repeated her 2010 performance with a gold in the V-1 200m LTA and a second-place finish in the K-1 200m TA event. Christine Selinger is also an adventure enthusiast who became the first paraplegic to traverse the Nootka Trail (located on Nootka Island Nootka Island (french: île Nootka) is an island adjacent to Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is in area. It is separated from Vancouver Island by Nootka Sound and its side-inlets, and is located within Electoral Area A of the ... in British Columbia, Canada) in May 2010. The expedition was referred to in the med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip R
Philip, also Phillip, is a male given name, derived from the Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philips who popularized the name include kings of Macedonia and one of the apostles of early Christianity. ''Philip'' has many alternative spellings. One derivation often used as a surname is Phillips. It was also found during ancient Greek times with two Ps as Philippides and Philippos. It has many diminutive (or even hypocoristic) forms including Phil, Philly, Lip, Pip, Pep or Peps. There are also feminine forms such as Philippine and Philippa. Antiquity Kings of Macedon * Philip I of Macedon * Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great * Philip III of Macedon, half-brother of Alexander the Great * Philip IV of Macedon * Philip V of Macedon New Testament * Philip the Apostle * Philip the Evangelist Others * Philippus of Croton (c. 6th centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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