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Sternberg (surname)
Sternberg is surname of: Persons * Counts of Sternberg (''Šternberkové''), Bohemian nobility * Ben-Zion Sternberg (1894–1962), a Zionist statesman * Brian Sternberg (1943-2013), an American pole vaulter, world record holder * Charles Hazelius Sternberg (1850–1943), an American paleontologist * Charles Mortram Sternberg Charles Mortram Sternberg (1885–1981) was an American-Canadian fossil collector and paleontologist, son of Charles Hazelius Sternberg. Late in his career, he collected and described ''Pachyrhinosaurus'', ''Brachylophosaurus'', ''Parksosaurus ... (1885–1981), an American paleontologist *Dov Sternberg, American karateka * Elf Sternberg (born 1966), an online erotica author * Erich Walter Sternberg (1891–1974), a composer * Eugene Sternberg (1915–2005), architect * George F. Sternberg (1883–1969), a naturalist and paleontologist * George Miller Sternberg (1838–1915), an American bacteriologist and physician * Jacques Sternberg (1923–2006), a F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counts Of Sternberg
Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. Pine, L. G. ''Titles: How the King Became His Majesty''. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1992. p. 73. . The etymologically related English term "county" denoted the territories associated with the countship. Definition The word ''count'' came into English from the French ''comte'', itself from Latin ''comes''—in its accusative ''comitem''—meaning “companion”, and later “companion of the emperor, delegate of the emperor”. The adjective form of the word is "comital". The British and Irish equivalent is an earl (whose wife is a "countess", for lack of an English term). In the late Roman Empire, the Latin title ''comes'' denoted the high rank of various courtiers and provincial officials, either military or administrative: before Anthemius became emperor in the West in 467, he was a military ''comes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaspar Maria Von Sternberg
Count Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (also: ''Caspar Maria'', ''Count Sternberg'', german: Kaspar Maria Graf Sternberg, cs, hrabě Kašpar Maria Šternberk), 1761, Prague – 1838, Březina (Rokycany District), Březina Castle), was a Bohemian Theology, theologian, Mineralogy, mineralogist, Geognosy, geognost, entomologist and Botany, botanist. He is known as the "Father of Paleobotany".. His parents were Count Johann Nepomuk von von Sternberg, Sternberg and Countess Anna Josefa Kolowrat-Krakowsky. He established the National Museum (Prague), Bohemian National Museum in Prague — his collection of minerals, fossils and plant specimens formed the core collection of the museum,Česká pošta Philately, Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1761 - 1838) and he is deemed to be the founder of modern paleobot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Sternberg
Stuart L. Sternberg (born August 8, 1959) is an American Wall Street investor. He is the principal shareholder of the ownership group that owns the Tampa Bay Rays and acts as the team's Managing General Partner since November 2005. Early life The youngest of three children, Sternberg was born on August 8, 1959, and raised in a Jewish family on Avenue M in the Canarsie neighborhood of New York's Brooklyn borough He is the son of Beverly (née Tartell) and Samuel Sternberg and his parents owned a pillow shop on Flatbush Avenue. His passion for baseball developed in his childhood while playing the game in the streets and playgrounds of his neighborhood. One of Sternberg's most cherished memories is when he saw Sandy Koufax pitch while attending his first Major League game with his father at Shea Stadium in 1965. Sternberg has played in various organized baseball leagues over his lifetime and coached his two sons' Little League teams for five years. He attended yeshiva through thir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Sternberg
Stephen Stanley Sternberg (July 30, 1920 – May 12, 2021) was an American surgical pathologist, who worked at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for his entire career. He was well known because of his editorship of two widely used reference books in anatomical pathology (''Diagnostic Surgical Pathology'' ow ''Sternberg's Diagnostic Surgical Pathology''and ''Histology for Pathologists''). He was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of ''The American Journal of Surgical Pathology'', a position he held for 24 years, and an expert in colorectal neoplasia. Biography Sternberg was a native of Queens, New York, and was educated at Colby College, Waterville, Maine (B.S., class of 1941) and New York University School of Medicine (M.D., class of 1947). He subsequently completed postgraduate training in pathology at Charity Hospital, New Orleans, LA and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Dr. Sternberg joined the attending staff of the latter institution in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigmund Sternberg
Sir Sigmund Sternberg ( hu, Sternberg Zsigmond; 2 June 1921 – 18 October 2016) was a Hungarian-British philanthropist, interfaith campaigner, businessman and Labour Party donor. Early life Sternberg was born in 1921 in Budapest, Hungary. He was Jewish. He emigrated to England in 1939, and was naturalised as a British citizen in 1947. Career Sternberg worked in the scrap metal trade. After the war, he founded Sternberg Group of Companies. By 1968 he retired from the scrap metal trade and focused on commercial property investments. Philanthropy Sternberg worked in promoting dialogue between different faiths. For example, he relocated a Roman Catholic convent at Auschwitz. Moreover, he organised the first papal visit to a synagogue in 1986. Additionally, he negotiated the Vatican's recognition of the state of Israel. He was a long-term Labour Party supporter and donor. Sternberg established The Sir Sigmund Sternberg Charitable Foundation in 1969 and was one of the co-founder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shlomo Sternberg
Shlomo Zvi Sternberg (born 1936), is an American mathematician known for his work in geometry, particularly symplectic geometry and Lie theory. Education and career Sternberg earned his PhD in 1955 from Johns Hopkins University, with a thesis entitled "''Some Problems in Discrete Nonlinear Transformations in One and Two Dimensions''", supervised by Aurel Wintner. After postdoctoral work at New York University (1956–1957) and an instructorship at University of Chicago (1957–1959), Sternberg joined the Mathematics Department at Harvard University in 1959, where he was George Putnam Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics until 2017. Since 2017, he is Emeritus Professor at the Harvard Mathematics Department. Among other honors, Sternberg was awarded a List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1974, Guggenheim fellowship in 1974 and a honorary doctorate by the University of Mannheim in 1991. He delivered the American Mathematical Society, AMS in 1990 and the Hebrew University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saul Sternberg
Saul Sternberg is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology and former Paul C. Williams Term Professor (1993–1998) at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a pioneer in the field of cognitive psychology in the development of experimental techniques to study human information processing. Sternberg received a B.A. in mathematics in 1954 from Swarthmore College and a PhD in social psychology from Harvard University in 1959. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in mathematical statistics at the University of Cambridge in 1960, and he subsequently worked as a research scientist in the linguistics and artificial intelligence research department at Bell Laboratories, where he continued to work as a member of the technical staff for over twenty years. Sternberg's first academic position was at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was employed from 1961–1964, and where he has remained since 1985. He has also served as a visiting professor at University College, London, the Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudy Sternberg
Rudy Sternberg, Baron Plurenden (17 April 1917 – 5 January 1978) was a Jewish-British industrialist and farmer.Ian Waller, ‘Sternberg, Rudy, Baron Plurenden (1917–1978)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 31 Dec 2013/ref> Early life Sternberg was born in Thorn, Germany and educated at the Johanns Gymnasium in Breslau, Germany. He moved to England in 1937, to study chemical engineering at the London University. Following the outbreak of war with Germany, Sternberg remained in England as a refugee from Hitler's persecution of the Jews. He joined the British Army in 1939, and was demobilised in 1943 on health grounds. In 1945, he became a naturalised British subject.http://rudysternberg.co.uk/ Career In 1948, he founded the Sterling Group to manufacture Bakelite in a disused cotton mill in Stalybridge, Cheshire. The Sterling Group went on to become one of Britain's largest manufacturers of plastics and resins. He also fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Von Ungern-Sternberg
Nikolai Robert Maximilian Freiherr von Ungern-Sternberg (russian: link=no, Роман Фёдорович фон Унгерн-Штернберг, translit=Roman Fedorovich fon Ungern-Shternberg; 10 January 1886 – 15 September 1921), often referred to as Roman von Ungern-Sternberg or Baron Ungern, was an anticommunist general in the Russian Civil War and then an independent warlord who intervened in Mongolia against China. A part of the Russian Empire's Baltic German minority, Ungern was an ultraconservative monarchist who aspired to restore the Russian monarchy after the 1917 Russian Revolutions and to revive the Mongol Empire under the rule of the Bogd Khan. His attraction to Vajrayana Buddhism and his eccentric, often violent, treatment of enemies and his own men earned him the sobriquet "the Mad Baron" or "the Bloody Baron". In February 1921, at the head of the Asiatic Cavalry Division, Ungern expelled Chinese troops from Mongolia and restored the monarchic power of the Bogd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg (born December 8, 1949) is an American psychologist and psychometrician. He is Professor of Human Development at Cornell University. Sternberg has a BA from Yale University and a PhD from Stanford University, under advisor Gordon Bower. He holds thirteen honorary doctorates from two North American, one South American, one Asian, and nine European universities, and additionally holds an honorary professorship at the University of Heidelberg, in Germany. He is a Distinguished Associate of the Psychometrics Centre at the University of Cambridge. Among his major contributions to psychology are the triarchic theory of intelligence and several influential theories related to creativity, wisdom, thinking styles, love, hate, and leadership. A ''Review of General Psychology'' survey, published in 2002, ranked Sternberg as the 60th most cited psychologist of the 20th century. Early life Sternberg was born on December 8, 1949, to a Jewish family, in New Jersey. Ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Sternberg
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Sternberg
Ricardo da Silveira Lobo Sternberg (born 1948) is a Canadian poet. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sternberg moved to the United States with his family when he was fifteen. He received a B.A. in English literature from the University of California, Riverside and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA. Between 1975 and 1978, he was a Junior Fellow with the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. His poetry has been published in magazines such as ''The Paris Review'', ''The Nation'', ''Poetry (Chicago)'', ''Descant'', ''American Poetry Review'', ''The Virginia Quarterly Review'' and ''Ploughshares ''Ploughshares'' is an American literary journal established in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, ''Ploughshares'' has been based at Emerson College in Boston. ...''., He has lived in Toronto, Canada since 1979 teaching Brazilian and Portuguese Literature at the University of Toronto. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
