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Scaife
Scaife is a surname meaning "Boat born" in English. It is derived from Old Norse. Other references include "awry, difficult". at the Internet Surname Database The first recorded instance of this surname was in the ''''. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Scaife (born 1970), British physicist and meteorologist * |
Richard Mellon Scaife
Richard Mellon Scaife (; July 3, 1932 – July 4, 2014) was an American billionaire, a principal heir to the Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, and the owner and publisher of the ''Pittsburgh Tribune-Review''. In 2005, Scaife was number 238 on the Forbes 400, with a personal fortune of $1.2 billion. By 2013, Scaife had dropped to number 371 on the listing, with a personal fortune of $1.4 billion. During his life, Scaife was known for his financial support of conservative public policy organizations over the past four decades. He provided support for conservative and libertarian causes in the United States, mostly through the private, nonprofit foundations he controlled: the Sarah Scaife Foundation, Carthage Foundation, and Allegheny Foundation, and until 2001, the Scaife Family Foundation, now controlled by son David. Early life Scaife was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Alan Magee Scaife, the head of an affluent Pittsburgh family, and Sarah Cordelia Mello ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Scaife
Allen Ross Scaife (born March 31, 1960, Fredericksburg, Virginia – died March 15, 2008, Lexington, Kentucky) was a Professor of Classics at the University of Kentucky. Life Ross Scaife was born to William and Sylvia Scaife in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1960, one of four children. He was married to Cathy Jane ''Edwards'' Scaife (1959-2018) and they had three sons, Lincoln (b. 1991), Adrian (b. 1994), and Russell (b. 1998). He died at home after a year-long fight against cancer. Education and scholarship He graduated in 1978 from the Tilton School in New Hampshire and he read Classics and Philosophy at the College of William and Mary. In 1985 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for a year of study at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece and in 1988 he participated in the summer program at the American Academy in Rome. He earned his PhD in 1990 from the University of Texas at Austin for his thesis on ''The Kypria and its early reception''.Seobituary b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brendan Scaife
Brendan Kevin Patrick Scaife FTCD, MRIA, Boyle Laureate (; born 19 May 1928), is an Irish academic engineer and physicist who carried out pioneering work on the theory of dielectrics. Scaife founded the Dielectrics Group in Trinity College Dublin where he is Fellow Emeritus and formerly Professor of Electromagnetism, and previously to that a professor of engineering science. Scaife showed that in a linear system the decay function is directly proportional to the autocorrelation function of the corresponding fluctuating macroscopic variable, and proved how the spectral density of the dipole moment fluctuations of a dielectric body could be calculated from the frequency dependence of the complex permittivity, \epsilon(\omega)=\epsilon'(\omega)-i\epsilon''(\omega). It was independent of Ryogo Kubo who in 1957 developed the corresponding theory for magnetic materials. The work was published prior to the work of Robert Cole in 1965 which is often cited. Early life Scaife was bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Scaife
Anna Margaret Mahala Scaife (born 20 May 1981) is a Professor of Radio Astronomy at the University of Manchester and Head of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics Interferometry Centre of Excellence.Anna Scaife's She is the co-director of Policy@Manchester. She was awarded the 2019 Royal Astronomical Society Jackson-Gwilt Medal in recognition of her contributions to astrophysical instrumentation. Education and early life Scaife wanted to be an archaeologist as a child. She attended school at Loreto Grammar School in Altrincham. She earned her master's degree in physics at the University of Bristol in 2003. For her doctoral studies, Scaife joined the University of Cambridge where she was supervised by . After graduating in 2007, Scaife stayed at Cambridge as a postdoctoral research associate at the Cavendish Laboratory and was a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. Research and career Her research considers the origin and evolution of large-scale Cosmos, cosmic magnetic f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scaife Foundations
The Scaife Foundations refer collectively to three foundations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The three subdivisions are: the Allegheny Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, and the Scaife Family Foundation. A fourth foundation, the Carthage Foundation, was folded into the Sarah Scaife Foundation in 2014. Allegheny Foundation Richard Mellon Scaife endowed the foundation and served as its founding chairman. It "concentrates its giving in the Southwestern Pennsylvania area and confines most of its grant awards to programs for historic preservation, civic development and education." When Scaife died in 2014, he left assets worth $364 million to the Allegheny Foundation. In 2015, the Allegheny Foundation distributed over $25 million to 81 different organizations. The foundation's largest donations went to Point Park University for the Pittsburgh Playhouse and the Center for Media Innovation. The Boys & Girls Club of Western Pennsylvania, Saint Vincent College, the Extra Mile Educati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Scaife
Oliver Edward "Bo" Scaife, III (born January 6, 1981) is a former American football tight end. He was originally drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the sixth round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Texas. Early years Scaife attended Mullen High School in Denver, Colorado with fellow NFL tight end Alex Smith and J.D. Chism. He earned ''Parade'' All-American, Gatorade Circle of Champions Colorado Player of the Year, ''Rocky Mountain News'' Colorado Offensive Player of the Year and second-team All-USA honors at tight end by ''USA Today'' as a senior. Also two-time first-team Colorado 5A All-State selection by ''Denver Post''. Scaife led his team to Colorado 5A state title as a senior, while catching 62 passes for 1,400 yards and 19 touchdowns and rushing for 250 yards on 20 carries and one touchdown. College career He played college football at the University of Texas from 1999 to 2004, and was a sixth year senior after missing both the 2000 and 2002 seasons due ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Scaife
Adam A. Scaife FRMetS FInstP is a British physicist and head of long range prediction at the Met Office. He is also a professor at Exeter University. Scaife carries out research into long range weather forecasting and computer modelling of the climate and has published around 200 peer reviewed studies on atmospheric dynamics, computer modelling and climate as well as popular science and academic books on meteorology. Career Scaife studied Natural Sciences (Physics) at Cambridge University (1988-1991), Environmental Science at Surrey University (1991-1992) and was awarded a PhD in Meteorology from Reading University (1999). He joined the Met Office in 1992 where he worked on climate dynamics and the development of improved computer models of the climate . Many of his studies show how predictable factors affect weather from months to decades ahead. Since 2003 he has led teams of scientists in the Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, working on clim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordelia Scaife May
Cordelia Scaife May (September 24, 1928 – January 26, 2005) was a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-area political donor and philanthropist. An heiress to the Mellon-Scaife family fortune, she was one of the wealthiest women in the United States. Her philanthropy and political causes included environmentalism, birth control and family planning, overpopulation control measures, making English the official language of the United States, and strict immigration restrictions to the United States. According to ''The New York Times'', "she bankrolled the founding and operation of the nation’s three largest restrictionist groups—the Federation for American Immigration Reform, NumbersUSA and the Center for Immigration Studies," and she left the bulk of her assets to the Colcom Foundation, whose major activity has been the sponsorship of immigration restriction. May lived a reclusive life, especially after the death of her second husband in 1974. Biography Early life and education On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Scaife
John Willie Scaife (14 November 1908 – 27 October 1995) was an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket for Victoria from 1927 to 1936. At the age of 18, Scaife was one of five Victorians who made their first-class debuts against Tasmania in January 1927. Batting at number six he scored 46, added 106 for the fifth wicket with Norman Mitchell. One of the smallest first-class players in Australia at the time, Scaife played the full six-game Sheffield Shield season in 1927-28, scoring 207 runs at an average of 34.50 in a season when his teammates Bill Ponsford and Bill Woodfull each averaged well over 100 with the bat and Victoria won the Shield. He was one of the three emergencies named for Australia's tour of New Zealand at the end of the season, but was not required to play. He played in a trial match for an Australian XI against The Rest at the start of the 1928-29 season but was not successful. He continued to play for Victoria with mixed success. He did n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Scaife
Michael Scaife (24 March 1948 – 18 December 2001) was a British biologist, psychologist, and reader at the University of Sussex, known for his early work in developmental psychology and his later interdisciplinary study in cognitive and computing sciences.Jerome Bruner and Andy Clark.Obituary: Michael Scaife" in: ''The Guardian,'' 8 February 2002. Accessed 13-04-2015. Clark, Andy. ''Supersizing the mind: Embodiment, action, and cognitive extension: Embodiment, action, and cognitive extension.'' Oxford University Press, 2008. Biography Born in Lincolnshire and raised in Coventry, Scaife attended the King Henry VIII grammar school on a scholarship, and obtained his MA in biology at Liverpool University, and his PhD in psychology at Oxford University. Scaife started his academic career as research assistant at the ethology group of the University of Oxford, where he cooperated with Mike Cullen, Nikolaas Tinbergen and Richard Dawkins. Later in the 1970s at University of Oxford he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Scaife
Nicola Scaife (born 1984 or 1985) is an Australian hot air balloonist. She has won the FAI Women's World Hot Air Balloon Championship twice, in 2014 and 2016. Life Scaife was born and raised in Albury Albury () is a major regional city in New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the Hume Highway and the northern side of the Murray River. Albury is the seat of local government for the council area which also bears the city's name – the ..., New South Wales, Australia. As a teenager, Scaife represented Australia in marathon kayaking as a teenager, however she was forced to retire due to injury. She went on a hot air balloon flight with her mother and became interested in the industry - she started working for a hot air balloon company, initially in administration and support roles, and then began flying in 2006. In 2007 she earned her private Pilot’s Certificate and later moved on to become a Commercial Pilot. Her first competition ballooning event was in 2013 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Scaife
Robert Henry Scaife (born 12 October 1955) is an English former professional footballer. After leaving the professional game he participated in over 1000 games as either a player or manager in the Northern League. Career Scaife was born in Northallerton, North Riding of Yorkshire. He began his career as an apprentice with Middlesbrough, turning professional in October 1972. However, he failed to make the Middlesbrough first team and made his league debut after joining Halifax Town on loan in January 1975. Scaife joined Hartlepool United in September 1975 and went on to make 80 league appearances before joining Rochdale in October 1977 where he was to end his league career. On leaving Rochdale, he joined Whitby Town where his father, Bob, was chairman, later playing for Scarborough, Guisborough Town, South Bank and Newcastle Blue Star. Scaife's managerial career began with Whitby, where he won the Northern League title before taking over as manager of Dunston Federation Brew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
