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Schumacher
Schumacher or Schuhmacher is an occupational surname (German, "shoemaker", pronounced , both variants can be used as surnames, with Schumacher being the more popular one, however, only the variant with three "h"s can also be used as a job description in modern German spelling). The variant Schumaker is also commonly seen in the USA. Still another variant is Shumacher. Notable people with the surname include: Science * Benjamin Schumacher, American theoretical physicist, married to Carol * Carol Schumacher, Bolivian-American mathematician, married to Benjamin * E. F. Schumacher (1911–1977), British economist * Eugen Schuhmacher (1906–1973), German zoologist and pioneer of animal documentaries * Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780–1850), German astronomer * Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, (1757–1830), German-Danish surgeon, botanist, malacologist and anatomist * William S. Massey (1920–2017), American mathematician Sports * Anton Schumacher (born 1938), Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher (; ; born 3 January 1969) is a German former racing driver who competed in Formula One for Jordan, Benetton, Ferrari, and Mercedes. Schumacher has a joint-record seven World Drivers' Championship titles (tied with Lewis Hamilton) and, at the time of his retirement from the sport in 2012, he held the records for the most wins (91), pole positions (68), and podium finishes (155)—which have since been broken by Hamilton—while he maintains the record for the most fastest laps (77), among others. After beginning his racing career in karting, Schumacher enjoyed success in several junior single-seater series. After a one-off Formula One appearance with Jordan at the 1991 Belgian Grand Prix, Schumacher was signed by Benetton for the rest of the season. He won his first and second drivers' titles consecutively in and . Schumacher moved to the struggling Ferrari team in . During his first years at the team, Schumacher lost out on the title in the final ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralf Schumacher
Ralf Schumacher (born 30 June 1975) is a German former racing driver. He is the younger brother of seven-time Formula One World Champion Michael Schumacher, and the pair are the only siblings to each win Formula One races. Schumacher began karting at the age of three and achieved early success before making the transition to automobile racing in the German Formula Three Championship and the Formula Nippon series. He first drove in Formula One with Jordan Grand Prix for the 1997 season. Schumacher moved to the Williams team in 1999, finishing sixth in the Drivers' Championship that year. He won his first Grand Prix in 2001, en route to fourth place in the Drivers' Championship, and subsequently won five more races over the course of two years. Schumacher left Williams at the end of 2004 and joined Toyota Racing in 2005. However, his performance throughout 2006 and 2007 resulted in Schumacher leaving Formula One, as a result of internal pressure. After leaving Formula One, Schu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Schumacher
Steven Thomas Schumacher (born 30 April 1984) is an English football manager and former professional footballer, who is currently the manager of League One side Plymouth Argyle. Club career Everton Born in Liverpool, Merseyside, Schumacher began his career at Everton after starting out in apprenticeship there and was captain of the England Under 19s while he was playing in the club's youth team. Along with Wayne Rooney, Schumacher featured in Everton's eight-game run to the 2002 FA Youth Cup. He was unable to break into the first team, however, and as a result went out to a couple of minor loan spells to get first team experience. Schumacher joined Carlisle United on loan on 31 October 2003. Schumacher spent three months on loan at Carlisle United, where he made four appearances and scored his first career goal against Huddersfield Town in the Football League Trophy. After his loan spell at Carlisle United came to an end, Schumacher went on trial at Oldham Athletic in Februa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mick Schumacher
Mick Schumacher (; born 22 March 1999) is a German racing driver who is the current reserve driver for the Mercedes-Benz in Formula One, Mercedes AMG Formula One Team. Schumacher began his career in karting in 2008, progressing to the German ADAC Formula 4 by 2015. After winning the 2018 FIA Formula 3 European Championship, 2018 FIA F3 European Championship, he progressed to FIA Formula 2 Championship, Formula 2 in , and won the 2020 Formula 2 Championship. He is the son of seven-time Formula One World Champion Michael Schumacher, nephew of Ralf Schumacher and cousin of David Schumacher (racing driver), David Schumacher. Personal life Schumacher was born in Vufflens-le-Château, and grew up in Gland, Switzerland, Gland. He is the son of seven-time Formula One World Champion Michael Schumacher and Western riding European Champion Corinna Schumacher. His uncle Ralf Schumacher is also a retired racing driver and former Formula One driver. His cousin David Schumacher (racing driv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Schumacher (racing Driver)
David Schumacher (born 23 October 2001) is a German racing driver, son of former Formula One driver Ralf Schumacher, nephew of seven-time Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher, and cousin of former Formula One driver Mick Schumacher. He is currently competing in the 2022 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters with Mercedes-AMG Team Winward. Career Karting career Schumacher began karting at a young age, alongside his cousin Mick. From there he competed in multiple karting championships under his mother's maiden name Brinkmann. In 2017, David's last year in karts, he chose to race with the Schumacher name and finished as runner-up in the DKM Championship to Dennis Hauger in the senior class. Lower formulae In August 2017, it was announced that Schumacher would graduate to single-seaters, competing for his father's US Racing outfit in the 2018 ADAC Formula 4 Championship. In January 2018, he made his single-seater debut, contesting the Formula 4 UAE Championship with Rasgaira Motors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cori Schumacher
Cori Schumacher is an American world champion surfer, activist and former politician. Early life Schumacher was born April 23, 1977, in Huntington Beach, California. Both her parents were avid surfers. The family moved to San Diego where Schumacher learned the practice. Surfing Schumacher has won multiple national and international surfing titles. She surfed as the #1 US female shortboarder on the 1994 and 1996 US Team for the International Surfing Association (ISA). Her most notable international shortboard title was the winner of the 1995 Pan-American Championships. But Schumacher is best known through her efforts in women's longboarding. She is a three-time Women's World Longboard Champion (2000, 2001, 2010), Women's Longboard Pipeline Pro Champion (2009) and two-time Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) North American Champion (2008, 2009). From late 2001 to 2008, Schumacher went on sabbatical from competition. She returned in 2008 to win the Linda Benson Roxy Jam at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harald Schumacher
Harald Anton "Toni" Schumacher (born 6 March 1954) is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. At club level, he won a Bundesliga title and three DFB-Pokal titles with 1. FC Köln. At international level, he represented West Germany. Schumacher won the 1980 European Championship and lost two World Cup finals, in 1982 and 1986. In the 1982 FIFA World Cup semi-final, he controversially collided with and seriously injured French defender Patrick Battiston. Schumacher was voted German Footballer of the Year in 1984 and 1986. Since April 2012, he has served as vice president at 1. FC Köln. Club career Schumacher made his first-team debut with 1. FC Köln at the age of 19. He played for the club from 1972 to 1987, including in 213 consecutive Bundesliga matches from 1977 to 1983. For most of those years, until well into the mid-1980s, he was widely considered one of the world's top goalkeepers, and he was the automatic first-choice goalkeeper for his co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Schumacher
Stefan Schumacher (born 21 July 1981) is a German former professional road racing cyclist. Schumacher won the bronze medal in the road race at the 2007 UCI Road World Championships, two stages in the 2006 Giro d'Italia and two stages in the 2008 Tour de France. After positive results on doping products in the 2008 Tour de France and the 2008 Summer Olympics, he received a suspension for two years, later reduced by some months. After his suspension, he came back as a professional cyclist before retiring in 2017. Career First professionally employed with in 2002, he was released the following year. In 2006, he made his UCI ProTour debut with after posting impressive continental circuits results on the UCI Europe Tour. Schumacher has been involved in a series of controversial incidents during his career. He was implicated in a doping case in 2005 when he tested positive for an amphetamine. His mother, a doctor, had prescribed an asthma medication after failing to find it on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schumacher (film)
''Schumacher'' is a 2021 German sports documentary film co-directed by Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns, Vanessa Nöcker, and Michael Wech, about the German Formula One racing driver Michael Schumacher that was distributed internationally on Netflix. The film was released on 15 September 2021 on Netflix for a year, to mark Schumacher's entry into Formula One, 30 years previously. The film documents Schumacher's F1 career and Scuderia Ferrari's return to dominance in 2000–2004. Brief family interviews throughout provide some insight into his personal life. Production The film was produced in cooperation with Schumacher's family, using private family archives, Formula One archive footage, and interviews. The film features interviews with Schumacher's wife Corinna, his father Rolf, his brother Ralf, his children Gina-Maria and Mick, and his manager Willi Weber. There are interviews with prominent figures of Formula One including Jean Todt, Bernie Ecclestone, Sebastian Vettel, Mika Häkk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Schumacher
Kelly Schumacher (born October 14, 1977) is an American-born Canadian professional basketball player and professional volleyball player. She had been playing in the WNBA for the Detroit Shock, until her release 18 June 2009. After her junior season at the University of Connecticut, she competed with USA Basketball as a member of the gold medal-winning Jones Cup Team that compiled a 4-0 record in Taipei. In her professional career she plays in Spanish League in Arranz Burgos, Perfumerías Avenida and now in UB F.C.Barcelona. She is currently playing professional beach volleyball on the AVP Tour. Awards and achievements *She has appeared in more games (159) than any player in Fever history. *Fever's starting power forward in first 14 games of 2005. *Second all-time in career blocked shots for the Fever. *Played a career-high 39 minutes during an overtime game played at Radio City Music Hall in New York, September 16, 2004. *Pro career highs of 22 points and nine rebounds in an 81- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Schumacher
Benjamin "Ben" Schumacher is an American theoretical physicist, working mostly in the field of quantum information theory. He discovered a way of interpreting quantum states as information. He came up with a way of compressing the information in a state, and storing the information in a smaller number of states. This is now known as Schumacher compression. This was the quantum analog of Shannon's noiseless coding theorem, and it helped to start the field known as quantum information theory. Schumacher is also credited with inventing the term qubit along with William Wootters of Williams College, which is to quantum computation as a bit is to traditional computation. He is the author of ''Physics in Spacetime'', a textbook on Special Relativity, and ''Quantum Processes, Systems, and Information'' (with Michael Westmoreland), a textbook on Quantum Mechanics. Schumacher is a professor of physics at Kenyon College, a liberal arts college in rural Ohio. He is the lecturer in four cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Christian Schumacher
Prof Heinrich Christian Schumacher FRS(For) FRSE (3 September 1780 – 28 December 1850) was a German-Danish astronomer and mathematician. Biography Schumacher was born at Bramstedt, in Holstein, near the German/Danish border. He was educated at Altona Gymnasium on the outskirts of Hamburg. He studied in Germany at Kiel, Jena, and Göttingen Universities as well as Copenhagen. He received a doctorate from Dorpat University in Russian Empire in 1807. From 1808, he was adjunct professor of astronomy in Copenhagen. He directed the Mannheim observatory from 1813 to 1815, and then in 1815 was appointed Professor of Astronomy in Copenhagen and Director of the Observatory. From 1817 he directed the triangulation of Holstein, to which a few years later was added a complete geodetic survey of Denmark (finished after his death). For the sake of the survey, Schumacher established the Altona Observatory at Altona, and resided there permanently. He was elected a Foreign Fellow of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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