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Topol (surname)
Topol is a surname. Common in the Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, and Russia, it originated as a place-related name for "someone who lived by a poplar tree". It is also found among Ashkenazic Jewish people speaking Eastern Yiddish and likewise refers to the poplar tree, having been borrowed from a Slavic language (see Proto-Slavic '' *topolь''). Related surnames include Topiol, Topolansky, Topoliansky, Topolski (common in Poland), and Topolsky. Notable people who share this surname include: * Brad Topol (born c. 1971), American computer scientist * Chaim Topol (born 1935), Israeli actor, often billed mononymously as Topol * Edward Topol (born 1938), Russian writer * Eric Topol (born 1954), American cardiologist * Filip Topol (1965–2013), Czech singer and songwriter * Jáchym Topol (born 1962), Czech poet * Josef Topol (1935–2015), Czech playwright * Sergei Topol (born 1985), Russian ice hockey player * Sidney Topol Sidney Topol (December 28, 1924 – March 30, 2022) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toponymy
Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of ''toponyms'' (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types. Toponym is the general term for a proper name of any geographical feature, and full scope of the term also includes proper names of all cosmographical features. In a more specific sense, the term ''toponymy'' refers to an inventory of toponyms, while the discipline researching such names is referred to as ''toponymics'' or ''toponomastics''. Toponymy is a branch of onomastics, the study of proper names of all kinds. A person who studies toponymy is called ''toponymist''. Etymology The term toponymy come from grc, τόπος / , 'place', and / , 'name'. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' records ''toponymy'' (meaning "place name") first appearing in English in 1876. Since then, ''toponym'' has come to replace the term ''place-name'' in professional discourse among geographers. Toponym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaim Topol
Chaim Topol ( he, חיים טופול; born September 9, 1935), also spelled Haym Topol, mononymously known as Topol, is an Israeli actor, comedian, singer, film producer, author, and illustrator. He is best known for his portrayal of Tevye the Dairyman, the lead role in the musical ''Fiddler on the Roof'', on both stage and screen, having performed this role more than 3,500 times in shows and revivals from the late 1960s through 2009. Topol began his acting career during his Israeli army service in the Nahal entertainment troupe, and later toured Israel with kibbutz theatre and satirical theatre companies. He was a co-founder of the Haifa Theatre. His breakthrough film role came in 1964 as the title character in ''Sallah Shabati'', by Israeli writer Ephraim Kishon, for which he won a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer—Male. Topol went on to appear in more than 30 films in Israel and the United States, including ''Galileo'' (1975), ''Flash Gordon'' (1980) and '' For Your ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Topol
Sidney Topol (December 28, 1924 – March 30, 2022) was an American innovator and entrepreneur. He was a contributor to several key developments in the telecommunications industries in the latter half of the twentieth century. He was a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1947) and an engineer and executive at Raytheon and later Scientific Atlanta. Topol's expertise in microwave systems led to the development of the first effective portable television relay links, allowing broadcasts from even remote areas. His foray into satellite technologies in the 1960s provided the foundation for building the emerging cable television industry, permitting the transmission of transoceanic television broadcasts. Topol also played a pivotal role in the development of international telecommunications trade policies and the promotion of high-definition television (HDTV), a technology that enhances video images by using digital, instead of analog, encoding techniques. Since retirin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergei Topol
Sergei Stanislavovich Topol (russian: Сергей Станиславович Тополь; born February 15, 1985) is a Russian ice hockey forward. He currently plays for HK Gomel HK Gomel ( be, ХК Гомель, translit=HK Homyel') is an ice hockey team in Gomel in Belarus. It was founded in 2000, and participates in the Belarusian Extraliga. Honours *Belarusian Extraliga: **Winners (1) : 2003 *Belarusian Cup (ice ho ... of the Belarusian Extraleague. Honours * Russian championship: 2004 (With Avangard Omsk) Career statistics External links * 1985 births Living people Avangard Omsk players Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg players HK Gomel players High1 players HC Mechel players Metallurg Novokuznetsk players Molot-Prikamye Perm players Rubin Tyumen players Russian ice hockey left wingers Saryarka Karagandy players Sportspeople from Omsk Sputnik Nizhny Tagil players Vancouver Canucks draft picks HC Vityaz players Yermak Angarsk players {{Russia-iceho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Topol
Josef Topol (1 April 1935 – 15 June 2015) was a Czech playwright. In 1965, he co-founded ''Divadlo za branou'', a theatre in Prague which was closed in 1972 after being banned by Czechoslovak government. In 1977 he signed Charter 77. He was married to Jiřina Topolová (1931–2016; daughter of Karel Schulz) and had two sons: Jáchym (* 1962) who is a writer and Filip (1965–2013) who was a leader of the band Psí vojáci. Josef Topol died in Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and List of cities in the Czech Republic, largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 milli ... on 15 June 2015, at age of 80 . References {{DEFAULTSORT:Topol, Josef 20th-century Czech dramatists and playwrights Czech male dramatists and playwrights 1935 births 2015 deaths People from Benešov District Charter 77 signatories Recipients of the Thalia Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jáchym Topol
Jáchym Topol (born 4 August 1962) is a Czech poet, novelist, musician and journalist who became a laureate of the Czech State Award for Literature in October 2017 for his novel ''Sensitive Man''. Life Jáchym Topol was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to Josef Topol, Czech playwright, poet, and translator of Shakespeare, and Jiřina Topolová, daughter of the famous Czech Catholic writer Karel Schulz. Topol's writing began with lyrics for the rock band Psí vojáci, led by his younger brother, Filip, in the late '70s and early '80s. In 1982, he cofounded the samizdat magazine ''Violit'', and in 1985 ''Revolver Revue'', a samizdat review that specialized in modern Czech writing. Because of his father's dissident activities, Topol was not allowed to go to university. After graduating from gymnasium he worked as a stoker, stocker, construction worker, and coal deliveryman. Several times he was imprisoned for short periods, both for his samizdat publishing activities and for his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filip Topol
Filip Topol (12 June 1965 – 19 June 2013) was a Czech singer, songwriter, pianist and writer. He was best known as leader of the alternative rock band Psí vojáci (''Dog Soldiers''), but he also performed as a solo artist. Topol was the younger brother of the writer Jáchym Topol, son of the playwright and dissident Josef Topol and grandchild of the writer Karel Schulz. Biography Topol was born in Prague. He started playing piano as a child and was introduced to the Czech intellectual and artistic underground movement while he was still very young. He has co-founded Psí vojáci in 1979, along with the drummer David Skála and bassist Jan Hazuka. The band was named after the warriors from Thomas Berger's novel ''Little Big Man''. He made his solo public début at the age of 13, as an opening act before the first performance of the Plastic People of the Universe's ''Passion Play''. The concert was held at Hrádeček, the private farm of Václav Havel. Topol played claviphone. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Topol
Eric Jeffrey Topol (born 26 June 1954) is an American cardiologist, scientist, and author. He is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, a professor of Molecular Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute, and a senior consultant at the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California. He is editor-in-chief of Medscape and ''theheart.org''. He has published three bestseller books on the future of medicine: ''The Creative Destruction of Medicine'' (2010), ''The Patient Will See You Now'' (2015), and ''Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again'' (2019). He was also commissioned by the UK 2018–2019 to lead planning for the National Health Service's future workforce, integrating genomics, digital medicine, and artificial intelligence. In 2016, Topol was awarded a US$207 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to lead a significant part of the Precision Medicine Initiative (A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Topol
Eduard Vladimirovich Topol (russian: Эдуа́рд Влади́мирович То́поль), real name Topelberg (russian: Топельберг) (born 8 October 1938) is a Russian writer, film producer and screenwriter. Biography Born in Baku, Topol spent his teenage years finishing local school in Baku and graduated from Azerbaijan State Economic University.Вместо автобиографии He also did his military service in . He worked as journalist for newspapers such as ''Bakinskiy Rabochiy'' and '''' and wrote the screenplays for sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Topol
Brad B. Topol (born c. 1971) is a computer scientist best known as a former member of the OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors and is also an OpenStack core contributor to Keystone-Specs, Pycadf, and Heat-Translator, and a member of the OpenStack speaker bureau. Topol has a history of open-source software contributions, including Kubernetes. History In 1993, Topol earned a dual BS/MS in Mathematics/Computer Science from Emory University. In 1998, he earned a PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. Topol’s research focused on robust state sharing for wide-area distributed applications. Topol joined IBM and worked to create products from IBM Research innovations, such as transcoding technology. He later became an IBM Distinguished Engineering working on product serviceability. OpenStack and Kubernetes Topol first gained eminence in the OpenStack community through his work on security. He is project lead for the OpenStack Interoperability Challe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poplar Tree
''Populus'' is a genus of 25–30 species of deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere. English names variously applied to different species include poplar (), aspen, and cottonwood. The western balsam poplar ('' P. trichocarpa'') was the first tree to have its full DNA code determined by DNA sequencing, in 2006. Description The genus has a large genetic diversity, and can grow from tall, with trunks up to in diameter. The bark on young trees is smooth, white to greenish or dark gray, and often has conspicuous lenticels; on old trees, it remains smooth in some species, but becomes rough and deeply fissured in others. The shoots are stout, with (unlike in the related willows) the terminal bud present. The leaves are spirally arranged, and vary in shape from triangular to circular or (rarely) lobed, and with a long petiole; in species in the sections ''Populus'' and ''Aigeiros'', the petioles are laterally flattened ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topolsky
Topolski (feminine: Topolska, plural: Topolscy) is a Polish surname. It may refer to: * Carol Topolski (born 1949), an English novelist * Daniel Topolski (born 1945), an author, former rower and rowing coach, and broadcaster on BBC Radio * Feliks Topolski (1907–1989), a Polish-British expressionist painter * Jerzy Topolski (1928–1998), a Polish historian * Joshua Topolsky (born 1977, Pittsburgh), an American technology journalist, co-founder and editor-in-chief of technology news network The Verge, and a US music producer and drummer under the stage name Joshua Ryan. * Robb Topolski, an American computer networking expert See also * Topol (other) Topol may refer to: Missiles * RT-2PM Topol, a Russian intercontinental ballistic missile in service from 1985 * RT-2PM2 Topol-M, a Russian intercontinental ballistic missile in service from 1997 People * Topol (surname) * Chaim Topol, Israeli ... * Topolski Century Polish-language surnames Jewish surnames {{J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
