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Van Phillips (composer)
Van Phillips may refer to: *Van Phillips (golfer) (born 1972), English golfer *Van Phillips (inventor) Van Phillips (born 1954) is an American inventor of prosthetics. Biography He is known for the Flex-Foot brand of artificial foot and limbs that he created, and for his charity work for amputees. An amputee himself, having lost a leg below the k ... (born 1954), American inventor of prosthetics * Van Phillips (composer), jazz composer, bandleader and musician {{hndis, Phillips, Van ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Van Phillips (golfer)
Vanslow Luke Phillips (born 27 March 1972) is an English professional golfer. Phillips was born in London. As an amateur, he won the Berkshire Trophy twice before turning professional after playing in the Walker Cup at the end of 1993. In 1996 he won the Interlaken Open on the second tier Challenge Tour, and graduated to the European Tour for the following season by finishing in 6th place on the tour rankings at the end of the year. Phillips made steady progress, finishing inside the top 100 on the Order of Merit in each of his first four seasons on the European Tour. He captured his maiden win in 1999, at the Algarve Portuguese Open, where he overcame John Bickerton in a playoff. In 2001, he struggled to hold on to his tour card, and has competed mostly on the Challenge Tour since then. He won the Mauritius Open, a non-tour event in 2006. Early in his professional career Phillips regularly played in a shirt and tie as part of a sponsorship deal. Amateur wins *1992 Berkshire T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Van Phillips (inventor)
Van Phillips (born 1954) is an American inventor of prosthetics. Biography He is known for the Flex-Foot brand of artificial foot and limbs that he created, and for his charity work for amputees. An amputee himself, having lost a leg below the knee at age 21, Phillips was motivated by the limitations of then-existing artificial limbs to attend the Northwestern University Medical School Prosthetic-Orthotic Center. After graduation, he worked as a biomedical design engineer at the University of Utah before starting his own company, Flex-Foot Incorporated in 1984. Phillips ultimately created a workable artificial foot made from carbon graphite. Unlike all previous prostheses, it stored kinetic energy from the wearer's steps as potential energy, like a spring, allowing the wearer to run and jump. A prosthetic foot that he created, the Flex-Foot Cheetah, is used by double-amputee and Paralympics gold-medalist Oscar Pistorius Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius (; ; born 22 November ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |