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Weight (surname)
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Weight is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Carel Weight (1908–1997), British artist * Doug Weight (born 1971), American ice hockey player and coach * Greg Weight (born 1946), Australian photographer See also *Waite (name) *Weight (other) Weight is a measurement of the gravitational force acting on an object. Weight or The Weight may also refer to: Mathematics * Weight (graph theory) a number associated to an edge or to a vertex of a graph * Weight (representation theory), a ty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carel Weight
Carel Victor Morlais Weight, (10 September 1908 – 13 August 1997) was an English painter. Biography Weight was born in Paddington in 1908. His father was a bank cashier and his mother, who was of Swedish and German descent, was a chiropodist. He studied at the Hammersmith School of Art from 1928 to 1930. At Hammersmith he met Ruskin Spear, who became a lifelong friend. At Goldsmiths College, between 1931 and 1933, Weight developed his preference for imaginative compositions. Teaching at the Beckenham School of Art allowed Weight to support himself throughout the 1930s. His first solo exhibition was held in the Cooling Gallery in 1933 and he later exhibited in some major London galleries and throughout the United Kingdom. It was at Goldsmith's that Weight met his future wife, the artist Helen Roeder. They were together for 60 years before they married in 1990. During the Second World War, Weight served with the Royal Engineers and the Army Education Corps. As an Offici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Weight
Douglas Daniel Weight (born January 21, 1971) is an American professional ice hockey coach, executive and former player. He is also the former head coach and assistant general manager for the New York Islanders. During his 19-year National Hockey League career, he played for the New York Rangers, Edmonton Oilers, Carolina Hurricanes, Anaheim Ducks, St. Louis Blues and the New York Islanders. Playing career As a youth, Weight played in the 1983 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Detroit Compuware minor ice hockey team. He graduated in 1989 from Notre Dame High School in Harper Woods, Michigan. He was drafted by the Bloomfield Jets of the North American Junior Hockey League (now known as the NAHL). During that time, high school hockey was not considered to be competitive enough in the Detroit, Michigan area. Weight followed in the footsteps of several other Detroit-area players by playing in the NAJHL, including Pat Lafontaine and Mike Modano. Weight led t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Weight
Greg Weight (born 2 December 1946 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian photographer specialising in fine art photography and portraiture. Greg was the inaugural winner of the Australian Photographic Portrait Prize in 2003 and his book ''Australian Artists, portraits by Greg Weight'' was published by Chapter and Verse in 2004. "Publishers of Fine Australian Photography." He was a member of the Yellow House artist's collective in the early 1970s. Margaret Olley References External links Greg Weight Photography [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waite (name)
The following are notable people associated with the name Waite. Surname * Arthur Edward Waite, occultist and co-creator of the Rider-Waite tarot deck * Arthur Waite (racing driver), Australian racing driver * Catharine Van Valkenburg Waite, United States author, lawyer and women's suffrage activist. * Charles Betts "C. B." Waite, American photographer * Charles Burlingame Waite, American jurist and author * David Waite, Australian rugby league coach * Davis Hanson Waite (1825-1901), Populist governor of Colorado * Edgar Ravenswood Waite Edgar Ravenswood Waite (5 May 1866 – 19 January 1928) was a British/Australian zoologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and ornithologist. Waite was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, the second son of John Waite, a bank clerk, and his wife J ..., Australian zoologist * Harold Roy Waite (1884-1978), American aviator * Henry Chester Waite (1830-1912), American lawyer, banker, and politician * Jamie Waite (born 1986), Thai footballer * J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
