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Weinbaum (crater)
Weinbaum is a Germanic surname. Notable people with the name include: * Batya Weinbaum (born 1952), American poet, feminist, artist, editor, and professor * Sheldon Weinbaum (born 1937), American biomedical engineer * Stanley G. Weinbaum (1902–1935), American science fiction writer Other uses * Weinbaum (crater), impact crater in the Mare Australe quadrangle of Mars {{Surname, Weinbaum German-language surnames Jewish surnames Yiddish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batya Weinbaum
Batya Weinbaum (born Betty Susan Weinbaum in 1952) is an American poet, Feminism, feminist, artist, editor, and professor. She founded ''Femspec Journal'', and has published 17 books, over 500 articles, essays, poems, reviews, and pieces of short fiction in various publications. Biography Weinbaum was born February 2, 1952, in Ann Arbor, Michigan and spent her childhood in Terre Haute, Indiana. Her parents, Barbara Adele Hyman and Jack Gerald Weinbaum, were active in the civil rights movement and the presidential campaigns of John F. Kennedy. In the late 1970s, Weinbaum voiced feminist views in several articles published in political journals. These included "The Other Side of the Paycheck: Monopoly Capital and the Structure of Consumption," co-authored with Amy Bridges in ''Monthly Review'', "Women in the Transition to Socialism: Perspectives on the Chinese Case," in ''Review of Radical Political Economics'', 1976 and "Redefining the Question of Revolution," in ''Review of Rad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheldon Weinbaum
Sheldon Weinbaum: (born July 26, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York, United States) is an American biomedical engineer and biofluid mechanician. He is a CUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering at The City College of New York. He is a member of all three U.S. national academies (National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Medicine) and also the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Bulletin Board: Triple Crown of Academies New York Times 10/23/2002 In 2002 when he was elected to NAM he became the sixth living individual to be a member of all three National Academies and the first to achieve this disrtinction since 1992. He was the founding director (1994–1999) of the New York Center for Biomedical Engineering, a regional research consortium involving the BME program at The City College and eight of the premier health care institutions in New York City. He has been a lifelong advocate for women and minorities in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley G
Stanley may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Stanley'' (1972 film), an American horror film * ''Stanley'' (1984 film), an Australian comedy * ''Stanley'' (1999 film), an animated short * ''Stanley'' (1956 TV series), an American situation comedy * ''Stanley'' (2001 TV series), an American animated series Other uses in arts and entertainment * ''Stanley'' (play), by Pam Gems, 1996 * Stanley Award, an Australian Cartoonists' Association award * '' Stanley: The Search for Dr. Livingston'', a video game * Stanley (Cars), a character in ''Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales'' * ''The Stanley Parable'', a 2011 video game developed by Galactic Cafe, and its titular character, Stanley Businesses and organisations * Stanley, Inc., American information technology company * Stanley Aviation, American aerospace company * Stanley Black & Decker, formerly The Stanley Works, American hardware manufacturer ** Stanley knife, a utility knife * Stanley bottle, a bran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weinbaum (crater)
Weinbaum is a Germanic surname. Notable people with the name include: * Batya Weinbaum (born 1952), American poet, feminist, artist, editor, and professor * Sheldon Weinbaum (born 1937), American biomedical engineer * Stanley G. Weinbaum (1902–1935), American science fiction writer Other uses * Weinbaum (crater), impact crater in the Mare Australe quadrangle of Mars {{Surname, Weinbaum German-language surnames Jewish surnames Yiddish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German-language Surnames
German ( ) is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic group, such as Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. German is the second most widely spoken Germanic language after English, which is also a West Germanic language. German is one of the major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish Surnames
Jewish surnames are family names used by Jews and those of Jewish origin. Jewish surnames are thought to be of comparatively recent origin; the first known Jewish family names date to the Middle Ages, in the 10th and 11th centuries CE. Jews have some of the largest varieties of surnames among any ethnic group, owing to the geographically diverse Jewish diaspora, as well as cultural assimilation and the recent trend toward Hebraization of surnames. Some traditional surnames relate to Jewish history or roles within the religion, such as Cohen ("priest"), Levi, Shulman ("synagogue-man"), Sofer ("scribe"), or Kantor ("cantor"), while many others relate to a secular occupation or place names. The majority of Jewish surnames used today developed in the past three hundred years. History Historically, Jews used Hebrew patronymic names. In the Jewish patronymic system the first name is followed by either ''ben-'' or ''bat-'' ("son of" and "daughter of," respectively), and then the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
