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Wolfson Field
See also Woolf, Woolfe, Wolff, Wolfson and Woolfson (especially for family names). Wolfson or Volfson is a Jewish surname, and may refer to: * David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale (born 1935), British politician and businessman, nephew of Isaac Wolfson, former chairman of GUS and Next * Elliot R. Wolfson, professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies at New York University * Elijah Wolfson, (born 1985) American writer and editor * Evan Wolfson, (born 1957), prominent American civil rights attorney and advocate * Freda L. Wolfson (born 1954), United States District Judge in New Jersey * Harry Austryn Wolfson, (1887–1974), professor of literature and philosophy at Harvard * Ilia Volfson (born 1981), Russian politician * Isaac Wolfson, (1897–1991), British businessman and philanthropist, former chairman of GUS * Janet Wolfson de Botton (born 1952), British art collector and bridge player * Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson, (born 1927), British businessman, son of Isaac Wolfson, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London, the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen in a blended family of eight which included the modernist painter Vanessa Bell. She was home-schooled in English classics and Victorian literature from a young age. From 1897 to 1901, she attended the Ladies' Department of King's College London, where she studied classics and history and came into contact with early reformers of women's higher education and the women's rights movement. Encouraged by her father, Woolf began writing professionally in 1900. After her father's death in 1904, the Stephen family moved from Kensington to the more bohemian Bloomsbury, where, in conjunction with the brothers' intellectual friends ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Wolfson (writer)
Louis Wolfson (born 1931 in New York) is an American author who writes in French. Treated for schizophrenia since childhood, he cannot bear hearing or reading his native language and has invented a method of immediately translating every English sentence into a foreign phrase with the same sound and meaning. Biography Diagnosed with schizophrenia at an early age, Louis Wolfson was placed in psychiatric institutes during his adolescence, where he underwent severe treatments, notably electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). This period left him with distrust and hatred for people, as well as a radical detestation of his native language which he refused to use. He learned foreign languages (notably French, German, Hebrew and Russian), and became used to spontaneously translating (through a sophisticated technique) whatever was said to him in English into a '' Sabir'' of these languages. In 1963, Wolfson submitted a manuscript to the French publishers Gallimard in which he set out, in Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Woolfson
Michael Mark Woolfson (9 January 1927 – 23 December 2019) was a Great Britain, British physicist and Planetary Science, planetary scientist. His research interests were in the fields of x-ray crystallography, biophysics, colour vision and the formation of stars and planets. Academia He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford and received his PhD from UMIST, where he was supervised by Henry Lipson. He was a research assistant at UMIST 1950-52 and at Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 1952–54. He was an ICI Fellow, University of Cambridge, 1954–55. At UMIST he was a lecturer, 1955–61, and a Reader, 1961–65. Between 1959–60, he went on sabbatical working as a consultant at IBM, White Plains. He was Professor of Theoretical Physics, 1965-94 University of York and head of the Department of Physics, 1982–87. He served as the first provost of Goodricke College between 1968 and 1972. He was Professor Emeritus. DIAMOND Light Source In November 1991, the Science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke De Woolfson
Luke de Woolfson (born 7 March 1976) is a British film and television actor. Filmography *2000: ''Urban Gothic'' as Noddy (1 episode in TV series) *2001: ''Model, Actress, Whatever'' as Matt (TV movie) *2001: ''Late Night Shopping'' as Sean *2001: ''Large'' as Jason Mouseley *2002: ''Bookcruncher'' as Bookcruncher (short) *2002: '' The House That Jack Built'' as JJ Squire (6 episodes in TV series) *2002: '' Midsomer Murders'' as Paul Starkey (1 episode in TV series) *2003: ''The Reckoning'' as Daniel *2003: '' Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl as Frightened Sailor *2003: ''Spine Chillers'' as Dave (1 episode "Goth" in TV series) *2003: '' Where the Heart Is'' as Russel Naylor (4 episodes in TV series) *2003: ''Shooting Blanks'' as Martin (short) *2003: ''Foyle's War as Harry Markham (1 episode "War Games" in TV series) *2004: '' Holby City'' as Private O'Brien (1 episode in In the Line of Fire) *2005: ''The Bill'' as Ryan Flynn (1 episode in "315" in TV serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Woolfson
Eric Norman Woolfson (18 March 1945 – 2 December 2009) was a Scottish songwriter, lyricist, vocalist, executive producer, pianist, and co-creator of The Alan Parsons Project. Together with Parsons they sold over 50 million albums worldwide. Following the 10 successful albums The Alan Parsons Project made, Woolfson pursued a career in musical theatre. Early life Woolfson was born into a Jewish family in the Charing Cross area of Glasgow, where his family owned the Elders furniture store. He was raised in the Pollokshields area on the south side of the city and educated at the High School of Glasgow. Woolfson's interest in music was inspired by an uncle, and he taught himself to play the piano. After leaving school he briefly flirted with becoming an accountant before moving to London to seek opportunities in the music industry. Early career Arriving in London in 1963, he found work as a session pianist. The then current record producer for the Rolling Stones, Andrew Loog Old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zev Wolfson
Zev Wolfson (September 27, 1928 – August 13, 2012) was a Jewish businessman and philanthropist, who has been remembered as one of the most important figures in American Orthodoxy over the past century. Background Born to a Jewish family in Vilnius (then Poland) as Wolf Wolfowski, he became a war refugee at the age of 13 when his family was exiled by Russian forces in the days before the German occupation of Lithuania in June 1941. He spent the remainder of the war years in Siberia and Dzhambul. At 16, he carried his father's dead body over his shoulder to bury him in the frozen tundra, and took responsibility for the support of his mother and younger brother. He began trading on the black market in order to obtain food and goods for survival. Following the end of the war, they left Russia, reaching Lodz, Poland and eventually a DP Camp in Germany where they obtained visas to America. In May 1947 they immigrated to New York City, where Zev worked for his uncle Mendel Aviv in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Wolfson
Tracy Wolfson (born March 17, 1975) is an American sportscaster for CBS Sports. She is the lead sideline reporter for the NFL on CBS. Early life Wolfson grew up in Congers, New York, and attended Clarkstown High School North, in the New York City suburb of Rockland County. She is a University of Michigan graduate with a degree in communications. Career Wolfson's on-air career began at WZBN in Trenton, New Jersey, as a sports anchor. She also appeared as a reporter for ''Long Island News Tonight'' (''LI News Tonight''), a local Long Island college-run news station. She later worked for MSG Network as an anchor and reporter as well as covering golf, college football and Arena Football for ESPN from 2002 to 2003. Wolfson is the lead field/floor reporter for all live CBS Sports football and basketball broadcasts. She works with the lead on-air talent team in each of the sports she covers. She was the CBS college football sideline reporter from 2004-2013, considered to be part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theresa Wolfson
Theresa Wolfson (1897–1972) was an American labor economist and educator. Wolfson is best remembered as the education director of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union during the second half of the 1920s and as a leader of the workers education movement during the 1930s. Biography Early years Theresa Wolfson was born July 19, 1897 in Brooklyn, New York. Wolfson's parents, Adolph Wolfson and Rebecca Hochstein Wolfson, were ethnic Jewish radicals who emigrated from Russia in 1894 to escape the pervasive anti-semitism and political persecution of the Tsarist regime. During her elementary school years Wolfson attended public school in Brooklyn before attending high school at Far Rockaway, Long Island.Solon DeLeon with Irma C. Hayssen and Grace Poole (eds.), ''American Labor Who's Who.'' New York: Hanford Press, 1925; pg. 253. Wolfson attended Adelphi College in Garden City, New York, where she helped to organize a campus chapter of the Intercollegiate Socialist Societ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Wolfson
Simon Adam Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Aspley Guise (born 27 October 1967), is a British businessman and currently chief executive of the clothing retailer Next plc, as well as a Conservative life peer. He is the son of the former Next chairman, The Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale, who was also a Conservative life peer. Family and education Wolfson's great-grandfather, Solomon Wolfson, was a Jewish cabinet-maker who settled in Glasgow and had nine children, one of whom was Sir Isaac Wolfson, Simon's great uncle, who made his fortune through Great Universal Stores. Wolfson's father, Lord Wolfson of Sunningdale, was a former chairman of Next and Great Universal Stores, as well as being a Conservative life peer. Wolfson is the eldest of three siblings. He attended Radley College, near Abingdon, followed by studying law at Trinity College, Cambridge. Business career Wolfson joined Next as its most highly paid sales consultant ever, in its Kensington branch in 1991 for several wee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Wolfson (physicist)
Richard "Rich" Wolfson (Born 1950) is the Benjamin F. Wissler professor of Physics at Middlebury College since 1976. He is the author of numerous articles and books. Wolfson has taught several courses at the Teaching Company. Bibliography Professor Wolfson is the author of several books, including the college textbooks ''Physics for Scientists and Engineers'', ''Essential University Physics'', and ''Energy, Environment, and Climate''. He is also an interpreter of science for the nonspecialist, a contributor to ''Scientific American ''Scientific American'', informally abbreviated ''SciAm'' or sometimes ''SA'', is an American popular science magazine. Many famous scientists, including Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla, have contributed articles to it. In print since 1845, it i ...'', and author of the books ''Nuclear Choices: A Citizen's Guide to Nuclear Technology'' and ''Simply Einstein: Relativity Demystified''. *(1999). ''Physics for Scientists and Engineers'', Addison-Wesl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Wolfson (musician)
Richard Wolfson (25 April 1955 – 1 February 2005) was a British musician, performance artist, cameraman and journalist. He is probably best remembered for the concept album ''Kaddish'' which he created with Andy Saunders using the band name Towering Inferno. Life Wolfson was born to an orthodox Jewish family in Solihull and educated at Solihull School. In his early years he learnt piano and guitar and at the age of 14 formed Solstice, a folk band with Mark Chapman, heavily influenced by the work of the Incredible String Band. At the age of 17, he formed the first of a succession of bands with Andy Saunders. Towering Inferno was conceived as a large scale multimedia stage project, involving film and electronics. Wolfson and Saunders met with and were impressed by the Hungarian poet Endre Szkárosi and his cryptic poetry was a stimulus for their major work, the stage show and album ''Kaddish'', which was created over five years and is an extended reflection on the Jewish pray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfsonian Museum
The Wolfsonian–Florida International University or The Wolfsonian-FIU, located in the heart of the Art Deco District of Miami Beach, Florida, is a museum, library and research center that uses its collection to illustrate the persuasive power of art and design. For fifteen years, The Wolfsonian has been a division within Florida International University. The Wolfsonian's two collections comprise approximately 180,000 pieces from the period 1885 to 1945 — the height of the Industrial Revolution until the end of the Second World War — in a variety of media, including: furniture; industrial-design objects; works in glass; ceramics; metal; rare books; periodicals; ephemera; works on paper; paintings; textiles; and medals. The museum is an affiliate within the Smithsonian Affiliations program, sharing affiliation with the Frost Art Museum. The countries most strongly represented are Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States. There are also significant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
