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Walter Adams (other)
Walter Adams may refer to: People * Walter Adams (economist) (1922–1998), American university professor and president * Walter Adams (bishop) (1877–1957), Canadian religious leader who served as the Anglican Archbishop of British Columbia * Walter Sydney Adams (1876–1956), American astronomer * Walter Adams (runner) (1945–2023), German runner *Sir Walter Adams (historian) (1906–1975), economist, principal of the University College of Rhodesia and director of the London School of Economics *Walter Adams (footballer), English professional footballer * Walter Adams (politician) (1830–1892), Australian businessman, sugar planter and politician *Walter Adams (wrestler) (1887–1939), British wrestler Fictional *Walter Adams, character in Alice Adams (film) Ships *Walter Adams Coxen Major general (Australia), Major General Walter Adams Coxen (22 June 1870 – 15 December 1949) was a senior Australian Army officer in the First World War. In April 1930 Coxen was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Adams (economist)
Walter Adams (August 27, 1922 – September 8, 1998) was an Austrian-born American economist and college professor. He served as the 13th President of Michigan State University and served as an expert witness before 36 congressional committees. Early life Walter Adams was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1922. His father, Edward Adams, was an international linen and diamond merchant; his mother, Ilona Schildkraut, was a homemaker. The family moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 1935, where he attended New Utrecht High School. He earned a BA in economics from Brooklyn College in 1942, graduating magna cum laude, before joining the U.S. Army in April 1943. Adams served with distinction in the 83rd Infantry and 11th Armored Divisions, landing at Normandy in the days following D-Day, "participating in the Battle of the Bulge, and helping to liberate three concentration camps." He earned a battlefield commission as second lieutenant (later attaining the rank of first lieutenant), and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Adams (bishop)
Walter Robert Adams (1 September 1877 – 25 July 1957) was a British Anglican bishop. Adams was born in London and studied for eight years at Ardingly College before moving to Hurstpierpoint College for Sixth Form. A first class honours mathematical scholar at Durham University ( University College), he was ordained as a deacon in 1901 and as a priest in 1905. Adams served as President of the Durham Union for Epiphany term of 1899. Curacies in County Durham and Lambeth were followed by five years as a missionary priest in Saskatchewan, Canada. Returning to England he was appointed Assistant Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury. This was followed by an academic career. In 1925 Adams returned to Canada as the first Bishop of Cariboo (1925-1934). In 1933 he was elected Bishop of Kootenay (1934-1947) and for two years, 1933-1934, he looked after both dioceses (Cariboo and Kootenay). In 1942 he became the third Metropolitan of British Columbia (1942-1951) while cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Sydney Adams
Walter Sydney Adams (December 20, 1876 – May 11, 1956) was an American astronomer. Life and work Adams was born in Antioch, Turkey, to Lucien Harper Adams and Nancy Dorrance Francis Adams, missionary parents, and was brought to the U.S. in 1885 He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1898, then continued his education in Chicago and in Germany. After returning to the U.S., he began a career in Astronomy that culminated when he became director of the Mount Wilson Observatory. His primary interest was the study of stellar spectra. He worked on solar spectroscopy and co-discovered a relationship between the relative intensities of certain spectral lines and the absolute magnitude of a star. He was able to demonstrate that spectra could be used to determine whether a star was a giant or a dwarf. In 1915 he began a study of the companion of Sirius and found that despite a size only slightly larger than the Earth, the surface of the star was brighter per unit area than the Sun and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Adams (runner)
Walter Adams (15 March 1945 – 30 October 2023) was a West German middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres. Biography Adams finished fourth at the 1968 Olympic Games, and won a gold medal in 3 x 1000 metres relay at the 1969 European Indoor Games together with teammates Peter Adam and Harald Norpoth. He also competed at the 1966 European Championships and the Olympic Games without reaching the final. His personal best time was 1.44.9 minutes, achieved in July 1970 in Stuttgart. This was the European record once. He also helped set two world records in 4 x 800 metres and 4 x 880 yards relay, in 1966 and 1968. Adams competed for the sports club SV Salamander Kornwestheim SV, Sv, sv, etc. may refer to: Places and language * El Salvador, ISO 3166-1 country code SV * South Vietnam, an extinct state * Svalbard, Norway, FIPS country code SV * Swedish language, ISO 639-1 language code sv * Silicon Valley, a region in n ... during his active career. He became W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Adams (historian)
Sir Walter Adams (16 December 1906'' The International Who's Who 1943-44''. 8th edition. George Allen & Unwin, London, 1943, p. 5. – 21 May 1975) was a British historian and educationalist. Adams was educated at University College London, and was a lecturer in history at the same institution from 1926 to 1934. He was a Rockefeller Fellow in the United States from 1929 to 1930, and the organising secretary of the Second International Congress of the History of Science and Technology in 1931. He served as secretary of the Academic Assistance Council from 1933 to 1938, and of the London School of Economics from 1938 to 1946; he also served as Deputy Head of the British Political Warfare Mission in the United States from 1942 to 1944, and as Assistant Deputy Director-General of the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office in 1945. After the war, he served as secretary of the Inter-University Council for Higher Education in the Colonies from 1946 to 1955; he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Adams (footballer)
Walter Adams was an English professional footballer who played as a winger. He played in the Football League for Middlesbrough Ironopolis Middlesbrough Ironopolis Football Club was a football club based in Middlesbrough, England. Although it was only in existence for five years, the club won three Northern League titles, two cup competitions and once reached the FA Cup quarter-f .... References * English footballers Association football wingers Middlesbrough Ironopolis F.C. players Year of death missing 19th-century births {{England-footy-midfielder-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Adams (politician)
Walter Adams (1830–1892) was a politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Early life Walter Adams was born on 22 November 1830 in Yeovil, Somersetshire, England. He was educated at a private school at Somerton nearby. He arrived in Sydney, New South Wales in September 1849, where he worked as a blacksmith with his brothers Edward and James. Adam moved to Wide Bay in Queensland in 1853 where he resided in Maryborough and continued to work as a blacksmith. While in Maryborough, he established a machinery business a contracting business. He also owned a sugar cane farm in the Somerville area. Politics While living in Maryborough, Adams served as an alderman in the Maryborough Town Council and was chairman of its Works Committee. In 1872, Adams left Maryborough and moved to Bundaberg, where he purchased the sugar cane farm, ''Somerville Plantation'', at Barolin. In about 1874 he built and operated the Adams Hotel o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Adams (wrestler)
Walter Adams (22 May 1887 – 3 January 1939) was a British wrestler. He competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics The 1908 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the IV Olympiad and also known as London 1908) were an international multi-sport event held in London, England, United Kingdom, from 27 April to 31 October 1908. The 1908 Games were ori .... References External links * Wrestlers at the 1908 Summer Olympics British male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers for Great Britain 1887 births 1939 deaths {{UK-wrestling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Adams (1935 Film)
''Alice Adams'' is a 1935 romantic drama film directed by George Stevens and starring Katharine Hepburn. It was made by RKO and produced by Pandro S. Berman. The screenplay was by Dorothy Yost, Mortimer Offner, and Jane Murfin. The film was adapted from the novel '' Alice Adams'' by Booth Tarkington. The music score was by Max Steiner and Roy Webb, and the cinematography by Robert De Grasse. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Actress. The film is about a young woman in a financially-struggling family and her pretentious attempts to appear upper class and to wed a wealthy man while she conceals her poverty. Hepburn's popularity had declined after her two 1933 film triumphs: her Oscar-winning performance in ''Morning Glory'' and her celebrated performance as Jo March in ''Little Women''. Her performance in ''Alice Adams'' made her a public favorite again. Plot Alice Adams (Katharine Hepburn) is the daughter of the Adams family. Her father, (Fred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Adams Coxen
Major general (Australia), Major General Walter Adams Coxen (22 June 1870 – 15 December 1949) was a senior Australian Army officer in the First World War. In April 1930 Coxen was promoted to the position of Chief of Army (Australia), Chief of the General Staff. He retired in 1931. Early life and career Walter Adams Coxen was born at Egham, England, on 22 June 1870. Coxen and his family moved to Australia in 1880. Walter was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and Toowoomba Grammar School. He took a job with the Queensland Department of Railways as a clerk and draftsman on 18 August 1887, but was retrenchment, retrenched in 1892 due to the Long Depression, depression of the 1890s. In 1893 Coxen was commissioned into the Queensland Militia Garrison Artillery as a second lieutenant. In June 1895 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the Permanent Military Forces, in the Queensland Artillery. In 1897 he was sent to England to study at the Royal School of Gunnery at Shoebu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Walter Adams (SP-400)
USS ''Walter Adams'' (SP-400), or ID-400,Pe the ship had "SP-400" painted on her bow, but was identified as "ID-400" on her data card. was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1919. SS ''Walter Adams'' was a wooden- hulled steam fishing trawler built in 1890 by Robert Palmer and Son, of Noank, Connecticut, and rebuilt in 1898. The U.S. Navy inspected her for possible naval service in March 1917 and again in June 1918, and chartered her on 23 June 1918 for World War I service in the 6th Naval District. She was commissioned on 1 October 1918 as USS ''Walter Adams''. Photographs show that she had the designation "SP-400" painted on her bow and she was used as a patrol boat like other units with an "SP" designation during World War I, although her data card lists her as having Identification Number (Id. No.) 400, or "ID-400", the type of designation given to cargo ships, tankers, and transports taken up from civilian service for use during World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
