Weitsman
Weitsman is a surname, a variant of Weizmann. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Weitsman, American entrepreneur and philanthropist *Mel Weitsman (born 1929), American Zen Buddhist * Patricia A. Weitsman (1964–2014), American political scientist See also *Weissmann Weißmann (Weissmann, Weiszmann, Waismann) is a German surname meaning "white man". Common variants in spelling are Weismann, Weissman, Weisman, Waismann, and Vaisman. Science * Charles Weissmann, biochemist * Irving Weissman, scientist * Augus ...

Adam Weitsman
Adam Joel Weitsman is an American entrepreneur. He is the owner and chief executive officer (CEO) of Upstate Shredding – Weitsman Recycling, a scrap metal processing company headquartered in Owego, New York. Early life Weitsman was born and raised in Owego, New York. He developed an interest in art collecting early in life after his father and grandfather discovered two early American stoneware bottles during an excavation project in their scrap yard in 1980. Weitsman began collecting the 19th-century stoneware and owned 60 pieces by 1982. In 1986, Weitsman graduated from Owego Free Academy. Weitsman majored in banking at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville. In 1989, Weitsman worked at a Manhattan art gallery, Hirschl & Adler Folk, and opened the American Folk Art Gallery in Greenwich Village in 1991. In 1995, Weitsman became vice president of Ben Weitsman & Son, a scrap processing company owned by his family before eventually purchasing it from hi ...
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Mel Weitsman
Hakuryu Sojun Mel Weitsman (July 20, 1929 – January 7, 2021), born Mel Weitsman, was an American Buddhist who was the founder, abbot and guiding teacher of Berkeley Zen Center located in Berkeley, California. Weitsman was a Soto Zen roshi practicing in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, having received Dharma transmission in 1984 from Suzuki's son Hoitsu. He was also a co-abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center, where he served from 1988 to 1997. Weitsman was also editor of the book ''Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai'', based on talks given by Suzuki on the Sandokai. Biography Mel Weitsman was born in Southern California in 1929, to Edward Weitsman and Leah Rosenberg Weitsman.Ford, 128-129 Interested in religion from an early age, he started practicing at the San Francisco Zen Center under Shunryu Suzuki in 1964. He co-founded the Berkeley Zen Center with his teacher in 1967. Suzuki ordained Weitsman as a priest in 1969, and arranged for him to ...
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Weizmann
Weizman(n) is a surname, common among the Jews, a variant of Weissmann Other transliteration variants of this spelling (with z/tz/ts in place of ss/ß) include Weitzmann, Weitsman, Wajcman, Vaytsman, Veitsman, etc. Notable people with this surname include: * Chaim Weizmann, a chemist, statesman, President of the World Zionist Organization, first President of Israel and founder of a research institute in Israel which eventually became the Weizmann Institute of Science ** Weizmann Institute of Science, an institute of higher learning and research in Rehovot, Israel ** Faisal-Weizmann Agreement, an agreement signed as part of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 ** Weizmann organism, a commercially valuable bacterium, included in the genus ''Clostridium'' ** WEIZAC (Weizmann Automatic Computer), the first computer in Israel, and possibly the first large-scale, stored-program, electronic computer outside the US and Europe * Ezer Weizman, the seventh President of the State of Israel (199 ...
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Patricia A
Patricia is a female given name of Latin origin. Derived from the Latin word ''patrician'', meaning "noble"; it is the feminine form of the masculine given name Patrick. The name Patricia was the second most common female name in the United States according to the 1990 US Census. Another well-known variant of this is "Patrice". According to the US Social Security Administration records, the use of the name for newborns peaked at #3 from 1937 to 1943 in the United States, after which it dropped in popularity, sliding to #745 in 2016.Popularity of a NameSocial Security Administration''ssa.gov'', accessed June 26, 2017 From 1928 to 1967, the name was ranked among the top 11 female names. In Portuguese and Spanish-speaking Latin-American countries, the name Patrícia/Patricia is common as well, pronounced . In Catalan and Portuguese it is written Patrícia, while in Italy, Germany and Austria Patrizia is the form, pronounced . In Polish, the variant is Patrycja. It is also used in ...
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