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Einhorn
Einhorn is German for ''unicorn''. It is also used as a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alfred Einhorn (1856–1917), biochemist, inventor of procaine (Novocain) * David Einhorn (rabbi) * David Einhorn (hedge fund manager) *Dov Berish Einhorn, a Rabbi * Eddie Einhorn, a part owner of the Chicago White Sox baseball team * Edward Einhorn, theater director, playwright and novelist *Ephraim Einhorn (1918–2021), British rabbi based in Taiwan * Ira Einhorn, also known as the "Unicorn Killer" * Jerzy Einhorn, oncologist and politician, Holocaust survivor *Jessica Einhorn *Joseph Einhorn *Lawrence Einhorn * Lena Einhorn (born 1954), Swedish director, writer and physician * Martin B. Einhorn (born 1942), American theoretical physicist *Paul Einhorn * Randall Einhorn * Richard Einhorn, American composer *Stefan Einhorn (born 1955), Swedish doctor, professor and writer * Trevor Einhorn, American actor In fiction *Lois Einhorn, a character in '' Ace Ventura: Pet Detective ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Einhorn (hedge Fund Manager)
David M. Einhorn (born November 20, 1968) is an American investor and hedge fund manager. He is the founder and president of Greenlight Capital, a "long-short value-oriented hedge fund". Born in New Jersey, Einhorn graduated from Cornell University, before starting Greenlight Capital in 1996. Over the next decade, the fund experienced annualized returns of 26%, far better than the market. Greenlight Capital's assets under management decreased from approximately US$12 billion in 2014 to about $5.5 billion as reported in July 2018 as the fund was down 11.3% from 2014 through the end of 2017, and a further 34% in 2018. He has received extensive coverage in the financial press for his fund's performance, his investing strategy and his positions. Lindgren, Hugo (June 15, 2008)"The Confidence Man" ''New York''. Einhorn was included in ''Time'' magazine's ''Time'' 100 list of "100 most influential people in the world" in 2013. According to Investopedia, his net worth was around US ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ira Einhorn
Ira Samuel Einhorn (May 15, 1940 – April 3, 2020), known as "The Unicorn Killer", was an American convicted murderer and environmental activist. He was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Holly Maddux. On September 9, 1977, Maddux disappeared following a trip to collect her belongings from the apartment she and Einhorn had shared in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Eighteen months later, police found her partially mummification, mummified body in a trunk in Einhorn's closet. After his arrest, Einhorn fled the country and spent twenty-three years in Europe before being extradition, extradited to the United States. He took the stand in his own defense, claiming his ex-girlfriend had been killed by Central Intelligence Agency, CIA agents who had framed him for the crime because he knew too much about the agency's paranormal military research. He was convicted and served a life imprisonment, life sentence until his death in prison on April 3, 2020. His nickname, "the Unicorn" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Einhorn
Joseph Einhorn is an entrepreneur and businessperson who is best known as the founder and CEO of the company Fancy, a social e-commerce platform. Fancy describes itself as "part store, blog, magazine and wish list," and Einhorn has said that it seeks to redefine the shopping experience. Fancy was valued at $600 million by American Express, Billionaire Len Blavatnik, Actor Will Smith and other investors on July 3, 2013. In February 2015, Einhorn's company Fancy raised a $20 million Series D strategic funding round which was led by Mexico's Carlos Slim Domit and the CCC holding company. In July 2019, Einhorn opened a comic book store called Loot. Biography Einhorn was born in New York City, NY, and turned 30 years old in 2012. He is married with two sons and two Chihuahuas. Einhorn became involved in the startup world at age 16, when he became the first employee of Capital IQ, a corporate information service. In 2004, he co-founded and served as CTO of Inform Technologies, LL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Einhorn
Lawrence Einhorn is an American oncologist at Indiana University School of Medicine. A pioneer in cancer treatment research, Einhorn developed cisplatin-based chemotherapy regimens that increased cure rates while minimizing toxic side effects. Overview Einhorn received a B.S. from Indiana University in 1965 and his M.D. from the University of Iowa in 1968. He served his internship and residency at IU Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at the M.D. Anderson Hospital Tumor Institute in Houston, Texas. He returned to IU Medical Center in 1973 and was named Distinguished Professor of Medicine in 1987. He became the first Lance Armstrong Foundation Professor of Oncology in 2006. Einhorn is also memberof that thIndiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Centerin Indianapolis. Einhorn has received numerous honors in his career including the Glenn Irwin Experience Excellence Award, Riley Distinguished Lecturer, the Kettering Prize Cancer R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randall Einhorn
Randall Einhorn (born December 7, 1963) is an American television cinematographer, director, and producer, best known for his work on ''The Office'', '' Wilfred'', ''It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'', and '' Survivor''. Early life and career Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Einhorn graduated from Finneytown High School in 1982. Einhorn began his career in the late 1990s, working sporadically as director and cinematographer on several different projects including ''Fear Factor'', ''Eco-Challenge'', and '' Survivor'', for which Einhorn was nominated for two Emmy Awards''.'' Einhorn is best known for his work as cinematographer and occasional director on ''The Office''. He also directed '' The Accountants'', a ten-part webisode spin-off of ''The Office'' which appeared online between the second and third seasons. In tribute to Randall's contribution to the series, the Season 6 episode of ''The Office'', '' The Cover-Up,'' was dedicated to Larry Einhorn, Randall's father, who died on Apri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Einhorn (rabbi)
David Einhorn (November 10, 1809November 2, 1879) was a German rabbi and leader of Reform Judaism in the United States. Einhorn was chosen in 1855 as the first rabbi of the Har Sinai Congregation in Baltimore, the oldest congregation in the United States that has been affiliated with the Reform movement since its inception. While there, he created an early American prayer book for the congregation that became one of the progenitors of the 1894 ''Union Prayer Book''. In 1861, Einhorn was forced to flee to Philadelphia, where he became rabbi of Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel (Philadelphia), Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel. He moved to New York City in 1866, where he became rabbi of Congregation Adath Israel. Early years He was born in Diespeck, Kingdom of Bavaria, on November 10, 1809, to Maier and Karoline Einhorn. He was educated at the rabbinical school of Fürth, where he earned his rabbinical ordination at age 17. He then studied at the universities of University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Einhorn
Edward Einhorn (born September 6, 1970) is an American playwright, theater director, and novelist, noted for the comic absurdism of his drama and the imaginative richness of his literary works. A native of Westfield, New Jersey, Einhorn graduated from Westfield High School, where he was an editor of the student newspaper ''Hi's Eye''. He attended Johns Hopkins University. In 1992 he started the Untitled Theater Company #61 in New York (co-founded with his older brother David Einhorn, who has produced plays for the company). With that company, Edward Einhorn directed T. S. Eliot's ''Sweeney Agonistes'', Eugène Ionesco's ''The Bald Soprano'', Dennis Potter's '' Brimstone and Treacle'', and Richard Foreman's ''My Head Was a Sledgehammer'', among other works. He staged a festival of the complete plays of Eugène Ionesco, a celebration of the total plays of Václav Havel, a calypso musical adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's ''Cat's Cradle'', an adaptation of ''Do Androids Dream of Electri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Einhorn
Richard Einhorn (born 1952) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Einhorn graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University in 1975, and studied composition and electronic music with Jack Beeson, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and Mario Davidovsky. His best-known work, ''Voices of Light'' (1994) is an oratorio scored for soloists, chorus, orchestra and a bell. It was inspired by Carl Theodor Dreyer's silent film ''The Passion of Joan of Arc'' (1928), and it has been performed while the film is screened. He has also composed many horror and thriller film scores, including ''Shock Waves'' (1977), ''Don't Go in the House'' (1980), '' Eyes of a Stranger'' (1981), '' The Prowler'' (1981), '' Dead of Winter'' (1987), ''Blood Rage'' (1987), '' Sister, Sister'' (1987) and '' Dark Tower'' (1989). He also contributed to the soundtrack of ''Liberty! The American Revolution'' (1997). In a 2011 New York Times article, Einhorn discussed his use of hearing loops to e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Einhorn
Eddie Einhorn (January 3, 1936 – February 24, 2016) was minority owner and vice chairman of the Chicago White Sox. Biography Einhorn grew up in a Jewish family in Paterson, New Jersey, the son of Mae (née Lippman) and Harold B. Einhorn and resided in Alpine, New Jersey. Einhorn produced the nationally syndicated radio broadcast of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship in 1958. In 1960, he founded the TVS Television Network to telecast college basketball games to regional networks at a time when the sport was of no interest to the national networks. The first broadcast was a semi-final game between Bradley University vs. St. Bonaventure University in the 1960 National Invitation Tournament from Madison Square Garden. Einhorn helped put together the first national broadcast of college basketball for the Game of the Century between the Houston Cougars and UCLA Bruins in 1968. He later sold his interest in the network and became the head of CBS Sports. Later, he would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ephraim Einhorn
Rabbi Ephraim Ferdinand Einhorn ( he, אפרים פרדיננד איינהורן; ; Pinyin: Ài Ēnhóng, 12 September 1918 – 15 September 2021) was a British Orthodox rabbi and one of two rabbis who lived in Taiwan. Rabbi Einhorn was affiliated with the Taiwan Jewish Community. Early years Einhorn was born in Vienna, Austria. He moved to the United Kingdom at age 14 and later to the United States. Einhorn's parents were killed in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Synagogue services in Taiwan Einhorn arrived in Taiwan in January 1975 from Kuwait and started administering Jewish prayer services five years later. Einhorn operated a Synagogue service with the Taiwan Jewish Community. Although Jews in Taiwan never had a physical synagogue built (unlike fellow communities such as China, Hong Kong, and Singapore), the first temporary synagogue was created in the 1950s at the United States military chapel when U.S. soldiers were stationed there. After the breakdown in Republ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena Einhorn
Lena Einhorn (born 19 May 1954) is a Swedish director and writer and former physician. Early life and family Einhorn was born on 19 May 1954 in Spånga, Sweden. Her mother, Nina, escaped the Warsaw ghetto during World War II and settled in Sweden, and her father, Jerzy, was a cancer specialist, politician and Holocaust survivor who wrote in 1966 a book about what he had experienced. Her younger brother is doctor and author, Stefan Einhorn. Career After graduating from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm with a doctorate in virology and tumor biology, she worked as a doctor, specialising in tumour viruses and the causes of cancer in fetuses and newborns. She changed careers when she lived in the United States in the 1980s and began working as a medical editor at Lifetime Television where she also produced and wrote medical documentaries. She also produced scientific and medical documentaries for independent companies and for PBS until she returned to Sweden in 1994. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerzy Einhorn
Jerzy Einhorn (26 July 1925 in Częstochowa, Poland – 28 April 2000 in Danderyd, Stockholm, Sweden) was a Polish-born Swedish medical doctor, researcher and politician ( Kristdemokrat). His Hebrew name was Chil Josef, after his paternal grandfather. Born into a Yiddish-speaking Jewish family, during the German occupation of Poland he became a victim of the Holocaust during World War II. He was first sent to the Warsaw Ghetto, then to the Częstochowa Ghetto outside his hometown,"Jerzy Einhorn; Holocaust Survivor Revolutionized Cancer Care in Sweden" ''Los Angeles Times'' (April 30, 2000). Retrieved March 18, 2011 where he was detained at the HASAG-Placery [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |