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Sichel
Sichel is a surname of German origin. Individuals with the name "Sichel" include: * Alice Model, philanthropist born Alice Sichel * Edith Helen Sichel, author * Ernest Leopold Sichel, artist * Frédéric Jules Sichel, established the first ophthalmic clinic in Paris; entomologist * Herbert Sichel, statistician, developed the Sichel-t estimator and the Sichel distribution * Jennifer Sichel, coxswain * John Sichel, director * Michael Sichel, fencer * Peter Sichel, the CIA’s Distinguished Intelligence Medal recipient, created success of the once largest wine brand in the world * Philip Sichel, early settler of Los Angeles and namesake of Los Angeles' Sichel Street * Sebastián Sichel, Chilean politician and lawyer, born Sebastián Iglesias * Walter Sichel, biographer and lawyer * William Sichel William Morley Sichel (born 1 October 1953 in Welford, Northamptonshire) is a British long-distance runner. Biography He is a science graduate of the University of London in 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastián Sichel
Sebastián Iglesias Sichel Ramírez (born 30 July 1977) is a Chilean lawyer, professor, ex minister of State and politician who served as president of the () from June 2020 until December 2020. He also previously served as Minister of Social Development and Family and executive vice president of Corfo under the second government of Sebastián Piñera. He was an independent candidate in the 2021 Chilean presidential election who ran under the centre-right coalition. In 2010, he was one of the founding members of , an online newspaper on topics such as politics, culture, and sports. Biography Born in Santiago, his parents are Antonio Alejandro José Sichel Poblete and Ana María Ramírez Alvarado. His birth name was registered as Sebastián ''Sichel'', but his paternal surname was changed to ''Iglesias'' after his mother married Saúl Iglesias. When Sebastián Iglesias was 11 years old, he learned from his grandfather that Saúl Iglesias was not his father. He then met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Sichel
Jennifer Sichel (born March 9, 1988 in Clifton, New Jersey) is an American coxswain. She competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. She won three silver medals from the World Rowing Championships and a silver medal from the 2016 Paralympic Games ) , nations = 159 , athletes = 4,342 , opening = 7 September , closing = 18 September , opened_by = President Michel Temer , cauldron = Clodoaldo Silva , events = 528 in 22 sports , stadium = Maracanã , sum .... She is a Royal Canadian Henley Regatta champion, a five-time Head of the Charles Regatta champion, and three-time U.S. national champion. She was a member of the Paralympic Great Eight at the 2016 Head of the Charles Regatta consisting of gold, silver, and bronze Rio Paralympic medalists from Great Britain, United States, and Canada. Career Senior career 2013–2014 season Sichel won a silver medal in the Legs, Trunk, & Arms Mixed 4+ at the 2014 World Rowing Champi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Sichel
Peter Max F. Sichel (born September 12, 1922) is a German-American wine merchant and former operative of US secret services, who created the Blue Nun wine brand, for a while the largest international wine brand in the world. Prior to this he ran the CIA's operations in Berlin during the early stages of the Cold War. Biography Early life Sichel was born in Mainz, Germany, in September 1922, in to a Jewish family, where his grandfather's family wine business, H. Sichel Söhne had been established in 1837. He was educated in Germany and then in 1935 was sent to be educated in England. He attended St Cyprian's School and Stowe School. While he was at school in England, his parents escaped from Nazi Germany on a ruse, and the family settled in France. The firm had offices in London and Bordeaux, and at the start of World War II, while he was apprenticed to the Bordeaux firm, he was interned as he was German. Service with the CIA Sichel escaped to the USA via Portugal and Spain and joi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Sichel
William Morley Sichel (born 1 October 1953 in Welford, Northamptonshire) is a British long-distance runner. Biography He is a science graduate of the University of London in 1976. He is now an International ultra distance runner and has the distinction of having won his debut races at 100 km, 24 hours, 3 Days, Six Days, 7 Days and 8 Days. He was world number one for the Six Day event in 2006 and has represented Great Britain eleven times since 1996. He is a former British 100 km champion, world 100 km champion for his age group, and world record holder for treadmill endurance. Sichel moved to the Orkney island of Sanday in 1982. In November 2019 he moved to the Orkney capital, Kirkwall. He won the Monaco Six Day race in 2006 and 2007, and also in 2006 came 7th in the 135 mile (216 km) Badwater Ultramarathon in Death Valley, California in a record time for a British runner, becoming the first Scot to complete the event . In 2007 he became the Scottish 48-h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Leopold Sichel
Ernest Leopold Sichel (1862–1941) was a painter of figures, portraits and still life, a sculptor and silversmith, as well as a pastellist. Sichel was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England on 27 June 1862 of German Jewish descent, son of a manufacturer from Frankfurt-am-Main. Sichel was educated at Bradford Grammar School, where he was a contemporary of Frederick Delius. He then studied at Slade School of Art from 1877 to 1879, under the tutelage of Alphonse Legros, and he got know William Strang, with whom he would form a lasting a friendship. In London, he set up a studio near Euston Square, and while there became friendly with the painter John Macallan Swan; together they visited Paris, where Sichel was influenced by the work of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. He exhibited his work at the Royal Academy from 1885 and at the New English Art Club from 1891. He also exhibited his work at the New Gallery and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. He returned to Bradford around 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Sichel
Gerald 'Michael' Sylvester Sichel (born 3 September 1934) is an Australian fencer. He competed at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held .... References 1934 births Living people Australian male fencers Olympic fencers of Australia Fencers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from London Commonwealth Games medallists in fencing Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Fencers at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games {{Australia-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Sichel
Philip Sichel (born about 1823 in Germany) was one of the first eight "recognizably Jewish" pioneers to settle in Los Angeles, California, after that city became part of the United States in 1848; he was listed in the first Los Angeles census in 1850. He was a member of the Los Angeles Common Council, the governing body of the city, from May 7, 1862, to May 6, 1865, and was on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors A board of supervisors is a governmental body that oversees the operation of county government in the U.S. states of Arizona, California, Iowa, Mississippi, Virginia, and Wisconsin, as well as 16 counties in New York. There are equivalent agenc ... in 1864, resigning on August 18 of that year.Board of Supervisors citing Norton B. Stern, "The Location of Los Angeles Jewry at the Beginning of 1861," ''Western Jewish H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pelecus Cultratus
''Pelecus cultratus'', commonly known as the ziege, sichel, sabre carp or sabrefish, is a cyprinid fish species from Eastern Europe and adjacent Asian regions, the only one in its genus, inhabiting the lower reaches of rivers and brackish waters in the eastern Baltic Sea, Black Sea, Caspian Sea and Aral Sea basins. The ziege having no major threats, the IUCN lists it as being of Least Concern. Description The ziege resembles a large Baltic herring in appearance. It grows to about in length. It has a keel on its belly which from the side looks curved while the back is almost straight. It has an upturned snout and the tip of the lower jaw also slopes steeply upwards. The lateral line is wavy and very low down the flank. The pectoral fin is long and pointed. This is a pale, silvery fish with almost colourless fins. Distribution The ziege can be found in waters of the Baltic states and Eastern Europe. It can also be found in other European and Asian countries such as Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Model
Alice Model (1856–1943) was a leader of the Union of Jewish Women. She founded and supported organisations promoting family welfare and other philanthropic causes. Personal life Alice Isabella Model née Sichel was born on 13 November 1856, the daughter of Henriette Goldschmidt and Gustavus Sichel, and grew up in a middle-class family that resided in Hampstead Hampstead () is an area in London, which lies northwest of Charing Cross, and extends from Watling Street, the A5 road (Roman Watling Street) to Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland. The area forms the northwest part of the Lon ..., London. Like a growing number of women of her time, Model expanded the acceptable horizons for women through her involvement in charitable activities. Married to Louis Model at twenty-four and childless, she devoted her life to social work and initiated many social services for women and children. Maternal welfare She sat on the Child and Maternity Committee for Stepne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Helen Sichel
Edith Helen Sichel was an English author, sister of Walter Sichel. She was born on 13 December 1862, in London, to Jewish migrants from Germany who converted to Christianity, and educated at home by private teachers. She died on 13 August 1914 in Carnforth (Lancashire). Bibliography * ''Two Salons'' (1895) * ''The Household of the Lafayettes'' (1897) * ''Women and Men of the French Renaissance'' (1901) * ''Catherine de' Medici and the French Reformation'' (1905); * ''Life and Letters of Alfred Ainger'' (1906) * ''The Later Years of Catherine de' Medici'' (1908) * ''Michel de Montaigne Michel Eyquem, Sieur de Montaigne ( ; ; 28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592), also known as the Lord of Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularizing the essay as a liter ...'' (1911) * ''The Renaissance'' (1914) References External links * * 1862 births 1914 deaths English Jewish writers English biogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédéric Jules Sichel
Frédéric Jules Sichel (14 May 1802 – 11 November 1868) was a German-born, French physician and entomologist. Sichel was born in Frankfurt am Main. From 1820 he studied medicine at the universities of Würzburg, Tübingen and Berlin, then from 1825 to 1829 worked as assistant to ophthalmologist Friedrich Jäger von Jaxtthal in Vienna. In 1829 he relocated to Paris, where in 1833 he received his doctorate with the dissertation-thesis "''Propositions générales sur l'ophthalmologie, suivies de l'histoire de l'ophthalmie rhumatismale"''. In 1833 he acquired French citizenship.SICHEL (Julius Friedrich) biuSante / Biographies In 1832 he established the first ophthalmic clinic in Paris, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Sichel
Herbert Sichel (1915–1995) was a statistician who made great advances in the areas of both theoretical and applied statistics. He developed the Sichel-t estimator for the log-normal distribution's t-statistic. He also made great leaps in the area of the generalized inverse Gaussian distribution, the mixture of which with the Poisson distribution became known as the Sichel distribution. Dr Sichel pioneered the science of geostatistics with Danie Krige in the early 1950s. Sichel also was well recognised in the field of statistical linguistics. He established the Operational Research Bureau in 1952. He was appointed as professor in Statistics and Operations Research in the Graduate Business School of the University of the Witwatersrand. He has been recognized as "one of the grand old men of the SA Statistical Association". In 1958 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Associ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
