Peterson may refer to:
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Peterson (surname)
Peterson/Petersen is a Scandinavian patronymic surname meaning "son of Peter." The given name Peter is derived from the Greek πέτρος (petros), meaning "rock" or "stone," and has been a popular name choice throughout history for the Christian ...
Places
United States
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Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado
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Peterson, Indiana
Peterson is an unincorporated community in Kirkland Township, Adams County, in the U.S. state of Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 St ...
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Peterson, Iowa
Peterson is a city in Clay County, Iowa, United States. The population was 322 in the 2020 census, a decline from 372 in 2000.
History
The first settlement was made at Peterson in 1856. In 1862, a fort was built in Peterson by settlers to defend ...
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Peterson, Minnesota
Peterson is a city in Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 199 at the 2010 census.
History
In the year 1853, Peter Peterson Haslerud purchased and platted the village site of Peterson and was the major force behind its ...
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Peterson, Utah
Other uses
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Peterson (company), a Norwegian industrial company
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Peterson Electro-Musical Products
Peterson Electro-Musical Products, Inc. is a music-electronics company founded by Richard H. Peterson in 1948. The Peterson company introduced the first commercial handheld electronic tuner for musicians, the Model 70, in 1964, and later its model ...
, a manufacturer of tuners, etc.
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Peterson Field Guides The Peterson Field Guides (PFG) are a popular and influential series of United States, American field guides intended to assist the layman in identification of birds, plants, insects and other natural phenomena. The series was created and edited by ...
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Peterson Pipes
Peterson is an Irish pipe maker headquartered in Dublin and founded in 1865.
History
Friedrich and Heinrich Kapp, German immigrants to Ireland from Nuremberg, founded the famed Kapp Brothers store on Grafton Street, Dublin in 1865. Shortly the ...
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Peterson Quartet
The Petersen Quartet was a string quartet founded in 1979 by students at the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory in Berlin, including founding first violinist, Ulrike Petersen, who has recently rejoined the quartet to alternate in the first chair wi ...
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Peterson's algorithm Peterson's algorithm (or Peterson's solution) is a concurrent programming algorithm for mutual exclusion that allows two or more processes to share a single-use resource without conflict, using only shared memory for communication. It was formulated ...
, computer science
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USS ''Peterson'', two US Navy ships of that name
See also
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Justice Peterson (disambiguation) Justice Peterson may refer to:
*C. Donald Peterson (1918–1987), associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
*Edwin J. Peterson
Edwin J. Peterson (March 30, 1930 – December 2, 2023) was an American jurist in the state of Oregon. He was t ...
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Pedersen Pedersen () is a Danish and Norwegian patronymic surname, literally meaning "son of Peder". It is the fourth most common surname in Denmark, shared by about 3.4% of the population, and the sixth most common in Norway. It is of similar origin as th ...
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Pederson (disambiguation)
Pederson is a patronymic surname meaning "son of Peder".
People with the surname Pederson
* Barry Pederson, Canadian retired player from National Hockey League
* Denis Pederson, Canadian player with the Eisbaren Berlin of the Deutsche Eishockey- ...
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Petersen
Petersen is a common Danish patronymic surname, meaning ''"son of Peter"''. There are other spellings. Petersen may refer to:
People In arts and entertainment
* Adolf Dahm-Petersen, Norwegian voice specialist
* Anja Petersen, German operatic ...
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Peterson Farm (disambiguation) Peterson Farm or Peterson Farmstead may refer to:
* Brugjeld-Peterson Family Farmstead District, Wallingford, Iowa, listed on the NRHP in Iowa
* Andrew Peterson Farmstead, Waconia, Minnesota
* Peter Peterson Farmstead, Waverly, Nebraska, listed o ...
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Peterson House (disambiguation) Peterson House may refer to:
* J. B. Doughterty and C. W. Peterson House, Phoenix, Arizona, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Phoenix
* Peterson House (Albany, California), listed on the NRHP in Alameda County
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