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Westphal
Westphal or Westphall may refer to the following people: *Alexander Carl Otto Westphal (1863–1941), German physician, son of Carl Friedrich Otto and grandson of Otto Carl Friedrich Westphal * Ari Westphal (born 1994), Brazilian fashion model * Bernd Westphal (born 1960), German politician * Brigitta Westphal (born 1944), German painter * Carlo Westphal (born 1985), German professional road bicycle racer * Christoph Westphal, pharmaceutical executive * Daniel Westphal, Northern Mariana Islander footballer * Dirk Westphal (born 1963), American artist *Edwin Westphal (born 1966), Guatemalan former professional football forward *Ernst Oswald Johannes Westphal (1919–1990), South African linguist * Euler Renato Westphal, Brazilian Lutheran theologian * Fletcher Westphal (born 2005), American football player *Frank Westphal, (1889–1948), American musician * George Augustus Westphal (1785–1875), English Royal Navy officer * Gert Westphal (1920–2002), German-Swiss actor, recitato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Westphal
Paul Douglas Westphal (November 30, 1950 – January 2, 2021) was an American basketball player and coach. Westphal played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1972 to 1984. Playing the guard position, he won an NBA championship with the Boston Celtics in 1974. Westphal played in the NBA Finals again in 1976 as a member of the Phoenix Suns. His NBA career also included stints with the Seattle SuperSonics and the New York Knicks. In addition to being a five-time All-Star selection, Westphal earned three All-NBA First Team selections and one Second Team honor. After his playing career ended, Westphal coached for Southwestern Baptist Bible College (now Arizona Christian University), Grand Canyon University, and Pepperdine University, and served also as head coach of the Phoenix Suns, Seattle SuperSonics, and Sacramento Kings in the NBA. Westphal coached the Suns to the NBA Finals in 1993. In 2019, Westphal was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Augustus Westphal
Sir George Augustus Alexander Westphal (27 March 1785 – 12 January 1875) was a Nova Scotian admiral in the Royal Navy who served in more than 100 actions. He was midshipman on HMS Victory, HMS ''Victory'' during the Battle of Trafalgar. Early life Westphal was born on 27 March 1785 in Nova Scotia, the son of George Westphal and older brother of Admiral Philip Westphal. He joined the Royal Navy aged 13 as a first class volunteer on board the Royal navy frigate stationed in North America. Later he moved to serve on the home station and in the West Indies as a Masters mate and midshipman on and . In March 1803 Westphal joined the 32 gun fifth rate frigate HMS Amphion (1798), HMS ''Amphion'' as a midshipman whilst transporting Horatio Nelson to the Mediterranean to take command. Westphal was transferred to HMS ''Victory''. Battle of Trafalgar On 21 October 1805 Westphal was in the Battle of Trafalgar fighting on Nelson's flagship ''Victory''. Westphal was shot in the head a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Westphal
Christoph Westphal is an American biomedical businessman. Background and training Westphal graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University, summa cum laude, in 1990 and finished the MD–PhD program at Harvard University in six years. Career He worked at McKinsey & Company for two years after getting his degrees. From 2000 to 2005 he was a partner at Polaris Venture Partners, a venture capital firm. VC and Serial Entrepreneur In 2001, he worked with Robert Langer to found Mimeon based on work by Langer on glycoengineering; the company changed its name to Momenta Pharmaceuticals the next year and went public in 2004. Westphal was the founding CEO. Momenta brought to market the first generic, low-molecular-weight heparin. To expand the portfolio of treatments for autoimmune disorders, Johnson & Johnson acquired Momenta Pharmaceuticals for $6.5 billion in an all-cash deal in 2020, after nipocalimab, a treatment developed by Momenta received a rare paediatric dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Westphal
Katherine Westphal (January 2, 1919 – March 13, 2018) was an American textile designer and fiber artist who helped to establish quilting as a fine art form. Early life and education Westphal was born January 2, 1919, in Los Angeles, California to Emma and Leo Westphal, who managed grocery stores. At age two, she began cutting, pasting and coloring and decided that she liked to do that more than anything. She attended Los Angeles public, elementary, junior and senior high schools. In 1941 she earned an Associate of Arts degree from Los Angeles City College. She then transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied painting and art history and received BA and MFA degrees in painting. In 1943 she was awarded the Phelan Traveling Scholarship for Practicing Artists, established by James D. Phelan, former U. S. Senator from California. The scholarship provided funds for travel to Mexico, where she visited the studios of muralists David Alfaro Siqueiros and Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Westphal
Jonathan Westphal (born 1951) is a philosopher working on the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of science, logic and philosophy of language and aesthetics. He was a pioneer in the philosophy of color. More recently he has become interested in issues in the philosophy of time, and in the understanding of human freedom. In the history of philosophy, he has worked mostly on Wittgenstein and Leibniz. He lives in Eastbourne, East Sussex, and works as a private tutor in philosophy. Westphal received his BA from Harvard College in 1973, where he was offered tutorials by G.E.L. Owen as a Junior. He received an MA from the University of Sussex in 1975, and the PhD from the University of London 1981, where he studied with David Wiggins. He has taught at the University of Hawaii, the University of London, Idaho State University, Amherst College, Hampshire College and at other colleges and universities in the UK and the US. He has been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Alexander vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal
Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (23 March 1833 – 27 January 1890) was a German psychiatrist from Berlin. He was the son of Otto Carl Friedrich Westphal (1800–1879) and Karoline Friederike Heine and the father of Alexander Karl Otto Westphal (1863–1941). He was married to Klara, daughter of the banker Alexander Mendelssohn. Westphal died in Kreuzlingen in 1890. Academic career After receiving his doctorate, he worked at the Berlin Charité, and subsequently became an assistant in the department for the mentally ill under Wilhelm Griesinger (1817–1868) and Karl Wilhelm Ideler (1795–1860). In 1869 he became an associate professor of psychiatry, as well as a clinical instructor in the department for mental and nervous diseases, In 1874 he attained the title of full professor of psychiatry. Achievements in medicine Westphal's contributions to medical science are many; in 1871 he coined the term ''agoraphobia'' when he observed that three male patients of his displayed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Oswald Johannes Westphal
Ernst Oswald Johannes Gotthard Gotthilf Westphal (Khalavha in Venda, South Africa, 1919 - Bredasdorp near Cape Town, South Africa, 27 November 1990) was a South African linguistics, linguist and an expert in Bantu languages, Bantu and Khoisan languages. From 1949 to 1962 he taught at the SOAS, University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Biography Ernst Westphal was born at Khalava in Venda, the son of German people, German Lutheran missionary parents. His father was Gotthard Westphal and his grandfather, also Ernst Westphal, was with his wife Wilhelmine the teacher and mentor of Solomon Plaatje. Already as a child E.O.J. Westphal was fluent in German language, German, English language, English, and Afrikaans language, Afrikaans, like many South Africans. His first and native language, however, was Venda language, Venda, and as a child he was initiated into the partly secret Venda people, Venda rites for young men. He studied Zulu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gert Westphal
Curt Gerhard Westphal, stage name Gert Westphal, (5 October 1920 – 10 November 2002) was a German-Swiss actor, audiobook narrator, recitator and director, one of the best-known audiobook narrators and speakers in German, described as "König der Vorleser" (king of reciters)Die Stimme der Klassiker. / Gert Westphal, Sprecher, Rezitator und Schauspieler, starb im Alter von 82 Jahren ungekuerzte-lesung.de and "der Caruso der Vorleser" (the Caruso of reciters). After his reading of her husband's works, |
James Westphal
James Adolph Westphal (June 13, 1930 – September 8, 2004) was an American academic, scientist, engineer, inventor and astronomer and Director of Caltech's Palomar Observatory from 1994 through 1997.Danielson, G. Edward "Obituary: James Adolph Westphal, 1930-2004,"''Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,'' Vol. 36, No. 5, p. 1687-1688. His participation played an important role in designing the main camera for the Hubble Space Telescope.Maugh, Thomas H "James A. Westphal, 74; Caltech Scientist Had Gift for Innovation,"''Los Angeles Times.'' September 11, 2004. Caltech Westphal began his career at California Institute of Technology in 1961. His first job as senior engineer; and he remained at the Institute for the remainder of his career. He came to Caltech initially on a four-month leave of absence from Sinclair Research Labs in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but never left. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Westphal
Frank Christian Westphal (June 15, 1889 – November 23, 1948) was an American pianist, dance band leader and composer who recorded in the 1920s, following the end of his marriage to singer Sophie Tucker. Biography He was born in Chicago, the grandson of German immigrants. By 1910 he had started working as a pianist in vaudeville shows, where he met singer Sophie Tucker, who was two years his senior. She hired him as her accompanist in 1913, and they became lovers though this was not disclosed at the time. Westphal was sometimes co-billed with Tucker over the next three years, as Tucker's popularity grew. In 1916, though their personal relationship continued, Westphal withdrew from the act, and was instead installed as proprietor of the Sophie Tucker Garage. The business venture failed, and in 1917 he returned to her shows as a separate act, sometimes becoming an unscheduled participant in the act of fellow performers The Marx Brothers. Westphal and Tucker married in October 191 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ari Westphal
Ariely Westphal (born May 12, 1994) is a Brazilian fashion model. Career Westphal was discovered by a modeling agency in her hometown of Belo Horizonte and debuted as a semi-exclusive for Chloé in the Fall Winter 2015 season, including runway and campaigns, and Brandon Maxwell. On the runway she modeled for brands such as Chanel, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Kenzo x H&M, Tom Ford, Sonia Rykiel, Belstaff, Saks Fifth Avenue, Stella McCartney, and Vivienne Westwood. Westphal has been on the cover of ''Vogue Brasil'', '' Elle Brasil'', and ''Harper's Bazaar Netherlands'' among others. She can be seen alongside models like Adwoa Aboah, Maria Borges, and Issa Lish in Sephora's Let's Beauty Together campaign. Westphal has been frequently deemed a future supermodel and is called "the next Gisele Bündchen" by Brazilian media and ''Vogue''. She is known for her short haircut. Personal life She is of Italian Brazilian, German Brazilian, and Afro-Brazilian descent. Before modeling, she was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Carl Otto Westphal
Alexander Carl Otto Westphal (18 May 1863, Berlin – 9 January 1941, Bonn) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist. He was the son of the psychiatrist Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833–1890) and Clara Mendelssohn and the grandson of Otto Carl Friedrich Westphal. Alexander Westphal studied at Heidelberg and Berlin, receiving his doctorate at Berlin in 1888. He then became an assistant to Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (1840-1921) in Heidelberg and to Heinrich Curschmann (1846–1910) in Leipzig. In 1892 he became the head physician of the department for nervous diseases at the Berlin Charité under Friedrich Jolly (1844–1904), subsequently qualifying in the fields psychiatry and neurology (1894). In 1901 he accepted an invitation to the University of Greifswald as an associate professor, and three years later relocated to the University of Bonn as full professor. He stayed there until 1928. Westphal made contributions towards the literature involving diabetes insipidus, leuk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
