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Axelrod Quartet
Axelrod or Akselrod (variant: Axelrad) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert Axelrod (1921–2004), American Olympic medalist foil fencer * Barry Axelrod (born 1946), American sports agent * Beth Axelrod, American executive * Daniel I. Axelrod (1910–1998), American paleoecologist, botanist, and geologist, known by author abbreviation "Axelrod" * David Axelrod (born 1955), American political consultant who worked on campaigns of Barack Obama and Richard M. Daley * David Axelrod (musician) (1936–2017), American classical musician * Donald Axelrod (1916–1999), American academic * Dylan Axelrod (born 1985), American MLB baseball player * Gan-ya Ben-gur Akselrod (born 1987), American-Israeli soprano * George Axelrod (1922–2003), American screenwriter, producer, playwright, and film director * Herbert R. Axelrod (1927–2017), American author, publisher and ichthyologist * Jason David Axelrod AKA David Ha'ivri (born 1967), Jewish-Israeli settler activ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axelrad
Axelrad is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert S. Axelrad (born 1938), American rabbi * Édouard Axelrad (1918–2006), French writer *, editor of films including '' We Own the Night'' *Nancy Axelrad, publisher and author of some of the ''Nancy Drew'' series of books * Penina Axelrad, American aerospace engineer *Vicki Lawrence Vicki Lawrence (born Vicki Ann Axelrad, March 26, 1949), sometimes credited as Vicki Lawrence Schultz, is an American actress, comedian, and singer. She is best known for her character Thelma Harper, Mama (Thelma Harper). Lawrence also originate ... (b. 1949), born Vicki Ann Axelrad, American actress, comedian, and singer * Abraham of Cologne (fl. c. 1240), German rabbi See also * Axelrod {{surname, Axelrad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Axelrod
Jim Axelrod (born January 25, 1963) is the Chief Investigative Correspondent for CBS News and reports across all CBS News programs and platforms. Axelrod was one of CBS News' embedded correspondents in Iraq and was the first TV reporter to broadcast live from Saddam International Airport, now Baghdad International Airport, after its takeover by American forces during the Iraq War.Jim Axelrod CBS News. Accessed August 12, 2007. Early life and education Axelrod was born on January 25, 1963, to a American Jews, Jewish family in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Raised in Highland Park, New Jersey, he attended Highland Park High School (New Jersey), Highland Park High School. He received a Bachelor of Arts, B.A. in 1985 from Cornell University in Cornell Univer ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Axelrod
Victor Axelrod is an American musician, producer, and audio engineer from Brooklyn, New York. Since the mid-1990s, he has worked primarily in the genres of reggae, Afrobeat and soul, recording and producing under his own name and using the alias Ticklah. Axelrod became a founding member of Antibalas and Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings after meeting musicians Martin Perna and Gabe Roth (a.k.a. Bosco Mann) in the late 1990s. Starting in 1996, Axelrod appeared as a session musician playing keyboards for Easy Star Records, a New York City independent reggae label. This studio relationship eventually resulted in him taking on the role of co-producer and engineer of the label's release '' Dub Side of the Moon'', a 2003 dub reggae reinterpretation of the Pink Floyd album ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' recorded by the Easy Star All-Stars. By 2002, both Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings and Antibalas had begun touring and were in high demand. Being in both bands was no longer feasible, so Ax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Axelrod (actor)
Robert Axelrod (May 29, 1949 – September 7, 2019), also credited as Axel Roberts and Myron Mensah, was an American actor. He was primarily known for his voice work, which included ''Digimon'', having started voice acting for the English-language versions of anime in 1980; providing the voice of Lord Zedd, the main villain of the ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers''; and Finster, the original ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' monster maker. He also portrayed a sympathetic doctor, Jennings, in '' The Blob''. He also portrayed a Paul McCartney look-alike on the popular sitcom '' Family Matters'', and later in his career appeared in several productions by comedy duo Tim & Eric. Biography He was born and raised in New York City. He has said that he wanted to be in the entertainment industry starting in kindergarten after first entertaining his classmates. He started acting in commercials and theater as a child. He then worked as a full-time guitarist in the early 1970s. Then in 1980 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Axelrod (political Scientist)
Robert Marshall Axelrod (born May 27, 1943) is an American political scientist. He is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan where he has been since 1974. He is best known for his interdisciplinary work on the evolution of cooperation. His current research interests include complexity theory (especially agent-based modeling), international security, and cyber security. His research includes innovative approaches to explaining conflict of interest, the emergence of norms, how game theory is used to study cooperation, and cross-disciplinary studies on evolutionary processes. Biography Axelrod received his B.A. in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1964. In 1969, he received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University for a thesis entitled ''Conflict of interest: a theory of divergent goals with applications to politics''. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1968 until 1974. Among his honors and awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Axelrod
Pavel Borisovich Axelrod (; 25 August 1850 – 16 April 1928) was an early Russian Marxist revolutionary. Along with Georgi Plekhanov, Vera Zasulich, and Leo Deutsch, he was one of the members of the first organization of Russian Marxists, Emancipation of Labor. After the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, he was part of the Menshevik faction, with which he was identified until his death. Early life and career Pavel Axelrod was the son of a Jewish innkeeper. His parents lived in the Jewish poorhouse. He was forced to work for a living from a young age; though while still in his early teens, he produced his first political essay, on the condition of the Jewish poor in the Mogilev Region, in modern-day Belarus. At the age of 16, he discovered the writings of the German socialist Ferdinand Lassalle, which had a major influence on him. Later, he obtained a place at Kiev University, with financial help from wealthy Jews, and organised a political discussio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Axelrod
Paul Douglas Axelrod (born 11 December 1949) is a Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Education at York University, of which he was dean from 2001 to 2008. He has written widely on the history and political economy of schooling and higher education. Early life and education Born in London, Ontario, he received a B.A. in history and political science from York University in 1972, an M.A. in History from the University of Toronto in 1973, and a doctorate in history from York in 1980. Career Before arriving at York York is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman Britain, Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers River Ouse, Yorkshire, Ouse and River Foss, Foss. It has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a Yor ... in 1982, he taught at Queen's University. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meer Akselrod
Meer Moiseevich Akselrod, also Meyer Axelrod (1902–1970) (Russified form of the first name Mark) was a Belarusian painter best known for his watercolor paintings of Jewish life in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Life Akselrod was born in Maladzyechna, Russian Empire. As a child, he survived a pogrom and moved to Russia during World War I. At the outbreak of World War I, the family moved to Tambov after the Tsarist government evicted the Jewish population from the front line, where he attended an evening class at the drawing school of Perelman (1892-1967) in 1916-1917. In 1919 the family attempted to return to Molodechno, but the city had already become Polish, as a result the family settled in Minsk, where Akselrod earned a living as an advertising poster maker for cinemas and graduated from school. In the 1920s, he studied and then taught at the VKhUTEMAS School of Art. He was one of the members of the art association ‘ The Four Arts’, which existed in Moscow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max M
Max M was the music project of composer Max Møller Rasmussen, based in Odense, Denmark. He released two albums studio albums for Hard Records titled '' Technology Is God'' and '' Max M Corporation'', respectively released in 1992 and 1994. History Max M was founded by Danish composer Max Møller Rasmussen in as a solo outlet for his work. He self-released the EP '' Get Wild'' on vinyl record. and contained the guitar contributions of Carsten Lassen, who helped Rasmussen record his previous release. Max M released his debut studio album, titled '' Technology Is God'', for Hard Records in 1992. Max M also released the off-album track "Atomic Playboy" to the Danish music compilation ''Cyberworld'' by Playground Records. In 1994 Max M released '' Max M Corporation'', which contained a graphic novel and accompanying music on its multimedia CD-ROM. Rasmussen composed "Cyberworld" and released as the lead track to 1994's ''Cyberworld II'' compilation. The album was reissued the follow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyubov Axelrod
Lyubov Isaakovna Axelrod (born Esther Axelrod; , penname Orthodox ; 1868 – 5 February 1946) was a Russian revolutionary, Marxist philosopher, literary critic and an art theoretician. Early life Axelrod was born in the family of a rabbi in Pastavy Raion, Vilenkovichi, a village in the Vilna gubernia of the Russian Empire, now in Pastavy Raion, Belarus. She became involved with the narodnik organization at age 16. She emigrated to Switzerland in 1887, with the assistance of Leo Jogiches (lover of Rosa Luxemburg) when the Vitebsk organisation collapsed in the wake of an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Alexander III of Russia organised by Aleksandr Ulyanov, older brother of Vladimir Lenin. Political career 1892 to 1918 In 1892 she became a Marxist and joined the Geneva-based Emancipation of Labor group, becoming a close associate of its leader Georgi Plekhanov. In 1900, she received her Ph.D. in philosophy from University of Bern , Bern University. In 1902 she worked wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Axelrod
Julius Axelrod (May 30, 1912 – December 29, 2004) was an American biochemist. He won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 along with Bernard Katz and Ulf von Euler. The Nobel Committee honored him for his work on the release and reuptake of catecholamine neurotransmitters, a class of chemicals in the brain that include epinephrine, norepinephrine, and, as was later discovered, dopamine. Axelrod also made major contributions to the understanding of the pineal gland and how it is regulated during the sleep-wake cycle. Education and early life Axelrod was born in New York City, the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland, Molly (née Leichtling) and Isadore Axelrod, a basket weaver. He received his bachelor's degree in biology from the College of the City of New York in 1933. Axelrod wanted to become a physician, but was rejected from every medical school to which he applied. He worked briefly as a laboratory technician at New York University, then in 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Axelrod
John Neal Axelrod (born March 28, 1966, in Houston, Texas) is a Swiss/American conductor. In 2024, Axelrod was named Music Director and Principal Conductor of the newly created Swiss National Orchestra. Axelrod was elected Principal Conductor of the Bucharest Symphony Orchestra in a unique open ended contract in 2022. From 2019 to 2023 He was Principal Guest Conductor of the City of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra. He was also elected Artistic and musical director of the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville in 2014(ABC de SevillaRetrieved 2014-11-26./ref> and is Principal Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, "Giuseppe Verdi", also known as "LaVerdi". Between 2009 and 2013, Axelrod was music director of l' Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, based in Nantes and Angers, France; and from 2009 to 2011, Axelrod served as music director of "Hollywood In Vienna" Gala Concerts with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna. He has also served as music director and Chief Conductor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
