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Blaauw
Blaauw () is a Dutch language, Dutch surname. It is an archaic spelling of modern Dutch ''blauw'', meaning ''blue''. This may have referred to the pale skin, the eyes, or the clothes of the original bearer of the name or the surname may be metonymic, e.g. referring to a dyer or someone who produced Bluing (fabric), bluing in a mill. at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands. People with this name include: Persons with the surname Blaauw include: * William Henry Blaauw (1793–1870), English antiquarian and historian * :nl:Jacob Blauw, Jacob Blauw (1759–1829), a lawyer, politician and diplomat * :nl:Henriëtte Blaauw, Henriëtte Blaauw (1875–1949), a writer * :nl:Cornelis Blaauw, Cornelis Blaauw (1885–1947), an architect * :nl:Siegfried Blaauw, Siegfried Blaauw (1889–194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Blaauw
Marco Blaauw is a Dutch trumpet soloist known for his work in the field of new music and with Eau de Cologne, Cologne-based contemporary music group Ensemble Musikfabrik. He plays a double bell trumpet, an invention that has allowed for numerous new compositions for trumpet, including those by Ernst von Siemens Music Prize winner, Rebecca Saunders. Blaauw is a consistent faculty member at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Darmstadt Summer Course, the Karlheinz Stockhausen, Stockhausen Courses Kürten, the Lucerne Festival, and the Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar. Biography Blaauw was born September 23, 1965, in Lichtenvoorde, the Netherlands, and began playing trumpet at a young age in the local band. As a young student, Blaauw attended the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam and later studied with Pierre Thibaud and Markus Stockhausen. Blaauw has an extensive solo career, particularly in the contemporary, new, and improvised music scenes. He has collaborated on and premie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Blaauw (chef)
Ron Blaauw (born 7 September 1967, in Hoorn) is a Dutch head chef and TV-personality, known for his cooking in the Michelin starred restaurant Ron Blaauw. Culinary career After finishing his secondary school he started working as cook in De Kersentuin in Amsterdam. He also worked in ''Aujourd'hui'' and t Jagershuis''. In 1999, he started his own restaurant ''Ron Blaauw'' in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel. In 2004 and 2005 he was awarded one Michelin star for his cooking there. From 2006 to present he was awarded two stars each year by the Michelin Guide. After a long and strict procedure, Blaauw was appointed SVH-meesterkok in June 2010. In 2011, Blaauw moved his restaurant to Amsterdam. At the old location he created a new bistro-type fish restaurant with the name ''Ron's Vis van de Dag'' (Eng.: ''Ron's Fish of the Day''). On 27 March 2013, Ron Blaauw announced that he would close his eponymous restaurant on 30 March and open ''Ron Gastrobar'' on the same location on 4 April. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerrit Blaauw
Gerrit Anne "Gerry" Blaauw (17 July 1924 – 21 March 2018) was a Dutch computer scientist, known as one of the principal designers of the IBM System/360 line of computers, together with Fred Brooks, Gene Amdahl, and others."Gerrit Blaauw" in ''Unsung Heroes in Dutch Computing History'', a website created for the IEEE Computer Society's Web Programming Competition (CHC61), 2007 Biography Born in The Hague, Netherlands, Blaauw received his BA from the in 1946. In 1947, Blaauw won an exclusive scholarship funded by IBM Chief Executive Officer[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriaan Blaauw
Adriaan Blaauw (12 April 1914 – 1 December 2010) was a Dutch astronomer. Blaauw was born in Amsterdam to Cornelis Blaauw and Gesina Clasina Zwart, and studied at Leiden University and the University of Groningen, obtaining his doctorate at the latter in 1946. In 1948, he was appointed an associate professor at Leiden. In the 1950s he worked a few years at the Yerkes Observatory, before returning to Europe in 1957 to become director of the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute in Groningen. Blaauw was closely involved in the founding of the European Southern Observatory, and was its general director from 1970 to 1975. In 1975, he returned to the Netherlands, becoming a full professor at Leiden, until his retirement in 1981. From 1976 to 1979, he served as president of the International Astronomical Union. He chaired the committee for assigning scientific priorities for the observing programme of the astrometric satellite ''Hipparcos.'' His research has involved star formation, the moti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Blaauw
William Henry Blaauw (1793–1870) was an English antiquarian and historian, particularly active in Sussex. Life Blaauw was born in London on 25 May 1793. His father William Blaauw, of Queen Anne's Street, was a Dutch immigrant, from a line of burgomasters of Amsterdam; William's second wife, Louisa Puller was daughter of Christopher Puller of Woodford, Essex. William's elder daughter from his first marriage (to Anne Charlotte, daughter of Charles Le Maitre), Maria Anne, was the first wife of the politician Thomas Gardiner Bramston.A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, fourth edition, vol. I, Sir Bernard Burke, 1862, p. 104, Blaauw of Beechland pedigree He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where, taking a first class in classics, he graduated B.A. in 1813, and M.A. in 1815. He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1850, was treasurer of the Camden Society for many years, and was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2145 Blaauw
2145 Blaauw, provisional designation , is a dark Ursula asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 38 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 24 October 1976, by astronomer Richard Martin West at the La Silla Observatory in northern Chile. The asteroid was named after Dutch astronomer Adriaan Blaauw. Orbit and classification ''Blaauw'' is a member of the Ursula family (), a large family of C- and X-type asteroids, named after its parent body, 375 Ursula. It orbits the Sun in the outer asteroid belt at a distance of 2.9–3.5 AU once every 5 years and 9 months (2,107 days; semi-major axis of 3.22 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.10 and an inclination of 15 ° with respect to the ecliptic. The asteroid was first identified as at Lowell Observatory in December 1929. The body's observation arc begins with its identification as at the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory in September 1963, or 13 years prior to its official disco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Blaauw (restaurant)
''Ron Blaauw'' was a restaurant located in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It is a fine dining restaurant that was awarded one Michelin star in 2004 and 2005 and two Michelin stars in the period 2006–2013. GaultMillau awarded the restaurant 16.0 out of 20 points. ''Ron Blaauw'' was a member of Alliance Gastronomique Néerlandaise, but left in 2011 due to lack of time The restaurant was originally located in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel. In 2011, it moved to Amsterdam. On 27 March 2013, Ron Blaauw announced that he would close his eponymous restaurant on 30 March and open '' RON Gastrobar'' on the same location on 4 April. See also *List of Michelin starred restaurants in the Netherlands The ''Michelin Guides'' have been published by the French tire company Michelin since 1900. They were designed as a guide to tell drivers about eateries they recommended to visit and to subtly sponsor their tires, by encouraging drivers to use thei ... Sources and references {{Coord, 52, 21 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wicus Blaauw
Wicus Blaauw (born 8 April 1986) is a South African rugby union footballer. He previously represented Edinburgh in the Pro12, Biarritz in the French Top 14 Championship, the Stormers in Super Rugby and Western Province in the Currie Cup and Vodacom Cup The Vodacom Cup was an annual rugby union competition in South Africa. Annual Vodacom Cup competitions were played between its inaugural season in 1998 and 2015 and was contested between February and May each year. The Vodacom Cup was the succes .... External links Stormers profile * 1986 births Living people [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marieke Blaauw
Marieke Blaauw (born 1979, in Hilversum) is a Dutch animator. Life Blaauw was born in 1979 in Hilversum. She studied at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. She graduated in 2002. In 2005 she worked as an animator on the stop motion children series Miffy at studio Pedri in Ankeveen. In 2007 she co-founded animation studio Job, Joris & Marieke together with Job Roggeveen and Joris Oprins. Job, Joris & Marieke works on commissioned work, music videos and short animated films. In 2013 they released their animated short film MUTE. MUTE won, among others, the Grand Prix and the audience award at the Holland Animatie Film Festival in 2013. In 2014 the City of Utrecht commissioned Job, Joris & Marieke to make the short film/music video Bon Voyage! This film was to promote the start of the Tour de France in Utrecht in 2015. The title song Bon Voyage! was composed by Dutch singer songwriter Blaudzun In 2015 their short animation film A Single Life was nominated for the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Theodore Blaauw
David Theodore Blaauw is a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering program at the University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ..., Ann Arbor, MI was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012 ''for contributions to adaptive and low power circuit design''. Education *B.S. from Duke University, 1986 *Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana References Fellows of the IEEE Living people University of Michigan faculty Duke University alumni Grainger College of Engineering alumni Year of birth missing (living people) American electrical engineers {{US-electrical-engineer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blaeu (other) , a surname
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Blaeu is the name of * Willem Blaeu (1571–1638), Dutch cartographer and father of Joan Blaeu * Joan Blaeu (1596–1673), Dutch cartographer and son of Willem Blaeu * ''Blaeu Atlas of Scotland'', by Joan Blaeu, published in 1654 * ''Atlas Blaeu'' or ''Atlas Maior'', by Joan Blaeu, published in 1635 * ''Stedenboek Blaeu'' or '' Toonneel der Steeden'', by Joan Blaeu, published in 1649 See also * Blaauw Blaauw () is a Dutch language, Dutch surname. It is an archaic spelling of modern Dutch ''blauw'', meaning ''blue''. This may have referred to the pale skin, the eyes, or the clothes of the original bearer of the name or the surname may be metonymic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
