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Casper (surname)
Casper is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Anne Casper (born 1965), American diplomat and ambassador *Billy Casper (1931–2015), American golfer *Chris Casper (born 1975), English former footballer and football manager *Dave Casper (born 1951), American professional football player *Drew Casper, American film historian and theorist * Duncan Spears Casper, (1824–1898), early Mormon pioneer and one of the first settlers of Holladay, Utah. *Gerhard Casper (born 1937), ninth president of Stanford University *John Casper (born 1943), astronaut and U.S. Air Force colonel *Siegfried Jost Casper (born 1929), German biologist See also *Donald Caspar (born 1927), American scientist * Joseph Caspar (1799-1847), Swiss painter *Michaela Caspar (born 1960), German actress *Casper (other) Casper may refer to: People * Casper (given name) * Casper (surname) * Casper (Maya ruler) (422–487?), ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque * Tok Casper, first known king ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Casper
Anne S. Casper (born 1965) is an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Burundi from 2016 to 2019. Consular career Casper joined the Foreign Service in 1993. Her early assignments were as political and military officer in Tirana, Albania, as deputy public affairs officer at the Jerusalem consulate and as cultural affairs officer in Damascus, Syria. In 2001, Casper was recalled and given the place of counterterrorism policy officer at the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism. The next year, she was made Arabic media liaison officer in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, a job in which she stayed until 2004, when she was temporarily relieved of her duties to study an M.S. at the National War College. Casper returned to active duty in 2005 and was sent to be public affairs counselor in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2009, she was posted to Kigali, Rwanda where she was deputy chief of mission. While working in Rwanda, her husband, Karl Deringer, won a State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Casper
William Earl Casper Jr. (June 24, 1931 – February 7, 2015) was an American professional golfer. He was one of the most prolific tournament winners on the PGA Tour from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s. In his youth, Casper started as a caddie and emerged from the junior golf hotbed of San Diego, where golf could be played year-round, to rank seventh all-time in career Tour wins with 51, across a 20-year period between 1956 and 1975. Fellow San Diegan great Gene Littler was a friend and rival from teenager to senior. Casper won three major championships, represented the United States on a then-record eight Ryder Cup teams, and holds the U.S. record for career Ryder Cup points won. After reaching age 50, Casper regularly played the Senior PGA Tour and was a winner there until 1989. In his later years, Casper successfully developed businesses in golf course design and management of golf facilities. Casper served as Ryder Cup captain in 1979, was twice PGA Player of the Year ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Casper
Christopher Martin Casper (born 28 April 1975) is an English football manager and former player who is now the director of football at League Two side Salford City. As a player he was a defender who played in the Premier League for Manchester United and in the Football League for AFC Bournemouth, Swindon Town and Reading. An injury forced him to retire from playing in 2000 at the age of 24. Casper proceeded into management and took charge of Team Bath in 2002 before moving to Football League Two club Bury for three years. At the time, he was the youngest manager in the top four tiers of the English football league system. However, a run of poor form in 2008 led to his departure from Bury. Casper then took backroom jobs at Bradford City and Grimsby Town, before joining the Premier League as a club support manager. Early life Casper was born in Burnley, Lancashire, and attended the town's St Theodore's RC High School. He is the son of former Burnley forward and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Casper
David John Casper (born February 2, 1952) nicknamed "the Ghost", is an American former football player best known for being a prominent member of the Oakland Raiders in the National Football League (NFL). He was a tight end and also played as an offensive lineman. Casper has been inducted into both the College Football Hall of Fame (2012) and the Pro Football Hall of Fame (2002). High school Casper spent his first three years of high school at St. Edward Central Catholic High School in Elgin, Illinois, and his senior season was at Chilton High School in Chilton, Wisconsin, 35 miles south of Green Bay. He was a member of the 1969 Chilton team that outscored their opponents 363-0 in eight games. The small-town team was ranked eighth in the state behind the largest schools in the state; there was no playoff system at the time. College career Casper played collegiate football at the University of Notre Dame, where he earned Honorable Mention All-America for the Fighting Irish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drew Casper
Joseph Andrew "Drew" Casper is a Professor of Critical Studies who previously worked at the School of Cinematic Arts as part of the University of Southern California and considered to be an authority on American film from World War II to the present. While a Ph.D. student at USC, Dr. Casper's mentor, Irwin Blacker, died suddenly and the Cinema department offered Dr. Casper a position. Casper rose to become the third-highest-paid person at USC. In the fall of 1997, the estate of Alfred Hitchcock and USC made Dr. Casper the first Alma and Alfred Hitchcock Professor for the Study of American Film. He retired from his role at USC in December 2019 after 47 years. Casper provides a steady stream of DVD commentaries and expertise on films. He is the author of books about Vincente Minnelli, Stanley Donen, a book on Postwar Hollywood 1946–1962., and a volume called Hollywood Film, 1963-1976: Years of Revolution and Reaction. DVDs provided commentary for *''Act of Violence'' *''Advise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan Spears Casper
Duncan Spears Casper (December 8, 1824 – May 20, 1898) was an early Mormon pioneer and one of the first settlers of Holladay, Utah. Casper was in Bellville, Ohio, the son of William Casper and Avarilla Durbin. His mother joined the Campbellites when he was eight years old, and a year later, after Mormon missionaries came through their area, his older brother William Wallace Casper joined the Latter Day Saint Church of Christ. Casper's parents joined two years later and in 1837 they moved the family to Missouri, where they purchased a home.Biography of Duncan Spears Casper Accessed 26 August 2007. Mobs drove the Latter Day Saints from Missouri, and Casper's parents had to leave their home behind. They rented a farm near Fairfield, Illinois, then moved on to Carthage. In 1841, they moved to Nauvoo, where Casper was baptized at age 16. In May 1845, 20-year-old Casper married 24-year-old Matilda Allison, a fellow Ohioan and a descendant of Thomas Miner. The next year, Casper and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holladay, Utah
Holladay is a city in central Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area and abuts the Wasatch National Forest. The population was 31,965 at the 2020 census, a significant increase from 14,561 in 2000 when the first area incorporated from Salt Lake County. The city was incorporated on November 29, 1999, as Holladay-Cottonwood, and the name was shortened to Holladay on December 14 of that year. It was reported in the 1990 census as the Holladay-Cottonwood CDP. History On July 29, 1847 a group of Mormon pioneers (members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) known as the Mississippi Company, among them John Holladay of Alabama, entered the Salt Lake Valley. Within weeks after their arrival, they discovered a free-flowing, spring-fed stream, which they called Spring Creek (near what is now Kentucky Avenue). While most of the group returned to the main settlement in Salt Lake City for the winter, two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Casper
Gerhard Casper (born December 25, 1937) is a political scientist who is a former president of Stanford University from 1992 to 2000, a former Dean of the University of Chicago Law School from 1979 to 1987, and a former provost of the University of Chicago from 1989 to 1992. Casper was president of the American Academy in Berlin from July 2015 through July 2016; from August 2019 to January 24, 2020, he served as the institution's trustee-in-residence. referring to Gerhard Casper's renewed tenure at the American Academy in Berlin Casper is also a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford, and served as the institute's director between September 2012 and June 2013. Casper is also the Peter and Helen Bing Professor in Undergraduate Education, emeritus, and is a professor with emeritus status at Stanford Law School. Biography and academic career Born December 25, 1937, Gerhard Casper grew up in Hamburg, Germany. He earned his first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Casper
John Howard Casper (born July 9, 1943) is a former American astronaut and retired United States Air Force pilot. Early life and education Although born on July 9, 1943, in Greenville, South Carolina, Casper considers Gainesville, Georgia to be his hometown. He was active in the Boy Scouts of America and achieved its second-highest rank, Life Scout. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1966, and a Master of Science degree in Astronautics from Purdue University in 1967. Military career Before he was an astronaut, Casper was a United States Air Force (USAF) fighter pilot, earning his pilot wings at Reese Air Force Base, Texas. After F-100 Super Sabre training at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, he flew 229 combat missions with the 35th Tactical Fighter Wing in the Vietnam War. Following his tour in Vietnam, Casper flew F-100 and F-4 Phantom aircraft while assigned to the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing, Royal A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siegfried Jost Casper
Siegfried Jost Casper (12 January 1929 – 13 June 2021) was a German biologist whose primary research was in limnology and the plant genus '' Pinguicula'' (the butterworts). Together with Heinz-Dieter Krausch he published a basic reference work on the freshwater flora of central Europe. For many years he studied the East German lake Stechlinsee as well as the river Saale. In 1966 he published a monograph of the genus ''Pinguicula'', a work that is still in use today. He described at least 14 new species, most recently ''Pinguicula lippoldii'' and '' Pinguicula toldensis'' in 2007.Casper, S.J. 2007. ''Pinguicula lippoldii'' nova spec. and ''Pinguicula toldensis'' nova spec. – two endemic ''Pinguicula'' species (Lentibulariaceae) from East Cuba new to science. ''Wulfenia'' 14: 75–96. He served as head of the Botanical Garden of the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and from 1990 until his death was a member of the "Akademie Gemeinnütziger Wissenschaften" in Erfurt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Caspar
Donald L. D. Caspar (January 8, 1927 - November 27, 2021) was an American structural biologist (the very term he coined) known for his works on the structures of biological molecules, particularly of the tobacco mosaic virus. He was an emeritus professor of biological science at the Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, and an emeritus professor of biology at the Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University. He has made significant scientific contributions in virus biology, X -ray, neutron and electron diffraction, and protein plasticity. Caspar completed his BA in physics from Cornell University in 1950. He joined Yale University from where he earned his PhD in biophysics in 1955. He was supervised by Ernest C. Pollard. His thesis was on the structure of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) titled ''The Radial Structure of Tobacco Mosaic Virus''. While waiting for his degree he worked under Max Delbrück at the California Institute of Tec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Caspar
Joseph Caspar (born 1799 in Rorschach, Switzerland; died 1880) was a Swiss painter and engraver. When Caspar was 16 he went to Rome and studied there by copying the works of old masters. Following Wilhelm von Schadow's advise Caspar went to Berlin in 1820. In Berlin he settled down as a freelance artist. The privy council of Beuth (German: Geheimrat von Beuth) advised him to specialize in the copper engraving and supported him financially. Therefore, Caspar could be Giuseppe Longhi’s and Pietro Anderloni’s student for about four years in Milan. In 1826 Caspar returned to Berlin Soon he was appointed as a librarian of the Berlin University of the Arts. Works (Sample) * ''Saint Barbara'' (after Giovanni Antonio Beltraffio) * ''Thomas von Savoyen'' (after Anthony van Dyck) * ''Saint Antonius'' (after Bartolomé Esteban Murillo) * ''Nine muses'' (after Karl Wilhelm Wach Karl Wilhelm Wach (also Carl Wilhelm or Wilhelm Wach) (11 September 1787 – 24 November 1845) was a G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
