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Finnish Society Of Sciences And Letters
The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters (, , ) is a Finnish learned society for natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. It is a bilingual (Swedish and Finnish) science academy and the oldest of the four science academies in Finland. The society was founded in 1838 and is based in Helsinki. It has a total of 120 full ordinary Finnish members, excluding members who have reached the age of 67 (a member who reaches the age of 67 retains the rights as a member but leaves his or her chair open for election of a new member), and about 120 foreign members. It is divided into four sections: I: mathematics and physics, II: biosciences, III: humanities, and IV: social sciences. The society publishes a yearbook, ''Sphinx'', and the book series ''Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum'', ''Commentationes Scientiarum Socialium'', ''Bidrag till kännedom av Finlands natur och folk'' and ''The History of Learning and Science in Finland 1828-1918''. It also awards a number of prizes a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, opposite Estonia. Finland has a population of 5.6 million. Its capital and largest city is Helsinki. The majority of the population are Finns, ethnic Finns. The official languages are Finnish language, Finnish and Swedish language, Swedish; 84.1 percent of the population speak the first as their mother tongue and 5.1 percent the latter. Finland's climate varies from humid continental climate, humid continental in the south to boreal climate, boreal in the north. The land cover is predominantly boreal forest biome, with List of lakes of Finland, more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first settled around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period, last Ice Age. During the Stone Age, various cultures emerged, distinguished by differen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juhani Kantele
Juhani is a common Finnish male given name and Arabic surname. Given name * Juhani Aaltonen (born 1935), Finnish jazz saxophonist and flautist * Juhani Aho, Finnish author and journalist * Juhani Kaskeala, Finnish admiral and Chief of Defense of the Finnish Defense Forces from 2001-2009 * Juhani Komulainen, Finnish composer * Juhani Kumpulainen, Finnish actor and director * Juhani Lahtinen, Finnish ice hockey player * Juhani "Juice" Leskinen (1950–2006), Finnish musician * Juhani Ojala, Finnish professional footballer * Juhani Pallasmaa, Finnish architect and former professor of architecture and dean at the Helsinki University of Technology * Juhani Peltonen, Finnish association footballer * Juhani Suutarinen, Finnish biathlete * Juhani Tamminen, Finnish ice hockey player * Juhani Tamminen (ice hockey, born 1989), Finnish ice hockey player * Juhani Wahlsten, Finnish ice hockey player and coach Surname * Khalid al-Juhani, Saudi al-Qaeda member * Ma'bad al-Juhani, Isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikko Paalanen
Mikko is a Finnish masculine given name and equivalent of the English name Michael, having been borrowed into the Finnic languages. The given name Mikko is shared by the following notable people: * Mikko Alatalo, Finnish musician and politician * Mikko Eloranta, Finnish ice hockey left winger * Mikko Franck, Finnish conductor * Mikko Heiniö, Finnish composer * Mikko Hirvonen, Finnish World Rally Championship driver * Mikko Hyppönen, Finnish security guru and author * Mikko Ilonen, Finnish golfer * Mikko Juva, Finnish historian, theologian, and archbishop * Mikko Kavén, Finnish footballer * Mikko Koivu, Finnish ice hockey centre * Mikko Kolehmainen, Finnish flatwater canoer * Mikko Korhonen, Finnish golfer * Mikko Koskinen, Finnish ice hockey goaltender * Mikko Larkas, Finnish basketball coach * Mikko Leppilampi, Finnish actor and musician * Mikko Lindström, guitarist for Finnish band HIM * Mikko Nissinen, Finnish ballet dancer and current director of Boston Ballet * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrik Lilius
Henrik is a male given name of Germanic origin, primarily used in Scandinavia, Finland, Estonia, Hungary and Slovenia. In Poland, the name is spelt Henryk but pronounced similarly. Equivalents in other languages are Henry (English), Heiki (Estonian), Heikki (Finnish), Henryk (Polish), Hendrik (Dutch and Estonian), Heinrich (German), Enrico (Italian), Henri (French), Enrique (Spanish) and Henrique (Portuguese). It means 'Ruler of the home' or 'Lord of the house'. Notable people named Henrik include: * Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark (1934–2018) * Prince Henrik of Denmark (born 2009) * Henrik Agerbeck (born 1956), Danish footballer * Henrik Andersson (badminton) (born 1977), Swedish player * Henrik Bull (other), several people * Henrik Christiansen (other), several people * Henrik Dagård (born 1969), Swedish decathlete * Henrik Dam (1895–1976), Danish biochemist, physiologist and Nobel laureate * Henrik Dettmann (born 1958), Finnish basketball coac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorma Tuominiemi
Jorma can refer to: *Jorma (name) ''Jorma'' is a Finnish male given name. It was very popular in Finland in the 1940s and 1950s. It is a Finnish version of the name ''Jeremiah''. The name day In Christianity, a name day is a tradition in many countries of Europe and the Americas ..., Finnish given name * Jorma (album), released by Kaukonen in 1979 {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juha Äystö
Juha is a masculine given name of Finnish origin derived from Johannes (or John in English language contexts). Notable people with the name include: * Juha Alén, Finnish ice hockey player * Juha Gustafsson, Finnish ice hockey player * Juha Hakola, Finnish association footballer * Juha Harju, Finnish singer * Juha Haukkala, Finnish freestyle skier * Juha Hautamäki, Finnish speedway rider * Juha Helppi, Finnish poker player * Juha Hernesniemi, Finnish neurosurgeon and professor * Juha Hirvi, Finnish sport shooter * Juha Hurme, Finnish playwright, director and writer * Juha Ikonen, Finnish ice hockey player * Juha Isolehto, Finnish high jumper * Juha Janhunen, Finnish linguist * Juha Jokela, Finnish playwright and scriptwriter * Juha Järvenpää, Finnish ice hockey player * Juha Kankkunen, Finnish former rally driver * Juha Kaunismäki, Finnish-born Norwegian ice hockey defenseman * Juha Kilpiä, Finnish diplomat and former military officer * Juha Kivi, Finnish long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Engman
Max Robert Engman (27 September 1945 – 19 March 2020) was a Finnish historian and translator. Engman was born in Helsinki. Engman, who from 1968–1973 was an official at the Finnish national archives in Helsinki, published in 1983 a much-noticed dissertation about St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601, ... and Finland. In 1985, he was appointed professor in general history at Åbo Akademi. Engman's research foremost studied the Finnish–Russian relations and the European empires. He also studied constitutional issues and the administration. His contributions as a subeditor for '' Historisk Tidskrift för Finland'' from 1971–1982 and the journal's editor in chief from 1982–2000 are considered as great. He died in Helsinki in 2020. Bibliography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesa Ruuskanen
VESA (), formally known as Video Electronics Standards Association, is an American technical standards organization for computer display standards. The organization was incorporated in California in July 1989To retrieve the information, search for Entity Number C1645094. and has its office in San Jose. It claims a membership of over 300 companies. In November 1988, NEC Home Electronics announced its creation of the association to develop and promote a Super VGA computer display standard as a successor to IBM's proprietary Video Graphics Array (VGA) display standard. Super VGA enabled graphics display resolutions up to 800×600 pixels, compared to VGA's maximum resolution of 640×480 pixels—a 56% increase. The organization has since issued several additional standards related to computer video displays. Widely used VESA standards include DisplayHDR, DisplayPort, and Flat Display Mounting Interface. Standards * Feature connector (VFC), obsolete connector that was often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kari Tarkiainen
Kari Valtteri Tarkiainen (born 14 June 1938 in Helsinki) is a Finnish historian and archivist, who served as the national archivist of Finland 1996–2003. He is a grandson of the scholar Viljo Tarkiainen and his wife, writer Maria Jotuni. Tarkiainen has had a career in the world of archives both in Finland and Sweden. From 1971 he was employed in the Swedish National Archives in Stockholm. He finished his career as archivist in Helsinki as chief of the National Archives of Finland 1996–2003. Tarkiainen became a PhD in 1974 with a dissertation on the view of Russia in Sweden during the early great power era. He is a specialist in medieval history, and has formed the conception of the Finnish reformer Mikael Agricola. Amongst his most important works are a history of Finnish migration to Sweden, ''Finnarnas historia i Sverige 1-2'' (1990–93), and ''Sveriges Österland från forntiden till Gustav Vasa Gustav Eriksson Vasa (12 May 1496 – 29 September 1560), also know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keijo Kajantie
Keijo Olavi Kajantie (born 1940) is a Finnish theoretical physicist and Professor and Adjoint Scientist at the Helsinki Institute of Physics. He was Professor of Physics at the University of Helsinki from 1973 to 2008. From 1985 to 1990 he was a Research Professor of the Academy of Finland and he has worked in the CERN Theory Division. He is best known for his contributions to the study of the electroweak and strong interactions at high temperatures, as well as to the field of ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions. His research interests include ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions, finite temperature field theory, string theory and QCD matter, cosmological phase transitions and null infinity in general relativity. Honours and awards Kajantie was awarded the Finnish Academy of Science Award in 2008 and the Order of the Lion of Finland in 2012. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osmo Jussila
Osmo Tapio Jussila (14 March 1938 in Haukipudas – 15 March 2019), was a Finnish historian. Jussila was 1980-83 assistant professor in political history at Helsinki University and professor 1983-2001. He had in his research treated foremost the Finland–Russia relations Relations between Finland and Russia have been conducted over many centuries, from Great Northern War#1710.E2.80.931721: Finland, wars between Sweden and Russia in the early 18th century, to the Treaty of Tilsit, planned and Diet of Porvoo, realiz .... ''Suomen tie 1944-1948'' is a research about the acts of the Finnish communist party after the second world war. Publications * ''Nationalismi ja vallankumous venäläis-suomalaisissa suhteissa 1899-1914'' (1979) * ''Terijoen hallitus 1939-40'' (1985) * ''Suomen tie 1944-1948'' (1990) References * '' Uppslagsverket Finland'', 2 (2004) {{DEFAULTSORT:Jussila, Osmo 1938 births 2019 deaths People from Haukipudas 20th-century Finnish historians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matti Krusius
Matti may refer to: * Matti (given name), people with the given name * Matti (surname), people with the surname * Matti, Karnataka, a village in India * '' Matti: Hell Is for Heroes'', a 2006 film about Matti Nykänen See also * Masa (other) Masa is type of dough made from corn. Masa or MASA may also refer to: People with the given name * masa (まさ), a producer from Japan who mostly utilizes Vocaloid. * Masa (musician), stage name of a Japanese musician *, Japanese-American song ... * Mati (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
