Freidel
Freidel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *David Freidel (born 1946), American archaeologist * Frank Freidel (1916–1993), American historian *Laurent Freidel (), French physicist See also *Friedel Friedel or Friedl is a Southern German diminutive variation of the surname Fried - or alternately, a diminutive of Elfriede - and may refer to: Four French scientists with the same Friedel family name are in direct lineage, Charles, Georges, ...

Frank Freidel
Frank Burt Freidel Jr. (May 22, 1916 – January 25, 1993) was an American historian, the first major biographer of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and one of the first scholars to work on his papers stored in the Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York. Biography Freidel was born in Brooklyn, New York of Quaker parents, Edith (Heacock) and Frank Burt Freidel. He was raised in Plattsburgh, New York and parts of Southern California as his father struggled to support the family during the Great Depression. He received his B.A. (1937) and M.A. (1939) from the University of Southern California, then pursued his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, under the direction of William B. Hesseltine, graduating in 1942. His doctoral thesis was on 19th-century jurist Francis Lieber. His contemporaries at Wisconsin included Richard N. Current and T. Harry Williams, who later collectively authored with Freidel a U.S. history textbook, ''A History of the United States ...
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Laurent Freidel
Laurent Freidel is a French theoretical physics, theoretical physicist and mathematical physics, mathematical physicist known mainly for his contributions to quantum gravity, including loop quantum gravity, spin foam models, doubly special relativity, group field theory, relative locality and most recently metastring theory. He is currently a faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Freidel received his PhD in 1994 from the École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENSL) in Lyon, France. He stayed at ENSL officially as a research scientist for 12 years, until 2006. During that time he also held a postdoctoral position at Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania, State College, Pennsylvania, United States from 1997 to 1999 and an adjunct professor position at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada from 2002 to 2009. In 2006 he joined Perimeter Institute as its ninth faculty member. ...
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David Freidel
David Freidel (born 1946) is a U.S. archaeologist who studies the ancient Maya. He is known for his research at El Perú-Waka’ and his books with epigrapher Linda Schele. He is professor emeritus in the Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his B.A. from Harvard University with a senior honors thesis "Comparative analysis of the Mesolithic and prepottery Neolithic cultures of Palestine" and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1976 for a thesis "Late postclassic settlement patterns on Cozumel Island, Quintana Roo, Mexico " He is the author of (partial bibliography): * Freidel, David A., Linda Schele, and Joy Parker. ''Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path.'' New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001. ** Spanish translation: Freidel, David A., MacDuff Everton, Justin Kerr, Joy Parker, and Linda Schele. ''El cosmos maya: tres mil años por la senda de los chamanes''. México, D.F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2000. * Freidel, David, ...
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