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Frenkel
Frenkel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aaron G. Frenkel (born 1957), Israeli entrepreneur and philanthropist * Alexander Frenkel (born 1985), German boxer of Ukrainian origin * (1895–1984), Polish painter * Daan Frenkel (born 1948), Dutch computational physicist * Danielle Frenkel (born 1987), Israeli high jumper *Douglas Frenkel, American law professor * Edward Frenkel (born 1968), mathematician and filmmaker * Heinrich Frenkel (1860–1931), Swiss physician * Hermann Frenkel (1850–1932), partner of the Jacquier and Securius Bank * Igor Frenkel (born 1952), Russian-American mathematician * Israel Frenkel (1853–1890), Polish-Jewish translator * Jacob A. Frenkel (born 1943), Israeli economist and businessman * James Frenkel (born 1948), American science fiction book editor * Maja Ruth Frenkel (born 1971), Croatian entrepreneur and politician * Naftaly Frenkel (1883–1960), Soviet official * Peter Frenkel (1939), East German race walker * Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yitzhak Frenkel
Yitzhak Frenkel ( he, יצחק פרנקל; 1899–1981), also known as Alexandre Frenel, was an Israeli painter and sculptor, seen as the father of modern art in Israel. One of the most important Jewish artists of the l’École de Paris and its chief practitioner in Israel, gaining international recognition during his lifetime and exhibiting his work across the world. Considered the father of modern Israeli art. He is accredited with bringing the influence of the l’École de Paris to Israel, which until then was dominated by Orientalism. Early life: Odessa 1899-1919 Yitzhak Frenkel was born in 1899 in Odessa, Russian Empire. He was a great-grandson of the famous Rabbi Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev. In his youth he studied in a yeshiva where he met Chaim Glicksberg. As a child he lived right next to Bialik's and Rawnitzki's publishing house "Moriah". In 1917, he studied under Aleksandra Ekster, an influential constructivist, cubist and futurist teacher and painter at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yakov Frenkel
__NOTOC__ Yakov Il'ich Frenkel (russian: Яков Ильич Френкель; 10 February 1894 – 23 January 1952) was a Soviet physicist renowned for his works in the field of condensed matter physics. He is also known as Jacov Frenkel, frequently using the name J. Frenkel in publications in English. Early years He was born to a Jewish family in Rostov on Don, in the Don Host Oblast of the Russian Empire on 10 February 1894. His father was involved in revolutionary activities and spent some time in internal exile to Siberia; after the danger of pogroms started looming in 1905, the family spent some time in Switzerland, where Yakov Frenkel began his education. In 1912, while studying in the Karl May Gymnasium in St. Petersburg, he completed his first physics work on the earth's magnetic field and atmospheric electricity. This work attracted Abram Ioffe's attention and later led to collaboration with him. He considered moving to the USA (which he visited in the summer of 1913 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naftaly Frenkel
Naftaly Aronovich Frenkel (russian: Нафталий Аронович Френкель; 1883 in Haifa – 1960 in Moscow) was a Soviet security officer and member of the Soviet secret police. Frenkel is best known for his role in the organisation of work in the Gulag, starting from the forced labor camp of the Solovetsky Islands, which is recognised as one of the earliest sites of the Gulag. Origins Naftaly Frenkel's origins are uncertain. The given name Naftaly is of Hebrew origin, as are the roots of the family name Aronovich. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn called him a "Turkish Jew born in Constantinople". Another described him as a "Hungarian manufacturer". Yet another claimed that Frenkel came from Odessa.Shiryaev, Boris, ''Neugasimaya lampada'', Moscow, 1991, p. 137-148 Yet more said he was from Austria, or Palestine. His prisoner registration card states clearly that he was born in Haifa, then part of the Ottoman Empire. From Haifa he made his way (perhaps via Odessa, perhaps via ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Frenkel
Edward Vladimirovich Frenkel (; born May 2, 1968) is a Russian-American mathematician working in representation theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics. He is a professor of mathematics at University of California, Berkeley, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and author of the bestselling book ''Love and Math''. Biography Edward Frenkel was born on May 2, 1968, in Kolomna, Russia, which was then part of the Soviet Union. His father is of Jewish descent and his mother is Russian. As a high school student he studied higher mathematics privately with Evgeny Evgenievich Petrov, although his initial interest was in quantum physics rather than mathematics. He was not admitted to Moscow State University because of discrimination against Jews and enrolled instead in the applied mathematics program at the Gubkin University of Oil and Gas. While a student there, he attended the seminar of Israel Gelfand and worked with Boris Feigin and Dmitry Fuchs. After r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daan Frenkel
Daan Frenkel One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 1948, Amsterdam) is a Dutch computational physicist in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Education Frenkel completed his PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 1977 in experimental physical chemistry. Career and research Frenkel worked as postdoctoral research fellow in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), subsequently at Shell and at the University of Utrecht. Between 1987 and 2007, Frenkel carried out his research at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) in Amsterdam where he has been employed since 1987. In the same period, he was appointed (part-time) professor at the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam. From 2011 to 2015 he was Head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Since 2007 he is a Professor of Chemistry at the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Frenkel
Aaron G. Frenkel (born September 9, 1957 in Israel) is an international entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. Career Since the 1980s, Frenkel has been the owner of the Loyd's Group, a company that engaged in investments, property and real estate. energy, high-tech and the aerospace industry. Frenkel established the Loyd's Group as a representative of the main commercial civil aviation industry manufacturers (O.E.M.) in Central & Eastern Europe as The Boeing Company, Airbus SE, Gulfstream Aerospace, Agusta, Embraer and others. The company is estimated to have been involved in investments and transactions worth over 35 billion dollars during the last 25 years. Aaron Frenkel is also a real estate magnate who owns numerous properties around the world. In 2020, Frankel acquired control in Gav-Yam real estate company, one of the largest and oldest in israely real estate sector. In December 2021, he sold his holdings in Gav-Yam to Property & Building Corp. Ltd. (PBC) at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maja Ruth Frenkel
Maja Ruth Frenkel (born Maja Brinar; 14 April 1971) is a Croatian entrepreneur and former deputy of Croatian Minister of Economy. Education and career Frenkel was born in Zagreb on April 14, 1971. She finished elementary school and Gymnasium in Zagreb. From 1991 to 1992 she attended economy studies at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. In 1994 Frenkel graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb. From 1998 to 2000 she worked at Agrokor as the head of the finance department and board member. From 2000 to 2002 Frenkel served as deputy of Minister of Economy Goranko Fižulić, responsible for the privatization of public companies. Frenkel worked at several other Croatian companies: from 1998 to 2008 she was a member of the supervisory board at DIP Turopolje d.d., from 1997 to 2000 member of the supervisory board at Ledo d.d., in 2000 member of the supervisory board at Jadranski naftovod d.d., from 1999 to 2006 member of the supervisory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Frenkel
James Raymond Frenkel (born 1948) is an American editor and agent of science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, thrillers, historical fiction, and other books, formerly for Tom Doherty Associates (Tor Books and Forge Books). He has edited numerous prominent authors such as Vernor Vinge, Joan D. Vinge, Frederik Pohl, Andre Norton, Loren D. Estleman, Dan Simmons, Jack Williamson, Timothy Zahn, Marie Jakober and Greg Bear. His agency clients include John C. Wright and L. Jagi Lamplighter. He and his wife, author Joan D. Vinge lived in Madison, Wisconsin for many years, but have moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In 1968, Frenkel founded The Science Fiction Forum at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, a student-run organization which continues to operate a large lending library of science fiction, fantasy, and horror books. He was the publisher of Bluejay Books, an independent trade publisher of the mid-1980s. Bluejay Books published Gardner Dozois's ''The Year's Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Frenkel
Heinrich Simon Frenkel (June 5, 1860, in Heiden, Switzerland – April 21, 1931, in Dresden- Loschwitz) was a Swiss physician and neurologist born in Heiden, a town overlooking Lake Constance. He was an early practitioner of neuro-rehabilitation, advocating a regimen of special exercises for patients with neurological disorders. Biography He studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg and Leipzig, and was a student of neurologist Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (1840–1921). In 1884 he earned his degree at Leipzig, afterwards returning to Heiden to practice medicine. At Heiden he rented a house in "Cure Park" and filled it with specialized exercise equipment. Here he established a center of physical medicine and rehabilitation, where patients with neurological impairments could reinstate dexterity and improve mobility. Frenkel achieved great success with therapeutic exercises for cerebellar ataxia and ataxia. This success eventually attracted patients from all parts of E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Frenkel
Richard "Rick" G. Frenkel (born 1966 or 1967 Michael Orey BusinessWeek, March 27, 2008. Consulted on April 4, 2008.) was an in-house intellectual property counsel and director of intellectual property at Cisco Systems.Asher Hawkins''Shut Up, Already!'' Forbes.com, March 11, 2008. Retrieved on March 15, 2008.Michelle Massey''Patent troll tracker sued for defamation'' The Southeast Texas Record, March 13, 2008. Retrieved on March 15, 2008. He was once the anonymous author of the Patent Troll Tracker blog, focusing on the subject of "patent trolls" and "a must-read blog among top intellectual property litigators". Dispute In October 2007, Frenkel posted anonymous comments through his Patent Troll Tracker blog about a patent infringement case in which Cisco was the defendant. Frenkel claimed that the plaintiff, a company named ESN, filed a lawsuit one day before the patent in the lawsuit was issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (which if true would have meant that ESN did no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danielle Frenkel
Danielle Frenkel ( he, דניאל פרנקל; born September 8, 1987) is an Israeli high jumper. She was the first female Israeli to clear 1.90 meters, and the only woman who cleared more than 1.90 meters in international competition. Biography Danielle Frenkel was interested in being a professional dancer, and trained for years as a teenager with the Bat-Dor Dance Company. Two months after she began her army service, as a guide at Yad Vashem (a memorial to Jewish victims of the Holocaust), Israeli high jump coach Anatoly Shafran, who had seen her jump in a high school competition when she was 14, began an effort to convince her to jump competitively. She is a law student at the Interdisciplinary Center. Her nickname is the “Gravity Bender”. High jumping career In 2007, when Frenkel began her training with Shafran, she jumped 1.69 meters. In each of the next two years, she improved her personal best by 6 centimeters, jumping 1.81 meters in 2009. Her breakthrough year was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Frenkel
Israel Frenkel (; 18 September 1853 – 1890) was a Polish-Jewish Hebraist, translator, and educator. Biography Frenkel was born in Radom, Poland in 1853. His mother, Neḥama , was a descendant of Yaakov Yitzḥak of Lublin, and his father, Shraga Frenkel, came from a scholarly Hasidic family. He studied Talmudic literature under Rabbi Samuel Mohilever, at the same time studying Hebrew, German, and French. An early member of the Hibbat Zion movement, Frenkel became close friends with Mohilever, as well as with and Nahum Sokolow. he founded a Talmud Torah in Radom in 1882, which emphasized the study of both Judaic and secular subjects. His translations into Hebrew include Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's drama ''Miss Sara Sampson'', under the title ''Sara bat Shimshon'' (Warsaw, 1887); the songs in metric verse in David Radner's translation of Schiller's ''Wilhelm Tell'' (Vilna, 1878); and 's drama ''Esterka'', under the title ''Masʾa Ester'' (Warsaw, 1889), the heroine of w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
