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Jaccard (other)
Jaccard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Auguste Jaccard (1833–1895), Swiss geologist and paleontologist * Fernand Jaccard (1907–2008), Swiss footballer * James Jaccard (born 1949), American psychologist and social work researcher * Marius Jaccard (1898–1978), Swiss ice hockey player * Mark Jaccard (born 1955) Canadian economist and academic * Jacques Jaccard (1886–1960), American director * (born 1964), 1990 winner of the Swiss bike race Giro del Mendrisiotto * Paul Jaccard Paul Jaccard (18 November 1868 in Sainte-Croix, Switzerland, Sainte-Croix – 9 May 1944 in Zurich) was a professor of botany and plant physiology at the ETH Zurich. He studied at the University of Lausanne and ETH Zurich (PhD 1894). He continued s ... (1868–1944), Swiss botanist and academic * Richard Alonzo Jaccard (1918–1942), U.S. Navy ensign, USS ''Jaccard'' was named after him * Roland Jaccard (1941–2021), Swiss writer and psychologist * Francis Jaccard (1745 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Jaccard
Auguste Jaccard (6 July 1833, in Culliairy near Sainte-Croix – 5 January 1895, in Le Locle) was a Swiss geologist and paleontologist. His scientific research, for the most part, was associated with the Jura Mountains. In around 1845, he moved with his father to Le Locle, where the elder Jaccard opened a guilloché workshop that was later managed by his son. As a geologist, Auguste Jaccard was self-taught, having Oswald Heer and Pierre Jean Édouard Desor as important influences to his career. In 1856 he released his first publication, a treatise on fossils found in the basin of Le Locle.Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz biography From 1861 he was a member of the geological survey group of the ''Société helvétique des sciences naturelles'' (Swiss Society of Natural Sciences), tasked with mapping the western part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernand Jaccard
Fernand Alfred Jaccard (8 October 1907 – 15 April 2008) was a Swiss footballer and manager. He played as midfielder. He was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds and died in Lutry. Playing career Jaccard played his youth football with Étoile-Sporting and advanced to their first team in 1924. He stayed with Étoile-Sporting, who were playing in the Swiss Serie A, for two seasons. He then moved on to lower tier CS La Tour de Peilz and stayed there for nine seasons. Jaccard was called up to the Swiss national team in the 1933–34 season and played in the 1934 FIFA World Cup. After returning from Italy he was surprised by the fact that the club had transferred him to FC Montreux-Sports without him being involved or even knowing about it. Jaccard then played this one season for Montreux-Sports and at the end of the season he forced a transfer to Basel. Jaccard joined Basel's first team, with German trainer Alwin Riemke, in their 1935–36 season. Jaccard played his domestic league debu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Jaccard
James Jay Jaccard (born September 13, 1949) is an American psychologist and social work researcher. He is a Professor Emeritus of Social Work at New York University's Silver School of Social Work. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1976. He helped to design the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (also known as Add Health). In 2016, he was inducted into the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare The American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (abbreviated AASWSW) is an honor society of American scholars and practitioners in the field of social work and social welfare. The academy was established in 2009, and its office is located .... Dr. Jaccard was ranked second among social work scholars worldwide for lifetime productivity, quality, and impact, according to ScholarGPS’ Highly Ranked Scholars 2022. References External linksFaculty page*Profileat Social Psychology NetworkAuthor James-Jacc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marius Jaccard
Marius Jaccard (27 March 1898 – 19 January 1978) was a Swiss ice hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics and in the 1924 Winter Olympics The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games (french: Iers Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Chamonix 1924 ( frp, Chamôni 1924), were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France .... In 1920 he participated with the Swiss ice hockey team in the Summer Olympics tournament. Four years later he was also a member of the Swiss team in the first Winter Olympics tournament. References External links * Marius Jaccard's profile at Sports Reference.com 1898 births 1978 deaths Ice hockey people from Geneva Ice hockey players at the 1920 Summer Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1924 Winter Olympics Lausanne HC players Olympic ice hockey players for Switzerland {{Switzerland-icehockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Jaccard
Mark Kenneth Jaccard (born April 12, 1955) is a Canadian energy economist and author. He develops and applies models that assess sustainability policies for energy and material. Jaccard is a professor of sustainable energy in the School of Resource and Environmental Management (REM) at Simon Fraser University. Biography Jaccard was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. His PhD is from the Energy Economics and Policy Institute at the University of Grenoble (now called Université Grenoble Alpes). Jaccard has been a professor at Simon Fraser University since 1986, where he teaches courses in environment and resource economics, sustainable energy and materials, and energy and materials economic and policy modeling. His research focuses on the development and application of energy-economy-emissions models that simulate the likely effects of sustainable energy policies. He has over 100 academic publications. He advises governments, industry and non-government organizations around t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Jaccard
Jacques Jaccard (September 11, 1886 – July 24, 1960) was an American film director, writer and actor whose achievements in cinema were mostly in silent film. He directed 86 films and wrote scripts for 80 films. The best-known of his films as a director was '' The Diamond from the Sky'' (1915). Biography Jaccard told reporters he was born in New York City and educated in France. He moved back to the U.S. around 1913 and began a career as an actor and assistant director, specializing in western and action films at Universal early on. In the mid-1920s, after returning from serving in World War I, he began working for lower-rent studios such as Goodwill Pictures, Syndicate Pictures, and Arrow Pictures. When movies with sound became popular, Jaccard's career went downhill; he directed his last film, '' Señor Jim'', in 1936. After that, he worked as a screenwriter and dialogue director. In 1940, he rejoined Universal's serial department as a dialogue coach, working on popular se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giro Del Mendrisiotto
Giro del Mendrisiotto is a road bicycle race held annually around Mendrisio, in the canton of Ticino of Switzerland. The race was an amateur competition until 1996. Since 2005, it is organized as a 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale The ''Union Cycliste Internationale'' (UCI; ; en, International Cycling Union) is the world gove .... In 2010 the race was excluded from the UCI calendar, once again becoming a national event. Winners External linksVelo Club Mendrisio home page {{DEFAULTSORT:Giro Del Mendrisiotto Recurring sporting events established in 1933 1933 establishments in Switzerland UCI Europe Tour races Cycle races in Switzerland Spring (season) events in Switzerland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Jaccard
Paul Jaccard (18 November 1868 in Sainte-Croix – 9 May 1944 in Zurich) was a professor of botany and plant physiology at the ETH Zurich. He studied at the University of Lausanne and ETH Zurich (PhD 1894). He continued studies in Paris with Gaston Bonnier. He developed the Jaccard index of similarity (he called it ''coefficient de communauté'') and published it in 1901.Jaccard, P. (1901) Distribution de la flore alpine dans le bassin des Dranses et dans quelques régions voisines. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 37, 241-272. He also introduced the use of the species-to-genus ratio (he called it ''generic coefficient'') in biogeography.Jaccard, P. (1901) Étude comparative de la distribution florale dans une portion des Alpes et des Jura. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 37, 547-579. In the 1920s, Paul Jaccard engaged in a dispute with the Finnish botanist and phytogeographer Alvar Palmgren Alvar Palmgren (28 April 1880 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Alonzo Jaccard
USS ''Jaccard'' (DE-355) was a acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. The primary purpose of the destroyer escort was to escort and protect ships in convoy, in addition to other tasks as assigned, such as patrol or radar picket. Post-war, she returned home with one battle star to her credit. Namesake Richard Alonzo Jaccard was born on 1 July 1918 in Troy, Missouri. He enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve on 29 October 1940. He later underwent flight training and upon graduation was commissioned Ensign on 27 September 1941. Reporting to the carrier in April 1942, Ensign Jaccard later took part in the Battle of Midway. Flying as a wingman to Lieutenant Commander C. Wade McClusky during his dive attack he apparently mistook his undercarriage lever for the wing-brake lever and slowed his plane by lowering his wheels instead of his brake flaps. While he missed his target on that dive, he is credited with a hit on the Imperial Japanese Navy carrier ''Hiryū'' (later the sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Jaccard
Roland Jaccard (22 September 1941 – 20 September 2021) was a Swiss writer, journalist, and literary critic. References 1941 births 2021 deaths 2021 suicides People from Lausanne Swiss male writers Male journalists Swiss literary critics Le Monde writers University of Lausanne alumni Drug-related suicides in France 20th-century Swiss journalists 21st-century Swiss journalists 20th-century male writers 21st-century male writers {{Switzerland-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Jaccard
The Vietnamese Martyrs ( Vietnamese: ''Các Thánh Tử đạo Việt Nam''; French: ''Martyrs du Viêt Nam''), also known as the Martyrs of Annam, Martyrs of Tonkin and Cochinchina, Martyrs of Indochina, or Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions (Anrê Dũng-Lạc và các bạn tử đạo), are saints on the General Roman Calendar who were canonized by Pope John Paul II. On June 19, 1988, thousands of Overseas Vietnamese worldwide gathered at the Vatican for the Celebration of the Canonization of 117 Vietnamese Martyrs, an event chaired by Monsignor Tran Van Hoai. Their memorial is on November 24 (although several of these saints have another memorial, having been beatified and on the calendar prior to the canonization of the group). History The Vatican estimates the number of Vietnamese martyrs at between 130,000 and 300,000. John Paul II decided to canonize both those whose names are known and unknown, giving them a single feast day. The Vietnamese Martyrs fall into several groupi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
