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Kowarski
The surname Kovarski, Kovarsky, Kowarski, Kowarsky (Russian-language feminine: Kovarskaya, Polish-language feminine: Kowarska) is typically associated with people of Jewish origin. It is a toponymic surname associated with one of the places named Kowary.Евгений Водолазкин, "Дом и остров, или Инструмент языка", p. 185/ref> It may be either transliterated from Russian language (spelled with 'v') or from Polish (spelled with 'w'). The surname may refer to: * Alexander Kovarski (born 1944), Russian chemist * Felicjan Kowarski (1890–1948), Polish painter and sculptor *Kovarska, pen name of Corinne Chochem (1905-1990), Jewish American choreographer and painter * Lee Kovarsky, American legal scholar *Lew Kowarski Lew Kowarski (10 February 1907 – 30 July 1979) was a Russian-French physicist. He was a lesser-known but important contributor to nuclear science. He participated in the British Tube Alloys on early nuclear weapon research. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lew Kowarski
Lew Kowarski (10 February 1907 – 30 July 1979) was a Russian-French physicist. He was a lesser-known but important contributor to nuclear science. He participated in the British Tube Alloys on early nuclear weapon research. After the war he worked at CERN. Early life Lew Kowarski was born in 1907 in Saint Petersburg to Nicholas Kowarski, a businessman and the Ukrainian singer Olga Vlassenko. Following the Bolshevik Revolution, when Lew was 12 years old, his family fled west under adventurous circumstances and settled in Vilnius (then in Poland). During his youth, Lew was a talented musician and considered a music career; however, his fingers grew too large for the keyboard. Education He received a Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Lyon and an Sc.B. and Ph.D. from the University of Paris. His thesis on crystal growth was carried out in Jean Perrin's team, where he met Francis Perrin, Marie Curie and Irène Joliot-Curie. Research career During World War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicjan Kowarski
Felicjan Szczesny Kowarski (8 November 1890 – 22 September 1948) was a Polish painter and sculpture, sculptor, known mostly from his monumental wall paintings and plafonds (e.g. plafond in the ''Hall under the Birds'' at castle of Wawel). His work was part of the Art competitions at the 1936 Summer Olympics#Painting, painting event in the Art competitions at the 1936 Summer Olympics, art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics. See also * Jan Betley References External linksFelicjan Kowarski's gallery at malarze.com 1890 births 1948 deaths 20th-century Polish painters 20th-century Polish male artists Polish male sculptors 20th-century Polish sculptors Art competitors at the 1936 Summer Olympics Polish male painters {{Poland-sculptor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Beider
Alexander Borisovich Beider (, ; , ) is the author of reference books in the field of Jewish onomastics and the linguistic history of Yiddish. Biography Alexander Beider was born in Moscow in 1963. In 1986 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and in 1989 he received a PhD in applied mathematics from the same institution. Since 1990, he lives with his family in Paris, France. His works deal with etymology and geographic distribution of Jewish surnames, traditional Yiddish given names, methodological principles of studying names, and the history of Yiddish. His papers have been published by scholarly journals in US, France, Israel, Poland, and Russia. In 1999, he received his PhD in Jewish studies, from the Sorbonne, with thesis about Ashkenazic Jewry names. He is also the co-author with Stephen P. Morse of the Beider–Morse Phonetic Name Matching Algorithm. Beider "provided historical context on Jewish origins" to a team of genetic researchers study ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toponymic Surname
A toponymic surname or habitational surname or byname is a surname or byname derived from a place name,"Toponymic Surnames as Evidence of the Origin: Some Medieval Views" , by Benjamin Z. Kedar.Last Names and Their Meanings ''ancestry.com'' which included names of specific locations, such as the individual's place of origin, residence, or lands that they held, or, more generically, names that were derived from regional topographic features.Iris Shagrir, "The Medieval Evolution of By-naming: Notions from the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem", ''In Laudem Hierosolymitani'' (Shagrir, Ellenblum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kowary
Kowary () is a town in Karkonosze County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, with a population of around 11,000. It lies approximately south-east of Jelenia Góra, and south-west of the regional capital Wrocław. The town is famed for its sanatoriums and a miniature park displaying architectural monuments of the Lower Silesian region. History The official site of the town dates the history of Kowary dates to 1148 when semi-legendary miner Laurentius Angelus mined iron ore in the location on the behalf of Polish duke Bolesław IV the Curly, ten years later on the orders of the Polish ruler a mining settlement was founded in the area, the official page of the town also states that the Kowary miners took part in Battle of Legnica in 1241. Other possible date of the start of the town is 1355 and connects it to '' Ostsiedlung''. Publications published in German Empire disputed the origin of Kowary and called it 'Schmedewerk'. In 1355 year Duke Bolko II the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Kovarski
Alexander L’vovich Kovarski is a Russian physical chemist, professor, member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and member of American Chemical Society. His main research area is physical chemistry of polymers and composites, magnetic resonance of free radicals and nano-sized systems. Biography Kovarski was born in Moscow on July 2, 1944, into a family of scientists which have made a significant contribution to Russian plastic science and technology. The father, L.V. Pevzner (1904–1988) was among the founders of the first Russian plastics center which devised and promoted to industry new materials that showed resistance to corrosion, oil, water, acids and alkalines. His mother, Professor B.M. Kovarskaya (1912–2006), for a long period headed the first laboratory on plastics aging and stabilization in the Russian chemical industry. Kovarski started intensive research work in 1964 when he was an undergraduate at the Moscow D. Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corinne Chochem
Corinne Chochem (Hebrew: קורין חכם; December 16, 1907 – September 18, 199Ruth P. Schoenberg and Ruth R. Goodman"Israeli Folk Dance Pioneers in North America"/ref> She is credited with the idea for ''A Survivor from Warsaw''. Corinne Chochem was born in Zwanitz (the Yiddish name for Zhvanets), Russian Empire to Esther (née Gendelman) and Mendel Chochem. In 1920 the family emigrated to the United States. In 1950, while studying in Israel, she met Yehoshua Kovarsky (1907-1967), a painter, and married him. At that time she started studying painting. In her later life, after her husband died, she herself became a painter and had several exhibitions under husband's surname Kovarska. Books *1941: (with Muriel Roth) ''Palestine dances!'' () *: The book contains detailed instructions, musical scores, and lyrics for 17 folk dances.Emily Alice Katz, ''Bringing Zion Home: Israel in American Jewish Culture, 1948-1967''p. 54/ref> *1948: ''Jewish holiday dances'' () References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Kovarsky
Lee B. Kovarsky is an American legal scholar. Kovarsky was raised in Houston, and grew up as a fan of the Houston Astros Major League Baseball team. He graduated with a degree in political science and economics from Yale College. He then worked for a startup and planned to go to film school. Instead, he completed a J. D. at the University of Virginia School of Law, became a clerk for Jerry Edwin Smith, and worked in appellate law. Kovarsky returned to academia with a three-year stint as acting assistant professor at the New York University School of Law, then joined the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law for ten years before moving to the University of Texas School of Law in 2020, where he was later appointed Bryant Smith Chair in Law. In 2020, Kovarsky was elected a member of the American Law Institute The American Law Institute (ALI) is a research and advocacy group of judges, lawyers, and legal scholars limited to 3,000 elected members and established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ori Kowarsky
Ori Judd Kowarsky is a Canadian lawyer and filmmaker. His 2002 film, ''Various Positions'', won the Prix de Montréal at the 2002 Montreal World Film Festival The Montreal World Film Festival (), commonly abbreviated MWFF in English or FFM in French, was an annual film festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1977 to 2019.Living people Canadian film directors Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RyanDan
RyanDan (born December 5, 1979) is a Canadian musical, songwriting and producing duo, consisting of identical twins Ryan and Dan Kowarsky, whose music is a mix of pop, opera, and classical. The Kowarsky brothers were originally part of the boy band B4-4 (also known as Before Four). They later worked as a vocal duo known as RyanDan. They have also produced for a number of Canadian artists including Blake McGrath, Danny Fernandes, Tyler Medeiros, Mia Martina, Massari and others. They have also appeared as background vocals for Shania Twain in concert. Career Career beginnings Identical twins Ryan and Dan Kowarsky were born December 5, 1979, in Cincinnati, Ohio to Adele Gould and Paul Kowarsky. The youngest of five children in a Jewish family, they grew up in the Thornhill neighbourhood north of Toronto. Their father, Paul, a South African who attended King David Linksfield (a Jewish day school in Johannesburg, South Africa), is an operatic singer who frequently sang as a ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Kovar
Simon Kovar (May 15, 1890 – January 17, 1970) was a Russian-American bassoonist and one of the first renowned teachers of bassoon in the United States. Biography Born Sĭmon Kovarskí in Vilnius, Russia, Kovar initially enrolled at the St. Petersburg Conservatory as a violin student studying with Leopold Auer. In 1914, Kovar began learning the bassoon with the aim of joining a military band. This move was intended to help avoid being drafted into World War I. Kovar narrowly avoided enterance to the military, and was sent to Riga to play bassoon in the People's Opera Orchestra. Kovar immigrated to the United States in June 1922 and settled in New York City. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed second bassoonist with the newly reformed New York Philharmonic, on the condition that he take regular lessons with the orchestra’s principal bassoonist, Benjamin Kohon. Kovar developed into a consistent player during a time of unrest in the philharmonic, occasionally playing first bass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirk Karwoski
Kirk Karwoski is an American world champion powerlifter. Kirk is a 7 time USPF National Powerlifting Champion, a 6 time IPF World Powerlifting Champion and an IPF Junior World Powerlifting Champion. Kirk is widely considered one of the greatest squatters in the history of powerlifting, he currently holds the International Powerlifting Federation The International Powerlifting Federation is an international governing body for the sport of powerlifting as recognized by the General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF). The IPF was founded in 1972, and comprises member f ... equipped world record in the squat of 455 kg.(1,003 lbs.) in the 125 kg. weight class which was set in 1995. Leading up to that competition he squatted that 1000 lbs. for 2 reps in training. Many people recognize Kirk's 800lbs x 5 raw squat to be the most impressive set in history, as he wasn't even at his max weight at the time. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
