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Kroll
Kroll or Kröll is a German, Anglo-Saxon, and Scottish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Academia * Josef Kroll (1889–1980), German classical philologist and university rector * Judith F. Kroll, American college professor in California * Wilhelm Kroll (1869–1939), German philologist Entertainment * Jack Kroll (c. 1928 – 2000), American drama and film critic * Leon Kroll (1884–1974), American painter * Lucy Kroll (1909–1997), American theatrical and literary agent * Natasha Kroll (1914–2004), Moscow-born display and production designer in Germany * Nick Kroll (born 1978), American actor and comedian, son of Jules Kroll * William Kroll (1901–1980), American violinist and composer Religion * Leopold Kroll (1874–1946), missionary bishop of the Missionary District of Liberia * Una Kroll (1925-2017), British nun, missionary doctor, and campaigner for women's ordination * Woodrow M. Kroll (born 1944), American evangelist, principal of the ''Back t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Kroll
Wolfgang Kroll (March 21, 1906 – February 28, 1992) was a physicist, born in Greifswald, northern Germany, who received his doctorate in physics from the University of Breslau in 1930. He spent the next few years in Leipzig conducting postdoctoral research with Werner Heisenberg. Due to the power of the Nazi Party, Kroll left Germany in 1937 to teach in Hokkaido, Japan, and then arrived in the Japanese state of Taipei in 1941, where he taught at the Preparatory Department of the Imperial University of Taipei. After the war, Kroll was invited to transfer to the Department of Physics at National Taiwan University. He was promoted to Associate Professor and then to Professor. He was the first full-time professor in Taiwan to hold a doctorate in theoretical physics after the war. Afterward, he was invited to teach in the Physics Department of Tunghai University. In August 1976, Kroll retired from the Department of Physics at National Taiwan University and became an honorary profess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Kroll
Nicholas Kroll (born June 5, 1978) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He is known for the FX (TV channel), FX comedy series ''The League'' (2009–2015), creating and starring in the Comedy Central series ''Kroll Show'' (2013–2015), and starring in and co-creating the animated Netflix series ''Big Mouth (American TV series), Big Mouth'' (2017–2025) and ''Human Resources (TV series), Human Resources'' (2022–2023) and the Hulu sketch comedy series ''History of the World, Part II'' (2023). He has also acted or voice-acted in films such as ''I Love You, Man'' (2009), ''Get Him to the Greek'' (2010), ''Adult Beginners'' (2014), ''Vacation (2015 film), Vacation'' (2015), ''Sausage Party'' and ''Sing (film), Sing'' (both 2016), ''The House (2017 film), The House'' (2017), ''The Secret Life of Pets 2'' (2019), ''Sing 2'' and ''How It Ends (2021 film), How It Ends'' (both 2021), ''The Bob's Burgers Movie'' (2022), ''First Time Female Director'' (2023) and ''Red ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristen Kroll
Kristen Kroll is an American developmental and stem cell biologist and Professor of Developmental biology, Developmental Biology at Washington University School of Medicine. Her laboratory studies transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of brain development and its disruption to cause neurodevelopmental disorders. Early life and education Kroll grew up in Wisconsin. She graduated from Wilmot High School in 1984 and received her Bachelor's Degree with the highest honors from Northwestern University in 1988. She became interested in a career in developmental biology while doing undergraduate research in the laboratory of Robert Holmgren, where her project involved cloning the segment polarity gene Cubitus interruptus, a ''Drosophila'' homolog of the GLI transcription factors that mediate Hedgehog signaling. Career In her doctoral work in John Gerhart's lab at the University of California at Berkeley, Kroll developed nuclear transplantation-based approaches for transgenesis in em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Justin Kroll
William Justin Kroll (; born Guillaume Justin Kroll, ; November 24, 1889 – March 30, 1973) was a Luxembourgish metallurgist, born in Esch-sur-Alzette. He is best known for inventing the Kroll process in 1940, which is used commercially to extract metallic titanium from ore. Early life In 1909, Wilhelm Kroll graduated from Luxembourg's Athenaeum High School, and in 1910, he registered at the faculty of metallurgy at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg in Berlin, graduating in 1914. He spent the next four years there to complete his doctoral thesis under the guidance of professor K. A. Hofmann. European years Working in Germany, in 1918, Kroll invented a very efficient bearing alloy based on lead, commercialized under the name Lurgi metal, and he was awarded various metallurgy related patents. In Austria in 1922, he developed alloys known as Alusil and Alsia used primarily for cast-aluminum pistons. In 1923, Kroll returned to Luxembourg and set up a private la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Kroll
Leon Kroll (December 6, 1884 – October 25, 1974) was an American painter and lithographer. A figurative artist described by ''Life'' magazine as "the dean of U.S. nude painters", he was also a landscape painter and also produced an exceptional body of still life compositions. His public art includes murals for the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C. He created his only mosaic for the chapel ceiling at Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. Biography Leon Kroll was born into a musical family on lower Second Avenue in New York City. His father was a violinist, and his cousin was composer William Kroll. He studied at the Art Students League of New York under John Henry Twachtman, and at the Académie Julian in Paris with Jean Paul Laurens in the late 1800s. In 1911 and 1912, he showed in the group exhibition of The Independents initiated by Robert Henri at the MacDowell Club in New York. "It was a self chosen group: you had to be elected by the other ten. Hopper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Myles Kroll
Norman Myles Kroll (6 April 1922, Tulsa, Oklahoma – 8 August 2004, La Jolla, California) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his pioneering work in QED. Kroll received in 1942 his bachelor's degree from Columbia University after 2 years of study, having studied from 1938 to 1940 at Rice University in Houston. During WW II he did theoretical radar research (magnetron theory), during 1943–1945, at Columbia under the supervision of Willis Lamb and I. I. Rabi. In 1943 Kroll received his master's degree and in 1948 his PhD from Columbia University with Lamb as thesis advisor. In the academic year 1948–1949 he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he, with Robert Karplus, calculated the QED two-loop contributions for the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron. Kroll was, with Lamb, one of the first (including Victor Weisskopf and his student Bruce French) to calculate the relativistic Lamb shift (after Hans Bethe made a rough, non ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Kroll
Alexander Stanley Kroll (November 23, 1937 – December 17, 2024) was an American professional football player and an advertising agency executive at Young & Rubicam, where he was CEO for ten years. Early life and football Kroll's father worked in one of Leechburg, Pennsylvania's many steel mills. Growing up, Kroll had a large extended family that served as a support network. He was captain of the football team and ranked second in his class academically, Alex chose to attend Yale University on an academic scholarship. He played on Yale's varsity football team, but a physical argument with a young associate professor got Kroll expelled during his sophomore year. He enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving two years in the military police and finished his undergraduate degree at Rutgers University. While there, he captained the football team and played center on the school's first undefeated football team, making all seven All-American teams in 1961, while leading the team to a 17-1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Kroll
Wilhelm Kroll (; ; October 7, 1869 – April 21, 1939) was a German classicist who was a full professor at the Universities of Greifswald (1899–1906), Münster (1906–1913) and Breslau (1913–1935). Education and career Kroll was born in the town of Ząbkowice Śląskie, Frankenstein in the Kingdom of Prussia, Prussian Province of Silesia and brought up in Breslau, the capital city. From 1887 to 1891 he studied Classics, Archeology, History and Sanskrit at the universities of University of Breslau, Breslau and Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin. After obtaining his Ph.D. in 1891, Kroll went to Italy for the first of many times to study Greek manuscripts in Florence and Venice and continued his studies at the University of Bonn in the summer term of 1892. Before the end of the term, he was awarded a four-year scholarship by the Prussian Academy of Sciences that gave him the means to further his academic career. Kroll returned to Italy where he continued and expanded his res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasha Kroll
Natasha Kroll (1914–2004) was a display and production designer born in Moscow, who moved to Germany with her family in 1922. Most widely known for her production design at the BBC in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Kroll went on to design several feature films. Her archive is held at the University of Brighton Design Archives. Education Kroll attended the renowned Reimann School in Berlin specialising in display design, and joined the staff as an assistant teacher when the school moved to London in 1936. Career Shop display Kroll established her career as a window display designer. Some of her early commissions included Rowntree's department stores in York and Scarborough. In 1942 Kroll was appointed to the position of display manager for the large retail store Simpson (Piccadilly) Ltd. Her pioneering approach and her display philosophy, with its roots in European modernism, complemented the innovative new premises designed by Joseph Emberton. Kroll stayed at Simpsons twel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Kroll
Josef Kroll (8 November 1889 – 8 March 1980) was a German classical philologist and university rector. Biography Josef Kroll was born into a catholic family in Arnsberg, a regional centre in the largely rural Hochsauerland region between Cologne and Kassel. His father was in business. He attended secondary school at Hagen and then moved on to undertake his university studies between 1908 and 1913 at Munich, Freiburg i.B., Berlin, Münster and Göttingen. It was from the University of Münster that he received his doctorate in 1913/14 for a dissertation submitted the previous year entitled "The teachings of Hermes Trismegistus". He stressed the extent to which the theosophical doctrines of the "thrice-greatest Hermes" were based not simply on ancient oriental teachings, as had been assumed hitherto on account of research published by Richard Reitzenstein, but also leaned heavily on Greek philosophy. Kroll's work involved texts drawn from a number of different ancient religion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Una Kroll
Una Margaret Patricia Kroll (nee Hill, 15 December 1925 – 6 January 2017) was a British nun, missionary doctor, priest, and campaigner for women's ordination. Early life Kroll was born in London, and grew up in Paris, Latvia, and London. Her father, George Alexander Hill (1892–1968), was the son of a timber merchant with business interests stretching from Siberia to Persia, and a British intelligence officer in the First and Second World Wars. Her mother Hilda Evelyn (née Pediani) was the daughter of an Italian tobacco merchant who had eloped from Constantinople with the niece of Frederick Temple (an Archbishop of Canterbury) before settling in St Petersburg where the couple had seven children, the youngest of which was Hilda. Hilda Pediani worked as a spy for the British and fell for "philandering" fellow spy George Hill, with Una conceived out of wedlock, and although her father bigamously married her mother before she was born, he left before she was two years old. Kro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Kroll
Gary Melvin Kroll (born July 8, 1941) is an American former professional baseball pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1964 and 1969. He appeared in a total of 71 major-league games for the Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets, Houston Astros, and Cleveland Indians. During his playing days, Kroll was listed at and . Biography Kroll, a native of Culver City, California, graduated from Reseda High School and attended Brigham Young University and Los Angeles Pierce College. Kroll signed with the Phillies in 1959 and spent 5 seasons in their farm system, before his MLB debut, on July 26, 1964. After only two appearances, he was traded to the Mets for veteran first baseman Frank Thomas on August 7. As a rookie pitcher in , Kroll committed a league-leading four balks in just ten games and 24 innings pitched. In his only full year in the majors, , Kroll worked in 32 games for the Mets, including 11 starting assignments. He won six games and lost six, recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
