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Kuiper Belt - Oort Cloud-en
Kuiper is a Dutch language, Dutch occupational surname meaning Cooper (profession), cooper. Common spelling variants include Kuyper, Kuipers, Kuijper, Kuijpers, Kuypers, and De Kuyper. Notable people with the name include: Kuiper *Adrian Kuiper (born 1959), South African cricketer *Barend Klaas Kuiper (1877–1961), Dutch-American historian *David Kuiper (born 1980), Dutch rower *Duane Kuiper (born 1950), American baseball player *Edith Kuiper (born 1960), Dutch economist *F. B. J. Kuiper (1907–2003), Dutch Indologist *Gerard Kuiper (1905–1973), Dutch-American astronomer after whom the Kuiper belt was named *Glen Kuiper (born 1963) American broadcaster *Hennie Kuiper (born 1949), Dutch cyclist *J. P. Kuiper (1922–1985), Dutch professor of social medicine *Michael Kuiper (born 1989), Dutch martial artist *Nick Kuiper (born 1982), Canadian ice hockey player *Nicky Kuiper (born 1989), Dutch footballer *Nicolaas Kuiper (1920–1994), Dutch mathematician, known for Kuiper's test, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the List of languages by total number of speakers, third most spoken Germanic language. In Europe, Dutch is the native language of most of the population of the Netherlands and Flanders (which includes 60% of the population of Belgium). "1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." (page 153). Dutch was one of the official languages of South Africa until 1925, when it was replaced by Afrikaans, a separate but partially Mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible daughter language of Dutch. Afrikaans, depending on the definition used, may be considered a sister language, spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, and evolving from Cape Dutch dialects. In South America, Dutch is the native l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Kuiper
Nick Kuiper (born 12 February 1982) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. Playing career Kuiper began his professional career in 2004 after signing for the Chicago Blackhawks from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Kuiper was assigned to the Blackhawks affiliate the Norfolk Admirals of the American Hockey League where he spent two seasons. In 2006–07, Kuiper played for five different teams, beginning the season in the AHL for the Manitoba Moose and played just two games, after that he moved to the Portland Pirates in the same league and played just seven games. He then moved to the ECHL for the Augusta Lynx for 33 games, then moved back to the AHL with the Springfield Falcons for 18 games and then went back to the ECHL to play for the Johnstown Chiefs for their brief playoff run. In 2007–08 Kuiper played for European teams, Ässät of the Finnish SM-liiga and Luleå HF of the Swedish SEL. In 2008–09 Kuiper signed with Austrian team Graz 99ers o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frans Kuyper
Frans Kuyper (; 1629, Amsterdam – 21 October 1691, Rotterdam) was a Dutch Socinian writer and printer. Life First a Remonstrant minister at Vlaardingen, he left the church on his objection to infant baptism. From 1663–1673 he opened a publishing house in Amsterdam and Rotterdam producing Socinian works, including 1665–1668 (with supplement 1692) the '' Biblioteca fratrum Polonorum''. In 1676 he published against Spinoza's 1670 treatise on historical criticism of the Scriptures. Kuyper played a leading part in the liberal movement of the Mennonites named the "Collegiants", through which some Socinian ideas entered Mennonitism. Kuyper was one of the most active native Dutch Socinians along with Jan Pietersz Beelthouwer (c.1603–1665), Lancelot van Brederode (c.1583–1668), Johannes Becius (1626–1690), David Willemszoon Redoch (c.1633–1680), Jan Cornelisz Knol (d.1672), Adriaan Swartepaard (1641–1691), and Foecke Floris (d.1703). In the period 1660–1664 a dispute in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Kuyper
Elisabeth Johanna Lamina Kuyper (13 September 1877 – 26 February 1953) was a Dutch Romantic composer and conductor. Life Elisabeth Kuyper was born in Amsterdam, the eldest of three children. At the age of twelve, she began the formal study of music at the Maatschappij tot Bevordering der Toonkunst with Antoon Averkamp, Louis Coenen, and Daniel de Lange. She began composing at an early age, including a piano sonata and a prelude and fugue, which she performed for her diploma examination in 1895, and a one-act opera that was performed in Amsterdam in 1895. She moved to Berlin in 1896 to continue her composition studies with Heinrich Barth and Leopold Carl Wolff at the Hochschule für Musik, completing her studies there in 1900. In 1901, Kuyper became the first woman to be admitted to study composition at the Meisterschule für Komposition, led by Max Bruch. She was quite productive as a composer during her master classes with Bruch, including creating a violin sonata, a ballad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Kuyper
Abraham Kuyper ( , ; 29 October 1837 – 8 November 1920) was the Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905, an influential neo-Calvinist pastor and a journalist. He established the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, which upon its foundation became the second largest Reformed denomination in the country behind the state-supported Dutch Reformed Church. In addition, he founded the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Anti-Revolutionary Party, and a newspaper. In religious affairs, he sought to adapt the Dutch Reformed Church to challenges posed by the loss of state financial aid and by increasing religious pluralism in the wake of splits that the church had undergone in the 19th century, rising Dutch nationalism, and the Arminian religious revivals of his day which denied predestination. He vigorously denounced modernism in theology as a fad that would pass away. In politics, he dominated the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) from its founding in 1879 to his death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taco Kuiper
Taco Esgo Kuiper (11 November 1941 – 24 September 2004) was an investigative journalist and wealthy publisher in South Africa. He was the owner and publishing editor of ''The Investors’ Guide'' in Johannesburg, for undertaking and encouraging investigative journalism in South Africa, and for funding the annual Taco Kuiper Award in investigative journalism. Biography Taco Kuiper was born on 11 November 1941, in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) in 1941 to Dutch parents, and spent the Second World War in a Japanese internment camp. After the war, his family returned to the Netherlands. In the early 1960s, they sent him to Johannesburg, South Africa to work for Barclays Bank, later moving to South Africa and starting his own investment statistical service from a small flat in Hillbrow. Eventually he made his fortune as owner and publishing editor of the successful ''The Investor's Guide'' in Johannesburg, in which he reported on malfeasance and white-collar crime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roel Kuiper
Roelof (Roel) Kuiper (born 5 April 1962 in Mariënberg) is a Dutch historian, philosopher, ideologue, politician and university professor. He was from 2007 to 2019 a member of the Dutch Senate of the Netherlands, Senate, and is professor of Reformational philosophy at the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam in the name of the Association for Reformational philosophy, teaching Society Issues at the Christelijke Hogeschool Ede and Gereformeerde Hogeschool Zwolle and Political and social philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). Kuiper received his doctorate in History in 1986 at the VU. In 1992 he got his promotion at the same university on the subject: ''Zelfbeeld en wereldbeeld: antirevolutionairen en het buitenland 1848–1905''. He received his doctorate in Philosophy at the VU in 1998. Positions After his doctorate in History Kuiper had, besides what is written above, different other positions, such as teacher at the MO-teacherseducation History, at the Evangelische H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rienk Kuiper
Rienk Bouke Kuiper (31 January 1886 – 22 April 1966) at Westminster Theological Seminary was a pastor and professor of systematic theology. Kuiper served as President of Calvin College between 1930 and 1933. Biography Kuiper was born in , in the municipality of Loppersum, in the .[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piet Kuiper
Pieter Jan Cornelis "Piet" Kuiper (30 July 1934 – 10 December 2017) was a Dutch botanist. He was professor of plant physiology at the University of Groningen from 1974 to 1999. Kuiper was born in Hoorn. He obtained his PhD in 1961 at the Landbouwhogeschool in Wageningen. Kuiper helped doctors in determining species of mushrooms in poisoning cases. He died, together with his wife, on 10 December 2017. Kuiper was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (, KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. In addition to various advisory a ... in 1983. References 1934 births 2017 deaths 20th-century Dutch botanists Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Hoorn Plant physiologists Academic staff of the University of Groningen Wageningen Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Kuiper
Peter Kuiper (30March 192928September 2007) was a German actor of film, theatre and television. He died in Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ... from undisclosed causes in 2007. Filmography External links *Matthies Agency Berlin 1929 births 2007 deaths German male film actors German male television actors 20th-century German male actors 21st-century German male actors Male actors from Berlin People from Langsa {{Germany-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eells–Kuiper Manifold
In mathematics, an Eells–Kuiper manifold is a compactification of \R^n by a sphere of dimension n/2, where n=2,4,8, or 16. It is named after James Eells and Nicolaas Kuiper. If n=2, the Eells–Kuiper manifold is diffeomorphic to the real projective plane \mathbb^2. For n\ge 4 it is simply-connected and has the integral cohomology structure of the complex projective plane \mathbb^2 (n = 4), of the quaternionic projective plane \mathbb^2 (n = 8) or of the Cayley projective plane (n = 16). Properties These manifolds are important in both Morse theory and foliation theory: Theorem: ''Let M be a connected closed manifold (not necessarily orientable) of dimension n. Suppose M admits a Morse function f\colon M\to \R of class C^3 with exactly three singular points. Then M is a Eells–Kuiper manifold.'' Theorem:. ''Let M^n be a compact connected manifold and F a Morse foliation on M. Suppose the number of centers c of the foliation F is more than the number of saddle A s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuiper's Theorem
In mathematics, Kuiper's theorem (after Nicolaas Kuiper) is a result on the topology of operators on an infinite-dimensional, complex Hilbert space ''H''. It states that the topological space, space GL(''H'') of invertible bounded operator, bounded linear operator, endomorphisms of ''H'' is such that all maps from any CW complex, finite complex ''Y'' to GL(''H'') are homotopic to a constant, for the norm topology on operators. A significant corollary, also referred to as ''Kuiper's theorem'', is that this group is weakly contractible, ''ie.'' all its homotopy groups are trivial. This result has important uses in topological K-theory. General topology of the general linear group For finite dimensional ''H'', this group would be a complex general linear group and not at all contractible. In fact it is homotopy equivalent to its maximal compact subgroup, the unitary group ''U'' of ''H''. The proof that the complex general linear group and unitary group have the same homotopy ty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
