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Nadia I
Nadia is a female name. Variations include Nadja, Nadya, Nadine, Nadiya, and Nadiia. Most variations of the name are derived from Arabic, Slavic languages, or both. In many Slavic languages, names similar to ''Nadia'' mean "hope": Ukrainian ''Nadiya'' (Надія, accent on the ''i''), Czech ''Naďa'', Belarusian ''Nadzieja'' (Надзея, accent on the ''e''), and Old Polish ''Nadzieja'', all of which are derived from Proto-Slavic ''*naděja'', the first three from Old East Slavic. In Bulgarian and Russian, on the other hand, Nadia or Nadya (Надя, accent on first syllable) is the diminutive form of the full name Nadezhda (Надежда), meaning "hope" and derived from Old Church Slavonic, which it entered as a translation of the Greek word ''ἐλπίς'' ( Elpis), with the same meaning; in those languages, Nadia often is used as a full name in its own right. In Arabic, the name is ''Nadiyyah'', meaning "tender" and "delicate." People Notable people with the na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadja (given Name)
Nadja is a female name, that is used predominantly throughout the Mediterranean region, and the Arab world. Its origins are in the Arabic languages. The Serbian and Montenegrin spelling is Nađa. Notable people with the name include: * Nadja Abd el Farrag (born 1965), German television personality * Nadja Auermann (born 1971), German model and actress * Nadja Awad (born 1991), Swedish politician * Nadja Becker (born 1978), German actress * Nadja Benaissa (born 1982), German singer, member of No Angels * Nadja Bender (born 1990), Danish fashion model * Nadja Bergknecht, German swimmer * (born 1975), Austrian news presenter * Nadja Brand (born 1975), South African film actor * Nadja Breytenbach (born 1995), Namibian model and beauty pageant titleholder * Nadja Drost, Canadian journalist * Nadja Drygalla (born 1989), German rower * Nadja Durbach, American professor of history * Nađa Đurđevac (born 2002), Montenegrin football player * Nadja Furrer (born 1998), Swiss footballer * Nad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elpis (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Elpis () is the minor goddess (daimon) of hope, about which the Greeks had ambivalent feelings. She was never the centre of a cult, as was Spes, her Roman equivalent, and was chiefly the subject of ambiguous Greek aetiological myths. Hesiod's ''Works and Days'' Elpis was the remaining item enclosed in Pandora's box (or jar), the best known form of the myth found in Hesiod’s ''Works and Days''. There Hesiod expands upon the misery inflicted on mankind through the curiosity of Pandora. She had brought with her as a wedding gift from heaven a storage jar but when this was opened it released a host of human ills before the lid could be secured again. Only Hope was left within her unbreakable house, she remained under the lip of the jar and did not fly away. Before he could Pandora replaced the lid of the jar. This was the will of aegis-bearing Zeus the Cloudgatherer. Based on Hesiod's description, there has been debate whether Elpis was only a delusive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Zakamska
Nadia Zakamska is a Russian-American astronomer who is a professor at Johns Hopkins University. Early life and education Zakamska graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a master's degree in theoretical physics in 2001. Zakamska then attended Princeton University for her PhD, which she received in 2005. Career and research Zakamska's research involves multi-wavelength work on Type II quasars. She also studies supermassive black holes and their role in galaxy formation. Her research group produced an important breakthrough in how cosmic gas falls into black holes and produces quasars. In addition, she studies extrasolar planets and extragalactic astronomy. Awards and honors Zakamska is a Sloan Fellow. In 2014, she received the American Astronomical Society's Newton Lacy Pierce Prize, which is awarded to recognize at least five years of outstanding achievement in observational astronomical research. Early in her career she was awarded a Spitzer Fell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Magnenat Thalmann
Nadia Magnenat Thalmann is a computer graphics scientist and robotician and is the founder and head of MIRALab at the University of Geneva. She has chaired the Institute for Media Innovation at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore from 2009 to 2021. Biography Thalmann received an MS in psychology, an MS in biology and a Master in biochemistry at the University of Geneva. She obtained a PhD in Quantum Physics in 1977 from the same university. She started her career as an assistant professor at the University Laval in Canada, then became a professor at HEC, University of Montreal until 1988. In 1989, she moved to the University of Geneva where she founded the MIRALab laboratory. Thalmann has authored and co-authored more than 600 papers in the area of Virtual Humans, social robots, VR, and 3D simulation of human articulations. She has participated in more than 45 European research projects. She has served the Computer Graphics community by creating the Computer Ani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Rosenthal
Nadia A. Rosenthal FMedSci is a scientist who specializes in heart development related research. Rosenthal began her undergraduate degree at the University of Wales and then transferred to Harvard. She received her PhD from Harvard Medical School and was an associate professor of biochemistry at Boston University and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School before transferring to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory where she replaced Klaus Rajewsky who had just gone to work at Harvard Medical School. In 2006, she presented the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Holiday Lectures together with Douglas A. Melton. She is the editor-in-chief of '' Differentiation''. Since 2005 Rosenthal has been chair in Cardiovascular Science at Imperial College London. In 2008, Rosenthal was appointed as founding director of the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, based at Monash University in Melbourne Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Robotti
Nadia Robotti is an Italian historian of physics specializing in Italian physics from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, including the works of Enrico Fermi, Ettore Majorana, and Bruno Pontecorvo. She is a professor of physics at the University of Genoa and an external project leader at the . Books Robotti's books include: *''Fisica, meteorologia e sismologia nell'Ottocento. Il contributo del Seminario Vescovile di Chiavari'' (with Alessandro Paoletti, University of Genoa, 2000) *''Ettore Majorana: Aspects of His Scientific and Academic Activity'' (with Francesco Guerra, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2008) *''The Lost Notebook of Enrico Fermi: The True Story of the Discovery of Neutron-Induced Radioactivity'' (with Francesco Guerra, Springer, 2018, translated from a 2015 Italian edition by Christine V. Pennison). Recognition In 2008, the Italian Physical Society gave Robotti their prize in history of physics for her work on Majorana. She was the recipient of the 2017 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Nurhussein
Nadia Nurhussein (born 1974) is an American academic and author specialized in African-American literature, culture, and poetics. She is an associate professor of English and Africana studies at the Johns Hopkins Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Education Nurhussein completed a Ph.D. in English at University of California, Berkeley in 2004. She received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Beinecke Library, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Career Nurhussein taught English at Mount Holyoke College from 2004 to 2005. She was a member of the faculty at University of Massachusetts Boston where she taught English from 2005 to 2016. In 2017, Nurhussein joined the Johns Hopkins Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences as an associate professor of English and Africana studies. She specializes in African-American literature, culture Culture ( ) is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and Social norm, norms found in human ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Maftouni
Nadia Maftouni (, born 14 January 1966) is an Iranian Academy, academic, philosophical author and artist. She is best known as a leading Researcher on Al-Farabi, Farabian, Avicenna, Avicennian and Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi, Suhrawardian philosophy with her modern reading of their works. She is also an established researcher in Jurisprudence and History of Islam, Islamic History. She is a professor at the University of Tehran, where she is an alumna and a member of the department of Philosophy and Schools of Islamic theology, Islamic Theology. She is a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University, Yale Yale Law School, Law School and she is on the board of History of Philosophy Quarterly. She is also famous for proposing to Iranian artist Hossein Nuri when he was already in a wheelchair. Early life As a teenager, she became one of NODET's select students in the second year of its foundation. She was enrolled at Sharif University of Technology and started studying Appl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Lapusta
Nadia Lapusta is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Geophysics at the California Institute of Technology. She designed the first computational model that could accurately and efficiently simulate sequence of earthquakes and interseismic slow deformation on a planar fault in a single consistent physical framework. Education and early career Lapusta was born in Ukraine. She completed her bachelor's degree at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, where she graduated with the highest honours in 1994. She moved to America for her doctoral studies, earning a Master's degree in 1996 and a PhD in 2001. Her doctoral work considered the dynamics of frictional sliding on planar interfaces and was supervised by James R. Rice. During her doctoral studies she was awarded an outstanding student presentation award from the American Geophysical Union and Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. Her thesis was awarded the Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Yala Kisukidi
Nadia Yala Kisukidi (born 1978) is a French philosopher, writer and academic, who has re-examined the notion of "blackness" with its colonial implications in France and the rest of Europe. Also interested in contemporary art, she has been selected as one of two curators for the 2020 Yango Biennale in Kinshasa. Kisukidi, who has written widely on French and Africana philosophy, published ''Bergson ou l'humanité créatrice'' (Bergson or Creative Humanity) in 2013. Biography Born in Brussels on 8 October 1978, Nadia Yala Kisukidi is the daughter of a Congolese father and a Franco-Italian mother. She began studying philosophy at the Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III, Charles de Gaulle University in Lille under Fréderic Worms in 1998, earning a Ph.D in 2010 with a thesis titled ''L’humanité créatrice. Essai sur la signification esthétique et politique de la métaphysique de Bergson''. Since 2011, she has held a number of workshops in various French universities, the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Hohn
Nadia L. Hohn is a Canadian educator and children's book author. She has earned critical acclaim for her books for young readers, including her debut picture book, ''Malaika's Costume''. Biography Born in Canada to Jamaican immigrant parents, Hohn grew up and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, where she is an elementary school teacher. At age 6, she began writing and illustrating her own books. As a high school student, she wrote for her school paper, and later began contributing to university and community newspapers. At age 20, she obtained an internship in New York City, writing articles for ''Psychology Today''. In 2001, Hohn founded and organized the first ICED IN BLACK: Canadian Black Experiences on Film, film festival. This festival focussed on films by and/or about Black Canadians. She turned this event into an annual nationally touring festival which went to 7 cities in 2002 and by 2003, its final year, 9 cities (Toronto, Waterloo, Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax, Edmon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Ghazzali
Nadia Ghazzali (born April 3, 1961) is a Canadian statistician, the former president of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, where she continues to work as a professor in the department of mathematics and computer science. As a statistician, she is known for her work on NbClust, a package in the R statistical software system for determining the number of clusters in a data set. Education and career Ghazzali was born on April 3, 1961, in Casablanca. After studying at the University of Rennes 1 in France, she came to Canada as a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University, and joined the faculty at the Université Laval in 1993. She was president of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières from 2012 until 2015, when she resigned after facing criticism from the Auditor General of Québec over management practices in university construction. Ghazzali is current (2021-2023) Deputy President of INWES, the International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists. Reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
