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Simeon Aisenstein
Simeon Aisenstein (25 January 1884, Kyiv, Kiyv, Ukraine, Russian Empire, Imperial Russia – 3 September 1962, Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom; born Семёна Моисеевича Айзенштейна, Semyon Moise'evich Aisenstein) was a scientist, entrepreneur and educator in the field of radio communications whose achievements spanned from the birth of wireless into the age of television and satellite communication. He was put in charge of national radio communication in Imperial Russia in 1906 and quickly built a network connecting the vast country, which led to his name and reputation becoming known worldwide. In 1916, he was the first to achieve communication to a submerged submarine using Very low frequency, very low frequencies and during the First World War constructed a secure communication system between the governments of Russia, Britain and France (who awarded him the Legion of Honour, Légion d'honneur). He was a professor at Bauman Moscow State Technical U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Simeon () is a given name, from the Hebrew (Biblical Hebrew, Biblical ''Šimʿon'', Tiberian vocalization, Tiberian ''Šimʿôn''), usually transliterated in English as Shimon. In Greek, it is written Συμεών, hence the Latinized spelling Symeon. It is a cognate of the name Simon (given name), Simon. Meaning The name is derived from Simeon (son of Jacob), Simeon, son of Jacob and Leah, patriarch of the Tribe of Simeon. The text of Book of Genesis, Genesis (29:33) argues that the name of ''Simeon'' refers to Leah's belief that Tetragrammaton, God had heard that she was hated by Jacob, in the sense of not being as favoured as Rachel. Implying a derivation from the Hebrew language, Hebrew term ''shama on'', meaning "he has heard"; this is a similar etymology as the Torah gives for the theophoric name ''Ishmael'' ("God has heard"; Genesis 16:11), on the basis of which it has been argued that the tribe of Simeon may originally have been an Ishmaelites, Ishmaelite group (Cheyne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
