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Spitz (surname)
Spitz is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Armand Spitz (1904–1971), American planetarium designer * Bob Spitz, American journalist and author * Carl Spitz (1894–1976), Hollywood dog trainer * Chantal Spitz (born 1954), French Polynesian writer * Dan Spitz (born 1963), American guitarist * Dave Spitz (born 1955), American bassist * Donald Spitz, American anti-abortion activist * Elisa Spitz (born 1963), American figure skater * Fannie S. Spitz (1873–1943), American inventor * Gerald J. Spitz, American politician * Hanneliese Spitz (born 1941), Austrian sprint canoeist * Herman H. Spitz (1925–2019), American psychologist * Illés Spitz (1902–1961), Hungarian football player and manager * Isaac Spitz (1764–1842), Bohemian writer * Jacques Spitz (1896–1963), French writer * Jason Spitz (born 1982), American football player * Leó Szilárd (1898–1964), born Leó Spitz, Hungarian scientist * Lewis Spitz (born 1939), South African paediatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armand Spitz
Armand Neustadter Spitz (July 7, 1904 – April 14, 1971) was an American planetarium designer. Biography Armand Spitz, the son of Louis Spitz and Rose (Neustadter), was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Cincinnati, without receiving a degree from either. In 1926 he began working as a journalist, and within two years purchased a newspaper in Haverford, Pennsylvania. This went bankrupt in 1934, and Spitz traveled to France, discovering an interest in astronomy on the voyage to Europe. On his return to the United States, he became a lecturer on astronomical topics at Haverford College. As a side effort he made a papier-mache model of the Moon, which is on display to this day at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Spitz became a volunteer at the new Fels Planetarium in Philadelphia, doing publicity, but soon was allowed to do planetarium lectures. He also created a series of radio programs in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leó Szilárd
Leo Szilard (; hu, Szilárd Leó, pronounced ; born Leó Spitz; February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian-German-American physicist and inventor. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear fission reactor in 1934, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb. According to György Marx, he was one of the Hungarian scientists known as The Martians. Szilard initially attended Palatine Joseph Technical University in Budapest, but his engineering studies were interrupted by service in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I. He left Hungary for Germany in 1919, enrolling at Technische Hochschule (Institute of Technology) in Berlin-Charlottenburg, but became bored with engineering and transferred to Friedrich Wilhelm University, where he studied physics. He wrote his doctoral thesis on Maxwell's demon, a long-standing puzzle in the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Braceface
''Braceface'' is an animated television series that aired on Teletoon in Canada and the Fox Family Channel in the U.S. The series was produced by Nelvana and Jade Animation, the show features actress Alicia Silverstone from the movie '' Clueless'' (who also voiced the titular character for the first two seasons) serving as executive producer. Summary The series, set in Elkford, British Columbia, recounts the travails of Sharon Spitz (a play on words, "sharing spit" being a euphemism for kissing), who is a junior high school student with braces that get in the way of leading a normal teenage life. Her braces are somehow electrically charged at all times, giving her strange abilities such as remotely operating machinery, tapping into wireless communication channels, and even discharging electricity directly into what's in front of her, though much of these abilities are often outside her control. In the first season, she is enrolled at Mary Pickford Junior High but later the sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yom-Tob Spitz
Jonas Yom-Tob Spitz (; 1797–1874) was a teacher of Hebrew and German in the Jewish school of Prague during the first half of the nineteenth century. He was the author of ''Alon bakut'' (Prague, 1826), on the death of his grandfather Rabbi Eleazar Fleckeles of Prague; ''Zikhron Eliezer'' (Prague, 1827), a biography of Fleckeles; and ''Toledot Yitzḥak'', a biography of his father, Isaac Spitz. Spitz was a collaborator on the '' Bikkure ha-Ittim'', to volumes VI and VII of which he contributed sixteen scientific essays. References 1797 births 1874 deaths 19th-century essayists 19th-century Jews Jews from Bohemia Hebrew-language writers Male essayists Writers from Prague Spitz family Czech essayists {{Judaism-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Spitz
Werner Uri Spitz (born August 22, 1926) is a German-American forensic pathologist who has worked on a number of high-profile cases, including the investigations of the assassinations of president John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. He also testified at the trials of Casey Anthony and Phil Spector, the 1996 civil trial against O. J. Simpson, and consulted on the investigation of JonBenét Ramsey's 1996 death. He wrote and with his son Daniel co-edited the book ''Spitz and Fisher's Medicolegal Investigation of Death: Guidelines for the Application of Pathology to Crime Investigation''. Biography Werner Spitz was born in 1926 to a Jewish family in Stargard, Germany (now Poland); his parents, Siegfried and Anna Spitz, were both physicians. Given the growing antisemitism in Germany, his family fled to Mandatory Palestine when he was a child. When Spitz was a youth, his father got him a job working in a medical examiner's office, where he was charged with cleaning and other sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivien Spitz
Vivien Spitz (1924 – April 1, 2014), born Vivien Ruth Putty, was an American court reporter at the Nuremberg trials after World War II. From 1972 to 1982, she was Chief Reporter of Debates in the United States House of Representatives. Early life Vivien Ruth Putty was born in Montana and raised in Woodstock, Illinois. She supported herself, her widowed mother Kathryn Putty and two younger siblings as a switchboard operator in her teens, before World War II, and learned to take dictation to improve her job prospects. During the war, she graduated from Gregg College in Chicago, where she trained as a court reporter. Career Putty worked as a court reporter in Detroit after completing her training in Chicago. From 1946 to 1948, she was a civilian employee of the United States Army, assigned to the Subsequent Proceedings trial at Nuremberg, to transcribe the testimony of twenty Nazi doctors and their assistants. "I just had the feeling that I never saw such evil faces in my life, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tibor Spitz
Tibor Spitz (born 1929) is a Slovak-born artist and a Holocaust survivor. After escaping from communist Czechoslovakia to the West he lived and worked in Canada and the United States. He currently resides in Kingston, New York. Biography In 1929, Tibor Spitz was born in a small town called Dolný Kubín in the high mountains of northern Slovakia, at that time part of Czechoslovakia. His father was a cantor for the Jewish community and his mother was a teacher. He survived Holocaust at age 15, studied chemistry in Prague, and in 1968 escaped to the West to live in Canada and later in the United States. After his career as a scientist, he became a professional artist and lecturer on Holocaust. Spitz was born in a Slovak part of Czechoslovakia that kept changing from democracy to a fascist Nazi regime followed by the Soviet-style communism. Because of his Jewish origin, between the ages of 10 and 15, he was not allowed to attend public schools and for three years he was doomed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Spitz
Sophie Spitz (4 February 1910 – 11 August 1956) was an American pathologist who published the first case series of "juvenile melanoma," (a special form of benign melanocytic nevi), skin lesions that have come to be known as Spitz nevi.Crotty, K. Spitz Naevus: Histological Features and Distinction from Malignant Melanoma. ''Australasian Journal of Dermatology''. 38 (suppl): S49-S53. 1997. For her contributions to pathology, and especially for her foresight in advocating the use of the pap smear when it was newly devised, she is recognized as a prominent pathologist of her time. Life and career Spitz was born in Nashville, Tennessee.Shapiro, PE. Who Was Sophie Spitz? ''Am J Dermatopath''. 1992;14(5):442-446. Spitz had a passion for music in her youth and especially loved the violin. Her uncle, Herman Spitz, was a pathologist and inspired her to pursue a career in medicine. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabine Spitz
Sabine Spitz (born 27 December 1971 in Herrischried, Baden-Württemberg) is a German cross country cyclist. She won bronze in Women's cross-country at the 2004 Summer Olympics, silver in the event in the 2012 Summer Olympics and gold in the event in the 2008 Summer Olympics. Furthermore, she became World Champion in 2003. At the 2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ..., she finished in 19th place. In March 2017, Spitz raced her second eight-day Absa Cape Epic stage race in South Africa. She and South African partner Robyn de Groot were the pre-race favourites for the Women's Category but Spitz had a problematic ride: she crashed badly on two stages and these setbacks ultimately cost them any chance of victory. They eventually finished the 651&nb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Spitz
René Árpád Spitz (January 29, 1887 in Vienna – September 11, 1974 in Denver) was an Austrian-American psychoanalyst. He is best known for his analysis of hospitalized infants in which he found links between marasmus and death with unmothered infants. Spitz also made significant contributions to the school of ego psychology. Biography René Spitz was born in Vienna, Austria (Austro-Hungarian), and died in Denver, Colorado. From a wealthy Jewish family background, he spent most of his childhood in Hungary. After finishing his medical studies in 1910, Spitz discovered the work of Sigmund Freud. In 1932, he left Austria and settled in Paris for the next six years, where he taught psychoanalysis at the École Normale Supérieure. In 1939, he emigrated to the United States, and worked as a psychiatrist at the Mount Sinai hospital. From 1940 to 1943, Spitz served as a visiting professor at several universities, before teaching at the University of Denver and eventually settling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Spitz
Mark Andrew Spitz (born February 10, 1950) is an American former competitive swimmer and nine-time Olympic champion. He was the Lists of Olympic medalists#Medalist with most medals by Olympiad, most successful athlete at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, winning Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics, seven gold medals, each in world-record time. This achievement lasted for 36 years, until it was surpassed by fellow American Michael Phelps, who won eight golds at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Between 1968 and 1972, Spitz won nine Olympic golds, a silver, and a bronze, in addition to five Pan American Games, Pan American golds, 31 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) titles, and eight National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) titles. During those years he set 35 world records, two of which were in trials and unofficial. ''Swimming World Magazine'' named him List of Swimming World Swimmers of the Year, World Swimmer of the Year in 1969, 1971, and 1972. He was the third athle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Spitz
Marc Spitz (October 2, 1969 – February 4, 2017) was an American music journalist, author and playwright. Spitz's writings on rock and roll and popular culture appeared in '' Spin'' (where he was a Senior Writer) as well as ''The New York Times'', ''Maxim'', ''Blender'', '' Harp'', ''Nylon'' and the ''New York Post''. He was a contributing music writer for '' Vanity Fair''. Biography Born in Far Rockaway, Queens, Spitz was the author of the novels ''How Soon Is Never'' and '' Too Much, Too Late'', and the biographies '' We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of LA Punk'' (with Brendan Mullen), ''Nobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times and Music of Green Day'', '' Bowie: A Biography'', and '' Jagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue''. He appears in the anthologies ''The Encyclopedia of Ex-es'', ''Howl: A Collection of the Best Contemporary Dog Wit'', and ''Rock N’ Roll Cage Match: Music’s Greatest Rivalries Decided''. His books have been translated and publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
