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Thiessen
Thiessen may refer to: * Alfred H. Thiessen (1872–1956), American meteorologist * Brad Thiessen (ice hockey player, born 1986), Canadian ice hockey player * Bradley Thiessen (statistician), Bradley Thiessen, American statistician and academic administrator * Dan Thiessen (1946–2014), college football coach * Dan Thiessen (politician) (1922–2012), Kansas state legislator * Del Thiessen, American psychology professor * Duane D. Thiessen (born 1951), Lieutenant General in US Marine Corps * Georg Heinrich Thiessen (1914–1961), German astronomer * Gordon Thiessen (born 1938), Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1994 to 2001 * J. Grant Thiessen (born 1947), Canadian bibliographer and bookseller * Jack Thiessen (1931–2022), lexicographer * James Thiessen (born 1974), former Australian rules footballer * Jayson Thiessen (born 1976), Canadian director * Juliana Thiessen Day (born 1980), former 1998 Miss Canadian Universe * Marc Thiessen (born 1967), American author and speech-write ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiffani Thiessen
Tiffani Amber Thiessen (born January 23, 1974) is an American actress. Her roles as List of Saved by the Bell characters#Kelly Kapowski, Kelly Kapowski on NBC's ''Saved by the Bell'' (1989–1993) and its Saved by the Bell#Spin-offs, spin-off media, and as List of Beverly Hills, 90210 characters#Valerie Malone, Valerie Malone on Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox's ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' (1994–98) established her as a teen idol of the 1990s. As an adult, she has played Wilhemina 'Billie' Chambers in Fox's ''Fastlane (TV series), Fastlane'' (2002–2003), Natasha Drew in American Broadcasting Company, ABC's ''What About Brian'' (2007), Elizabeth Burke (White Collar), Elizabeth Burke in USA Network's ''White Collar (TV series), White Collar'' (2009–2014), and Lori Mendoza in Netflix's ''Alexa & Katie'' (2018–2020). For the latter, she earned a Daytime Emmy Awards, Daytime Emmy Award nomination. Thiessen has appeared in several films, such as ''Son in Law (film), Son in Law'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Thiessen
Matthew Arnold Thiessen (born August 12, 1980) is a Canadian-born American musician known for being co-founder, lead singer, guitarist, pianist, and primary songwriter for the rock band Relient K. With Relient K, he has released eight full-length albums, including three that were certified Gold, and three that peaked in the top twenty on the ''Billboard'' 200. Outside of his work with Relient K, Thiessen leads a side project called Matthew Thiessen and the Earthquakes, which released its debut album ''Wind Up Bird'' in 2018. In 2009, he co-produced and collaborated on Owl City's album '' Ocean Eyes''. Career Relient K Thiessen founded Relient K in 1998, with guitarist Matt Hoopes, and bassist Brian Pittman, and recorded the demo '' All Work & No Play'' the same year. The recording attracted the interest of Toby McKeehan who signed the band to his label Gotee Records. Between the years 2000 and 2003, Gotee released three full-length albums, one Christmas album, and four EP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Thiessen
Brad Thiessen (born March 19, 1986) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played briefly in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Thiessen played three seasons in the British Columbia Hockey League before playing three seasons of collegiate ice hockey at Northeastern University. In his junior season at Northeastern, Thiessen was named Hockey East Player of the Year, a conference all-star, an NCAA first-team All-American, and a Hobey Baker Award "hat trick" finalist. At the end of the 2008–09 season, Thiessen signed a contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins as an undrafted free agent. Playing career Amateur Thiessen played three seasons in the junior A British Columbia Hockey League. In 2003–04 with the Penticton Panthers, Thiessen appeared in 42 games, finishing with a record of 13–17–1. The following season with the Prince George Spruce Kings, he finished 12–22–1. In his final season of junior hockey with the Prince Geor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Thiessen
Marc Alexander Thiessen (born January 13, 1967) is an American conservative author, political appointee, and weekly columnist for ''The Washington Post''. Thiessen served as a speechwriter for President George W. Bush from 2007 to 2009 and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld from 2001 to 2006. In 2010, he published the book ''Courting Disaster: How the C.I.A. Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack'', which defended the use of the torture technique waterboarding during the George W. Bush administration, arguing that it was not torture. He also wrote that the Obama administration's rejection of torture might lead to American deaths. Early life and education Thiessen was born on January 13, 1967. He grew up on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, where both his parents were doctors and "left-of-center liberal Democrat types". His mother grew up in Poland and fought as a teenager in the Warsaw Uprising, a military struggle in which his grandfather died. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Adolf Thiessen
Peter Adolf Thiessen (6 April 1899 – 5 March 1990) was a German physical chemist and a tribologist– he is credited as the founder of the tribochemistry. At the close of the World War II, he voluntarily went to the Soviet Union and played a crucial role in advancing the Soviet program of nuclear weapons, and was a recipient of national honors of the Soviet Union. Upon his return to East Germany in 1956, Thiessen engaged his life in the advancement of applied applications of the physical chemistry. Education Thiessen was born in Schweidnitz, Silesia, Prussia, which now is known as Świdnica, Lower Silesian in Poland, on 6 April 1899. Thiessen hailed from a wealthy German family, which owned a land in Schweidnitz. From 1919 to 1923, he attended and studied chemistry at the University of Breslau, University of Freiburg, University of Greifswald, and the University of Göttingen. He received his doctorate in chemistry in 1923 under Richard Adolf Zsigmondy at Göttinge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Thiessen
John Peter Thiessen (14 April 1931 – 9 October 2022) was a Canadian Russian Mennonite teacher, translator, and writer from Manitoba. Alongside Arnold Dyck and Reuben Epp, he was an important contributor to the development of Mennonite Low German literature, as well as one of the language's most prominent lexicographers. Early life and education Thiessen was born in Gnadenfeld near Grunthal, Manitoba, Canada, on 14 April 1931. He grew up in Grunthal and attended high school at Mennonite Collegiate Institute in Gretna, Manitoba. Thiessen graduated from the University of Manitoba, and received his PhD at the University of Marburg. Career In addition to Plautdietsch writing, Thiessen wrote about Yiddish and translated numerous works, including Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince into Plautdietsch. Thiessen is perhaps most well known for his influential Plautdietsch language dictionary. The 1977 edition of Thiessen's dictionary, published two years before Herman Rem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Del Thiessen
Delbert Duane Thiessen is an American psychology professor emeritus whose research focused on evolutionary mechanisms of reproduction and social communication. Education Thiessen studied at University of Denver and San Jose State University, completing his Ph.D. in biopsychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He then did research at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, California before taking a position at University of Texas at Austin. He is Professor of evolutionary psychology and member of the Institute of Neuroscience. He conducted research on the genetics of alcoholism at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, California. He is Fellow of the American Psychological Association and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. At the University of Texas he taught Comparative Psychology and investigated animal communication and human biology and behavior. He continues his investigations of human deviant behaviors, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Thiessen
Gordon George Thiessen, (born August 14, 1938) is an economist and banker who was the sixth governor of the Bank of Canada from 1994 to 2001, succeeding John Crow. He was succeeded by David A. Dodge. Thiessen was born in South Porcupine, Ontario and raised in Saskatchewan. Thiessen studied economics at the University of Saskatchewan and received an Honours BA in 1960 and an MA in 1961. He taught economics for a year and then joined the Bank of Canada in 1963. From 1965 to 1967 he attended the London School of Economics, from which he received his Ph.D in Economics in 1972. At the Bank of Canada, Thiessen was appointed Adviser to the Governor in 1979, Deputy Governor in 1984, and Senior Deputy Governor in 1987. In 1996, he received the government of Sweden's Order of the Polar Star in recognition of the assistance provided by the Bank of Canada to the Swedish Central Bank (Sveriges Riksbank) to assist them in developing their policy framework for combating inflation when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nolan Thiessen
Nolan Thiessen (born November 6, 1980, in Pilot Mound, Manitoba) is a Canadian retired curler and sports executive. He is currently the CEO of Curling Canada. Career Thiessen, in his debut at Canadian Juniors, lost the final of the 2001 Canadian Junior Curling Championships playing lead for Mike McEwen. Thiessen was a member of the 2003 Winter Universiade championship team. He represented Brandon University, playing lead for Mike McEwen. After university, he played lead for Sean Grassie before moving to play in Alberta as Mark Johnson's lead in 2004. In 2006, he moved to play for Kevin Koe. Thiessen won the 2008 Canada Cup of Curling with the team, and qualified for his first Brier in 2010 as Team Alberta. The team won the Brier after beating Ontario's Glenn Howard 6-5 in the final. They went on to win at that year's world championship, securing the gold medal in a win over Norway, skipped by Torger Nergård. After Pat Simmons signed on with the team, they went to their se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradley Thiessen (statistician)
Bradley Adam Thiessen is an American statistician and academic administrator. He served as the interim president of the New College of Florida from January 2023 to March 2023. Life Thiessen earned a bachelor's degree in secondary mathematics education at the St. Ambrose University. He earned a master's degree and Ph.D. in educational measurement and statistics from the University of Iowa. His 2008 dissertation was titled, ''Relationship between test security policies and test score manipulations''. Timothy Neri Ansley was his doctoral advisor. Thiessen worked at the St. Ambrose University for 14 years as the university assessment coordinator and a faculty member in the department of mathematics and statistics. He joined the New College of Florida in July 2016 as the president's chief of staff, and a professor of statistics. In August 2016, he became its first director of institutional performance assessment. On January 2, 2020, he became the director of institutional research at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Thiessen
Nicholas Dan Thiessen (May 27, 1946 – November 1, 2014) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Tabor College (Kansas), Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas from 1978 to 1980 and again from 1993 to 1998 and at McPherson College in McPherson, Kansas from 1986 to 1992. Thiessen played professionally in the Canadian Football League (CFL). Coaching career McPherson Thiessen was the head football coach for the McPherson College in McPherson, Kansas. He held that position for seven seasons, from 1986 until 1992. His coaching record at McPherson was 21 wins and 44 losses. Tabor Thiessen was the head football coach of the Tabor College (Kansas), Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas for six seasons, from 1993 to 1998. Theissen played quarterback for the college as well as competing on the tennis team before taking the coaching position. High school Thiessen also coached at the high school level, primarily in the Bakersfield, California area. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vern Thiessen
Vern Thiessen (born c. 1964) is a Canadians, Canadian playwright. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Thiessen studied at the University of Winnipeg and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. He later attended the University of Alberta, where he obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree. Thiessen previously lived in Edmonton, Alberta and was formerly a drama instructor at the University of Alberta. He is a past president of both the Playwrights Guild of Canada and the Writers Guild of Alberta, Writers' Guild of Alberta. Thiessen is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Governor General's Award for English-language drama (''Einstein's Gift''), the Carol Bolt Award for Best Play (''Vimy'') and the Sterling Award for Outstanding New Play (''Apple''). He has also received the City of Edmonton Arts Achievement Award and the Alumni Award of Excellence from the University of Alberta. He has been nominated several times for other awards including the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre, and was a fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
