Widder (icebreaker)
Widder or Widders may refer to: People *David Widder *Dean Widders *Edith Widder * Felix Widder (other), several people *Frederick Widder * Nathan Widder Other uses * German auxiliary cruiser ''Widder'' * ''Widder'' (icebreaker), an icebreaker operated by the Wasser- und Schifffahrtsamt A Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsamt (''waterways and shipping authority''; abbreviated ''WSA'') is a Germany, German Federal agency (Germany), federal agency, responsible for the administration of federal navigable waters and for the regulation ...

David Widder
David Vernon Widder (25 March 1898 – 8 July 1990) was an American mathematician. He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1924 under George Birkhoff and went on to join the faculty there. He was a co-founder of the ''Duke Mathematical Journal'' and the author of the textbook ''Advanced Calculus'' (Prentice-Hall, 1947). He wrote also '' The Laplace transform'' (in which he gave a first solution to Landau's problem on the Dirichlet eta function), (pbk reprint of 1941 1st edition) ''An introduction to transform theory'', and '' The convolution transform'' (co-author with I. I. Hirschman). References *''A Century of Mathematics in America'' by Peter L. Duren and Richard Askey Richard Allen Askey (June 4, 1933 – October 9, 2019) was an American mathematician, known for his expertise in the area of special functions. The Askey–Wilson polynomials (introduced by him in 1984 together with James A. Wilson) are on the ..., American Mathematical Society, 1988, . *''A Hist ...
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Dean Widders
Dean Richard Widders (born 25 October 1979) is an Anaiwan Indigenous Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. He works with the National Rugby League as an Indigenous Pathways manager. He is coach of the Parramatta Eels Women team in the 2022 NRLW season. Early life Widders was born in Armidale in New South Wales, Australia. He played his first game of rugby league at the age of six for the local Armidale colts after watching his father Jake Widders who was a player for the famous Aboriginal team the Narwan Eels. During Widders' teenage years he honed his rugby league playing for the Armidale Greens and Narwan Eels. During this time, Arthur Beetson Sydney Roosters selector flew to Armidale to see Widders play. Playing career NRL In 1996, at the age of 17, Widders moved to Sydney to play with the Sydney Roosters. In this year, he also captained an Aboriginal side. Widders made his debut for the Roosters in 2000, playing in 1 ...
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Edith Widder
Edith Anne "Edie" Widder Smith (born 1951) is an American oceanographer, marine biologist, author, and the co-founder, CEO and Senior Scientist at the Ocean Research & Conservation Association. Books * The Bioluminescence Coloring Book * Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea Further reading * * Season 5 – Episode 002 �Edith Widder - oceanographer, marine biologist, and co-founder of Orca(podcast). * Wilson, Abigail. (2020). Edith Widder 1951-todayWomensActivism.NYC * Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea (2020)Bioluminescence (podcast). * Orca podcast (2019)Episode 1: A Q&A with ORCA founder, Senior Scientist, and CEO, Dr. Edie Widder(podcast). * Ted Radio hour (2018)In Search of(podcast). * Yale 360 Interview 2021A Scientist Reveals the Bioluminescent Magic of the Deep-Sea World References External links ''Gulf of Maine Times'', Lisa Capone, 2007 * Erik Olsen ''New York Times'', December 19, 2011. {{DEFAULTSORT:Widder, Edith ...
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Felix Widder (other)
Felix Widder may refer to: *Félix Bódog Widder Félix Bódog Widder (; 28 April 1874 – 26 September 1939) was a Hungarians, Hungarian painter, graphic designer and teacher. Family and education Félix Bódog Widder was born on 28 April 1874 in Arad, Romania, Arad. His daughter was Magda ... (1874–1939), Hungarian painter, graphic designer, teacher * Felix Joseph Widder (1892–1974), Austrian mycologist and botanist {{hndis, Widder, Felix ...
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Frederick Widder
Frederick Widder (1801–1865) was a Canada Company commissioner and son of a Canada Company London director, with family connections to royalty and Anglican figures of influence.Robert C. Lee, ''The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, 1826-1853''.Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2004.p.149 His moderate approach and financial innovations for the Canada Company gave him good standing with the pioneers of the Huron Tract and the reformers of Upper Canada. His administrative talents and hard work allowed him to advance past Thomas Mercer Jones Thomas Mercer Jones (1795 – 2 October 1868) was an English-born administrator who arrived in Upper Canada in the 1820s and was employed as a commissioner of the Canada Company based in Goderich. A series of internal conflicts led to his d ... and take the lead in the Canada Company. Widder's home, Lyndhurst, became a social hub of Toronto. His wife, Elizabeth, provided upper-class residents of York with refined entertainments redolent ...
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Nathan Widder
Nathan Widder is an American-born political philosopher whose work engages with the history of Western political thought and philosophy, contemporary Continental philosophy, and feminist political theory. He has done research and published widely on questions of difference, pluralism, power, identity, and knowledge, and he has drawn on ideas in contemporary thought in order to stage a re-engagement with both central and marginal figures in ancient, early Christian, and medieval philosophy. He received his Ph.D. from Essex University under the supervision of celebrated political theorists Ernesto Laclau and Sue Golding. He also has an MSc (Econ) Political Theory from The London School of Economics, and a BA Political Science from Johns Hopkins University, where he was a student of William E. Connolly. Widder iProfessor of Political Theoryat Royal Holloway, University of London, where he was Head of the Politics and International Relations departmen(2009-2013) Widder has publi ...
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German Auxiliary Cruiser Widder
''Widder'' (HSK 3) was an auxiliary cruiser (''Hilfskreuzer'') of Nazi Germany's ''Kriegsmarine'' that was used as a merchant raider in the Second World War. Her Kriegsmarine designation was Schiff 21, to the Royal Navy she was Raider D. The name ''Widder'' (Ram) represents the constellation Aries in German. Early history Built at Howaldtswerke, Kiel, she was launched in 1929 as the cargo ship ''Neumark'' for the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). In 1939 the ''Kriegsmarine'' requisitioned her for use as a commerce raider. She was converted by Blohm+Voss in late 1939, and commissioned as the raider ''Widder'' on 9 December of that year. She sailed on her first and only raiding voyage in May 1940. Raider voyage ''Widder'' sailed as part of the Kriegsmarine's first wave of commerce raiders, sailing on 6 May 1940 under the command of ''Korvettenkapitän'' (later ''Fregattenkapitän'') Helmuth von Ruckteschell. Leaving Germany on 6 May 1940, she made for Bergen, in Norway. On 13 May ''W ...
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Widder (icebreaker)
Widder or Widders may refer to: People *David Widder *Dean Widders *Edith Widder * Felix Widder (other), several people *Frederick Widder * Nathan Widder Other uses * German auxiliary cruiser ''Widder'' * ''Widder'' (icebreaker), an icebreaker operated by the Wasser- und Schifffahrtsamt A Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsamt (''waterways and shipping authority''; abbreviated ''WSA'') is a Germany, German Federal agency (Germany), federal agency, responsible for the administration of federal navigable waters and for the regulation ...