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Tanton
Tanton is a surname. It may refer to the following people: * James Tanton (born 1966), mathematician * Janice Tanton (born 1961), Canadian artist * John Tanton John Hamilton Tanton (February 23, 1934 – July 16, 2019) was an American ophthalmologist, white nationalist, and anti-immigration activist. He was the founder and first chairman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an anti- ... (1934–2019), United States immigration reduction activist * Lindy Elkins-Tanton, American planetary scientist * Miguel Tanton (born 1989), Filipino-American football player See also * Tanton, a hamlet in North Yorkshire, England {{Surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Tanton
John Hamilton Tanton (February 23, 1934 – July 16, 2019) was an American ophthalmologist, white nationalist, and anti-immigration activist. He was the founder and first chairman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an anti-immigration organization. He was the co-founder of the Center for Immigration Studies, an anti-immigration think tank; and NumbersUSA, an anti-immigration lobbying group. He was chairman of U.S. English and ProEnglish. He was briefly President of Zero Population Growth. He was the founder of The Social Contract Press, which published a quarterly journal of nativist and white nationalist writers called ''The Social Contract'' until the fall of 2019. He founded the pro-eugenics organization Society for Genetic Education. Early life and career John Hamilton Tanton was born February 23, 1934 in Detroit, Michigan. In 1945, he moved with his family to a farm northeast of Bay City, Michigan, on which his mother had been raised and on which h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janice Tanton
Janice Tanton is a Canadian artist. Background Tanton was born on October 25, 1961, in Oshawa, Ontario, and is the daughter of George and Jacqueline Tanton. Her birth parents were Doug Hunter and Louise Brown, both deceased, of Toronto. After graduating from R.S. McLaughlin C.V.I., she attended the BFA (Acting) program at the University of Windsor for two years and continued her post-secondary education, graduating from the Graphic Design Program at Durham College. Tanton continued her interest in the arts, working professionally in theatre, graphic design, and sales, and launched an art publishing and design company in 1989. She sold her original and published artwork in Canada and the United States, while operating two commercial galleries in Burford and Stratford, Ontario. She was a delegate to the first 1999 Businesswomen's Summit between Canada and the U.S. She has held membership in the Society of Tempera Painters, Organization of Women in International Trade (OWIT), and WEC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Tanton
James Stuart Tanton (born August 1, 1966) is an Australian-American mathematician and math educator. He is a winner of the Kidder Faculty Prize for his teaching at The St. Mark’s Math Institute, scholar at the Mathematical Association of America, author of over ten books on mathematics, curriculum, and education, and creator of videos on mathematics on YouTube. As of August 2024 his approximately 360 videos had earned over 2,100,000 views. Education and professional work Tanton received his B.A. in mathematics from the University of Adelaide, and he earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1994, with a thesis in algebraic topology titled ''A Homological Fibration for Gl nfinity'. He taught at the New College, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and Merrimack College before deciding that, to gain credibility with the high school teachers he hoped to work with, he had to teach high school himself. Tanton taught at St. Mark’s School in Southborough, Massachusetts, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Tanton
Miguel Javier Tanton (born 5 July 1989) is a Filipino former footballer who plays as a midfielder. At the club level, he most recently played for Ceres–Negros in the Philippines Football League. Early life Tanton was born in Santa Clara, California in the United States on July 5, 1989. International career Tanton made a debut for the senior Philippine national football team on March 29, 2016, in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers match against North Korea. With OJ Porteria's suspension, Tanton was included as part of the starting eleven by head coach Thomas Dooley Thomas Dooley (born May 12, 1961) is a former association football, soccer player and coach. He played as a Defender (association football), defender and defensive midfielder and was a long-time member and former captain of the United States me .... He assisted Manuel Ott in making the second goal for the Philippines at the 84th minute. The match ended 3–2 in favor of the Philippines. International goals :'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindy Elkins-Tanton
Lindy Elkins-Tanton is an American planetary scientist and professor whose research concerns terrestrial planetary evolution. She is the Principal Investigator of NASA's '' Psyche'' mission to explore the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche, Arizona State University Vice President of the Interplanetary Initiative, and co-founder of Beagle Learning, a tech company training and measuring collaborative problem-solving and critical thinking. Career Dr. Elkins-Tanton earned her B.S. in geology, M.S. in geochemistry, and Ph.D. in geology, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was a professor at MIT, a research scientist at Brown University, and a lecturer at St. Mary's College of Maryland, and worked in the business world for a number of years. Within 10 years of completing her Ph.D. and serving as an associate professor in geology at MIT, she was recruited to the directorship position at the Carnegie Institution for Science's Department of T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
