Gottesman is a surname of Germanic origin meaning ''man of God''. Notable people with the surname include:
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Beyle Schaechter–Gottesman, Yiddish singer, songwriter, and poet
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Blake Gottesman, personal aide and bodyguard to President George W. Bush
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Daniel Gottesman
Daniel Gottesman is a physicist, known for his work regarding quantum error correction, in particular the invention of the stabilizer formalism for quantum error-correcting codes, Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill code and the Gottesman–Knill t ...
, physicist, Perimeter Institute
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David Gottesman
David Sanford "Sandy" Gottesman (April 26, 1926 – September 28, 2022) was an American businessman, billionaire, and philanthropist. He founded First Manhattan Co. (FMC), and was noted for his friendship with Warren Buffett.
Early life and ed ...
, billionaire, director of Berkshire Hathaway
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David Gottesman (politician)
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Dov Gottesman (1917–2011), Israeli art collector, president of the Israel Museum from 2001–11
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Irving Gottesman
Irving Isadore Gottesman (December 29, 1930 – June 29, 2016) was an American professor of psychology who devoted most of his career to the study of the genetics of schizophrenia. He wrote 17 books and more than 290 other publications, mostly ...
, psychiatric geneticist
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Joan Gottesman Wexler (born 1946), American Dean and President of Brooklyn Law School
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Michael Gottesman (lawyer), lawyer and law professor at Georgetown University
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Michael M. Gottesman
Michael M. Gottesman (born October 7, 1946, in Jersey City, New Jersey[Pharmacology Conference ...](_blank)
, biochemist, National Institutes of Health
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Moshe Gottesman, rabbi, educator and community leader
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Noam Gottesman
Noam Gottesman (; born May 1961) is a New York City-based, British-American businessman, former hedge fund manager, and co-founder of GLG Partners. He later entered the restaurant industry, investing in establishments including Eleven Madison Par ...
(born 1961), founding partner of GLG Partners hedge fund, son of Dov
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Rebecca Gottesman, neurologist and epidemiologist, Johns Hopkins University
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Rubin Gottesman, man found guilty of trafficking in child pornography in United States v. X-Citement Video
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Ruth Gottesman
Ruth Levy Gottesman (née Levy, born 1930) is an American educator. Gottesman is the chair of the board of trustees of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) in the Bronx, New York, and a long-time professor there. In February 2024, she ...
, American educator
* ''S.D. Gottesman'', pen-name of author
Cyril M. Kornbluth
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Samuel Gottesman
David Samuel Gottesman (February 22, 1884 – April 21, 1956) was a Hungarian-born, American pulp-paper merchant, financier and philanthropist. He was generally known as Samuel Gottesman or D. Samuel Gottesman.
Biography
He was born to a Jewis ...
, businessman who brought Central National-Gottesman to prominence
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Sanford Gottesman, president of The Gottesman Company, board member of OPIC, father of Blake
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Susan Gottesman
Susan Gottesman is a microbiologist at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), which is part of the National Institutes of Health.
Gottesman has been the editor-in-chief, editor of the ''Annual Review of Microbiology'' since 2008.
She is a pionee ...
, microbiologist, National Institutes of Health
See also
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18668 Gottesman, asteroid named after David Alexander Gottesman (born 1986)
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Gottesman–Knill theorem In quantum computing, the Gottesman–Knill theorem is a theoretical result by Daniel Gottesman and Emanuel Knill that states that stabilizer circuits–circuits that only consist of gates from the normalizer of the qubit Pauli group, also ...
, theoretical result in quantum computing (QC) that states that an important subclass of quantum circuits, called stabilizer circuits, can be simulated efficiently
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Central National-Gottesman
Central National-Gottesman Inc. (CNG) is one of the world's largest distributors of pulp, paper, packaging, nonwovens & fibers, tissue, metals and wood products. The company employs over 4,000 staff in more than 150 locations in 48 cities across ...
, pulp and paper marketer
External links
Gottesmans on the webGottesman Surname Project
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German-language surnames
Surnames of Jewish origin