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* Ernest Oppenheimer ( 1880 – 1957 ), diamond and gold mining entrepreneur and financier ; controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa, brother of Bernard
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Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller.
* Gregg Herken, Brotherhood of the bomb: the tangled lives and loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence ( Henry Holt, 2002 ).
The son of May Pollack and Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, Harry was born to an assimilated Jewish family of German origins in Kimberley, the original centre for diamond mining in South Africa, and lived most of his life in Johannesburg.
A year later, the Ernest Oppenheimer Hall of Residence and Savernake, the new residence of the Vice-Chancellor ( replacing Hofmeyr House on the main campus ) were both established, also in Parktown.
Within the Wits Management Campus are the Ernest Oppenheimer Hall ( male residence ) and the mixed Parktown Village I.
Birge was an active administrator and was the architect of the Berkeley department's prestige, seeking out physicists such as Robert Oppenheimer and Ernest Lawrence and guiding the department through its golden years of the 1930s and through the changes brought on by World War II, the Manhattan Project, and the birth of " Big Science.
Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, diamond mining entrepreneur and former owner of De Beers was born and raised in Friedberg.
In 1932 he arrived at Ernest O. Lawrence's Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, which was at that time blossoming into the top American site for both experimental and theoretical physics due to the efforts of Lawrence and J. Robert Oppenheimer.
His principal buildings there include Sproul Hall, the Bancroft Library, and the Cyclotron Building, commissioned by Ernest Lawrence and J. Robert Oppenheimer.
The town of Alexander Bay is located 3 miles ( 5 km ) away opposite the river on the South African side and is linked to Oranjemund by the Ernest Oppenheimer Bridge.
* Bernard Oppenheimer ( 1866 – 1921 ), South African and British diamond merchant and philanthropist, brother of Ernest
* Harry Frederick Oppenheimer ( 1908 – 2000 ), South African businessman of De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited, son of Ernest
Sir Ernest Oppenheimer ( 22 May 1880 – 25 November 1957 ) was a diamond and gold mining entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist, who controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa.
* Biography Ernest Oppenheimer online version Gregory, Ernest Oppenheimer and the Economic Development of South Africa, Cape Town University Press, New York, 1965
Ernest and 1880
In 1880, when Ernest was six, Henry Shackleton gave up his life as a landowner to study medicine at Trinity College, Dublin, moving his family into the city.
It was translated into English by Mary Neal Sherwood ( as Clorinda ) in 1880, by Kenward Philp ( as The Mysteries of Louis Napoleon's Court ) in 1884, by Ernest A. Vizetelly in 1897 ( reprinted 2006 ), and by Alec Brown in 1958.
His father, Ernest Louis Simpson, a cofounder of the international shipbroker Simpson, Spence & Young in 1880, was a British citizen whose original surname was Solomon.
He later ( 1880 ) established a trade journal, The Cabinet Maker, which eventually became the furniture trade's leading publication: when politics became his main interest, the family's publishing business were taken over by his eldest son Ernest Benn ( 1875 – 1954 ).
" Poolman House ", originally known as " Ernest Poolman House ", was built by stock and station agent Richard Goldsbrough in 1865 and extended in 1880.
Sir Ernest Arthur Gowers GCB GBE ( 2 June 1880 – 16 April 1966 ) was a British public servant, now best known for his style guides for writing the English language.
He was an elder brother of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, uncle of Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India, 1876 – 1880, and the uncle of Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer.
But Ernest Hello is mostly remembered now for a series of philosophical and critical essays, from Renan, l ' Allemagne et l ' atheisme ( 1861 ), which was re-published in an enlarged edition posthumously, through L ' Homme ( 1871 ) on life, art and science in relation to present-day life ( it was in its 7th edition by 1905 ), and Les Plateaux de la balance ( 1880 ) to the posthumously published Le Siècle, probably his master-work.
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The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).
* 1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship.
Ernest, Elector of Saxony ( 1464 – 1486 ), Frederick II, Elector of Saxony ( 1428 – 1464 ) and Albert III, Duke of Saxony ( 1486 – 1500 ); Fürstenzug, Dresden, Germany
William Ernest " Bill " Walsh ( November 30, 1931 – July 30, 2007 ) was the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Stanford Cardinal football team, during which time he popularized the West Coast offense.
In 1878 the Monets temporarily moved into the home of Ernest Hoschedé, ( 1837 – 1891 ), a wealthy department store owner and patron of the arts.
Lithograph of the President's House, Thornton Hall, Dartmouth Hall, and Wentworth Hall, circa 1834. Presidents Ernest Fox Nichols ( 1909 – 16 ) and Ernest Martin Hopkins ( 1916 – 45 ) continued Tucker's trend of modernization, further improving campus facilities and introducing selective admissions in the 1920s.
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