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Olaf Dreyer ( born 1969 in Hamburg ) is a German theoretical physicist and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo whose research interests include quantum gravity and the quantum measurement problem.
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Various speculative proposals to explain this parameter have been suggested: for example, an argument due to Olaf Dreyer based on quasinormal modes.
Olaf and born
Reno was born in Miami, Florida to Henry Olaf Reno ( original surname Rasmussen ), an emigrant from Denmark, who, for 43 years was a police reporter for the Miami Herald.
After Olaf, no Norwegian king was to be born on Norwegian soil for more than 550 years, until prince Harald was born in 1937.
The high born of the town welcomed Olaf as the rightful King of Denmark and Norway and gave him fine clothes and presents.
The earliest Norwegian written source, Historia Norwegiæ ( late 12th century ), states that Olaf was born in Orkney after his mother fled there to escape the killers of Olaf's father-another late 12th century source, Ágrip, says Olaf's mother fled to Orkney with Olaf when he is three years old, for the same reason.
It states that Olaf was born shortly after the murder of his stated father in 963, while other sources suggest a date between 964 and 969.
Snorri Sturluson claims in Olaf Tryggvson's saga that Olaf was born on an islet in Fjærlandsvatnet, where his mother Astrid daughter of Eirik Bjodaskalle, was hiding from her husband's killers, led by Harald Greyhide, the son of Eirik Bloodaxe.
His widow, Åsta, gave birth to Olaf at the same year, but we do not know for sure if Olaf was born at Harald Grenske's place in Vestfold or in Hole.
Saint Olaf ( king of Norway from 1015 to 1028 ) was born in Hole, near where the 12th century Bønsnes church is located, to Harold Grenske ( a grandson of Harald I of Norway ) and his wife Asta.
* Per Olaf Lundteigen ( born 1953 ), politician for the Centre Party
On March 15, 1920, a formal constitution was adopted and the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference was born, with Carleton College, Gustavus Adolphus College, Hamline University, Macalester College, Saint John's University, St. Olaf College, and the University of St. Thomas.
Olaf Kölzig ( born April 6, 1970 ) is a retired German professional ice hockey goaltender and associate goalie coach for the Washington Capitals.
Olaf Bergmann and his colleagues at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm tested samples of heart muscle from people born before 1955 when nuclear bomb testing caused elevated levels of radioactive carbon 14 in the Earth's atmosphere.
Olaf Karl Tufte ( born 27 April 1976 in Tønsberg ) is a Norwegian competition rower.
* Film Comment's Olaf Möller endorsed " Nigerian videofilm culture " in a 2004 article that championed its " sheer invention, born of utter poverty, from people desperate to tell themselves stories, to forge a cinema culture of their own, like the one they know from TV or video — but rooted in their own experience.
The St. Olaf Choir is a pioneer of singing in the United States, born out of Christiansen's appreciation of the style he studied while at Thomasschule zu Leipzig.
Truls Olaf Otterbech Mørk ( born 25 April 1961 ) is a Norwegian cellist.
Olaf Zinke ( born 9 October 1966 in Bad Muskau, East Germany ) is a former speed skater.
* 1963, 16 May, Johnny de Brest, born as Olaf Enkrodt, German Artist and Photogrpaher
Egeberg was born in Chicago to Hans Olaf Egeberg and Ulrikka Rostrup Egeberg ( née Nielsen ), a Norwegian family.
* Olaf Schmidt ( born 1962 ), German glider aerobatic pilot
Olaf and Hamburg
During the 1988 European Championship, after the semi-final against Germany 2 – 1 in Hamburg, he, in front of German supporters, provocatively pretended to wipe his backside with the shirt of Olaf Thon, an action Koeman later regretted.
Olaf and is
* 1031 – Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.
The term is the Old Norse / Icelandic translation of, a neologism coined in the context of 19th century romantic nationalism, used by Edvard Grieg in his 1870 opera Olaf Trygvason.
Ælfheah may have played a part in the treaty negotiations, and it is certain that he confirmed Olaf in his new faith.
Sörla þáttr is a short story in the later and extended version of the Saga of Olaf Tryggvason in the manuscript of the Flateyjarbók, which was written and compiled by two Christian priests, Jon Thordson and Magnus Thorhalson, in the late 14th century.
The term itself is an oblique reference to Olaf Stapledon's classic science fiction epic Last and First Men.
For example, Marga Olafsdottir is Marga, daughter of Olaf, and Olaf Thorsson is Olaf, son of Thor.
The Saga of Olaf Haraldsson is the main part.
* September 9 – Battle of Svolder: King Olaf Tryggvason is defeated by an alliance of his enemies, in this notable naval battle of the Viking Age.
* Battle of Nesjar ( Norway ): Olaf Haraldsson is victorious over Sveinn Hakonarson.
* Olaf Tryggvason is crowned king of Norway and builds the country's first church.
* July 29 – Battle of Stiklestad ( Norway ): Olaf II of Norway loses to his pagan vassals and is killed in the battle.
* Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf.
In 1028 AD, Saint Olaf is said to have killed a sea serpent in Valldal, Norway, throwing its body onto the mountain Syltefjellet.
* In Olaf Stapledon's 1937 novel Star Maker, great care is taken by the Symbiont race to keep its existence hidden from " pre-utopian " primitives, " lest they should lose their independence of mind ".
The novel's theme of transcendent evolution also appears in Clarke's Space Odyssey series, and is attributed to the influence of British author Olaf Stapledon.
In a Greek book written in the 1070s, Kekaumenos's Strategikon, Araltes ( i. e. Harald ; his brother Olaf is also mentioned ) is said to have won the favour of the emperor, and is described as the " son of the King of Varangia ".
Olaf and German
* 1965 – Olaf Backasch, German footballer
* March 27 – Olaf Malolepski, German musician ( Die Flippers )
Talented German and Austrian lieder singers of a younger generation include Olaf Bär, Matthias Goerne, Wolfgang Holzmair ( who also performs regularly in opera ), Thomas Quasthoff, Stephan Genz and Christian Gerhaher.
After the German invasion of April 1940, while King Haakan and the Norwegian government were moving from Elverum to the west coast, the King and Crown Prince Olaf arrived in Otta on the night of April 13.
Real McCoy is the brainchild of German rapper and producer Olaf " O-Jay " Jeglitza.
Despite this, the group had five members when taking part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, with German rapper O-Jay ( Olaf Jeglitza ) as the fifth member.
Neither won, nor did either win in their first major encounter in the European Championships Prague in 1978 in an 800 metre race, where Ovett ( breaking Coe's UK record with a run of 1: 44. 09 ) was second and Coe finished third behind the East German Olaf Beyer.
He led Coe in the 800m and appeared to be on his way to gold, before being surprisingly caught by the East German Olaf Beyer.
The 33 page long plan was discovered in Potsdam by Olaf Groehler, a German historian.
* Olaf Karthaus, a German polymer chemist
* Olaf Gruss & Manfred Wolf-Phalaenopsis ; Edition Ulmer, ISBN 3-8001-6551-1 ( in German )
26 NHL players came to play the season in the DEL, including Jamie Langenbrunner, Erik Cole, Stéphane Robidas, Doug Weight, Mike York and several German national team players -- Jochen Hecht, Olaf Kölzig, and Marco Sturm.
The victory was marred by the reaction of Dutch captain Koeman who wiped the shirt of Olaf Thon, given to him after the match, on his backside in front of the German fans.
* Hans Olaf von Wrangel ( 1928 – 2009 ), Baron, German parliamentarian
* Olaf Bär (* 1957 ), German operatic baritone
Jahrhundert ; Bernd Lingelbach, Olaf Schmidt ; Das Fröjel Discovery Programme ( German, extensive paper with many illustrations )
The Commodore Amiga version was authored by two German students, Olaf Boehm and Joerg Zanger, who had been inspired by the earlier Commodore 64 version.
The first actress to portray Christine Daaé was Aud Egede-Nissen in the 1916 German silent version by Ernst Matray, Das Gespenst im Opernhaus or Das Phantom der Oper, also starring Nils Olaf Chrisander.
Olaf Karthaus ( born 1963 in Koblenz ) is a German polymer chemist and Professor at the Chitose Institute of Science and Technology in Chitose, Hokkaidō, Japan, researching polymer chemistry, thin films, photonics, and nanotechnology.
* Olaf Pooley — German doctor
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