Abelson
Encyclopedia
Abelson, originating from both Swedish
and Yiddish, and derived from the name Abel
, is the surname
of:
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
and Yiddish, and derived from the name Abel
Abel (surname)
-Arts:* Alan Abel , American actor* Alfred Abel , German film actor, director, and producer* Bernhard, Arnold, and Florian Abel, two sculptors and a painter in the 16th century* Carl Friedrich Abel , German classical composer...
, is the surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
of:
- Alan AbelsonAlan AbelsonAlan Abelson is a veteran financial journalist, and has long written the influential Up and Down Wall Street column in Barron's Magazine. He was editor of Barron's from 1981 until asked to step down in 1992....
(born 1925), American journalist - Hal AbelsonHal AbelsonHarold Abelson is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, a fellow of the IEEE, and is a founding director of both Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation....
, American computer scientist - Jeremy AbelsonJeremy AbelsonJeremy Abelson is the President of Urban Hostess, a rental firm that finds housing for recent college graduates. Urban Hostess also creates apartment listing guides to prices and roommate connecting services for new hires at JP Morgan and other Fortune 500 firms...
, American Entrepreneur - John AbelsonJohn AbelsonJohn Abelson is an American molecular biologist with expertise in biophysics, biochemistry, and genetics. He was a professor at the California Institute of Technology ....
(b. 1939), American biochemist - Neva AbelsonNeva AbelsonNeva Martin Abelson was a distinguished research physician who co-discovered the life-saving blood test for the Rh blood factor ....
(1910-2000), American physician - Matthew AbelsonMatthew AbelsonMatthew Abelson is an American hammered dulcimer player. Originally from Princeton, New Jersey, he lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.- Background :Abelson performs in a variety of styles from classic Celtic tunes to Folk-Rock...
, American musician - Philip AbelsonPhilip AbelsonPhilip Hauge Abelson was an American physicist, a scientific editor, and a science writer.-Life:Abelson was born in 1913 in Tacoma, Washington. He attended Washington State University where he received degrees in chemistry and physics, and the University of California, Berkeley , where he earned...
(1913-2004), American nuclear physicist - Robert P. AbelsonRobert P. AbelsonRobert Paul Abelson was a Yale University psychologist and political scientist with special interests in statistics and logic....
(1928-2005), American political scientist - Rick Abelson (b. 1960), American urban planner
- Peter AbelssonPeter AbelssonPeter Abelsson is a Swedish football defender who currently plays his second spell for Trelleborgs FF. His previous clubs include Nybro IF, Viking and Malmö FF.-External links:*...
(born 1977), Swedish football (soccer) player
See also
- AbelsoniteAbelsoniteAbelsonite , is an organic porphyrin mineral first described in 1975 for specimens in oil shale from the Green River Formation in eastern Uintah County, Utah. It is named after Philip Hauge Abelson, an American physicist....
, the mineral - Abelson murine leukemia virusAbelson murine leukemia virusThe Abelson murine leukemia virus is a retrovirus used to induce transformation of murine lymphoid cells. As a retrovirus, it has a single-stranded, positive sense RNA genome which replicates via a DNA intermediate mediated by a reverse transcriptase. The Abelson murine leukemia virus is named...
, also known as "Abelson's virus"