Famous People with Name Abraham

Abraham Gottlob Werner            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Abraham Gottlob Werner: was a German geologist who set out a now obsolete theory about the stratification of the Earth's crust and coined the now obsolete word Neptunism.While in Leipzig, Werner became interested in the systematic identification and classification of minerals. Within a year he published the first modern textbook on descriptive mineralogy, Vonden äusserlichen Kennzeichen der Fossilien (On the External Characters of Fossils, or of Minerals) (1774).

Abraham Speijer            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Abraham Speijer: was a Dutch chess master.Speijer tied for 1st with Adolf Olland in the 1st Dutch Chess Championship at Leiden 1909, although Olland was recognized as the Champion.

Abraham Walkowitz            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Abraham Walkowitz: was an American painter grouped in with early American Modernists working in the Modernist style. He was born in Siberia, Russia and emigrated with his mother to the United States in his early childhood where he studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City and the Académie Julian in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurence. Walkowitz and his contemporaries gravitated around photographer Alfred Stieglitz' 291 Gallery, originally titled the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, where the forerunners of modern art in America gathered and where many European artists were first exhibited in the United States. During the 291 years, Walkowitz worked closely with Stieglitz as well as Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and John Marin (often referred to as "The Stieglitz Quartet").

Abraham Rattner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Abraham Rattner: was an artist best known for paintings with religious themes that had very rich colors.He first studied architecture at George Washington University along with painting at the Corcoran School of Art. However, he soon decided to concentrate on painting and study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1917 and 1919). Rattner lived in Paris from 1920 till 1940 when he returned to New York. He taught at several schools, including The New School, New York (1947–55) and Yale University, New Haven, CT, (1952–53).

Abraham Haskel Taub            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Abraham Haskel Taub: was a distinguished American mathematician and physicist, well known for his important contributions to the early development of general relativity, as well as differential geometry and differential equations. He is perhaps best known for a 1948 paper dealing with relativistic shock waves, in which he introduced a relativistic generalization of the Rankine-Hugoniot jump conditions across a shock, which is now known as the "Taub Adiabat".Taub earned his doctorate at Princeton University in 1935, under the direction of the prominent relativist Howard Percy Robertson. At Princeton, Taub was also influenced by Oswald Veblen.

Szilvia Ábrahám            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Szilvia Ábrahám: is a Hungarian handballer playing for Siófok KC and the Hungarian national team. She made it to the traveling squad and debuted in the Hungarian national team on 21 September 2010 against Germany. Three months later, she was selected into the national team for the European Championship as well, however, this spell was cut short as she was replaced by Tímea Tóth after the preliminary round, to widen the options on back positions.