Famous People with Name Nathan

Nathan Banks            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nathan Banks: American entomologist noted for his work on neuroptera, megaloptera, hymenoptera, and acarina (mites). He started work on mites in 1880 with the USDA. In 1915 he authored the first comprehensive English handbook on mites: A Treatise on the Acarina, Or Mites (Smithsonian Institution, Proceedings Of The United States National Museum, 1905, 114 pages).

Nathan Oliveira            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nathan Oliveira: an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor, born in Oakland, California. Since the late 1950s he is the veteran of nearly one hundred solo exhibitions and hundreds of group exhibitions, in important museums and galleries worldwide, including several Whitney Museum of American Art Annual Exhibitions. Beginning in the late 1950s and the early 1960s, to the present he has consistently exhibited his evolving work. He has taught painting for several decades in California since the early 1950s when he taught in Oakland and then at Stanford University. He's considered to be one of the pioneers of the return to the figure in American painting that originated in the California Bay area in the 1950s. Along with various colleagues, Oliviera responded to Abstract expressionism in the mid-1950s by returning to imagery.

Nathan Isgur            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nathan Isgur: was a theoretical physicist from the U.S. and Canada[1After completion of his Doctorate, Isgur was granted a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Fellowship, which allowed him to stay at Toronto as a post-doctoral candidate. He was hired as an assistant professor in the Department of Physics in 1976 in recognition of his outstanding merit by department head Robin Armstrong, even though he had not been able to travel to gain experience outside the Department owing to passport difficulties. In 1975 Isgur published on the mixing angle of pseudo-scalar mesons due to annihilation into gluons. He embarked on a long collaboration with Gabriel Karl from the University of Guelph, involving the study of excited baryons in quark models. The principal physical idea of the model was taken from quantum chromodynamics: the forces between quarks are flavour-independent, a "QCD-improved" quark model.

Nathan Blumenthal            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nathan Blumenthal: a psychotherapist and writer best known today for his work in the psychology of self-esteem. A one-time associate of novelist Ayn Rand, Branden had a prominent role in promoting Rand's philosophy, Objectivism.For many years Branden was considered to be the leading figure in the Objectivist movement, second only to Rand herself. He was the leader of a group of Rand's closest associates known as The Collective, which also included his wife Barbara Branden and Alan Greenspan. Rand considered him to be her soul mate and designated him her "intellectual heir". In 1958 Branden founded the Nathaniel Branden Institute to promote Objectivism through guest lectures and educational seminars around the United States. The NBI became enormously successful, and soon had representatives all over the US and around the world.

Nathan Mantel            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nathan Mantel: was a biostatistician best known for his work with William Haenszel which led to the Mantel-Haenszel test and its associated estimate, the Mantel-Haenszel odds ratio. The Mantel-Haenszel procedure and its extensions allow data from several sources or grou

Joseph Michael Nathan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph Michael Nathan: (born November 22, 1974 in Houston, Texas) is a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who currently plays

Howard Nathan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Howard Nathan: was a American former professional basketball player. Nathan attended DePaul University, Northeast Louisiana University (now University of Louisiana at Monroe) and Northwest Arkansas Community College. He played 5 games during the 1995-96 NBA season with the Atlanta Hawks, averaging 2.6 points and 0.4 assists per game.

Theodora Nathalia "Tonie" Nathan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Theodora Nathalia "Tonie" Nathan: is the first woman to have received an electoral vote in a United States presidential election. She was the 1972 Libertarian candidate (on the ticket with John Hospers) for vice president when Roger MacBride, a Republican elector from Virginia, cast the h

Henry Nathan, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Henry Nathan, Jr.: was the first Jewish Canadian to be elected to the House of Commons. Nathan was one of two MPs elected to represent the British Columbia riding of Victoria in the Canadian general election of 1872. They had won by acclamation special byelections held the year before to fill the newly-created House of Commons seats upon British Columbia's admission to Confederation (in those byelections the riding was named Victoria District). The other representative for Victoria was B.C.'s Father of Confederation, Amor De Cosmos who was simultaneously Premier of that province until 1874. The third-place also-ran was Robert Beaven, who was to become the sixth Premier of British Columbia ten years later.