Famous People with Name Mazur

Dan Mazur            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dan Mazur: is an American mountain climber, most widely known for the rescue of Lincoln Hall, an Australian climber on Mount Everest on May 25, 2006. Lincoln Hall had been 'left for dead' by another expedition team the previous day at around 8,700 meters on Everest

Barry Charles Mazur            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Barry Charles Mazur: a professor of mathematics at Harvard University.His early work was in geometric topology. In a clever, elementary fashion, he proved the generalized Schoenflies conjecture (his complete proof required an additional result by Marston Morse), around the sa

Marilyn Mazur            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Marilyn Mazur: a percussionist, drummer, composer, vocalist, pianist, dancer and bandleader. She was born in New York and has lived in Denmark from age six. She is of Polish and African-American descent. From 1975, she has worked as a percussionist with various groups,

Eric Mazur            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Eric Mazur: is a prominent physicist and educator at Harvard University. Mazur is known for his work in experimental ultrafast optics and condensed matter physics and a national leader in science education. Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Peter Mazur            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Peter Mazur: Dutch physicist and one of the founders of the field of non-equilibrium thermodynamics.Peter Mazur was born on December 11, 1922 in Vienna, Austria. His father, Karl Georg Mazur, a business man, and mother, Anna Zula Lecker, frequently moved during Mazur's youth. In 1931 the family left for Berlin, where Mazur attended the Franzosisches Gymnasium. Two years later the family left Germany to escape the growing threat of National Socialism