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| August Hahn |
August Hahn (March 27, 1792 - May 13, 1863), German Protestant theologian, was born at Grossosterhausen near Eisleben, and studied theology at the university of Leipzig. (references) |
| David Hahn |
David Hahn (born October, 1976) attempted to build a nuclear breeder reactor in 1994 in his backyard shed in Commerce Township, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at the age of 17. (references) |
| Emily Hahn |
Emily Hahn (January 14, 1905 - February 18, 1997) was an American writer. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, but moved with her family to Chicago, Illinois when she was young. Even at an early age, Hahn had a rebellious streak for her times, and she resolved to obtain a degree in mining engineering at the University of Wisconsin, even though all of her classmates and instructors were opposed to her being there. (references) |
| Gordon Hahn |
Gordon R. Hahn (April 5, 1919 - March 29, 2001) was a member of the Los Angeles City Council. He was appointed to the position after his younger brother, Kenneth Hahn was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in 1952. He served on the council from 1953 until 1963. Just prior to his appointment, Hahn served on the California State Assembly. (references) |
| Hahn (crater) |
Hahn is a lunar impact crater that is located near the northeastern limb of the Moon. The crater appears oval when viewed from the Earth due to foreshortening. It is located less than one crater diameter to the southeast of Berosus crater, a slightly smaller formation. (references) |
| Hahn Air |
Hahn Air is an airline based at Frankfurt Hahn Airport in Frankfurt in Germany operating Saab 340 and other aircraft. (references) |
| Hahn Brewery |
Hahn Brewery was established by Dr Charles "Chuck" Hahn in 1986 at an old factory site in the suburb of Camperdown in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. (references) |
| Hahn embedding theorem |
In mathematics, the Hahn embedding theorem states that every totally ordered abelian group can be embedded as a subgroup of the additive group of a real closed field. (references) |
| Hahn Rowe |
Though often working behind the scenes, New York City violinist/guitarist/composer/producer Hahn Rowe's numerous and wide-ranging projects attest to his skills. Originally a violinist with NYC dream-poppers Hugo Largo, Rowe became a valuable session player in the New York scene. As a musician, he has played on Glenn Branca's Symphony No. 5, and songs by J. G. Thirlwell (as Foetus, Steroid Maximus and Wiseblood), Swans, and Moby. Behind the boards, he engineered recordings for Branca, Thirlwell, David Byrne, and REM. (references) |
| Hans Hahn |
Hans Hahn (1879 - 1934) was an Austrian mathematician who made many contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory. He was also actively interested in philosophy, being a member of the Vienna Circle. (references) |
| Heinrich August Hahn |
Heinrich August Hahn (1821-1861), was the eldest son of the theologian August Hahn. (references) |
| Hilary Hahn |
Hilary Hahn (born November 27, 1979 in Lexington, Virginia) is an American Grammy-winning violinist. (references) |
| James Hahn |
James Kenneth Hahn (born July 3, 1950) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He was the Mayor of Los Angeles, California from 2001-2005, but did not win a second term in the 2005 mayoral election. He is the son of the late Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn, who was known as an ardent supporter of civil rights. (references) |
| Jessica Hahn |
Jessica Hahn (born July 7, 1959 in Massapequa, New York) is a American model and former church secretary who is best known for her affair with televangelist Jim Bakker. (references) |
| Kenneth Hahn |
Kenneth "Kenny" Hahn was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for forty years from 1952 to 1992. Prior to his election, Hahn served on the Los Angeles City Council. He was an ardent supporter of civil rights throughout the 1960s, and became greatly respected in the African-American community of Los Angeles. His son James K. Hahn was elected Mayor of Los Angeles in 2001, but was defeated by Antonio Villaraigosa in 2005. (references) |
| Kimiko Hahn |
Kimiko Hahn is a New York poet. (references) |
| Kurt Hahn |
Kurt Hahn (1886 - 1974) was a German educator who founded such projects such as the Schule Schloss Salem in Germany, Gordonstoun in Scotland, Atlantic College in Wales, the United World Colleges movement, and the Outward Bound schools. Gordonstoun was the founding school of an international consortium of schools called the Round Square schools. These schools are devoted to teaching the "five pillars" of outdoor adventure, environmental awareness, international understanding, community service, and education for democracy. (references) |
| Oscar Hahn |
Oscar Hahn was born on 6 July 1938 in the city of Iquique, Chile. Known in Chile as one of the writers of the Generation of the 70s (also known as the "Dispersed" or "Decimated Generation"), Hahn studied at the Pedagogical Institute of Santiago during his youth. His first steps in poetry can be traced back to his adolescence in Rancagua. He felt impelled to write after a youthful relationship turned into an ironic love affair. (references) |
| Otto Hahn |
German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Otto Hahn (ship) |
Otto Hahn is one of only four nuclear-powered cargo vessels ever built. Planning of a German-built trade and research vessel to test the feasibility of nuclear power in civil service began in 1960, and Otto Hahn's keel was laid down in 1963 by Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft AG of Kiel. She was launched in 1964 sponsored by Dr. Otto Hahn, a German physicist who had helped describe the generation of energy via nuclear decay, and then spent the rest of his life advocating peaceful uses for this power. In 1968, the ship's 38-megawatt nuclear reactor was taken critical and sea trials began. In October of that year, NS Otto Hahn was certified for commercial freight transport and research. (references) |
| Phil Hahn |
Phil Hahn is a writer whose work has appeared in various venues, including MAD Magazine. (references) |
| Scott Hahn |
Scott Hahn is a contemporary author and Catholic apologist. His works include Rome Sweet Home and The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth. He currently teaches at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, a major center of orthodox Catholic thought in the United States. (references) |
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