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2 unusual facts about Peter A. Cohen


Peter A. Cohen

In 1978, Cohen left Shearson for one year to work for Edmond Safra at Republic New York Corporation and the Trade Development Bank before returning to Shearson in 1979.

Peter Cohen

Peter A. Cohen, former Chairman and CEO of Shearson Lehman Brothers and current Chairman and CEO of Cowen Group


Acquavella Galleries

In 2006, the gallery brokered a deal for the sale of a Picasso painting, Le Rêve, by the Las Vegas-based magnate Steve Wynn to the hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen, for $139 million.

Alan N. Cohen

Before he gained prominence as a co-owner of the Celtics, he was part of a group that owned the New York Cosmos, which made international headlines by signing superstar Pelé.

Ali Cimen

He has interviewed many political and social celebrities including Bill Clinton, Shakira, Edwin Buzz Aldrin, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Greg Olsen, Mordechai Vanunu, William S. Cohen, Robert Ballard and Brad Pitt.

Arthur A. Cohen

He was also a theologian, presumably working on his contributions to the encyclopedic Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought (recently published by Charles Scribner's Sons).

Cohen wrote The Natural and the Supernatural Jew (1962), tracing the history of Jewish theology from the late 15th century, through the German Jewish renaissance, and into what he saw as a hopeful yet troubled American Jewish scene.

Arthur Cohen

Arthur A. Cohen (1928–1986), American Jewish scholar, theologian and author

Bonnie R. Cohen

She would eventually become an investment consultant to the Stanford University endowment; treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America's Health and Retirement Funds; and senior vice president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Carl Ray Proffer

Attending were Arthur A. Cohen, Sasha Sokolov, Joseph Brodsky, Susan Sontag and many other notable Russian and American literary figures.

Castor Gardens, Philadelphia

It is represented in Congress by Bob Brady and Allyson Schwartz, in the Philadelphia City Council by Maria Quiñones-Sanchez and Bobby Henon, in the Pennsylvania State Senate by Mike Stack and Christine Tartaglione, and in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives by Mark B. Cohen and John Sabatina.

Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

The library also holds the personal letters of more than 50 Jewish-American leaders from the 1800s and 1900s, including Isaac Leeser, Abraham Neuman, Cyrus Adler (a former Dropsie College president), Mary M. Cohen, Sabato Morais, Charles Cohen, Ben Zion Goldberg, and the benefactor Dropsie.

Cold Warriors

In a June 2011 interview with Assignment X, series creator David X. Cohen first revealed that Aldrin would guest star in the episode.

Dennis Danvers

The Watch (2002), ISBN 0-380-97762-1, described as "being the unauthorized sequel to Peter A. Kropotkin's Memoirs of a Revolutionist as imparted to Dennis Danvers by Anchee Mahur, traveler from a distant future"

E.G.D. Cohen

Later with Denis Evans and Gary Morriss in 1990 he proved that for certain classes of thermostatted nonequilibrium steady states the relevant transport coefficient the transport coefficient has a simple relation to the sum of the largest and smallest Lyapunov exponents describing the trajectory of the N-particle steady state system in phase space.

Fluctuation theorem

The FT was first proposed and tested using computer simulations, by Denis Evans, E.G.D. Cohen and Gary Morriss in 1993 in the journal Physical Review Letters.

Gene D. Cohen

Among his other contributions to his field, he helped found two journals on geriatric psychiatry, served as President of the Gerontological Society of America, and appeared on television programs as an expert on aging and with George Burns in Public Service Announcements.

Cohen died at 65 of prostate cancer on November 7, 2009, in Kensington, Maryland.

Grace Theological Seminary

Dr. Gary Cohen, President Emeritus of Cohen Theological Seminary

Gulf War Air Power Survey

The study was directed by Eliot A. Cohen, a professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, and the research and writing was carried out by teams consisting of civilians and retired and active military officers.

Interval graph

The mathematical theory of interval graphs was developed with a view towards applications by researchers at the RAND Corporation's mathematics department, which included young researchers—such as Peter C. Fishburn and students like Alan C. Tucker and Joel E. Cohen—besides leaders—such as Delbert Fulkerson and (recurring visitor) Victor Klee.

J. M. Cohen

In addition to teaching young people, he spent the war years teaching himself Spanish and Russian, and he launched his translation career with the first English translation of poems by Boris Pasternak, then unknown outside the Soviet Union.

James Scheibel

A graduate of Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota, he worked as a community organizer, as aide to former mayor Lawrence D. Cohen, as national organizer for the Fred R. Harris Presidential campaign in 1976 and as deputy director for Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA).

Jeffrey H. Cohen

Since the late 1980s he has worked in Oaxaca's central valleys region and specifically in the community of Santa Ana del Valle, documented in his book, Cooperation and Community, published in 1999 by the University of Texas Press.

Cohen's work is centered ethnographically in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.

Jeffrey Cohen grew up in Indianapolis where he attended Indianapolis Public School #86 and Shortridge High School.

Kenneth N. Robinson

When McMurray resigned in 2005, Robinson and fellow counselor Peter A. Judd led the church until Stephen M. Veazey was selected as the new president.

Lisa R. Cohen

Since 1983, May 25 has been recognized as National Missing Children's Day in honor of Etan and all the other children who have gone missing in America.

Ludwig Boltzmann

Finally, in the 1970s E.G.D. Cohen and J.R. Dorfman proved that a systematic (power series) extension of the Boltzmann equation to high densities is mathematically impossible.

Mark R. Cohen

He is a leading scholar of the history of Jews in the Middle Ages under Islam.

Mark S. Cohen

Cohen plays frequently with Albert Lee at private parties and appears on his record, "Road Runner."

In 1985 Cohen joined the MRI Applications Group at Siemens Healthcare where he began a career in MRI focused originally on education, and on technological improvements to reduce scan times.

Michael G. Vickers

He earned a Ph.D. in 2011 in International Relations/Strategic Studies from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University under Professor Eliot A. Cohen.

Mike Pantelides

Pantelides was elected in November of 2013 over then-incumbent mayor Joshua J. Cohen.

Morton N. Cohen

He is best known for extensive studies of children's author Lewis Carroll including the 1995 biography Lewis Carroll: A Biography.

Peter A. Carlesimo

He was married to Lucy Rogan and had ten children, including P. J. Carlesimo, the eldest, who was a longtime coach at Seton Hall University and in the NBA.

Peter A. Dowling

Dowling's first produced movie was Flightplan starring Jodie Foster which was the number one box office hit in the U.S. and grossed over $223,000,000 worldwide.

Peter A. Jay

The 1838 Peter Augustus Jay House is a National Historic Landmark as well as a Save America's Treasures Project; NHL designation is the highest recognition conferred by the US government for a historic site—out of more than 80,000 places on the National Register, only about 2,430 are NHLs.

Peter A. Sturgeon

The writer William Tenn has stated that Sturgeon became involved with POUM while in Spain and fell into disfavor with his superiors.

Peter Assheton Sturgeon (November 22, 1916 – July 22, 2005) was founder of the American branch of Mensa and the older brother of noted American science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon.

Peter A. Sturrock

As in the AIAA survey, about 5% reported puzzling sightings, but skepticism against the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) ran high.

Peter A. Van Bergen

Peter A. Van Bergen's great-great-great-great-granddaughter Marie Princess of Wied (b. 1973) married Duke Friedrich of Württemberg, the heir apparent to the Pretender to the Throne of the Kingdom of Württemberg.

Philip P. Cohen

Cohen was an honorary member of the Chiba Medical Society of Japan, the Harvey Society, the Medical School Faculty of the University of Chile, the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico and the Japanese Biochemical Society.

Rhine capitalism

Two researchers, Peter A. Hall and David Soskice, followed up the idea of two different kinds of capitalism with a large, empirical, international study.

Ronald M. Cohen

In 1977 he wrote a script for the movie adaption of Lothar-Günther Buchheims novel Das Boot, but it was rejected by Buchheim.

Samuel T. Cohen

William R. Van Cleave & S. T. Cohen, Nuclear Weapons, Policies, and the Test Ban Issue, 1987, ISBN 0-275-92312-6

Stanley G. Cohen

Cohen has taught music at the James Madison, Francis Lewis, and John Bowne High Schools in Queens, he was instrumental in establishing music programs at the latter two schools.


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