Researching Richard Meyer
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 973 people with the Meyer surname? In that year Meyer was ranked number 2616 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Richard means "strong ruler" and is of German origin.
Records of Richard Meyer on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Richard Meyer and the Meyer Genealogy
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Some Famous People called Richard Meyer
Richard Meyer (folk music)
Richard Meyer (September 6, 1952 – May 14, 2012) was an American folk singer-songwriter, writer, painter, and set designer. Meyer was active in the Greenwich Village folk music scene of the 1980s and 1990s and did much to promote other artists. As one of the leaders of a musicians cooperative in the Village he handled booking at the SpeakEasy and edited Fast Folk Musical Magazine (1986–1997). Later, he wrote reviews for various media such as AllMusic. He also worked extensively as a lighting/scenery designer in theater.
Since the summer of 2008, Meyer's advancing Parkinson's disease made it impossible for him to live independently, and spent his last years at a nursing home in the New York area.
Source: Richard Meyer (folk music), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaRichard Meyer (producer)
Richard Meyer also known as Swayd (born in Lausanne, Switzerland in November 1970), is a record producer and songwriter of pop music and electronic music.
Besides his activity at Lunar Sound oriented in film scores, advertising music and sound design, he has worked with Mutt Lange in productions such as Britney Spears ("Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know"), The Corrs, ("Breathless" (UK #1, hitting the charts all over the world), "Irresistible" and "All The Love In The World"), Celine Dion ("If Walls Could Talk") and Shania Twain, and as a remixer for The Young Gods. He also produced and recorded the successful single "Lucky" (#3 CH) for Bastian Baker.
Source: Richard Meyer (producer), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaRichard Meyer (mathematician)
Richard Ernst Meyer (23 March 1919 – 16 January 2008) was a mathematician and engineer.
Born in Berlin, Germany, Meyer received his PhD in aeronautical engineering from ETH Zürich in 1946. He worked at the University of Manchester and in 1953, he got a job as a senior lecturer in aeronautical engineering at the University of Sydney. He studied turbines, which led him to the research of supersonic aeronautics and the theory of characteristics. Meyer did both theoretical and experimental research; he set up a supersonic laboratory in Australia. He was elected into the Australian Academy of Science in 1956.
In 1957, Meyer moved to the department of applied mathematics at Brown University. By this time, he had also become interested in the theory of water waves. Additionally, he looked into theoretical aspects of hyperbolic and singular partial differential equations and asymptotics. Meyer became a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1964, where he worked until he was named professor emeritus in 1994.
Meyer died on 16 January 2008.
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