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Excape Goat
26 Jan 2006, 07:04 AM
Harald Bohr won a silver medal for Denmark at Olympic 1908. He was a mathematician of noted.
Harald Bohr's outstanding contribution to mathematics was his conception of almost periodic functions, which he defined and and studied in three great papers published in Acta mathematica in 1924-1926, and which formed the brilliant conclusion of his prolonged investigation of the Dirichlet series and the functions represented by such series.
I have no idea of what that meant.
His profile here
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Bohr_Harald.html
His brother, Niels Bohr, was the Nobel Prize winner in Physics for 1922.
lanman
26 Jan 2006, 12:21 PM
Jozef Bozsik also served in the Hungarian Parliament.
ChaChaFut
26 Jan 2006, 08:52 PM
Socrates Brasileiro Sampaio De Souza Vieira de Oliveira, M.D.
ChaChaFut
26 Jan 2006, 09:02 PM
Roberto Dinamite (Carlos Roberto de Oliveira), politician, member of the PSDB (Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira) elected deputado estadual (for City Council) 3 times.
ChaChaFut
26 Jan 2006, 09:05 PM
Gianni Rivera, besides having been everything at AC Milan, including owner, was also a member of the Italian Parliament.
Jaison
26 Jan 2006, 10:03 PM
Thomas Hässler founded the record label MTM Music. It seems to specialize in cheesy AOR and hard rock.
guado
27 Jan 2006, 12:58 AM
hugo sanchez has a s degree in odontology and owns a dentist office.
george weah ran for president of liberia. he lost to a very educated women.
dor02
27 Jan 2006, 01:54 AM
Tostao, who played in Brazil's 1970 World Cup win, was an eye doctor.
Gerhard Hanappi, one of Austria's greatest players, was an architect and he designed Rapid Vienna's smaller home stadium, which was named in his honour. Rapid also plays some home matches at the Ernst Happen Stadion, formerly known as the Prater.
Excape Goat
27 Jan 2006, 05:47 AM
Tostao, who played in Brazil's 1970 World Cup win, was an eye doctor.
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Did he treat himself after the incident in 1970? Or did that incident make him to decide to become an eye doctor?
dor02
27 Jan 2006, 06:00 AM
Did he treat himself after the incident in 1970? Or did that incident make him to decide to become an eye doctor?I'm not sure about an incident in 1970 but I do know of one in 1969. I should correct myself. I didn't mean eye doctor, I meant eye specialist. He was playing in the Copa Libertadores against Millionarios in Bogota, Colombia and a retina got detached. He underwent specialist surgery in Houston, USA and the operation was a success. He was already a qualified doctor but not an eye specialist. Tostao became one after he retired, in 1973, when he was only 26 years old.
Toon³
28 Jan 2006, 09:07 AM
Shaka Hislop used to work for NASA as a rocket scientist.
Excape Goat
28 Jan 2006, 09:24 AM
I'm not sure about an incident in 1970 but I do know of one in 1969. I should correct myself. I didn't mean eye doctor, I meant eye specialist. He was playing in the Copa Libertadores against Millionarios in Bogota, Colombia and a retina got detached. He underwent specialist surgery in Houston, USA and the operation was a success. He was already a qualified doctor but not an eye specialist. Tostao became one after he retired, in 1973, when he was only 26 years old.
Yes, I menat in 1969.
sidefootsitter
28 Jan 2006, 10:36 AM
Oleg Blokhin is a current member (communist) in the Ukrainian Parlament.
Vsevolod Bobrov, a Soviet great in the 1940s and 50s who excelled in the Dinamo Moscow's 1945 English tour, was as good a hockey player as a soccer player, an HOF in both sports.
Fritz Walter, I believe, was an airplane (fighter) mechanic with the Jagdgeschwader 51 on the Eastern Front during the war.
Vladimir Maslachenko (Lev Yashin's back up in 1958, 1962) was the head of the Russian Freestyle Skiiing comission/association, a host of the soccer TV program on the Soviet and Russian TV, an avid yachtsman and kickboxer.
BTW, Soviet players with the Army clubs were given military assignments after their playing careers were over. The number of those is too great to list.
Excape Goat
01 Feb 2006, 10:04 AM
Vsevolod Bobrov, a Soviet great in the 1940s and 50s who excelled in the Dinamo Moscow's 1945 English tour, was as good a hockey player as a soccer player, an HOF in both sports.
I believed many Soviet soccer players were also hockey players.
Neo¹
02 Feb 2006, 01:35 PM
Arsene Wenger has a degree in Economics. Take it for what its worth.
dmar
02 Feb 2006, 01:43 PM
I believed many Soviet soccer players were also hockey players.
Lev Yashin was one of them.
Hugo Sanchez and Pirri are MDs.
Mr. Bee
02 Feb 2006, 01:44 PM
Landon Donovan can bring dead rabbits back to life with a simple touch
johno
02 Feb 2006, 07:01 PM
George Weah aka, the Liberian Football Federation.
Toon³
02 Feb 2006, 07:03 PM
Landon Donovan can bring dead rabbits back to life with a simple touch
What happens if he touches live rabbits?
ChaChaFut
02 Feb 2006, 08:27 PM
George Weah aka, the Liberian Football Federation.George Weah, AKA Liberia. :cool: