Weinstein
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Weinstein is a German-language Jewish surname meaning wine stone, referring to the crystals of potassium bitartrate
used in the process of fermenting grape juice.
Weinstein may refer to:
Potassium bitartrate
Potassium hydrogen tartrate, also known as Potassium bitartrate, has formula KC4H5O6, is a byproduct of winemaking. In cooking it is known as cream of tartar. It is the potassium acid salt of tartaric acid, a carboxylic acid.-Occurrence:...
used in the process of fermenting grape juice.
Weinstein may refer to:
- Alan WeinsteinAlan WeinsteinAlan David Weinstein is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who works in symplectic geometry, Poisson Geometry and Mathematical Physics....
, mathematician- Weinstein conjectureWeinstein conjectureIn mathematics, the Weinstein conjecture refers to a general existence problem for periodic orbits of Hamiltonian or Reeb vector flows. More specifically, the current understanding is that a regular compact contact type level set of a Hamiltonian on a symplectic manifold should carry at least one...
- Weinstein conjecture
- Allen WeinsteinAllen WeinsteinAllen Weinstein is an American historian, educator, and federal official who has served in several different offices. He served as the Archivist of the United States from February 16, 2005 until his resignation on December 19, 2008...
, Archivist of the United States - Bob Weinstein (Mayor), Mayor of Ketchikan, AlaskaKetchikan, AlaskaKetchikan is a city in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska, United States, the southeasternmost sizable city in that state. With an estimated population of 7,368 in 2010 within the city limits, it is the fifth most populous city in the state....
- Bob WeinsteinBob WeinsteinRobert "Bob" Weinstein is an American film and theatre producer, the founder and head of Dimension Films, former co-chairman of Miramax Films, and current head, with his brother Harvey Weinstein, of The Weinstein Company.-Career:...
, American film producer- The Weinstein CompanyThe Weinstein CompanyThe Weinstein Company is an American film studio founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in 2005 after the brothers left the then-Disney-owned Miramax Films, which they had co-founded in 1979...
, an independent film studio founded by Harvey and Bob Weinstein
- The Weinstein Company
- Bruce WeinsteinBruce WeinsteinBruce Weinstein is an American ethicist who hosts "Ask the Ethics Guy!," a question-and-answer series on Bloomberg Businessweek online and writes an ethics column there...
, known as "The Ethics Guy", columnist for BusinessWeek - Cordt Weinstein, American association football (soccer) player
- Dan Weinstein (disambiguation)
- Dan Weinstein (athlete)Dan Weinstein (athlete)-Biography:Of the handful of Jewish-American Olympians who competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics at Nagano, Japan, Weinstein was by far the youngest. At 17 years of age, he was not only the youngest athlete on the U.S. speedskating team, he was also the youngest man on the entire U.S. Winter...
- Dan Weinstein (musician)Dan Weinstein (musician)Dan Weinstein is a prolific violinist, trombonist, and occasional music composer in the southern California music scene. Weinstein has recorded in widely disparate genres during the past three decades, but is generally known for live jazz performances. His best-known credits come from his live...
- Dan Weinstein (athlete)
- David Weinstein (disambiguation)
- David Weinstein (musician)David Weinstein (musician)David Weinstein is an American musician and composer. He has been cited as avant garde and postmodern by the New York Times...
- David F. WeinsteinDavid F. WeinsteinDavid F. Weinstein is a former Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly who represented the state's thirteenth Senate district, including constituents in Hoke and Robeson counties. A retired merchant from Lumberton, North Carolina, Weinstein served in the Senate from 1997 through...
, American Politician
- David Weinstein (musician)
- Debra WeinsteinDebra WeinsteinDebra Weinstein is a poet and the author of the novel Apprentice to the Flower Poet Z. . Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The National Review, Tikkun, and The Portable Lower East Side...
, American author - Garry Kimovich Weinstein, birthname of Garry KasparovGarry KasparovGarry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist, and one of the greatest chess players of all time....
- Hannah WeinsteinHannah WeinsteinHannah Weinstein was an American journalist, publicist and left-wing political activist who moved to Britain and became a television producer. She is best known for having produced The Adventures of Robin Hood television series in the 1950s...
, American activist, movie maker - Harvey WeinsteinHarvey WeinsteinHarvey Weinstein, CBE is an American film producer and movie studio chairman. He is best known as co-founder of Miramax Films. He and his brother Bob have been co-chairmen of The Weinstein Company, their film production company, since 2005...
, American film producer - Irv WeinsteinIrv WeinsteinIrwin "Irv" Weinstein is a retired local television news anchor. He hosted WKBW-TV's Eyewitness News in Buffalo, New York, for 34 years, from 1964 to 1998, becoming an iconic broadcaster well known in both the Buffalo area and in Southern Ontario, which was within WKBW's broadcast area. Weinstein...
, Television news anchor - Jack B. WeinsteinJack B. WeinsteinJack Bertrand Weinstein is a United States federal judge in the Eastern District of New York. Judge Weinstein was appointed in 1967 by President Lyndon Johnson. From 1980 to 1988, he served as chief judge of the district. On March 1, 1993, he took senior status; however, unlike some senior...
, United States Federal Judge - Jacob Sager WeinsteinJacob Sager WeinsteinJacob Sager Weinstein is an American humorist, comedy writer, and screenwriter. For three years he was a staff writer for Dennis Miller Live, for which he received a Writers Guild of America award in 2001...
, American Humorist - James WeinsteinJames WeinsteinJames "Jimmy" Weinstein was an American historian and journalist best known as the founder and publisher of In These Times...
, American journalist - J. Elvis WeinsteinJ. Elvis WeinsteinJosh "J. Elvis" Weinstein is an American writer and performer, best known for his roles as Dr. Laurence Erhardt and the original puppeteer and voice for Tom Servo on Mystery Science Theater 3000.-Mystery Science Theater 3000:...
, American writer and performer - Josh WeinsteinJosh WeinsteinJosh Weinstein is an American television writer and producer, known for his work on the animated comedy series The Simpsons. Weinstein and Bill Oakley became best friends and writing partners at St. Albans High School; Weinstein then attended Stanford University and was editor-in-chief of the...
, former executive producer of The Simpsons - Kenneth R. WeinsteinKenneth R. WeinsteinKenneth R. Weinstein is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hudson Institute. He oversees the institute's research, project management, external affairs, marketing, and government relations efforts. He is an expert in international affairs, public policy and public discourse, U.S.-European...
, American political theorist - Lauren Weinstein (disambiguation)
- Lauren Weinstein (comic book artist)Lauren Weinstein (comic book artist)Lauren R. Weinstein is an American comic book artist. Her surrealist alternative comics detail a complex world where a pall of mystery, sexual intrigue and violent death hangs over the animal kingdom, outer space and suburban America alike...
- Lauren Weinstein (technology expert)Lauren Weinstein (technology expert)Lauren Weinstein is an activist concerned with matters involving technology.He has been quoted as an expert on Internet and other technology issues by various media. He became involved with those issues in the early 1970s at the first site on the ARPANET, which was located at UCLA...
- Lauren Weinstein (comic book artist)
- Lev VainshteinLev VainshteinLev Matveyevich Vainshtein was a Soviet world champion and Olympic bronze medalist in shooting.-Shooting career:...
, Soviet Olympic-medal-winning shooter - Madge WeinsteinMadge WeinsteinMadge Bertha Weinstein is a fictional Internet personality who maintains Yeast Radio, which has developed a cult following and is among the 50 most-subscribed-to podcasts...
, Internet personality - Matthew WeinsteinMatthew WeinsteinMatthew Weinstein is a noted and versatile contemporary American visual artist, installation sculptor and film maker.-Art:...
, artist - Michael Weinstein (disambiguation)
- Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein, real name of Nathanael WestNathanael WestNathanael West was a US author, screenwriter and satirist.- Early life :...
- Paul Weinstein (economist), a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute
- Paul Weinstein (athlete)Paul Weinstein (athlete)Paul Weinstein was a German athlete who competed in the early twentieth century.He was born in Wallendorf....
(1885–1965) - Raymond WeinsteinRaymond WeinsteinRaymond A. Weinstein is an American chess master from Brooklyn, New York, who was awarded the FIDE International Master title in 1962. He has been incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital since killing a man in 1964.-Chess career:...
- Samuel Weinstein, see Stephen WinstenStephen WinstenStephen Winsten was the name adopted by Samuel Weinstein, one of the 'Whitechapel Boys' group of young Jewish men and future writers in London's East End in the years before World War I . In the First World War he was a conscientious objector, and imprisoned in Bedford and Reading gaols...
- Sidney T. WeinsteinSidney T. WeinsteinSidney T. Weinstein was a United States Army Lieutenant General. He is considered by many to be the father of the modern military intelligence corps....
, US Lieutenant General - Simcha WeinsteinSimcha WeinsteinSimcha Weinstein is an English author and a rabbi. In 2006, his first book Up Up and Oy Vey : How Jewish History, Culture and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero was published...
- Simon Weinstein, see Simcha WeinsteinSimcha WeinsteinSimcha Weinstein is an English author and a rabbi. In 2006, his first book Up Up and Oy Vey : How Jewish History, Culture and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero was published...
- Steven Wayne Weinstein, Dallas Tax Attorney
- Todd Jay WeinsteinTodd Jay WeinsteinTodd Jay Weinstein is a photographer and artist, born in Detroit, Michigan, and who now lives in New York City. He has studied and worked with his mentor Ernst Haas, has lectured around the world, published many articles, and won several awards and honors, including Artist-in-Residence, Germany...