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The 1993 film Searching for Bobby Fischer, adapted from its eponymous book, uses Fischer's name in the title although the film and book are both based on the life of fellow chess prodigy Joshua Waitzkin, whose father, Fred Waitzkin, wrote the book. [570] Outside of the United States, it was released as Innocent Moves. [571]
Fischer held over 1100 patents and overtook Thomas Alva Edison, who held 1093 patents. Fischer also held 5867 trade rights and invented fischertechnik. [2] Further inventions are (bone-)plugs for fixing bone fractures [2] and one of Fischer’s most recent inventions was a gadget that makes it possible to hold and cut the top off an egg of any ...
Kasparov is of Jewish descent, through his father. Bobby Fischer, the highest rated player in history when he became world champion in 1972, had a Jewish mother and likely Jewish father despite antisemitic views. The list also includes Judit Polgár, widely regarded as the strongest female chess player ever. [8]
The name Fischer is the fourth most common German surname. ... Gottfried Bermann Fischer (1897–1995), Jewish-German publisher of the S ... Wild Man Fischer (1945 ...
Although the actual inventor of the hand-held metal detector is disputed, the hand-held metal detector was made in 1925 and was first patented by Dr. Gerhard Fisher in 1931. A metal detector had been invented some forty years earlier (1881) by Alexander Graham Bell for the sole purpose of locating a lead bullet in President James A. Garfield.
Claude Shannon (1916–2016), founder of information theory and modern cryptography, invented Minivac 601, and co-invented the first wearable computer (with Edward O. Thorp) Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963), together with Lucio Bini (1908–1964), Italy – Electroconvulsive therapy; Leona Chalmers (c. 1937), U.S. – modern menstrual cup
Cameron Spencer/Getty Images During the 2024 Paris Olympics, Grant Fisher became the first American man in more than a decade to win a medal in the 10,000-meter race, the longest race of the Olympics.
In April 2007, Fischer was named the principal conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.), after Leonard Slatkin stepped down as music director in 2008. [3] He held the title for two years. Fischer was Music Director at Kent Opera in the UK from 1984 to 1989. [4] He was Music Director of the Opéra National de Lyon from ...