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  Adler Planetarium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum in Chicago, Illinois was the first planetarium built in the Western Hemisphere and is the oldest in existence today.
The Adler was founded and built in 1930 by the philanthropist Max Adler.
The Adler is home to more than 35,000 square feet of exhibits including scale models of the Solar System, antique astronomical instruments, and interactive displays.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adler_Planetarium   (217 words)

  
 max adler | home.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Max Adler Student Investment Fund (MASIF) was founded in 1983, through a generous grant to the school by the widow of a prominent Nashville businessman.
Max Adler's main role is to provide Owen students with an opportunity to gain experience in investment management and research.
Max Adler also serves as a liaison between Owen students and companies in the investment management industry, providing assistance in interview preparation and acting as a referral source for industry contacts.
www2.owen.vanderbilt.edu /owenclubs/maxadler_old   (222 words)

  
 Terrorism or Communism Chapter 9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Max Adler is cramped in a world of three dimensions, although he had found a very comfortable place for himself with the framework of Viennese bourgeois Socialism and the Hapsburg State.
Max Adler is not even terrified by the fact that the Soviets infringe the “principle” of the constitutional separation of powers (in the Austrian Social-Democracy there are many fools who see in such an infringement a great defect of the Soviet System!).
Max Adler is in favor of the direct expression of the proletarian will; but only not by means of the direct seizure of power through the Soviets.
www.marxists.org /archive/trotsky/works/1920/dictatorvs/ch09.htm   (2707 words)

  
 Book Review by Max Weismann
Adler has once again provided insights into theology, ethics, psychology, and aesthetics in a lucid style, making clear how these oft-used terms are abused in the philosopher's lexicon.
At 93 years of age, Mortimer Adler says, "the older you get the harder you should work and the younger you will feel." I think he is on to something.
Max Weismann is Co-Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Great Ideas in Chicago and editor of its journal Philosophy is Everybody's Business.
radicalacademy.com /adlerbookreview.htm   (668 words)

  
 Behavior OnLine Forums - Cumulative Discussion of CCWAA, Vol. 5, Chapt. I-XLIII
Max Adler's version of Marxism was Austromarxian, not the orthodox one that was advocated by the Russians.
Adler had started to think about the existing hatred between nations, and what were the causes for this nationalistic fervor.
Adler seems to think that it is not a good idea that women who do not want to have children, should have them by the law.
www.behavior.net /bolforums/showthread.php?p=2003   (2029 words)

  
 News Release: NC State Cell Biologist Wins UNC System’s O. Max Gardner Award
Adler is a member of the American Thoracic Society, the American Society for Cell Biology, the American Society of Investigative Pathology, and Phi Zeta, the honor society of veterinary medicine.
Adler received his Ph.D. in cell biology from the University of Vermont in 1978, his master’s in biology from Adelphi University in 1975, and a bachelor’s degree in biology from Queens College in 1969.
Adler is the seventh NC State faculty member to win the O. Max Gardner Award in the past 10 years.
www.ncsu.edu /news/press_releases/05_05/118.htm   (658 words)

  
 Science News: Instrumental changes in astronomy - collection of antique instruments to be cataloged by Adler ...
The Adler collections 95 astrolabes instruments used to observe the positions of celestial bodies before the invention of the sextant - constitute the largest assemblage in North America and one of the three or four most comprehensive such groups in the world.
Max Adler was one of a number of wealthy Chicago merchants who wanted to bestow a cultural legacy on his hometown.
Adler expected that the planetarium's entertaining sky shows would inspire in the public a sense of awe at humanity's insignificance in the context of the universe - a humility he hoped might discourage violence and foster a sense of global community.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n25-26_v142/ai_13304450   (1395 words)

  
 Max Adler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Max Adler (May 12, 1866 - November 4, 1952) was born in Elgin, Illinois to a German Jewish family who came to America in about 1850.
He lived in Chicago and was a concert violinist who gave up music to become a vice president at Sears Roebuck & Co. after marrying into the family that controlled the company.
He retired in 1928 to become a philanthropist and was key to the creation of the first planetarium in the Western Hemisphere, the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, which bears his name.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/M/Max-Adler.htm   (185 words)

  
 Center for the Study of the Great Ideas
ADLER: That's a very good question, and an important distinction to be made, and the answer is no. Let me give you two examples: the greenness of an apple that has not yet ripened does not become red when the ripening occurs.
ADLER: Our common sense of the matter, based upon our common experience, is that human beings exist as individual things, having many attributes with respect to which they change while they remain one and the same enduring thing that is subject to all these changes.
ADLER: This commonsense picture of the world in which we live appears to be shattered by what we are told by the physical scientists of our day.
www.angelfire.com /ca/sanmateoissues/adler1.html   (2458 words)

  
 Max Adler - TheBestLinks.com - November 4, U.S., TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, 1952, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Max Adler - TheBestLinks.com - November 4, U.S., TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, 1952,...
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Max Adler (1866 - November 4, 1952) was a U.S. philanthropist.
www.thebestlinks.com /Max_Adler.html   (91 words)

  
 Established Funds History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This fund was established by the Max A. Adler Charitable Foundation Inc. to support the purchase of books and materials for Rush Rhees Library to benefit students, faculty and community patrons.
The purpose of the Foundation, as stated in the Adler will, are "to aid and assist charitable and educational activities of the University of Rochester." Mr.
Adler died in 1965 at the age of 83.
www.lib.rochester.edu /index.cfm?page=funds&letter=A   (563 words)

  
 Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, Chicago -- Inspiration for The Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular ...
The Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum was the first major planetarium constructed in the Western Hemisphere, by Max Adler in 1930.
Leo Scanlon was so impressed with the Adler Planetarium, and with this new method of explaining Astronomy to the public, that he, and the Amateur Astronomers' Association of Pittsburgh, started lobbying Pittsburgh foundations, and the Pittsburgh City Government, to obtain funding for construction of a planetarium in Pittsburgh.
A retired Zeiss technician, from Adler Planetarium, related a story to the author on 2002 May 16, that this Zeiss II projector was sold to an individual; but, this man did not pay for delivery of the projector.
adlerplanetarium.tripod.com   (1289 words)

  
 Rogers: Review - A Socialist Remembers
Otto Bauer sent a letter to Max warning him not to cross into Austria, as his name was prominently mentioned in the Schutzbund trial.
Adler’s wife obtained one for themselves and their five year old son.
One of the first places he stayed in Britain was a Welsh village, where, with his aptitude for and interest in minority languages, he learned Welsh from the village school mistress.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol2/no3/adler.html   (1463 words)

  
 Dr. Oskar Adler: A Complete Man: Online College of Astrology
The legend of Oskar Adler unfolds as myths separate from reality, woven together by the common thread of a quest to create a portrait of Adler's life in its entirety.
Examples include verifying the relationship between Oskar and his brother Max, a famous Austrian political theorist and exploring the question of whether Adler's wife Paula (Freud) was a blood relation to the famous Sigmund Freud.
Letters by the Adlers from 1938 to 1952 document the bittersweet fate of Vienna's WWII exiled and express his devotion to music, metaphysics and the search for news of loved ones who were missing.
www.astrocollege.com /store/bookstore.cgi?ACTION=DISPLAY&CODE=0851   (898 words)

  
 Phillip Fox and Adler Planetarium, David Menke, IPS Planetarian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Adler Planetarium was opened in Chicago in May 1930 using a Zeiss II projector.
Adler had traveled throughout Europe and was most impressed with the planetarium theaters he saw there.
Fox remained in the Army Reserve and at the time of his appointment as Director of the Adler Planetarium, he was a Colonel and served as the Commander of the 43rd Infantry of the 86th Division based at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.
www.griffithobs.org /IPSFox.html   (2165 words)

  
 JHS of Greater New Haven - Max Adler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Max Adler (1841-1916) was one of the founders of the Strouse, Adler Corset Company, which he had taken over from Isaac Strouse.
Adler became very prominent in the politics of New Haven.
He served on the boards of directors of many of the leading corporations and banks, and was an active leader of the Chamber of Commerce.
pages.cthome.net /hirsch/madler.htm   (92 words)

  
 Alfred Adler: Lifeline and Chronology - Alfred Adler Institute of San Francisco
Adler is expelled from the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society under Freud's impetus
Adler is drafted as a military physician for the Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I
Adler becomes a professor at the Long Island College of Medicine, his first full-time academic position in the United States
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/hstein/lifeline.htm   (401 words)

  
 Chicago's Adler Planetarium
The year 1928 found Max Adler, a senior officer for Sears, Roebuck and Company, nearing retirement and wanting to give something back to the city of Chicago for the many years of success he had enjoyed.
Bill told us that although the Adler Planetarium is not one of the larger area museums, the magnificent collection of artifacts draws visitors from every country.
Max Adler has accomplished his dream to bring the night skies to Earth for everyone to enjoy.
www.chiefengineer.org /article.cfm?seqnum1=1181   (3013 words)

  
 THE MAX NUSSBAUM MEMORIAL LECTURE
Max Adler (1873-1937) was at that time an influential Austrian Marxist social theorist and professor at the University of Vienna.
Max Nussbaum was one of the few rabbis who still remained in Berlin in the late 1930's.
Max Nussbaum was also one of the first to focus attention on emerging social issues in the new Jewish state and on the problem of coercion by the religious parties in the government.
www-rcf.usc.edu /~lbarth/nussbaum/nussbaum.html   (4840 words)

  
 Chicago Museums On-Line: Chicago Historical Society Highlights
The Adler opened on May 12, 1930 as the first planetarium in the Western Hemisphere, and continues today to interpret the exploration of the Universe for the broadest possible audience.
When Max Adler gave a Zeiss planetarium projector and a domed building to house it to the people of Chicago, he donated at the same time a large collection of antique scientific instruments that he had purchased from A.W.M. Mensing in Amsterdam.
A feature attraction of the Adler Planetarium is its sky show, presenting current topics in astronomy and related sciences.
collaboratory.nunet.net /museums/hilights/adler.html   (421 words)

  
 home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Max Adler's main role is to provide Vanderbilt MBA students with an opportunity to gain experience in investment management and research.
The club serves to broaden its members' investment knowledge and skill set through the introduction of valuation and portfolio analytical tools.
Max Adler also serves as a liaison between students and companies
www2.owen.vanderbilt.edu /owenclubs/maxadler   (75 words)

  
 Fairfield Co. Weekly: I Sing the Body Elastic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Part of the deal was that Straus and his employee, Max Adler, sell the machines door-to-door on an installment plan to immigrant women.
Strouse, Adler's most famous corset, the C/B à la Spirite (C for 100, B for bones), was advertised in Times Square, guaranteeing an 18-inch waist.
Strouse, Adler's New Haven employees -- many of them devoted, lifelong workers -- are optimistic yet anxious about their futures in New Haven.
old.fairfieldweekly.com /articles/girdle2.html   (1371 words)

  
 Adler / Historical Collections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Adler's historical collections of astronomical instruments and rare books are among the finest in the world.
The Adler Trust, a fund generated from the Adler's share of receipts from the Chicago World's Fair in 1933-34, allowed the purchase of several hundred additional instruments.
As a tool for specialists interested in makers of scientific instruments, the Adler is pleased to make available a simple but large database of instrument makers, or more precisely of their signatures, a product of many years of research by Roderick and Marjorie Webster, longtime curators of the collection of scientific instruments at the Adler.
www.adlerplanetarium.org /history   (1018 words)

  
 Welcome to the Mortimer J. Adler Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Brief remarks by Dr. Adler on various topics and responses to questions that he has been asked.
Adler's essays, discussions, and other items are copyrighted material.
They are reproduced here by permission of Mortimer J. Adler, Max Weismann, and the Center for the Study of The Great Ideas.
www.radicalacademy.com /adlerdirectory.htm   (925 words)

  
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A $50,000 grant from the Max A. Adler Charitable Foundation is helping transform the Motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Joseph into Nazareth College's new Academic Center.
For more than three decades, the Max A. Adler Charitable Foundation has served the greater Rochester area by supporting organizations with programs in education, human services, the arts, and the humanities.
Gray said Adler was an avid reader and deep thinker, with a strong affinity for schools and libraries.
www.naz.edu /news/story.cfm?pressID=611   (342 words)

  
 Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler: Volume V (1921-1926)Talent & Occupation, Crime & Revolution, Philosophy of ...
In forty-three articles published from 1921 to 1926, Adler illuminates the heights and depths of human nature.
Max Adler” (A Viennese sociologist, not related to Alfred Adler), he speaks to a number of political issues, including Marxism.
For readers unfamiliar with Adler’s ideas, a brief overview, titled “Basic Principles of Classical Adlerian Psychology,” is included in the appendix.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/hstein/cwaa-v5.htm   (852 words)

  
 Science News: Instrumental changes in astronomy. (collection ... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Since becoming the Adler Planetarium's director in July 1991, Paul Knappenberger has been helping to shape a new, long-range strategy for the institution.
These settings will demonstrate not only how the instruments were used at home or in the lab, she says, but also how the science these artifacts represent reflects humanity's changing conception of its place in the universe.
The biggest challenge, Knappenberger foresees, "is how to continue to grow the collection." Its oldest artifact, a brick depicting Leo the Lion with stars imprinted on his body, dates to 2000 B.C. The Adler's oldest instrument is an Arabian astrolabe from 1131 A.D. Few items are less than 100 years old.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:13304450&refid=holomed_1   (1956 words)

  
 ChicagoKids.com Inside Scoop
The Adler Planetarium is named for Max Adler, an associate of Sears, Roebuck, and Company who gave the gift of an astronomy museum to the city of Chicago.
The Adler's Sky Theater is still one of the largest planetarium theaters in the world.
The Herschel telescope in the Adler's collection was on display in the early 1930s and is still on display today.
www.chicagokids.com /scoop/adler.html   (797 words)

  
 Alfred Adler -- Philosophy Books and Online Resources
Adler, Freud, and Jung were the key figures in the development of psychology as we know it.
While Freud and Jung are widely studied, Adler is far less well-known.
Yet, as Grey demonstrates, many of the crucial concepts used today--from "life style" to "private logic"--stem from Adler's ideas.
www.erraticimpact.com /~20thcentury/html/adler.htm   (317 words)

  
 TheStreet.com: Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt's Max Adler Student Investment Fund was formed in 1984 by a donation from Mimi Adler in memory of her husband, the founder of Spencer's Gifts, now part of Seagram's (VO:NYSE) Universal Studios division.
The Nashville fund is run completely by students, who elect a student board of directors and a chairman each year.
Beaird says average turnover in the fund is relatively low, but he does admit to short-term trading from time to time.
www.thestreet.com /pf/funds/mba/420190.html   (127 words)

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