Stevenson is an English language patronymic surname meaning "son of Steven". Its first historical record is from pre 10th century England.^[2] People with the name include:

• Adonis Stevenson (born 1977) a Canadian Boxer
• Alexandra Stevenson (born 1980), American tennis player
• Ben Stevenson (born 1936), British ballet dancer and director
• Carter L. Stevenson (1817–1888), American soldier
• Charles Stevenson (1908–1979), American philosopher
• DeShawn Stevenson (born 1981), American basketball player
• Eric Stevenson (born 1966), American politician from New York
• Eric Stevenson (footballer) (born 1942), Scottish footballer
• Frank A. Stevenson (born 1970), Norwegian computer game developer and cryptographer
• Ian Stevenson (1918–2007), Canadian psychiatrist and reincarnation researcher
• Jessica Hynes (née Stevenson) (born 1972), English writer and actress
• John Stevenson (disambiguation)
• Juliet Stevenson (born 1956), English actress
• Lewis Stevenson (disambiguation)
• Robert Stevenson (disambiguation)
• Ronald Stevenson (born 1928), Scottish composer
• Ryan Stevenson (born 1984), Scottish footballer
• Stewart Stevenson (born 1946), Scottish politician
• Teófilo Stevenson (born 1952), Cuban boxer
• Toby Stevenson (born 1976), American pole vaulter
• Tom Stevenson (born 1951) British wine writer
• Tommy Stevenson (1914–1944), jazz trumpet player
• Trudy Stevenson (born 1944), Zimbabwean politician

Extended families:

• Stevenson family from Illinois
  • Adlai Stevenson I (1835–1914), U.S. Vice President
  • Adlai Stevenson II (1900–1965), American politician, governor of Illinois
  • Adlai Stevenson III (born 1930), U.S. Senator from Illinois
  • Lewis Stevenson (1868–1929), American politician from Illinois
  • McLean Stevenson (1929–1996), actor

• Scottish family of (mostly) lighthouse engineers
  • Alan Stevenson (1807–1865), lighthouse engineer
  • Charles Alexander Stevenson (1855–1950), lighthouse engineer
  • D. E. Stevenson (1892–1973), author
  • David Stevenson (engineer) (1815–1886), lighthouse engineer
  • David Alan Stevenson (1854–1938), lighthouse engineer
  • Robert Stevenson (civil engineer) (1772–1850), lighthouse engineer
  • Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson (1847–1900), art critic
  • Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), author of Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Thomas Stevenson (1818–1887), lighthouse designer

• Scottish family with links to Tyneside
  • Flora Stevenson (1839–1905) education reformer
  • J. J. Stevenson (1831–1908), architect
  • James Cochran Stevenson (1825–1905) chemical manufacturer and Member of Parliament
  • Louisa Stevenson (1835–1908), campaigner for women's causes
  • Nathaniel Stevenson (1840-1811), General and Governor of Guernsey
  • James Stevenson-Hamilton (1867-1957), 16th of Fairolm and Kruger National Park ranger

See also[link]

• Stephenson

Daniel Stevenson (born 1986), US Navy Combat Photographer

References[link]

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John Tate
Born	(1925-03-13) March 13, 1925 (age 87) Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Nationality	American
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Texas, Austin, Harvard University
Alma mater	Princeton University Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	Emil Artin
Doctoral students	Edward Assmus Theodore Chinburg Benedict Gross Stephen Lichtenbaum Kenneth Alan Ribet Joseph H. Silverman Dinesh Thakur Jerrold Tunnell Robert Warfield
Known for	Tate conjecture Tate module
Notable awards	Abel Prize (2010) Wolf Prize (2002/03) Steele Prize (1995) Cole Prize (1956)

John Torrence Tate Jr. (born March 13, 1925) is an American mathematician, distinguished for many fundamental contributions in algebraic number theory, arithmetic geometry and related areas in algebraic geometry.

Biography[link]

Tate was born in Minneapolis. His father, John Tate Sr., was a professor of physics at the University of Minnesota, and a longtime editor of Physical Review. His mother, Lois Beatrice Fossler, was a high school English teacher. Tate Jr. received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University, and entered the doctoral program in physics at Princeton University. He later transferred to the mathematics department and received his PhD in 1950 as a student of Emil Artin. Tate taught at Harvard for 36 years before joining the University of Texas in 1990. He retired from the Texas mathematics department in 2009, and currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife Carol. He has three daughters with his first wife Karin Tate.^[1]

Mathematical work[link]

Tate's thesis (1950) on Fourier analysis in number fields has become one of the ingredients for the modern theory of automorphic forms and their L-functions, notably by its use of the adele ring, its self-duality and harmonic analysis on it; independently and a little earlier, Kenkichi Iwasawa obtained a similar theory. Together with his teacher Emil Artin, Tate gave a cohomological treatment of global class field theory, using techniques of group cohomology applied to the idele class group and Galois cohomology.^[2] This treatment made more transparent some of algebraic structures in the previous approaches to class field theory which used central division algebras to compute the Brauer group of a global field.

Subsequently Tate introduced what are now known as Tate cohomology groups. In the decades following that discovery he extended the reach of Galois cohomology with the Poitou–Tate duality, the Tate–Shafarevich group, and relations with algebraic K-theory. With Jonathan Lubin, he recast local class field theory by the use of formal groups, creating the Lubin–Tate local theory of complex multiplication.

He has also made a number of individual and important contributions to p-adic theory; for example, Tate's invention of rigid analytic spaces can be said to have spawned the entire field of rigid analytic geometry. He found a p-adic analogue of Hodge theory, now called Hodge–Tate theory, which has blossomed into another central technique of modern algebraic number theory.^[2] Other innovations of his include the 'Tate curve' parametrization for certain p-adic elliptic curves and the p-divisible (Tate–Barsotti) groups.

Many of his results were not immediately published and some of them were written up by Serge Lang, Jean-Pierre Serre, Joseph H. Silverman and others. Tate and Serre collaborated on a paper on good reduction of abelian varieties. The classification of abelian varieties over finite fields was carried out by Taira Honda and Tate (the Honda–Tate theorem).^[3]

The Tate conjectures are the equivalent for étale cohomology of the Hodge conjecture. They relate to the Galois action on the l-adic cohomology of an algebraic variety, identifying a space of 'Tate cycles' (the fixed cycles for a suitably Tate-twisted action) that conjecturally picks out the algebraic cycles. A special case of the conjectures, which are open in the general case, was involved in the proof of the Mordell conjecture by Gerd Faltings.

Tate has also had a major influence on the development of number theory through his role as a Ph.D. advisor. His students include Joe Buhler, Benedict Gross, Robert Kottwitz, Stephen Lichtenbaum, James Milne, V. Kumar Murty, Carl Pomerance, Ken Ribet, Ted Chinburg, Joseph H. Silverman, Dinesh Thakur, Jeremy Teitelbaum.

Awards and honors[link]

In 1956 Tate was awarded the American Mathematical Society's Cole Prize for outstanding contributions to number theory. In 1995 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the American Mathematical Society. He was awarded a Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2002/03 for his creation of fundamental concepts in algebraic number theory.^[4]

In 2010, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, of which he is a member,^[5] awarded him the Abel Prize, citing "his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers". According to a release by the Abel Prize committee "Many of the major lines of research in algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry are only possible because of the incisive contributions and illuminating insights of John Tate. He has truly left a conspicuous imprint on modern mathematics."^[6]

Tate has been described as "one of the seminal mathematicians for the past half-century" by William Beckner, Chairman of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Texas.^[1]

Selected publications[link]

• Tate, John (1950), Fourier analysis in number fields and Hecke's zeta functions , Princeton University Ph.D. thesis under Emil Artin. Reprinted in Cassels, J. W. S.; Fröhlich, Albrecht, eds. (1967), Algebraic number theory, London: Academic Press, pp. 305–347, MR 0215665 
• Tate, John (1952), " The higher dimensional cohomology groups of class field theory ", Annals of Mathematics 56 : 294-297, MR 0049950.
• Lang, Serge; Tate, John (1958), "Principal homogeneous spaces over abelian varieties", American Journal of Mathematics 80: 659–684, MR 0106226 
• Tate, John (1963), " Algebraic cycles and poles of zeta functions", in Arithmetical Algebraic Geometry, Harper and Row: 93-110, MR0225778.
• Lubin, Jonathan; Tate, John (1965), "Formal complex multiplication in local fields", Annals of Mathematics 81: 380–387, MR 0172878 
• Tate, John (1966), "Endomorphisms of abelian varieties over finite fields", Inventiones Mathematicae 2: 134–144, MR 0206004 
• Tate, John (1967), "p-divisible groups", in Springer, T. A., Proceedings of a Conference on Local Fields, Springer-Verlag, pp. 158–183, MR 0231827 
• Artin, Emil; Tate, John (2009) [1967], Class field theory, AMS Chelsea Publishing, ISBN 978-0-8218-4426-7, MR 2467155 
• Serre, Jean-Pierre; Tate, John (1968), "Good reduction of abelian varieties", Annals of Mathematics 88: 462–517, MR 0236190 
• Tate, John (1971), "Rigid analytic spaces", Inventiones Mathematicae 12: 257–289, MR 0306196 
• Tate, John (1976), "Relations between K₂ and Galois cohomology", Inventiones Mathematicae 36: 257–274, MR 0429837 
• Tate, John (1984), " Les conjectures de Stark sur les fonctions L d'Artin en s=0 ", Progress in Math. 47, Birkhäuser Boston, MR0782485.

See also[link]

• Barsotti–Tate group
• Hodge–Tate module
• Néron–Tate height
• Sato–Tate conjecture
• Serre–Tate theorem
• Tate duality
• Tate's isogeny theorem
• Tate twist
• Tate's algorithm

References[link]

External links[link]

• Tate's home page
• John Tate at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

Adonis Stevenson
Statistics
Real name	Adonis Stevenson
Nickname(s)	Superman
Rated at	Super middleweight
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Nationality	Canada
Born	(1977-09-22) September 22, 1977 (age 34) Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Stance	Southpaw
Boxing record
Total fights	18
Wins	17
Wins by KO	14
Losses	1
Draws	0
No contests	0

Medal record
Competitor for  Canada
Men's Boxing
Commonwealth Games
Silver	2006 Melbourne	Middleweight

Adonis Stevenson (born 22 September 1977) is a Canadian boxer who was born in Haiti, who goes by the nickname "Superman".

In the amateur, he was Quebec Middleweight champion in 2004, best amateur fighter of the country in 2005-2006, and he also grabbed the canada national title in 2005 and 2006. Stevenson competed in the XVIII Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia in 2006 and won the silver medal losing to Local Australian, Jarrod Fletcher in the final. It was also the only medal a Canadian boxer received at the games.

He has a record of 33-5 in amateur contests.

Professional career[link]

Stevenson turned professional in September 2006, he is currently the WBC Continental Americas super middleweight title holder, and he captured the Canadian super-middleweight title in the following year and collected 13 wins in as many fights by KO or TKO Mike Funk, Ferenc Lakonde, Bonnie Joe McGee, Eduardo Calderon, Stephen Whitaker, Carl Cockerham, Marcus Thomas, Alvaro Enriquez, Marlon Hayes, David Whittom, Dhafir Smith.

On August 1, 2008, at Windsor Station in Montreal, Canada, Stevenson defeated Anthony Bonsante by first round knockout. The two fighters came out of their corners for the fight with Bonsante launching the first attack, but just moments after the assault, Stevenson landed a left hand that sent Bonsante down to the canvas. Bonsante sprawled out on the canvas with his eyes closed, while the referee reached the count of six before stopping the fight. Bonsante had begun to get up at the count of six, but it was too late, leaving Bonsante livid with the decision as he chased the referee around the ring in an attempt to protest the decision, but to little avail.^[1][2] He also won a fifth round TKO decision against Jermain Mackey on September 25, 2009.

On April 17, 2010, in his first fight in the United States, which also was his first time fighting for promoter Lou DiBella, he undergoes his first defeat in controversial, being stopped in the second round by Darnell Boone. Boone had been knocked down on the canvas twice in the first round. In the second round, Adonis rushed to Boone without maintaining his defense, and he got caught by a solid right, sending him on the canvas for the first time in his amateur and professional career. Adonis got back on his feet inside the count of 10, however, the referee made a partisan or partial judgment by ending the fight, although it seemed obvious that Adonis could clearly continue the confrontation.

Nonetheless, he resumed with GYM Promotions and won the North American title NABA on April 8, 2011 at the expense of Derek Edwards by KO in the third round. Won a victory by referee stoppage in the first round against Dion Savage on September 17, 2011, retained his title against Aaron Pryor Jr. December 10, 2011 by referee stoppage in the 9th round. And jumped from 15th to 2nd position for the IBF title, winning by KO in the first round duel against Jesus Gonzales on February 18, 2012.^{[3] [4]}

Prison sentence[link]

In November 1998, Stevenson was arrested because he was part of a gang which forced young girls into prostitution. He also was found guilty of beating the girls. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison. The victims were aged from 17 to 25 at the time Stevenson forced them into prostitution. This whole story came to public knowledge when boxer and opponent Jesus Ernesto Gonzales Jr. revealed these events during a press conference in Montreal prior to their February 18, 2012 bout.^[5][6]

See also[link]

• List of current WBC international champions

References[link]

External links[link]

• Professional boxing record for Adonis Stevenson from BoxRec

Laura Stevenson (born April 25, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter based in Long Island, New York and keyboardist for musical collective, Bomb the Music Industry!.

Biography[link]

Laura Stevenson was raised in Nassau County, New York, where she was introduced to music at an early age. Her grandfather, Harry Simeone, was a successful pianist and composer whose works included "The Little Drummer Boy" and "Do You Hear What I Hear?". Simeone's wife (and Laura's grandmother), Margaret McCravy was a singer for the jazz bandleader Benny Goodman. Not until leaving her home for college, did Laura begin both playing guitar and writing songs.

Growing up in Rockville Centre, Laura befriended members of The Arrogant Sons of Bitches. After they disbanded in 2005, Laura was appointed as a keyboardist for lead singer Jeff Rosenstock's new project, Bomb The Music Industry!. At this point, Laura had written a number of her own songs and was performing solo. While recording and touring with Bomb The Music Industry!, Laura began to piece together her own band, which was dubbed Laura Stevenson & the Cans.

Initially, Laura Stevenson & The Cans consisted primarily of members of Bomb The Music Industry!. In the summer of 2007, Laura recruited Michael Campbell of the Long Island punk band Latterman to play bass for The Cans.^[1] Alex Billig was added on trumpet later that fall, and a year later Laura began working on her first studio recording.

Asian Man Records released "A Record" on April 13, 2010 on LP and CD. The group spent more than half of that year on tour in The United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Western Europe in various lineups: sometimes being as small as just Stevenson and Campbell on acoustic guitars, and other times fully electric with a three-piece horn section. The group toured with Bomb The Music Industry!, Maps & Atlases, Cults, and Cheap Girls.

The band officially signed to New Jersey-based independent label Don Giovanni Records in November 2010,^[2] and their sophomore LP, Sit Resist, was released on April 26, 2011.^[3]

Members of Laura Stevenson & The Cans[link]

• Laura Stevenson: Lead guitar/vocals
• Mike Campbell: Bass guitar
• Alex Billig: Accordion/trumpet
• Peter Naddeo: Guitar
• Dave Garwacke: Drums

Discography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Website for Laura Stevenson & The Cans
• Laura Stevenson @ MySpace
• Laura Stevenson @ Last.FM
• Laura Stevenson @ Quote Unquote Records
• Beets Untitled - Laura Stevenson

Ryan Stevenson

Stevenson playing for Hearts
Personal information
Full name	Ryan Cairns Stevenson
Date of birth	(1984-08-24) 24 August 1984 (age 27)
Place of birth	Irvine, Scotland
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Playing position	Central Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Ipswich Town
Number	16
Youth career
2001–2002	Chelsea
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2002–2007	St. Johnstone	72	(5)
2006	→ Ayr United (loan)	4	(2)
2007–2010	Ayr United	81	(25)
2010–2012	Heart of Midlothian	61	(9)
2012–	Ipswich Town	11	(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 28 April 2012. † Appearances (Goals).

Ryan Cairns Stevenson (born 24 August 1984) is a Scottish football player who plays for Ipswich Town in the English Championship. Stevenson began his career at Chelsea and has also played for St. Johnstone and Ayr United. He is a midfielder who was also used as a striker when at Hearts.

Youth career[link]

Stevenson was born in Irvine, Ayrshire,^[1] and was a boyhood Ayr United fan.^[2] He was a pupil at Heathfield primary and Kyle Academy in Ayr^{[citation needed]} before leaving to join Chelsea's youth academy staying in the same apartment block as John Terry.^[2]

Career[link]

St Johnstone[link]

Having failed to break into the Chelsea first team he was given a free transfer in 2002 and signed for St. Johnstone. Stevenson made 72 league appearances for Saints, before eventually falling out of favour during 2006.

Ayr United[link]

Stevenson initially joined Ayr United on a 28-day loan in October 2006.^[3] This loan was later extended until the end of the year.^[4] He then joined the club on a permanent basis during January 2007, for a five-figure sum.^[5] Just two weeks later, Stevenson scored an equaliser for Ayr United against his former club, St. Johnstone, in the third round of the Scottish Cup in a 2–1 defeat.^[6] Stevenson scored the goal which promoted Ayr United to the First Division in 2009, in a 1–0 win over Airdrie United in the second leg of the First Division Play-off Final at New Broomfield.

Hearts[link]

Stevenson signed for Hearts on 1 February 2010 for an undisclosed five-figure sum,^[7] with Rocky Visconte going the other way on loan.^[8] He made his debut for Hearts on 10 February playing the full 90 minutes in a 2–0 defeat to Celtic at Celtic Park.^[9] He went on to score his first competitive goal for Hearts against Inverness Caledonian Thistle in a Scottish Premier League fixture on 18th September 2010.^[10] In the absence of Kevin Kyle, Stevenson has predominantly been used as a makeshift striker^[11] and has scored notable goals, such as in wins over both halves of the Old Firm and two against Edinburgh rivals Hibernian. In June 2011 Stevenson signed a one year contract extension to extend his stay at the club.^[12]

On 22 December 2011 with Hearts in financial difficulty and having problems paying wages Stevenson requested his contract be terminated;^[13] this was refused and Stevenson advised the club he would not play or train again until his salary was paid in full.^[14] Stevenson cited stress on his unborn baby as one of the reasons behind his decision.^[15] Despite being paid Stevenson did not return to training several clubs including ^[16] Ayr United, Crawley Town^[17] and Dundee United^[18] were interested however Hearts were seeking £100,000 for their exiled player.^[19] Hearts pledged to open a disciplinary hearing if he did not leave during the transfer window.^[20]

Ipswich Town[link]

On 28 January 2012, Championship side Ipswich Town announced that he was set to join them in a deal worth £50,000 which was concluded on 30 January. He was given the number 16 shirt,^[21] and has signed an 18 month contract.^[22]

Stevenson scored his first goal for Ipswich on 28th April 2012 against Doncaster on the final day of the 2011–12 Football League Championship with a long-range effort.

Scotland[link]

On 6 November 2011 Stevenson was called up to the Scotland Squad for the first time^[23] as a late inclusion for their friendly against Cyprus.^[24]

Career statistics[link]

As of 28 April 2012^[1][25]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Ryan Stevenson career stats at Soccerbase
• Transfermarkt Profile
• Profile at PlayerHistory.com