List of Famous people with last name Stiefel

Frank Stiefel

First Name Frank

Last Name Stiefel

Born on November 30, 1949 (age 74)

Born in United States of America, New York

Frank Stiefel is an American filmmaker and photographer. His film Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject.

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Leopold Stiefel

First Name Leopold

Last Name Stiefel

Born on February 19, 1945 (age 79)

Born in Austria, Upper Austria

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Eduard Stiefel

First Name Eduard

Last Name Stiefel

Born on April 21, 1909

Died on November 25, 1978 (aged 69)

Born in Switzerland, canton of Zürich

Eduard L. Stiefel was a Swiss mathematician. Together with Cornelius Lanczos and Magnus Hestenes, he invented the conjugate gradient method, and gave what is now understood to be a partial construction of the Stiefel–Whitney classes of a real vector bundle, thus co-founding the study of characteristic classes.

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