Jewish Archives - Page 31 of 38

Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt’s position as the first actress of her day was undisputed, and she tread the boards for more than 50 years.

Vera Pless

Vera Pless was an American mathematician who specialized in combinatorics and coding theory.

Marjorie Senechal is an American mathematician who worked on tessellations and quasicrystals. She won the Mathematical Association of America’s Carl B Allendoerfer Award for excellence in expository writing in Mathematics Magazine for her article, Which Tetrahedra Fill Space? Her book American Silk 1830-1930 won the Millia Davenport Publication Award of the Costume Society of America.

Mollie Orshansky

Mollie Orshansky was an American economist and statistician who developed the Orshansky Poverty Thresholds, used for measuring household incomes.

Lenore Blum

Lenore Blum is an American mathematician who has made important advances in computer science.

C Doris Hellman

Doris Hellman was an American historian of Science.

Dorothy Lewis Bernstein

Dorothy Bernstein was awarded a Ph.D. in 1939 and had an excellent career overcoming prejudice against her as a woman and as a Jew. She became the first woman president of the Mathematical Association of America.

Grace Jane Joel

Joel exhibited regularly in France and Great Britain with conservative bodies such as the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Société des artistes français in Paris.

Marina Ratner

Marina Ratner was a Russian mathematician who worked in Israel and America. She worked in ergodic theory.

Svetlana Jitomirskaya

Svetlana Jitomirskaya is a Ukranian-born American mathematician who is known for her work on dynamical systems and mathematical physics.