"Columbia University" "professor emeritus"

Guenter Lewy male, 86 years old: Holocaust, ColumbiaUniversity, America in Vietnam, Naval Investigative Service, Mandate for Palestine, Winter Soldier Investigation…professoremeritus, University of Massachusetts; Guenter Lewy (born 1923) is professor emeritus of political science, University of Massachusetts. Lewy was born in Germany. In 1939, at the age of...

Serge Lang male, deceased (2005): Beverly Hills High School, Columbia University faculty, University of Chicago, Princeton University, mathematician, Princeton University alumni…University of Chicago faculty, ColumbiaUniversity, professoremeritus, Yale University faculty, Yale University; Serge Lang was a French-born American mathematician. He was known for his work in number theory and for his mathematics textbooks, including the...

Giovanni Sartori male, 85 years old: Prince of Asturias Award, University of florence, ColumbiaUniversity, Prince of Asturias Award winner, Ph.D., From florence…professoremeritus; Giovanni Sartori (born May 13, 1924) is an Italian political scientist specializing in the study of comparative politics. Born in Florence, in 1946...

Gilbert Stork male, 87 years old: Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Jewish, Stork enamine alkylation, National Medal of Science recipient, emeritus, American…professoremeritus, Columbia University faculty, ColumbiaUniversity; Gilbert Stork (born December 31 1921) is a Belgian-born U.S. organic chemist. He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Columbia...

William Jay Smith male, 91 years old: American Poet Laureate, Academy of Arts and Letters, Swedish Academy, National Book Award, French Academy, English…hollins university, professoremeritus, cambridge university, Washington University, ColumbiaUniversity; William Jay Smith (born 1918) is an American poet. Born in Winnfield, Louisiana, Smith has studied at Washington University, Columbia University,...

Joan Birman female, 82 years old: Barnard College, knot theory, Braid, Joan S. Birman, Braids, Links, and Mapping Class Groups, Erdős number 3…ColumbiaUniversity, New York University alumni, professoremeritus, Columbia University faculty, New York University; Joan Birman (born 1927) is an American topologist, specializing in braids and knot theory. Her book "Braids, Links, and Mapping Class Groups" has...

Frederick Busch male, deceased (2006): death by myocardial infarction, Jewish American, from New York City, novelist, Colgate University alumni, writer…professoremeritus, Colgate University, ColumbiaUniversity, University of Iowa, Colgate Professor; Frederick Busch was an American writer. Busch was a master of the short story and one of America’s most prolific writers of fiction long and sh...

Michael Riffaterre male, deceased (2006): Johns Hopkins University, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Oxford University, City University of New York, University of Pennsylvania, World War II…Columbia University alumni, Columbia University faculty, ColumbiaUniversity, University of Lyon, Assistant Professor; Michael or Michel Riffaterre was an influential French literary critic and theorist. He pursued a generally structuralist approach. He is well...

Frank W. Cyr male, deceased (1995): School buses, Father of the Yellow School Bus, American, school bus, Ph.D., author…University of Nebraska-Lincoln alumni, University of Nebraska, professoremeritus, ColumbiaUniversity; Frank W. Cyr, Ph.D. (July 7, 1900 – August 1, 1995) was an American educator and author. As a specialist in rural education, he organized the Un...

Samuel Devons male, deceased (2006): death by myocardial infarction, Bangor, Gwynedd, professoremeritus, physicist, Academic of Imperial College London, World War II…University of Cambridge, University of Manchester, Academic of the University of Manchester, ColumbiaUniversity; Samuel Devons FRS (September 30 1914-December 6, 2006) was a British physicist. Devons, son of a Lithuanian immigrant, was born in Bangor, Wales....

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