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Adolph Eddy Goldfarb was born in 1921 in Chicago, the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Romania. He was one of three children: Bernard was five years older and Bunny (Bernice) was two years younger. As a young child, he became interested in how things work. When he was around five years old, his father, Louis, brought home a radio.
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His father worked at various dry goods stores owned by his wife's family, one of which was located in Indian territory where Sylvan was born. [6] Sylvan was raised in the Jewish faith and was bar mitzvahed. [6] Sylvan learned the retail trade from his father and his mother's uncles. [6] Goldman served in World War I as a food requisitionist in ...
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A state cannot be created by decree, but by the forces of a people and in the course of generations. Even if all the governments of the world gave us a country, it would only be a gift of words. But if the Jewish people will go build Palestine, the Jewish State will become a reality—a fact. [39]
Sign on Nobel Laureates Boulevard in Rishon LeZion saluting Jewish Nobel laureates. Of the 965 individual recipients of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences between 1901 and 2023, [1] at least 216 have been Jews or people with at least one Jewish parent, representing 22% of all recipients. Jews comprise only 0.2% of ...
1856: Alexander Parkes invents parkesine, also known as celluloid, the first man-made plastic. 1856: James Harrison produces the world's first practical ice making machine and refrigerator using the principle of vapour compression in Geelong, Australia. [428] 1856: William Henry Perkin invents mauveine, the first synthetic dye.
Douglas Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach and other publications (half Jewish) [21] Bob Kahn, co-invented TCP and IP, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Turing Award (2004) [22] [23] Richard M. Karp, computational complexity, Turing Award (1985) [24] [25] John Kemeny, Hungarian-born co-developer of BASIC [26] Leonard Kleinrock, packet ...