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  • ...ttan-Guinness 2000, p. 351</ref> – [[January 6]] [[1918]]) was a [[Germany|German]] [[mathematician]], born in [[Russia]]. He is best known as the creator of ...t a more prestigious university, in particular at Berlin, then the leading German university. However, his work encountered too much opposition for that to b ...
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  • ...Emmy Noether''', {{IPA-de|ˈnøːtɐ}}, (23 March 1882 – 14 April 1935) was a German [[mathematician]] known for her groundbreaking contributions to [[abstract ...d around the world. The following year Germany's Nazi government dismissed Jews from university positions, and Noether moved to the United States to take u ...
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  • ...cendant of an old German scholarship family in Gotha (her ancestor was the German classical scholar [[Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Jacobs]]), was born in [[Be ...ence with the rituals of [[Judaism]], they sought out invitations to other Jews' homes for [[Passover Seder|Seder]]. They had "no idea how to do it [themse ...
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