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#3651

Freeman Ransom

1884 - 1947 (63 years)

Freeman Briley Ransom was an American lawyer, businessman and civic activist in Indianapolis, Indiana. From 1910 until his death he served as legal counsel to Madam C. J. Walker and the Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company. Robert Brokenburr was his law partner.

#3652

Paul Cornell

1822 - 1904 (82 years)

Paul Cornell was an American lawyer and Chicago real estate speculator who founded the Hyde Park Township that included most of what are now known as the south and far southeast sides of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. He turned the south side Lake Michigan lakefront area, especially the Hyde Park community area and neighboring Kenwood and Woodlawn neighborhoods, into a resort community that had its heyday from the 1850s through the early 20th century. He was also an urban planner who paved the way for and preserved many of the parks that are now in the Chicago Park District.

#3653

Henning Jakob Henrik Lund

Henning Jakob Henrik Lund

1875 - 1948 (73 years)

Henning Jakob Henrik Lund or Intel'eraq was a Greenlandic lyricist, painter, and pastor. He wrote the lyrics to "Nunarput utoqqarsuanngoravit," in the indigenous Greenlandic language, an Eskimo–Aleut language. The song was adopted as the national anthem of Greenland.

#3654

Thomas Greenwood

1790 - 1871 (81 years)

Thomas Greenwood was an English barrister, academic and historian. Life The second son of Thomas Greenwood, a London merchant, he was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1815 and M.A. in 1831. He entered Gray's Inn on 14 March 1809, and was called to the bar on 24 June 1817.

#3655

Harold Saxton Burr

Harold Saxton Burr

1889 - 1973 (84 years)

Harold Saxton Burr was E. K. Hunt Professor of Anatomy at Yale University School of Medicine and researcher into bio-electrics. Early life He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1889, to parents Hanford Burr and Clara Saxton. He studied in public schools and at the Technical High School in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1908 he was admitted to the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale and received his Ph.B. in 1911. On December 27 of that year, in Chicago, he married Jean Chandler, with whom he had a son, Peter. In 1914 he was appointed Instructor in Anatomy at Yale. He studied for his Ph.D. under Ross Granville Harrison, which he received in 1915.

#3656

Weston J. Morrow

#3657

John Franklin Enders

John Franklin Enders

1897 - 1985 (88 years)

John Franklin Enders was an American biomedical scientist and Nobel Laureate. Enders has been called "The Father of Modern Vaccines." Life and education Enders was born in West Hartford, Connecticut on February 10, 1897. His father, John Ostrom Enders, was CEO of the Hartford National Bank and left him a fortune of $19 million upon his death. He attended the Noah Webster School in Hartford, and St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. After attending Yale University a short time, he joined the United States Army Air Corps in 1918 as a flight instructor and a lieutenant.

#3658

Oswald Avery

1877 - 1955 (78 years)

Oswald Theodore Avery Jr. was a Canadian-American physician and medical researcher. The major part of his career was spent at the Rockefeller Hospital in New York City. Avery was one of the first molecular biologists and a pioneer in immunochemistry, but he is best known for the experiment that isolated DNA as the material of which genes and chromosomes are made.

#3659

Charles Heidelberger

1920 - 1983 (63 years)

Charles Heidelberger was a cancer researcher who developed and patented an anticancer drug called 5-Fluorouracil that remains widely used against cancers of the stomach, colon and breast. He was also director of basic research at the University of Southern California's Comprehensive Cancer Center. He received an American Cancer Society National Award in 1974. Heidelberger served on editorial boards of various scientific journals: Cancer Research, Molecular Pharmacology, Biochemical Pharmacology, the International Journal of Cancer, In Vitro, and the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. He served ...

#3660

Roger J. Traynor

Roger J. Traynor

1900 - 1983 (83 years)

Roger John Traynor was the 23rd Chief Justice of California and an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from 1940 to 1964. Previously, he had served as a Deputy Attorney General of California under Earl Warren, and an Acting Dean and Professor of UC Berkeley School of Law. He is widely considered to be one of the most creative and influential judges and legal scholars of his time.

#3661

Jesse Bullowa

1879 - 1943 (64 years)

Jesse Godrey Moritz Bullowa was an American medical researcher, and an early proponent of controlled clinical trials. From 1928 until his death he was a clinical professor at New York University College of Medicine.

#3662

Edith Quimby

1891 - 1982 (91 years)

Edith Smaw Quimby was an American medical researcher and physicist, best known as one of the founders of nuclear medicine. Her work involved developing diagnostic and therapeutic applications of X-rays. One of her main concerns was protecting both those handling the radioactive material and making sure that those being treated were given the lowest dose necessary.

#3663

Harry Kalven

1914 - 1974 (60 years)

Harry Kalven Jr. was an American jurist, regarded as one of the preeminent legal scholars of the 20th century. He was the Harry A. Bigelow Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, having graduated from the College and the Law School. Kalven coauthored, with Charles O. Gregory , a widely used textbook in the field of torts, Cases and Materials on Torts. Kalven was also a scholar in the field of constitutional law, particularly in the area of the first amendment. Kalven is the coauthor of "The Contemporary Function of the Class Suit," one of the most heavily cited articles i...

#3664

George Walter McCoy

George Walter McCoy

1876 - 1952 (76 years)

George Walter McCoy was an American physician. An international expert on leprosy, he served as director of the National Institute of Health for more than twenty years. Early life and education McCoy was born in 1876 in the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania. He was the son of Osborn George McCoy and his wife Lavanda Walters, and had one sibling, J. Ross McCoy, who died young in 1899. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1898 and completed his internship at City Hospital in Newark, New Jersey.

#3665

Walton Hale Hamilton

1881 - 1958 (77 years)

Walton Hale Hamilton was an American law professor who taught at Yale Law School . In 1919, Hamilton coined the term "institutional economics". Life and work Born in Tennessee, Hamilton received a B.A. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1907 and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1913. He married Lucile Elizabeth Rhodes in 1909; they had three children. The couple later divorced and he married Irene Till, on July 20, 1937, adopting her son by a previous marriage later having two children. He died in Washington, D.C., on October 27, 1958.

#3666

Anna Goldfeder

1898 - 1993 (95 years)

Dr. Anna Goldfeder was a pioneering researcher in the fields of radiology and cancer treatment. Born in 1898 in Józefów Poland, Goldfeder studied at the University of Prague and worked at the Masaryk University before earning her doctorate in natural sciences in 1922. She was invited to conduct research in the United States, and immigrated in 1931. During her 66-year career as a research scientist, she worked at the University of Vienna, Harvard University, Columbia University, Lenox Hill Hospital, the Rockefeller Institute, the New York City Hospitals Department and the Department of Biolog...

#3667

Louis Lowenstein

1908 - 1968 (60 years)

Louis Lowenstein was a medical researcher who made significant contributions in hematology and immunology. Lowenstein was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1908. As a child in Nashville, he was accomplished as a violinist and tennis player. He received a bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University and a medical degree from Vanderbilt's medical school. In 1937, after additional training at Vanderbilt and Ohio State University, he joined the faculty of the McGill University medical school and the staff of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Quebec. He remained at McGill for the rest of his...

#3668

Brainerd Currie

1912 - 1965 (53 years)

Brainerd Currie was a law professor noted for his work in conflict of laws and his creation of the concept of the governmental interests analysis. He was the father of law professor David P. Currie.

#3669

Edwin R. Keedy

1880 - 1958 (78 years)

Edwin Roulette Keedy was Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School from 1941 until 1945, as well as the law school's Algernon Sidney Biddle Professor of Law. Biography Keedy was born in Boonsboro, Maryland, to Reuben Miller and Anne Elizabeth Keedy. His early education was in the public schools in Hagerstown, Maryland. He received an A.B. from Franklin & Marshall College in 1899, and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1906.

#3670

Herbert Maryon

1874 - 1965 (91 years)

Herbert James Maryon was an English sculptor, conservator, goldsmith, archaeologist and authority on ancient metalwork. Maryon practiced and taught sculpture until retiring in 1939, then worked as a conservator with the British Museum from 1944 to 1961. He is best known for his work on the Sutton Hoo ship-burial, which led to his appointment as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

#3671

Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda

1892 - 1979 (87 years)

Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda was a prominent Brazilian jurist, judge, diplomat and professor of Law at the Federal University of Pernambuco. He occupied the 7th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1979, until his death.

#3672

Paul Guggenheim

1899 - 1977 (78 years)

Paul Guggenheim was a Swiss scholar of international law. He studied law at the universities of Zurich, Geneva, Rome and Berlin. After his promotion in 1924, he briefly taught international law in Kiel in 1927, and achieved habilitation in 1928. From 1932 to 1958 he taught in The Hague. From 1952 on, he was a judge at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, and once ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice. From 1941 to 1969 he taught at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.

#3673

Arnold Ehrhardt

1903 - 1965 (62 years)

Arnold Anton Traugott Ehrhardt was a German jurist and British theologian. Life Arnold was the son of Oscar Ehrhardt, a professor of surgery, and Martha, née Rosenhain, a school teacher from a Jewish family. He went to school in Königsberg and then studied law at Erlangen, Bonn, Berlin and Königsberg. After the First World War he served in the eastern border force and took part in the conflict with the Spartacists. He took his doctoral degree in 1926 in Königsberg and the following year became an assistant to in Göttingen and took his habilitation in civil and Roman law in 1929 in Freiburg. He lectured at the Goethe University of Frankfurt.

#3674

Arthur Allen Leff

1935 - 1981 (46 years)

Arthur Allen Leff was a professor of law at Yale Law School who is best known for a series of articles examining whether there is such a thing as a normative law or morality. Leff answered this question in the negative and followed the consequences to their logical conclusions. He graduated from Amherst College and Harvard Law School and also taught at the Washington University School of Law.

#3675

Roswell Magill

1895 - 1963 (68 years)

Roswell Foster Magill was an American tax lawyer and Treasury Department official. He was one of the most important tax officials of the 1930s and one of the leading tax experts. Born in Auburn, Illinois to a teacher and prominent Republican, Hugh S. Magill, who later won a seat in the Illinois Senate, Roswell Magill attended Dartmouth College, graduating in 1916. After a brief stint as an Army captain during World War I, Magill returned to Illinois for law school. He graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1920 and began his legal career at the Chicago firm of Alden, Latham & ...

#3676

Carleton Allen

1887 - 1966 (79 years)

Sir Carleton Kemp Allen was an Australian-born professor and Warden of Rhodes House, University of Oxford. Entry by his successor as Warden of Rhodes House, E.T. Williams, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

#3677

Marcus Plant

1911 - 1984 (73 years)

Marcus L. Plant was an American law professor and athletic administrator. He was a law professor at the University of Michigan and served as president of the NCAA from 1967 to 1968. Plant was born in New London, Wisconsin. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Lawrence College in 1932 and 1934. He worked as a school teacher for two years before enrolling at the University of Michigan Law School. After graduating from law school in 1938, Plant worked as a lawyer in private practice in Milwaukee and New York, and also in the World War II-era Office of Price Administration.

#3678

Wesley Alba Sturges

1893 - 1962 (69 years)

Wesley Alba Sturges was an American legal scholar who served as a professor of law at the Yale Law School from 1924 to 1961, and served as dean of the law school from 1945 to 1954. He received his LL.B. from Yale in 1923. He retired from Yale in 1961 to become dean of the University of Miami School of Law. He was a prominent figure in Yale's Legal Realism movement. In his article , Legal Theory and Real Property Mortgages, 37 Yale L. J. 691 , he sought to make the Legal Realist point that doctrinal distinctions between "lien theory" and "title theory" did not have any actual effect on how courts ruled in litigation about mortgage disputes.

#3679

Friedrich Litten

1873 - 1940 (67 years)

Friedrich Julius Litten was a German jurist and a university college teacher. His father was Joseph Litten, the president of the Jewish community in Königsberg from 1899 to 1906. He married Irmgard Litten from an established Lutheran family in Swabia, the daughter of Albert Wüst, a professor at the University of Halle-Wittenberg.

#3680

Harry Augustus Garfield

Harry Augustus Garfield

1863 - 1942 (79 years)

Harry Augustus "Hal" Garfield was an American lawyer, academic, and public official. He was president of Williams College and supervised the United States Fuel Administration during World War I. He was a son of President James A. Garfield.

#3681

Ottmar Bühler

1884 - 1965 (81 years)

Ottmar Bühler was a German Law professor specialising in tax law. Life Ottmar Bühler was born in Zürich. His father was a professor of Forestry at Tübingen. Despite his being born in Switzerland, Bühler's father had been born in Württemberg, and it was in Tübingen that he grew up and attended school . His subsequent period as a student of Jurisprudence took in Tübingen, Munich and Berlin. He undertook his "Referendariat" between 1908 and 1911, and then received his doctorate in 1911 for work on the nineteenth century evolution of civil law jurisdiction with regard to the administration of the law in Württemberg.

#3682

Walter Schiff

1866 - 1950 (84 years)

#3683

Harry Lawson

1897 - 1983 (86 years)

Frederick Henry Lawson, FBA , published as F. H. Lawson, was a British legal scholar. He was Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Oxford from 1948 to 1964. Biography Lawson was born in Leeds, the son of a merchant. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School and The Queen's College, Oxford, where he was Hastings Exhibitioner in Classics. From 1916 to 1918 he served in an anti-aircraft regiment. After the war, he read Modern History instead, taking a First in 1921. The following year he took another First in Jurisprudence, and was called to the bar by Gray's Inn in 1923.

#3684

Underhill Moore

1879 - 1949 (70 years)

William Underhill Moore was an American legal scholar and Sterling Professor of Law at the Yale Law School , having previously taught at Columbia. His principal teaching fields were commercial bank credit and business organizations, Moore was considered one of the intellectual leaders of the Legal Realism movement at Yale and an early user of social scientific methods in legal research.

#3685

Pedro Lombardía

Pedro Lombardía

1930 - 1986 (56 years)

Pedro Lombardía was a Spanish canonist and pioneer of the Study of State Ecclesiastical Law in Spain. He held the chairs of Canon Law and State Ecclesiastical Law at the University of Navarra and the Complutense University of Madrid.

#3686

Sibylle Bolla-Kotek

1913 - 1969 (56 years)

Sibylle von Bolla-Kotek was an Austrian scholar of legal history and the first female professor in a legal faculty in Austria. Life Sibylle von Bolla was born in Bratislava in 1913, the daughter of the Hungarian Oberst Gideon von Bolla and his wife Margarethe. The family moved to Teplice in the new state of Czechoslovakia in 1923, where von Bolla attended a humanistic Gymnasium. Her father died in 1929 and her family was supported thereafter by her father's army colleague Theodor Körner.

#3687

Otfried Nippold

1864 - 1938 (74 years)

Otfried Nippold was a German–Swiss jurist, pacifist and internationalist. He was also an academic and a prolific author. Nippold was born in Wiesbaden, Duchy of Nassau, as the son of Professor Friedrich Nippold of the University of Bern and the University of Jena. He attended gymnasium in Burgdorf and in Bern and studied law at the University of Bern, University of Halle, University of Tübingen and at the University of Jena. At the Jena, he earned his doctorate in 1886.

#3688

Garfield Bromley Oxnam

1891 - 1963 (72 years)

Garfield Bromley Oxnam was a social reformer and American Bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1936. Early life Garfield Bromley Oxnam was born in Los Angeles on August 14, 1891. His father was a mining engineer and instilled in his son a conservative theology. Oxnam embraced these beliefs in his youth, even describing socialism as "the biggest idiocy ever presented to the public." However, in his early 20s Oxnam gravitated towards Dana W. Bartlett and the movements of the Social Gospel.

#3689

Otto Brusiin

1906 - 1973 (67 years)

Otto Brusiin was a leading Finnish teacher of law. He taught at Helsinki from 1949 on before he was made assistant professor at Helsinki in 1955 and professor at Turku in 1961. Recorded to have been a stirring teacher, Brusiin was also widely connected abroad. In 1957, he was made first vice president of the International Association of Legal and Social Philosophy.

#3690

Ernst Rudolf Huber

1903 - 1990 (87 years)

Ernst Rudolf Huber was a German jurist, noted as a constitutional historian and for his attempts to provide a legal underpinning for the Nazi regime. Life and work Huber studied law in Bonn under Carl Schmitt. He received a PhD in 1926 for a work on state church law, and his habilitation in 1931 for a work on economic administrative law, which he was instrumental in establishing as a field of study. In 1933, he was called to teach in Kiel, and subsequently also taught law in Leipzig after 1937 and in Strasbourg from 1941 to 1944.

#3691

François Gény

1861 - 1959 (98 years)

François Gény was a French jurist and professor of law at the University of Nancy, who introduced the notion of "free scientific research" to the interpretation of positive law. His advocacy of judicial discretion in the interpretation of statutory law had an important influence across Europe. Gény also emphasized that judges should take into account social and economic factors when deciding cases.

#3692

Afonso Pena Júnior

1879 - 1968 (89 years)

#3693

Jean Spiropoulos

1896 - 1972 (76 years)

Jean Spiropoulos, or originally Ioannis Georgiou Spyropoulos was a Greek expert in international law. He studied law at the Universities of Zürich and Leipzig. From 1928 onward, he taught Public International law at the Law School of the Aristotle University and several universities in Greece. From 1949 to 1957, he served as member of the International Law Commission and from 1958 to 1967, he served as judge at the International Court of Justice.

#3694

William A. Robson

1895 - 1980 (85 years)

William Alexander Robson was a British academic who was an early and influential scholar of public administration while serving as a lecturer and professor at the London School of Economics. Upon his death, The Guardian wrote that Robson was an "internationally renowned authority on public administration". Indeed, Robson played a key role in establishing public administration as an academic subject.

#3695

William Lloyd Prosser

1898 - 1972 (74 years)

William Lloyd Prosser was the Dean of the School of Law at UC Berkeley from 1948 to 1961. Prosser authored several editions of Prosser on Torts, universally recognized as the leading work on the subject of tort law for a generation. It is still widely used today, now known as Prosser and Keeton on Torts, 5th edition. Furthermore, in the 1950s, Dean Prosser became Reporter for the Second Restatement of Torts.

#3696

Ludwig Feuchtwanger

1885 - 1947 (62 years)

Ludwig Feuchtwanger was a German lawyer, lecturer and author. Life Feuchtwanger's ancestors originated from the Middle Franconian city of Feuchtwangen which, following a pogrom in 1555, expelled all its resident Jews. Some of the expellees subsequently settled in Fürth where they were called the Feuchtwangers, meaning those from Feuchtwangen. Feuchtwanger's grandfather Elkan moved to Munich in the middle of 19th century.

#3697

George Wirgman Hemming

1821 - 1905 (84 years)

George Wirgman Hemming, KC was an English law reporter and barrister. Life Born on 19 August 1821, he was the second son of Henry Keene Hemming of Grays, Essex, by his wife Sophia, daughter of Gabriel Wirgman of London. Educated at Clapham grammar school, he went to St John's College, Cambridge, where in 1844, he was senior wrangler and first Smith's prizeman and was elected to a fellowship.

#3698

Jerzy Wróblewski

1926 - 1990 (64 years)

Jerzy Wróblewski Biography Wróblewski graduated at the Jagiellonian University in 1947 with master's degree in law and completed postgraduate studies in philosophy. After obtaining his Ph.D. in 1949, he moved to the University of Łódź in 1951, where he was appointed head of chair of the theory of state and law. He achieved habilitation in 1970. He remained at Łódź till his death, where he performed a number of functions: pro-dean of the Faculty of Law , dean of the Faculty of Law , pro-rector , and rector .

#3699

Ludwig Wahrmund

1860 - 1932 (72 years)

Ludwig Wahrmund was an Austrian professor of Canon Law at the University of Innsbruck. Ludwig was the son of Adolf Wahrmund, a noted anti-semite. However, Ludwig rose to prominence from a lecture he gave on 18 January 1908 in Innsbruck Town Hall entitled Catholic Weltanschauung and Free Science. The lecture was repeated in Salzburg and published as a pamphlet. Ludwig's criticism of the Catholic Church and their attempt to control education gave rise to the "Wahrmund Affair", which led to his removal from his professorial chair in Innsbruck.

#3700

Max Ascoli

1898 - 1978 (80 years)

Max Ascoli was a Jewish Italian-American professor of political philosophy and law at the New School for Social Research, United States of America. Career Ascoli's career started in Italy and continued in the United States.

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