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Henry Pollak

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Henry Pollak · Technology & Engineering

What

Computer & information scientist

When

1927, Vienna, Austria

Where

Austria · United States · Bell Labs

Biography

Henry Pollak is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Computer & information scientist

How & why

Henry O. Pollak is an Austrian-born American mathematician who directed mathematics and statistics research at Bell Labs, co-developing (with Slepian and Landau) the theory of prolate spheroidal functions central to signal analysis and giving his name to the Graham–Pollak theorem in graph theory. His Jewish family fled the Nazis in 1939. He is Jewish.

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Computer & information scientist

Source: Jinfo.org — JEWISH COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENTISTS