Solomon Lefschetz
Russian-American mathematician
Solomon Lefschetz ForMemRS was a Russian-born American mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential equations. Wikipedia
Born: September 3, 1884, Moscow, Russia
Died: October 5, 1972 (age 88 years), Princeton, NJ
Notable students: John McCarthy, John Tukey, Edward G. Begle, and more
Education: Clark University (1910–1911) and Ecole Centrale Paris (1902–1905)
Parents: Alexander Lefschetz