Shimshon Avraham Amitsur was an Israeli mathematician. He is best known for his work in ring theory, in particular PI rings, an area of abstract algebra. Wikipedia
Born: August 26, 1921, Jerusalem
Died: September 5, 1994 (age 73 years), Jerusalem
Education: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1939–1948)
Doctoral students: Amitai Regev; Eliyahu Rips; Aner Shalev