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Born April 22, 1842 • Hungary
Died May 25, 1894 (aged 52) • New York City • New York
Founder Jewish Theological Seminary of America
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Seymour Siegel
American theologian
Louis Agassiz
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-born American naturalist, geologist, and teacher
E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson
American biologist
James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
ornithologist, artist, and naturalist
“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
American botanist
Sarah Josepha Hale.
Sarah Josepha Hale
American author
George Wells Beadle.
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist
Benjamin Spock
Benjamin Spock
American pediatrician
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Curt Sachs
German musicologist
David Starr Jordan
David Starr Jordan
American ichthyologist, educator, and eugenicist
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James Mark Baldwin
American philosopher and psychologist
Magellanic penguin, left (Spheniscus magellanicus), and king shag (Phalacrocorax albiventer), watercolour and pencil by Roger Tory Peterson, from his book Penguins (1979); Houghton Mifflin
Roger Tory Peterson
American ornithologist
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Leo Rosten
American writer
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Karl Terzaghi
American engineer
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Richard Kostelanetz
American author
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Evert Augustus Duyckinck
American literary critic
Marsh, George Perkins
George Perkins Marsh
American scholar
Alexander Wilson, detail of an engraving by W.H. Lizars
Alexander Wilson
Scottish ornithologist
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Menahem ben Saruq
Spanish-Jewish lexicographer