2/1 | Birthday of Israel Zinberg
Today in Yiddishkayt… February 1 Birthday of Dr. Israel Zinberg, Historian Dr. Israel Zinberg, also known as Sergei Lazarevich or Yisroel “Srul” Tsinberg, was born on February 1, 1873 in a village near Lonovits, Volhyn (today Ланівці, Ukraine). He studied chemistry at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic Institute, received his doctorate at Basel University, and settled in Saint Petersburg in 1898. From 1899 to 1938, Zinberg worked as a chemist at Saint Petersburg’s Putilov (later Kirov) Steel Plant, where, from 1905, he was head of the laboratory. He published...
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