About Naum Meiman
Lived 1912 – 2001 (aged 88). Naum Meiman was a Russian and Israeli mathematician, physicist and human rights defender, known for Dissident movement in the Soviet Union.
Naum Natanovich (Nokhim Sanalevich) Meiman (; 12 May 1912, Bazar, Ukraine – 31 March 2001, Tel Aviv) was a Soviet mathematician, and dissident. He is known for his work in complex analysis, partial differential equations, and mathematical physics, as well as for his dissident activity, in particular, for being a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group.
Life He was born in Bazar, Ukraine on 12 May 1912.
Meiman also struggled for the right of his wife Inna Meiman-Kitrossky to go to the USA for medical treatment since she had been diagnosed with cancer. After several years of struggle, she was allowed to go to the US and she died in February 1987 in Georgetown (Washington, D.C.). Meiman was not allowed to attend her funeral in Washington D.C.
In 1988 Meiman was finally allowed to emigrate to Israel, where he became a professor emeritus in Tel Aviv University. In 1992, in Tel-Aviv, there was a conference in his honor dedicated to his 80th birthday. Meiman died there in 2001.
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Who was Naum Meiman?
Russian mathematician (1912-2001)
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Naum Meiman was born on 12 May 1912 in Bazar.
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Naum Meiman died on 31 March 2001 in Tel Aviv.
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Naum Meiman was a mathematician, physicist and human rights defender.
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Naum Meiman was known for Dissident movement in the Soviet Union.
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Naum Meiman was Russian and Israeli.
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