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Sol  RUBINOW

 Solomon Isaac Rubinow nacque il 6 novembre del 1923 a New York e prese la sua prima laurea in fisica nel 1944 presso il City College di New York, ad essa fece seguito il master in matematica applicata alla Brown University nel 1947 ed il dottorato nel 1951 all'Università di Pennsylvania.

 Sposato con Shirley Levinsohn ha avuto tre figli: Jerry, Sonya e Marisa

 Tra il il 1947 ed il 1964 lavorò come professore di biomatematica presso la Cornell University e come ricercatore sia presso le Università dove conseguì master e dottorato, sia presso il MIT, l'Harvard University, lo Stevens Institute of Technology ed il Courant Institute of Medical Science.

 Noto per le sue ricerche sulla cinetica delle cellule è stato uno dei pochissimi a conseguire il titolo di Life Master sia negli scacchi che nel bridge.

 Negli ultimi anni della sua breve vita si dedicò particolarmente al bridge vincendo, oltre a diversi titoli regionali, il Metropolitan Open Pair di New York in coppia con il fratello Morton nel 1953.

Sol Rubinow scomparve il 22 febbraio del 1981 nel Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center di Scarsdale, città dove viveva, a causa delle complicazioni che seguirono ad un intervento al cervello.

Solomon Isaac Rubinow was on the editorial boards of several technical journals and the author of ''Introduction to Mathematical Biology,'' published in 1975.

Sol Rubinow was born in New York 1923, November 6 and graduated from the City College of New York in 1944 with a degree in physics. He earned a master's degree in applied mathematics at Brown University in 1947 and a doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania in 1951. Worked at Several Universities

Between 1947 and 1964, he held teaching and research positions at Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, the Stevens Institute of Technology and the Courant Institute of Medical Science.

Since 1964, Dr. Rubinow had been professor of biomathematics at the Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences. He was noted for research in the kinetics of cells and wrote many papers on cancer research. These dealt with a wide range of subjects including the growth of cell populations and the physical forces acting on a single red cell.

Dr. Rubinow was one of the few who reached life master rank in both chess and bridge. As a chess player, he was intercollegiate champion in 1943. The United States Chess Federation rated him as master emeritus.

In later years, contract bridge became his preferred recreation. He was a frequent winner in New York tournaments, capturing the Metropolitan Open Pair title in 1953, with his brother, Morton, and the Reisinger Team Championship in 1962 and 1963. In 1959 at the Knickerbocker tournament, he won three titles in one weekend. He won three New England Regional titles, and in 1963 was second in the National Men's Team Championship.

He died on 1981, February 22 in Scarsdale, N.Y. He had been hospitalized for two months following complications resulting from brain surgery.