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Alice Kober

1906 - 1950

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Alice Elizabeth Kober (December 23, 1906 – May 16, 1950) was an American classicist best known for her work on the decipherment of Linear B. Educated at Hunter College and Columbia University, Kober taught classics at Brooklyn College from 1930 until her death. In the 1940s, she published three major papers on the script, demonstrating evidence of inflection; her discovery allowed for the deduction of phonetic relationships between different signs without assigning them phonetic values, and was a key step in the eventual decipherment of the script. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alice Kober is the 158th most popular linguist (up from 195th in 2019), the 7,601st most popular biography from United States (up from 9,702nd in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Alice Kober ranks 158 out of 214. Before her are Friedrich Kluge, William Stokoe, Hermann Möller, Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Heinrich Schmid, and Arsène Darmesteter. After her are William Dwight Whitney, Hermann Hirt, Takekazu Asaka, Jane Ellen Harrison, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, and Christiane Nord.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Alice Kober ranks 316. Before her are Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj, Axel Cadier, Luis Marín, Ödön Zombori, Alexander Kazantsev, and Károly Kárpáti. After her are Harry Hopman, Nils Skoglund, Carl Benjamin Boyer, Iosif Czako, Carl-Erik Holmberg, and Thelma Todd. Among people deceased in 1950, Alice Kober ranks 157. Before her are Sara Allgood, Alexander Tairov, Giovanni Giorgi, Fats Navarro, Antonina Nezhdanova, and Frederic Zelnik. After her are Tommaso Costantino, Gopinath Bordoloi, Karel Koželuh, Edwin Foster Coddington, László Cseh, and Semyon Frank.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alice Kober ranks 7,603 out of 20,380. Before her are Lucy Stone (1818), Gregory La Cava (1892), Harry Porter (1882), Robert Parrish (1916), Courtney Thorne-Smith (1967), and Isabel Briggs Myers (1897). After her are Rod Serling (1924), Janis Paige (1922), Francis Spellman (1889), Ruby Bridges (1954), Daniel J. Boorstin (1914), and Forest Ray Moulton (1872).

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Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, Alice Kober ranks 14. Before her are William Labov (1927), George Lakoff (1941), Morris Swadesh (1909), Stephen Krashen (1941), George Kingsley Zipf (1902), and William Stokoe (1919). After her are William Dwight Whitney (1827), Robert Blust (1940), Dell Hymes (1927), George Perkins Marsh (1801), Kenneth Lee Pike (1912), and Daniel Everett (1951).

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