Famous People with Name Cohn

Tobias Cohn            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Tobias Cohn: was a Polish-Jewish physician of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was born at Metz in 1652.He received his education at Kraków and the universities of Frankfort-on-the-Oder (at the expense of the great elector of Brandenburg) and Padua, graduating from the latter as doctor of medicine. He practised for some time in Poland, and removed later to Adrianople, where he became physician to five successive Ottoman sultans— Mehmed IV, Suleiman II, Ahmed II, Mustafa II, and Ahmed III, moving with the court to Constantinople. In 1724 he went to Jerusalem, where he lived until his death in 1729.

Gustav Cohn            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Gustav Cohn: was a German economist, noted for his pioneering contributions to the theory and policy of transportation and public finance. He was educated at Berlin and Jena universities. During 1867 and 1868 he was the holder of a fellowship at the Royal Statistical

Paul Moritz Cohn            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Paul Moritz Cohn: was Astor Professor of Mathematics at University College London, 1986-9, and author of many textbooks on algebra.[2] His work was mostly in the area of algebra, especially non-commutative rings.[1][3] Both of his parents were born in Hamburg, as were thre

Emil Georg Cohn            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Emil Georg Cohn: was a German physicist. In April 1919, he was nominated as a professor at the University of Rostock. From June 1920, he gave lectures about theoretical physics at the University of Freiburg. In 1935 he retired in Heidelberg where he lived until 1939. He resigned from the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) together with other physicists like Richard Gans, Leo Graetz, George Jaffé, Walter Kaufmann, in protest at the despotism of the Nazi regime.

Rebecca Cohn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rebecca Cohn: is an American politician who served as the California State Assembly member for the 24th District from 2001 to 2007. A resident of Saratoga, her district also included the Buena Vista, Burbank, Cambrian Park, and Fruitdale neighbourhoods of San Jose, the