February 24 1981
The Reporter Dispatch, White Plains, New York, Tuesday, February 24, 1981
Professor Solomon Isaac Rubinow—Beloved husband of Shirley (Levinsohn). Loving father of Jerry, Sonya and Marisa. Dear brother of Bernard. Service Tuesday, 12:15 at the Westchester Riverside, 21 West Broad St., Mt. Vernon, New York. Contributions to Bio Mathematics at Cornell University appreciated.
The Reporter Dispatch, White Plains, New York, Tuesday, February 24, 1981
Dr. Sol Rubinow
Dr. Sol Rubinow, an Edgemont resident who was an authority on biomathematics and an accomplished bridge and chess player, died Sunday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. He was 57.
Dr. Rubinow, who lived at 160 Evandale Road in Edgemont had been hospitalized for the past two months following complications resulting from brain surgery.
Since 1964, he had been professor of biomathematics at the Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences where he served as chairman of the biomathematics department.
He was noted for research in cell kinetics and wrote many papers on cancer research including the growth of cell populations and the physical forces acting on a single red cell.
Dr Rubinow was on the editorial hoards of several technical journals and was the author of “Introduction to Mathematical Biology” published in 1975.
Between 1946 and 1964, Dr. Rubinow 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.
Dr. Rubinow was one of the few persons 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. He won 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 lived in Edgemont for 8½ years.
Dr. Rubinow is survived by his wife Shirley Levinsohn Rubinow; three children Jerry, Sonya and Marisa, and a brother Dr. Bernard Rubinow of Glen Rock, N.J.
February 25 1981
Daily News, New York, New York, Wednesday, February 25, 1981
SOL I. RUBINOW
Funeral services for Sol I. Rubinow, professor of biomathematics at Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, were held yesterday at the Riverside funeral home in Mount Vernon. He died Sunday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Rubinow, a Scarsdale resident, was a teacher and researcher at several leading universities, including Harvard, Brown and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before joining the Cornell faculty in 1964.
