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- Game, Herbert Avram vs. Oscar Tenner, Metropolitan League Matches, New York City, 1936.
Herbert Mois Avram
January 24, 1913 - January 15, 2006
First, Middle and Last Name: Herbert Mois Avram |
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Date of Birth: January 24, 1913 |
Date of Death: January 15, 2006 |
Name of Father: Mois Herban Avram |
Name of Mother: Ernestine (Kaunitz) |
Birth: New York, New York |
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Military Enlistment: Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Navy |
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Residence(s): Silver Spring, Maryland; Key West, Florida; California, Maryland; (d.) Arlington National Cemetery (May 1 2006) |
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Spouse(s): Henriette Davidson (b. October 7, 1919 d. April 22, 2006) |
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Siblings: Violette Regina Schlesinger, Marguerite Rosetta Nelson, Lloyd Mois Avram |
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A few notes about the wife of Herbert Mois Avram, Henrietta Davidson Avram:
“Henriette Davidson Avram was an American computer scientist, expert in programming languages who developed on behalf of the Library of Congress, towards the end of the Sixties, the international language for the exchange of bibliographic data MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging), a real revolution in the field of librarianship which allowed the paper catalogs of libraries around the world to be replaced by computerized catalogs and which radically changed the bibliographic cataloging system used up to that moment.
She was born in Manhattan on October 7, 1919, her father was in the business of distributing surveillance systems and her mother was a journalist. As a young woman she loved to frequent the neighborhood public libraries. Fascinated by the idea of finding a cure for cancer, she enrolled in Medicine at Hunter College where she attended courses for two years.
She left the college in 1941, when she married Herbert Mois Avram, a mathematical whiz, decorated US Navy, and chess champion. After the war, in 1952, Henriette moved with her whole family (the couple had three children in the meantime) to the suburbs of Washington, when her husband was hired by the National Security Agency (NSA).
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Avram was called by colleagues at the Library of Congress the “key figure in library automation and bibliographic control.” She retired in 1992 and moved with her husband to Maryland the same year. She received many national and international honors in the library field and was awarded three honorary doctorates. Her husband Herbert died on January 15, 2006. Henriette followed just three months later, defeated by cancer on April 22.”
Avram, Herbert Mois
bio + additional games
January 24, 1913 - January 15, 2006
