Dr. Alexander Taffel (born in Odessa, Russia; died January 19, 1997, Riverdale, Bronx)[1] was the second principal of the Bronx High School of Science, a long-time physics teacher and author of three textbooks in Physics.
He is most famous for his tenure as principal of the Bronx High School of Science, during which he nurtured the institution and its international reputation.
[1] Before becoming a full time administrator, Taffel was a physics teacher who had become the chairman of the science department at James Monroe High School in the Bronx.
[1] Transfer to modern facilities, teacher strike, student strike, 50th anniversary The Alexander Taffel Library at the Bronx High School of Science is named after Dr. Taffel.
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