Earl Taft

[4] He was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Rutgers University.

His dissertation, Invariant Wedderburn Factors, was supervised by Nathan Jacobson.

Her family escaped Nazi Germany for France, Cuba, and later the US, and she met Taft as a graduate student in chemistry at Columbia University, while he was an instructor there.

[8] After Taft retired from Rutgers, he and his wife moved to New York City.

[8] Taft died in San Francisco at the age of 89.