Samuel Soloveichik

Dr. Samuel (Shmuel Yaakov) Soloveichik (1909 – February 25, 1967) was an Orthodox Jewish chemist and talmudist.

[1][4] In a paper published in 1966, Soloveichik proposed a means of classifying aliphatic compounds similar to the periodic table.

[1] He was survived by his wife Bathsheba Ziv, a teacher at the Beis Yaakov-Beis Miriam High School in the Bronx, and his four siblings.

His older brother Joseph Ber delivered a brief eulogy at his funeral, as did Yeshiva University President, Dr. Samuel Belkin.

The Dr. Samuel Soloveichik Prize in Natural Science was established at Yeshiva University in his memory.