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Berta Steinberger (May)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Nuremberg, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
Death: January 22, 1973 (80)
Moorestown, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States
Place of Burial: Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Moritz May; Rosa May and Rosa May
Wife of Ludwig Louis Steinberger
Mother of Private; Jack Steinberger, Nobel Prize in Physics 1988; Herbert Lazarus Steinberger and PH.D. Rudolph Steinberger
Sister of Dr. Siegmund H. May and Meta Steinberger

Managed by: Randy Schoenberg
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About Berta Steinberger


Father was a hops merchant

College educated

Emigrated to USA May 3, 1937, departed Hamburg aboard S.S. Manhattan

Settled in Chicago, ran a deli

Son Jack awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1988.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1988/stein...

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Berta Steinberger's Timeline

1892
October 18, 1892
Nuremberg, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
1920
May 18, 1920
Bad Kissingen, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
1921
May 25, 1921
Bad Kissingen, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
1924
May 1, 1924
Bad Kissingen, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
1973
January 22, 1973
Age 80
Moorestown, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States
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Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States