The Moscow radio today announced the death of Professor Benjamin Cohen oldest faculty member of Moscow University. He was 82 years old.
Professor Cohen was the head of the Mechanical-Mathematical Institute of the University since 1922. He was the author of many works on mathematics, including a monograph opposing Dr. Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity.
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