Minker, Jack
Person
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Jack Minker (1927- ) Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-975
Abstract
The collection documents the activism of Dr. Jack Minker, a leading authority in artificial intelligence, on behalf of foreign scientists whose human rights and scientific freedom were violated. The bulk of the collection focuses on Soviet Jewish Refuseniks, such as cyberneticist Alexander Lerner, mathematicians Victor Brailovsky and Anatoly Sharansky, and a dissident human rights activist, nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov. The documents include manuscripts, correspondence, memos, notes, publications, news clippings, and photographs.
Dates:
Papers, undated, 1962, 1972-1997, 2002-2003, 2005-2006, 2008-2011
Found in:
American Jewish Historical Society
