Alice Elizabeth Kober | |
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 Alice Kober in 1946 | |
| Born | Alice Kober December 23, 1906 |
| Died | May 16, 1950 (aged 43) Brooklyn, New York City |
| Alma mater | Hunter College (BA) Columbia University (MA, PhD) |
| Relatives | Franz Kober (Father), Katharina Kober (Mother), William Kober (Brother) |
Alice Elizabeth Kober (December 23, 1906 – May 16, 1950) was an American classicist best known for her work on the decipherment of Linear B. Educated at Hunter College and Columbia University, Kober taught classics at Brooklyn College from 1930 until her death. In the 1940s, she published three major papers on the script, demonstrating evidence of inflection; her discovery allowed for the deduction of phonetic relationships between different signs without assigning them phonetic values, and would be a key step in the eventual decipherment of the script.