Nedda Friberti

Nedda Friberti
Born(1913-09-13)13 September 1913
Trieste, Italy
NationalityItalian
Known forJewish refugee during WWII fleeing Nazi occupation of Italy
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics

Nedda Friberti (born 13 September 1913, date of death unknown) was an Italian Jewish mathematician who fled Italy as a result of the German occupation of the Italian Socialist Republic during World War II.[1][2] She was denied entry into the United States by the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars.[3] In 1939, she was able to flee to Switzerland to escape persecution.[4]

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