Milgram is a surname derived from the Yiddish word for pomegranate (מילגרוים, Milgroim) and may refer to:
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Arthur Milgram
Arthur Norton Milgram (3 June 1912, in Philadelphia – 30 January 1961) was an American mathematician. He made contributions in functional analysis, combinatorics, differential geometry, topology, partial differential equations, and Galois theory. ...
(1912–1961), American mathematician
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R. James Milgram
Richard James Milgram (born 5 December 1939 in South Bend, Indiana) is an American mathematician, specializing in algebraic topology. He is the son of mathematician Arthur Milgram.
Biography
Milgram graduated from the University of Chicago with a ...
(born 1939), American mathematician, son of Arthur
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Stanley Milgram
Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933 – December 20, 1984) was an American social psychologist, best known for his controversial experiments on obedience conducted in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale.Blass, T. (2004). ''The Man Who Shocke ...
(1933–1984), Yale psychologist
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Milgram experiment
The Milgram experiment(s) on obedience to authority figures were a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. They measured the willingness of study participants, 40 men in the age range ...
, his most famous study
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Goldie Milgram
Rabbi Goldie Milgram (born 1955) is an American rabbi, educator, and writer. She is best known as the "rebbe-on-the-road," for her travels worldwide as a seeker and teacher of Torah, Jewish spiritual practices and she is a specialist in the fiel ...
(born 1955), American reconstructionist Rabbi and author
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Anne Milgram
Anne Melissa Milgram (born December 1, 1970) is an American attorney and academic who serves as the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Milgram was previously the 57th Attorney General of New Jersey from 2007 to 2010.
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(born 1970), former Attorney General of New Jersey; head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration since 2021
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Maureen Milgram Forrest
Maureen Milgram Forrest (1 February 1938, London) was a British co-founder of LeicesterHERday Trust and the original project director for the BRIT School in Croydon, London. She is also known as Lillian Maureen Bernice Forrest. She was born in ...
, the founder chair and current chair, Leicesterherday Trust, Leicester
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Milgram & Company Ltd., a Canadian logistics company
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Babuška–Lax–Milgram theorem In mathematics, the Babuška–Lax–Milgram theorem is a generalization of the famous Lax–Milgram theorem, which gives conditions under which a bilinear form can be "inverted" to show the existence and uniqueness of a weak solution to a given bou ...
, in mathematics
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Lax–Milgram theorem Weak formulations are important tools for the analysis of mathematical equations that permit the transfer of concepts of linear algebra to solve problems in other fields such as partial differential equations. In a weak formulation, equations or con ...
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Lions–Lax–Milgram theorem
In mathematics, the Lions–Lax–Milgram theorem (or simply Lions's theorem) is a result in functional analysis with applications in the study of partial differential equations. It is a generalization of the famous Lax–Milgram theorem, which giv ...
, in mathematics
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Milligram
The kilogram (also kilogramme) is the unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), having the unit symbol kg. It is a widely used measure in science, engineering and commerce worldwide, and is often simply called a kilo colloquially. ...
, a unit of measurement
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Milgrom Milgrom is a surname derived from the Yiddish word for pomegranate (:yi:מילגרוים, מילגרוים, Milgroim) and may refer to:
* Al Milgrom, Allen "Al" Milgrom (born 1950), American comic book writer
* Felix Milgrom (1919-2007), Jewish Pol ...
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Yiddish-language surnames
Surnames of Jewish origin