Lillian Oppenheimer
Encyclopedia
Lillian Rose Vorhaus Kruskal Oppenheimer (October 24, 1898 in New York City
– July 24, 1992) was an American
origami
pioneer. She popularized origami in the West starting in the 1950s, and is credited with popularizing the Japanese
term origami in English
-speaking circles, which gradually supplanted the literal translation paper folding that had been used earlier. In the 1960s she co-wrote several popular books on origami with Shari Lewis
.
Oppenheimer is the mother of William
, Molly, Rosaly, Martin, and Joseph
. The three sons were all prominent mathematicians.
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
– July 24, 1992) was an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
origami
Origami
is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding, which started in the 17th century AD at the latest and was popularized outside Japan in the mid-1900s. It has since then evolved into a modern art form...
pioneer. She popularized origami in the West starting in the 1950s, and is credited with popularizing the Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
term origami in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
-speaking circles, which gradually supplanted the literal translation paper folding that had been used earlier. In the 1960s she co-wrote several popular books on origami with Shari Lewis
Shari Lewis
Shari Lewis was an American ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children's television show host, most popular during the 1960s and 1990s...
.
Oppenheimer is the mother of William
William Kruskal
William Henry Kruskal was an American mathematician and statistician. He is best known for having formulated the Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance , a widely-used nonparametric statistical method.Kruskal was born in New York City to a successful fur wholesaler...
, Molly, Rosaly, Martin, and Joseph
Joseph Kruskal
Joseph Bernard Kruskal, Jr. was an American mathematician, statistician, computer scientist and psychometrician. He was a student at the University of Chicago and at Princeton University, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1954, nominally under Albert W...
. The three sons were all prominent mathematicians.
