Banesh Hoffmann (1906-1986). Born in Richmond, England. Studied mathematics and theoretical physics at Oxford University and received his doctorate in 1929. Became an assistant at Princeton University and worked there with Einstein in 1932-1935. (His name supplied the “H” in the EIH paper.) From 1939 professor at Queens College in New York. His scientific interests were in relativity theory, tensor analysis, and quantum theory.