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.