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There are two pieces of information likely to be incorrectly "corrected" on the Ralph Landau page. In hopes of avoiding recurrent errors I'm mentioning them here in warning.
First, his daughter's last name really is spelled "Landeau" rather than "Landau". Yes, it's a different spelling, Yes, it is correct this way.
Second, Ralph Landau's death date is incorrectly given in a number of sources as April 6, 2004, rather than the correct April 5, 2004. The April 5 date does appear in some sources, and I've confirmed it with surviving members of his family.
Mary Mark Ockerbloom (
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12:50, 28 October 2014 (UTC)reply
A fact from Ralph Landau appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 October 2014 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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There are two pieces of information likely to be incorrectly "corrected" on the Ralph Landau page. In hopes of avoiding recurrent errors I'm mentioning them here in warning.
First, his daughter's last name really is spelled "Landeau" rather than "Landau". Yes, it's a different spelling, Yes, it is correct this way.
Second, Ralph Landau's death date is incorrectly given in a number of sources as April 6, 2004, rather than the correct April 5, 2004. The April 5 date does appear in some sources, and I've confirmed it with surviving members of his family.
Mary Mark Ockerbloom (
talk)
12:50, 28 October 2014 (UTC)reply