Society. Rainich's private papers are held at the University of Texas. Personal life In 1917 he married Sophie Kramkowsky. In 1930 he brought his mother from the Soviet Union to Ann Arbor, where she remained until her death in 1953. Upon his death he was survived by a daughter, two grandchildren, and a brother, Michael Rabinovich of Moscow. Students Several of Rainich's Ph.D. students became famous: Ruel Vance Churchill (12 December 1899 - 31 October 1987) is well known to several generations of mathematics students as a coauthor of a standard textbook known as "Churchill & Brown." Marjorie Lee Browne (9 September 1914 – 19 October 1979) was one of the first African-American woman to receive a doctoral degree in mathematics in the U.S. Wade Ellis (June 9, 1909November 20, 1989), mathematician and educator, and the twelfth African-American to receive a doctorate in mathematics in the U.S. "Tommy" Charles Brown Tompkins (1912 – 1971) was a mathematics professor at UCLA and a pioneer in numerical analysis and computing. Selected articles with Otto Laporte: with Herbert Boggs: References Citations 1886 births 1968 deaths 20th-century American physicists 20th-century Ukrainian physicists University of Michigan faculty Academics from Michigan Scientists from Odesa Ukrainian SSR emigrants to the United States