Milgram is a surname derived from the Yiddish word for pomegranate (מילגרוים, Milgroim) and may refer to:
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Arthur Milgram
Arthur Norton Milgram (3 June 1912 – 30 January 1961) was an American mathematician. He made contributions in functional analysis, combinatorics, differential geometry, topology, partial differential equations, and Galois theory. Perhaps one of h ...
(1912–1961), American mathematician
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R. James Milgram
Richard James Milgram (born 5 December 1939 in South Bend, Indiana) is an American mathematician, specializing in algebraic topology. He is the son of mathematician Arthur Milgram.
Biography
Milgram graduated from the University of Chicago with a ...
(born 1939), American mathematician, son of Arthur
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Stanley Milgram
Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933 – December 20, 1984) was an American social psychologist known for his controversial Milgram experiment, experiments on obedience conducted in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale University, Yale.Blass, T ...
(1933–1984), Yale psychologist
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Milgram experiment
Beginning on August 7, 1961, a series of social psychology experiments were conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, who intended to measure the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed the ...
, his most famous study
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Goldie Milgram
Rabbi Goldie Milgram (born 1955) is an American rabbi, educator, and writer. She is best known as the "rebbe-on-the-road," for her travels worldwide as a seeker and teacher of Torah, Jewish spiritual practices and she is a specialist in the fiel ...
(born 1955), American reconstructionist Rabbi and author
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Anne Milgram
Anne Melissa Milgram (born December 1, 1970) is an American attorney and academic who served as the 11th Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) from 2021 to 2025. She previously served as the 57th Attorney General of New Jer ...
(born 1970), former Attorney General of New Jersey; head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration since 2021
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Maureen Milgram Forrest
Maureen Milgram Forrest (1 February 1938 - 1 March 2013) was a British co-founder of LeicesterHERday Trust and the original project director for the BRIT School in Croydon, London. She was also known as Lillian Maureen Bernice Forrest. She was ...
, the founder chair and current chair, Leicesterherday Trust, Leicester
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Milgram & Company Ltd., a Canadian logistics company
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Babuška–Lax–Milgram theorem
In mathematics, the Generalized–Lax–Milgram theorem is a generalization of the famous Lax–Milgram theorem, which gives conditions under which a bilinear form can be "inverted" to show the existence and uniqueness of a weak solution to a give ...
, in mathematics
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Lax–Milgram theorem
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Lions–Lax–Milgram theorem
In mathematics, the Lions–Lax–Milgram theorem (or simply Lions's theorem) is a result in functional analysis with applications in the study of partial differential equations. It is a generalization of the famous Lax–Milgram theorem, which gi ...
, in mathematics
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Milligram
The kilogram (also spelled kilogramme) is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one thousand grams. It has the unit symbol kg. The word "kilogram" is formed from the combination of the metric prefix kilo- (m ...
, a unit of measurement
; Related surnames
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Milgrim Milgrim is a surname derived from the Yiddish word for pomegranate
The pomegranate (''Punica granatum'') is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub in the family Lythraceae, subfamily Punica, Punicoideae, that grows between tall. Rich in symbolic and ...
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Milgrom
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Yiddish-language surnames
Surnames of Jewish origin