Levitzki or Levitsky ( uk, Левицький ''Łevyćkyj'', russian: Левицкий ''Levickij'', pl, Lewicki, he, לויצקי) is a surname, which is derived from the Hebrew name
Levi meaning "joined to" in Hebrew.
MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Levi
/ref> Notable people with the surname include:
* Alexander Levitzki
Alexander Levitzki (Hebrew: אלכסנדר לויצקי; born 13 August 1940) is an Israeli biochemist who is a professor of biochemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Birth and education
Levitzki was born in 1940 in Palestine. He com ...
(born 1940), Israeli biochemist
* Jacob Levitzki
Jacob Levitzki, also known as Yaakov Levitsky ( he, יעקב לויצקי) (17 August 1904 - 25 February 1956) was an Israeli mathematician.
Biography
Levitzki was born in 1904 in the Russian Empire and emigrated to then Ottoman-ruled Palestine ...
(1904–1956), Jewish Ukrainian-Israeli mathematician
* Mischa Levitzki
Mischa Levitzki (also spelled Levitski; uk, Міша Левицький (); May 25, 1898 – January 2, 1941) was a Russian-born U.S.-based concert pianist.
Levitzki was born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), to Jewi ...
(1898–1941), Jewish Ukrainian-American concert pianist
It can also refer to:
* Levitzki radical
* Levitzky's theorem In mathematics, more specifically ring theory and the theory of nil ideals, Levitzky's theorem, named after Jacob Levitzki, states that in a right Noetherian ring, every nil one-sided ideal is necessarily nilpotent. Levitzky's theorem is one of the ...
* Hopkins–Levitzki theorem In the branch of abstract algebra called ring theory, the Akizuki–Hopkins–Levitzki theorem connects the descending chain condition and ascending chain condition in Module (mathematics), modules over semiprimary rings. A ring ''R'' (with 1) ...
See also
* Lewicki (f. Lewicka, pl. ''Lewici'')
* Levitsky Levitsky may refer to:
* Fred Momotenko-Levitsky (born 1970), composer
* Grigory Andreevich Levitsky (1878–1942), Russian and Soviet plant cytogeneticist
* Maxym Levitsky (born 1972), footballer
* Melvyn Levitsky (born 1938), diplomat
* Mykhajlo ...
(f. Levitska, Levitskaya)
* Levitzky
* Levitin
* Levi
References
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