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| − | '''Arthur | + | '''Arthur Lionel Selikowitz''', an early [[New York]] [[fan]], attended the [[First Worldcon]] in 1939. He was a founding member of the [[Brooklyn SFL]], joining at age 11, and on the staff of its [[clubzine]], ''[[The Brooklyn Reporter]],'' as well as associate [[editor]] of the ''[[International Observer]]''. |
[[Frederik Pohl]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110726011740/http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/10/let-there-be-fandom-part-5-the-big-league/ described] him as “a tall, skinny polymath who entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute not long after at the age of thirteen.” | [[Frederik Pohl]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110726011740/http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/10/let-there-be-fandom-part-5-the-big-league/ described] him as “a tall, skinny polymath who entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute not long after at the age of thirteen.” | ||
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Selikowitz went to grad school at Harvard by 1939. | Selikowitz went to grad school at Harvard by 1939. | ||
| − | He was reported, in a private family genealogy, to have died on February 24, 2019, but it has not been possible to verify this information in any official records. | + | He changed his name at some point to Arthur Lionel. He married a woman named |
| + | Olive May Roy, and they had three children, Sally Lionel, Trudy Lionel and Rory Lionel. Olive died in 2011. He was reported, in a private family genealogy, to have died on February 24, 2019, but it has not been possible to verify this information in any official records. | ||
| − | * [[https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/70687/JCPSA6-7-4-277-1.pdf?sequence=2 Letter in the Journal of Chemical Physics]] | + | * [[https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Dielectric_Properties_of_Solution_of.html?id=0B9-zQEACAAJ The Dielectric Properties of Solution of Aromatic Compounds A. Derivatives of Benzoic Acid B. The System Biphenyl - Diphenyl Ether, 1938]] |
| + | * [[https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/70687/JCPSA6-7-4-277-1.pdf?sequence=2 Letter in the Journal of Chemical Physics, 1939]] | ||
{{person |born=1920 |died=2019}} [[Category:fan]] [[Category:first_fandom]] | {{person |born=1920 |died=2019}} [[Category:fan]] [[Category:first_fandom]] | ||
[[Category:US]] | [[Category:US]] | ||
Revision as of 11:12, 1 September 2021
(December 5, 1920 – February 24, 2019)
Arthur Lionel Selikowitz, an early New York fan, attended the First Worldcon in 1939. He was a founding member of the Brooklyn SFL, joining at age 11, and on the staff of its clubzine, The Brooklyn Reporter, as well as associate editor of the International Observer.
Frederik Pohl described him as “a tall, skinny polymath who entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute not long after at the age of thirteen.”
In 1936, Selikowitz was director of the Albany SFL and a member of the ILSF.
He was among the youngest students ever to matriculate at RPI, according to an article about him in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (February 16, 1936, p. 25), which called him a “genius.” He told the paper that, after chemistry, he preferred fantastic fiction: “What is termed fantastic fiction today may be fact tomorrow.”
Selikowitz went to grad school at Harvard by 1939.
He changed his name at some point to Arthur Lionel. He married a woman named Olive May Roy, and they had three children, Sally Lionel, Trudy Lionel and Rory Lionel. Olive died in 2011. He was reported, in a private family genealogy, to have died on February 24, 2019, but it has not been possible to verify this information in any official records.
- [The Dielectric Properties of Solution of Aromatic Compounds A. Derivatives of Benzoic Acid B. The System Biphenyl - Diphenyl Ether, 1938]
- [Letter in the Journal of Chemical Physics, 1939]
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