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The result was Keep per consensus. (closed by non-admin) RMHED (talk) 16:51, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Paul Nemenyi[edit]

Non notable: no assertion of notability except that he was the possible father of Bobby Fischer; but being the father of a famous person does not make one notable - see WP:BIO. Peter Ballard (talk) 10:36, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep – Could make a small claim to notoriety as shown here [1]. In addition, a couple of hits in Google Scholar and Google News Shoessss | Chat 13:43, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. No problem with sources: several mentions in issues of American Mathematical Monthly, 1942-1952, and obituaries in Science, 29 August 1952, Vol. 116. no. 3009, pp. 215 - 216; and Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 1953, 43, pp. 62-63 (I only have access to the bibliographical references, not to the obituaries themselves, so can someone with access check them and reference them as appropriate?). One odd thing, but perhaps a result of him being a "secret scientist", is that the positions ascribed to him in the WP article don't quite match those in the AMM: e.g. "Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Hanford, Washington" in the former, "Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Maryland" in the latter. --Paularblaster (talk) 01:39, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Scientific career alone is sufficient to keep. Quale (talk) 19:31, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The fact that Science considered him notable enough to publish an obituary makes him notable enough for Wikipedia. Phil Bridger (talk) 21:14, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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