Alice Kober
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| Alice Elizabeth Kober | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alice Kober December 23, 1906 New York City |
| Died | May 16, 1950 Brooklyn, New York City |
| Alma mater | Hunter College, Columbia University |
| Occupation | classicist |
Alice Elizabeth Kober (December 23, 1906[1] – May 16, 1950) was an American classicist best known for extensive investigations that eventually led to the decipherment of Linear B.
The daughter of Hungarian immigrants, Kober was born in Yorkville, a neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper East Side. She attended Hunter College High School, and in the summer of 1924, she placed third in a New York City scholarship contest. The $100-a-year prize helped her to attend Hunter College,[2] where she majored in Latin, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated magna cum laude.[3] She earned a master's degree in classics at Columbia University in 1929 and a PhD in 1932.[4]
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