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Regina <I>Wender</I> Fischer Pustan

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Regina Wender Fischer Pustan

Birth
Switzerland
Death
27 Jun 1997 (aged 84)
Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California, USA
Burial
Donated to Medical Science. Specifically: Stanford University Medical School, remains cremated
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born in Switzerland of Jewish parents on March 31, 1913, and raised in St. Louis, Missouri; married Hans-Gerhardt Fischer, born Sept 28, 1908.

A German biophysicist from Berlin, Hans-Gerhardt Fischer, and Regina married on Nov 4, 1933 in Moscow, they divorced in 1945; she met her second husband, Cyril Pustan, in England in 1961. Her son, world chess champion Robert James Fischer, is sometime thought to be the son of Dr. Paul Nemenyi of Chicago, where Bobby was born during WWII.

Regina spoke seven or eight languages.

As a physician, she was concerned about the dangerous health effects of above-ground nuclear testing, and joined Bertrand Russell's group, the Congress on Nuclear Disarmament.

Sources: Palo Alto Weekly, Publication Date: Wednesday Aug 13, 1997; www.facebook.com post from Grietjie Adams, September 14, 2009; The London Telegraph, 24 Nov 2002 by Charles Laurence in New York
born in Switzerland of Jewish parents on March 31, 1913, and raised in St. Louis, Missouri; married Hans-Gerhardt Fischer, born Sept 28, 1908.

A German biophysicist from Berlin, Hans-Gerhardt Fischer, and Regina married on Nov 4, 1933 in Moscow, they divorced in 1945; she met her second husband, Cyril Pustan, in England in 1961. Her son, world chess champion Robert James Fischer, is sometime thought to be the son of Dr. Paul Nemenyi of Chicago, where Bobby was born during WWII.

Regina spoke seven or eight languages.

As a physician, she was concerned about the dangerous health effects of above-ground nuclear testing, and joined Bertrand Russell's group, the Congress on Nuclear Disarmament.

Sources: Palo Alto Weekly, Publication Date: Wednesday Aug 13, 1997; www.facebook.com post from Grietjie Adams, September 14, 2009; The London Telegraph, 24 Nov 2002 by Charles Laurence in New York

Gravesite Details

(Her daughter) Joan and I scattered Regina’s ashes from an airplane off the coast of California south of Half Moon Bay. - Gordon Reade, "Eliot"



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