Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser
Neisser was born in the Silesian town of Schweidnitz (now Świdnica, in Poland), the son of a well-known Jewish physician, Dr. Moritz Neisser. After he completed the elementary school in Münsterberg, Neisser enrolled in the St. Maria Magdalena School in Breslau (now Wrocław, in Poland). In this school, he was a contemporary of another great name in the history of medicine, Paul Ehrlich. He obtained the Abitur in 1872.
Paul André Albert
He was born in Van Buren, Maine, to Doctor Armand Albert and Marie Lussier Albert, and is a direct descendant of Canadian pioneer Pierre Boucher. Albert earned a BS in physics from the University of Maine at Orono and an ScD in Metallurgy from New York University. During his career at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and then at IBM in Poughkeepsie, New York, in Essex Junction, Vermont and in San Jose, Albert co-authored several other patents on the production of anisotropic magnetic films and the means of recording and reading data in them. Albert also contributed to early work on high-density perpendicular recording.