Researching Jacob Klein
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 361 people with the Klein surname? In that year Klein was ranked number 3218 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Jacob means "the supplanter" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Jacob Klein on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Jacob Klein and the Klein Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Klein Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Klein family tree.
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Klein Forums
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Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Jacob Klein. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Jacob Klein
Jacob Klein (chemist)
Professor Jacob Klein (born 1949), former holder of the Herman Mark Chair of Polymer Physics in the Materials and Interfaces Department at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel and Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, is an internationally renowned soft condensed matter, polymer and surface scientist.
Klein was an undergraduate and graduate at Cambridge University and held a research fellowship and later a fellowship at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge between 1976 and 1984. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Polymer Research, Weizmann Institute between 1977 and 1980, after which he worked jointly as university demonstrator with the Physics Department, Cambridge, and as a senior scientist at the Weizmann Institute. Klein was appointed an associate professor at the Weizmann Institute in 1984 and became a full professor in 1987, heading the Institute's Polymer Research Department throughout 1989 to 1991.
In October 2000 Klein was appointed as head of the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford. He is a fellow of Exeter College, and until 2008 held the Dr Lee's Chair of Chemistry, a position previously held by Nobel prize winners Frederick Soddy and Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood. He was succeeded in that position by Professor Carol Robinson. Professor Klein currently heads a research group at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2003. He was awarded the Tribology Gold Medal from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) in 2012.
Source: Jacob Klein (chemist), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Klein
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