Solomon Shereshevsky

Solomon Veniaminovich Shereshevsky
Соломон Вениаминович Шерешевский
Born1886
Died1 May 1958 (aged 71 or 72)
NationalityRussian/Soviet
Other namesШ
OccupationJournalist
Known forRussian mnemonist

Solomon Veniaminovich Shereshevsky (Russian: Соломон Вениаминович Шерешевский; 1886 – 1 May 1958), also known simply as 'Ш' ('Sh'), 'S.', or Luria's S, was a Soviet journalist and mnemonist active in the 1920s. He was the subject of Alexander Luria's case study The Mind of a Mnemonist (1968).

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