Elie A. Shneour

Elie Alexis Shneour (December 11, 1925 in Neuilly-sur-Seine − April 14, 2015 in La Jolla) was a French-born American neurochemist, biophysicist and author.

Shneour was born in France into a Jewish family, the son of Zalman Shneour (Shneur) and Salomea (née Landau). His father, a known Yiddish and Hebrew poet and writer (later, recipient of the 1955 Israel Prize), emigrated from Czarist Russia in the early 1900s. His mother was from Belgium. Elie had one sibling, sister Renée Rebecca, who later became Spanish dancer Laura Toledo. She survives him.

After the Fall of France, Shneour and his family escaped to Spain at the insistence of his mother, while his father (who was educated in Germany and spent World War I in Berlin, working in a hospital) could not believe the impending catastrophe was actually happening. The family left Spain, and arrived at Ellis Island in New York in 1941. Shneour and his sister attended Cherry Lawn School in New York. Upon naturalization in 1944 and after graduation, Shneour joined the US Army and was deployed to western Europe to battle the Nazis.

Shneour attended undergraduate school at Bard College in New York, where he received his bachelor's degree in Biology in 1947. He then traveled to Berkeley, California, where he received his Masters in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1955. While at Berkeley, Shneour met and married his first wife, Joan Brewster. They had two children, Mark Zalman and Alan Brewster.

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