Personal Life
Eric Schopler was born February 8, 1927 to Erna Oppenheimer Schopler and Ernst Schopler who were Jewish in Fürth, Germany. In 1938 his family left Germany and emigrated to the U.S., where they settled in Rochester, New York.
Schopler married a woman named Margaret and together they had three children: Bobby, Tom and Susie. He died at the age of 79 from cancer on Jul 7, 2006 at his home near Mebane, North Carolina.
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