Early Life
He was born in Brooklyn, into a Russian Jewish immigrant family. His father expressed his high expectations for him by giving him the middle name "Albert"; at the time, the New York Times ran a series of articles on Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. However, Henkin did not use his middle name in his mathematical publications.
His first degree was in mathematics and philosophy from Columbia College, in 1941. He took a master's degree there in 1942.
He then worked in the Signal Corps Radar Laboratory, Belmar, New Jersey. As participant in the Manhattan project, he worked on isotope diffusion, in New York, and Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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