Max Adler
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Max Adler (May 12, 1866 - November 4, 1952) was born in Elgin, Illinois to a German Jewish family who came to America in about 1850. He lived in Chicago and was a concert violinist who gave up music to become a vice president at Sears Roebuck & Co. after marrying into the family that controlled the company. His wife was Sophie Rosenwald, sister of Julius Rosenwald, who founded Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry. He retired in 1928 to become a philanthropist and was key to the creation of the first planetarium in the Western Hemisphere, the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, which bears his name.
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