Sambursky was born in Königsberg, Germany 30 October 1900. Educated in Germany,The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Samuel Sambursky, Dr. phil. Universität Königsberg 1923 Dr. Sambursky emigrated to Palestine in 1924. He joined the physics faculty at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1928, where he was a popular lecturer due to his sense of history and humorous lecture style.
