Max Mason
Charles Max Mason (born October 26, 1877 in Madison , Wisconsin , † March 23, 1961 in Claremont , California ) was an American mathematician and physicist .
Life
Mason was at the 1903 University of Goettingen in David Hilbert with a thesis on " boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations " doctorate . He then went back to the United States and taught mathematics there until he was appointed to a physics professorship at the University of Wisconsin in 1909 . During the First World War , with a view to the problem of submarine location, he and his colleagues developed a method for focusing sound from certain preferred directions with the elimination of disruptive sounds from other directions. Mason was then President of the University of Chicago from 1925 to 1929 and President of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1929 to 1936 . As President of the Rockefeller Foundation, he particularly promoted the resettlement of mathematicians who had been expelled from the University of Göttingen by the National Socialists and to whom the Foundation had given a new institute building in Göttingen just a few years earlier.
His research was in the areas of differential equations , the calculus of variations and electromagnetism .
In 1923, Mason was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Max Mason. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johannes-Geert Hagmann: How physics made itself heard - American physicists engaged in "practical" research during the First World War . Physik Journal 14 (2015) No. 11, pp. 43–46.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mason, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mason, Charles Max (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madison , Wisconsin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 1961 |
| Place of death | Claremont , California |