Wikipedia

Max Mason

Max Mason
Max Mason
Born	October 26, 1877 Madison, Wisconsin
Died	March 23, 1961 Claremont, California
Nationality	United States
Fields	mathematics
Institutions	University of Chicago Rockefeller Foundation
Known for	differential equations calculus of variations electromagnetism

Charles Max Mason (October 26, 1877, Madison, Wisconsin – March 23, 1961, Claremont, California, better known as Max Mason) was an American mathematician. Mason was president of the University of Chicago (1925–1929) and president of the Rockefeller Foundation (1929–1936).

Mason's mathematical research interests included differential equations, the calculus of variations, and electromagnetic theory.

Education

B.Litt., 1898, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Göttingen, 1903.
- Dissertation: "Randwertaufgaben bei gewöhnlichen Differentialgleichungen" (Boundary value functions with ordinary differential equations)
- Advisor: Hilbert

Massachusetts Institute of Technolology (MIT), 1903–1904, Instructor of Mathematics.
Yale University, 1904–1908, Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1908–1909, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Associate Professor of Mathematics,
University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1909–1925, Professor of Physics.
- National Research Council, 1917–1919, Submarine Committee. (Invented a submarine detection device, which was the basis for sonar detectors used in World War II.)
University of Chicago, 1925–1928, President.
Rockefeller Foundation, 1928–1929, Director, Natural Sciences Division.
Rockefeller Foundation, 1929–1936, President.
Palomar Observatory (California), 1936–1949, Chairman of the team directing the construction of the observatory.

On May 2, 1945 he appeared on Edgar Bergen's radio show to chat about the new observatory and trade jokes with Charlie McCarthy.^{[citation needed]}

Mathematicians: Charles Max Mason from the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
Max Mason at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Max Mason from the University of Chicago

Academic offices
Preceded by Ernest DeWitt Burton	President of the University of Chicago 1925—1928	Succeeded by Robert Maynard Hutchins

This article about an American mathematician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)