About
Charles Max Mason (26 October 1877–22 March 1961), better known as Max Mason, was an American mathematician. He served the 4th president of the University of Chicago from 1925 to 1928 and as the third president of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1929 to 1936.
Mason's mathematical research interests included differential equations, the calculus of variations, and electromagnetic theory.
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Companies
- Rockefeller FoundationChair 1928 to 19369
- University of ChicagoChair 1925 to 192810
Early life and 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
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Career
Occupation: physicist, university teacher, mathematician.5
- 1936 to 1949Chairperson, Palomar Observatory4
- 1928 to 1936Chairperson, Rockefeller Foundation4
- 1925 to 1928Chairperson, University of Chicago4
- 1908 to 1925Worked at University of Wisconsin–Madison4
- 1904 to 1908Worked at Yale University4
- 1903 to 1904Worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (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 2 May 1945, he appeared on Edgar Bergen's radio show to chat about the new observatory and trade jokes with Charlie McCarthy. In 1948, he, along with Lee A. DuBridge, William A. Fowler, Linus Pauling, and Bruce H. Sage, was awarded the Medal for Merit by President Harry S. Truman.
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Personal life
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- 1WikidataMax Mason on Wikidata
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