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Portrait of Walther Mayer.

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    Portrait of Walther Mayer.
    Portrait of Walther Mayer.

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    Caption
    Portrait of Walther Mayer.
    Date
    Circa 1940
    Locale
    Princeton, NJ United States ?
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Fred Deutsch

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    Photo Source
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Fred Deutsch

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    Biography
    Professor Walther Mayer (1887-1948), an Austrian Jewish refugee mathematician, was born in Graz, Austria. He studied at the universities of Zurich and Paris before receiving his doctorate in 1912 from the University of Vienna. After serving in the First World War, he lectured at the University of Vienna, where in 1931 he was appointed to a professorship. From 1931 to 1936 he collaborated with Albert Einstein on the theory of relativity. After Hitler's assumption of power, he followed Einstein to the United States and became an associate in mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

    [Source: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie, Munich, 1998]
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