Portrait of Walther Mayer.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 22543

Date: Circa 1940
Locale: Princeton, NJ United States ?
Photo Designation: PERSONALITIES: JEWS -- Names (M)
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Fred Deutsch

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]
Keyword: CLOSE-UPS
JEWS (AUSTRIAN)
MAYER, WALTHER
REFUGEES (JEWISH)
SCIENTISTS/MATHEMATICIANS
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Fred Deutsch
: Record last modified: 2003-07-01 00:00:00
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