Weinstein, Alexander, 1897-1979

LC control no.	n 88670850
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Weinstein, Alexander, 1897-1979 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1897-01-21
Death date	1979-11-06
Place of birth	Saratov (Russia)
Place of death	Washington (D.C.)
Affiliation	Universität Leipzig (1409-1953) Carnegie Institute of Technology University of Maryland, College Park. Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics Georgetown University
Profession or occupation	Mathematicians
Found in	LC data base, 10-12-88 (hdg.: Weinstein, Alexander, 1897- ; usage: Alexander Weinstein) Methods of intermediate problems for eigenvalues: theory and ramifications, 1972: title page (Alexander Weinstein) Wikipedia, May 15, 2015 (Alexander Weinstein; Alexander Weinstein (21 Jan 1897, Saratov, Russia--6 November 1979, Washington, D.C., USA) was a mathematician who worked on boundary value problems in fluid dynamics) MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, via WWW, May 15, 2015 (Alexander Weinstein; born 21 January 1897 in Saratov, Russia; died 6 November 1979 in Washington DC, USA; Alexander Weinstein studied at Astrakhan, at this stage planning to study astronomy; after graduating he studied at the University of Würzburg and the University of Göttingen during 1913-1914; he moved to Zurich and continued his interest in astronomy, carrying out observations; he was awarded a doctorate in 1921; during 1922 Weinstein worked as an assistant at the University of Leipzig; he spent 1926 and 1927 in Rome on a Rockefeller Fellowship, then returned to Zurich; in 1928 he was appointed to Hamburg; from Hamburg Weinstein moved to Breslau and by 1933, he was being sought by Einstein as a collaborator in Berlin; however, due to his Jewish background, he could not remain in Germany and instead went to the Collège de France in Paris; he was awarded the degree of Docteur ès Sciences Mathématiques by Paris in 1937; by 1940 World War II caught up with Weinstein in Paris and he left for the United States where he taught at a number of different places such as the Free French University in New York, the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland; he also worked in Canada at the University of Toronto for a while; he was also a member of Birkhoff's research group at Harvard doing war work; for 18 years he was principal investigator at the Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Maryland; after retiring in 1967, Weinstein continued research at the American University, then, from 1968 to 1972, he worked at Georgetown University)
Associated language	eng