Max Mason

Charles Max Mason (26 October 1877–22 March 1961), better known as Max Mason, was an American mathematician. Mason was

• 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

Career

• 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.^[4]

On 2 May 1945, he appeared on Edgar Bergen's radio show to chat about the new observatory and trade jokes with Charlie McCarthy.^[5] 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.^[6]

Notes and references

External links

• Max Mason at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• "Max Mason". University of Chicago Library. Archived from the original on April 17, 2016. Retrieved March 22, 2022.

Archival collections

• "Guide to the Max Mason Papers 1882–1961". University of Chicago Library. Archived from the original on March 8, 2022. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
• "Guide to the University of Chicago Office of the President, Mason Administration Records 1910–1929". University of Chicago Library. Archived from the original on March 2, 2022. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
• Max Mason papers, 1898-1961, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
• Max Mason papers, 1750-1815, Royal Observatory Edinburgh
• Charles Mason papers, 1750-1815, American Philosophical Society

Academic offices
Preceded by Ernest DeWitt Burton	President of the University of Chicago 1925–1928	Succeeded by Robert Maynard Hutchins
Non-profit organization positions
Preceded by George E. Vincent	President of the Rockefeller Foundation 20 September 1929–30 May 1936	Succeeded by Raymond B. Fosdick

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