Selig Brodetsky

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Selig Brodetsky (10 February 1888, Olviopol, Russia-18 May 1954) was a British Professor of Mathematics.

Contents 1 Education 2 Career 3 Other posts 4 References

[edit] Education

• Jews' Free School, London
• Central Foundation School, London
• Trinity College, Cambridge (senior wrangler, 1908)
• Leipzig University (PhD)

[edit] Career

• Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, University of Bristol, 1914-1919
• Reader, 1920-1924; Professor, 1924-1948 then Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds
• President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Chairman of its Executive Council, 1949-1951

[edit] Other posts

• Member of the Executive, Zionist World Organisation and Jewish Agency for Palestine
• Honorary President, Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland
• Honorary President, World Maccabi Union
• President, Board of Deputies of British Jews

He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, Royal Aeronautical Society and Institute of Physics.

His sister Rachel married Rabbi Solomon Mestel; their son is Leon Mestel.

[edit] References

• Who was Who
• Dictionary of National Biography