Max Mason

Charles Max Mason (October 26, 1877, Madison, Wisconsin – March 23, 1961, Claremont, California) was an American mathematician. Mason was president of the University of Chicago (1925–1929) and president of the Rockefeller Foundation (1929–1936).

Mason's mathematical research interests included differential equations, the calculus of variations, and electromagnetic theory.

[edit] Education

B.Litt. , 1898.
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Göttingen, 1903.
- Dissertation: "Randwertaufgaben bei gewöhnlichen Differentialgleichungen" (Boundary value functions with ordinary differential equations
- Advisor: Hilbert

Massachusetts Institute of Technololgy (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 WW2.)
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.

On May 2nd 1945 he appeared on Edgar Bergen's radio show to chat about the new observatory and trade jokes with Charlie McCarthy.

Mathematicians: Charles Max Mason from the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
Max Mason from the University of Chicago

Preceded by Ernest DeWitt Burton	President of the University of Chicago 1925—1928	Succeeded by Robert Maynard Hutchins

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