Background
Tucker, Albert William was born on November 28, 1905 in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. Son of William Benjamin and Florence Maude (Huff) Tucker.
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Tucker, Albert William was born on November 28, 1905 in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. Son of William Benjamin and Florence Maude (Huff) Tucker.
Bachelor, University Toronto, 1928. Master of Arts, University Toronto, 1929. Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1932.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Dartmouth College, 1961.
Instructor department mathematics, Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1933-1934;
assistant professor, Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1934-1938;
associate professor, Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1938-1946;
professor, Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1946-1954;
department chairman, Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1953-1963;
Albert Baldwin Dod professor, Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1954-1974;
Albert Baldwin Dod professor emeritus, Princeton (New Jersey) University, since 1974. Associate director Fire Control Research Group, Princeton, 1941-1945. Director Logistics Research Project Office Naval Research, 1948-1972.
Consultant Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California, 1949-1963, International Business Machines Corporation Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, 1957-1963. Visiting professor Stanford (California) U., 1949-1950, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1963, Arizona State University, Tempe, 1971, 77, U. West Australia, Nedlands, 1975, 78, 81. Summer lecturer Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1952, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1962, 65, 68.
Philips visitor Haverford (Pennsylvania) College, 1953, 58.
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Member physical science committee Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New York City, 1955-1959. Lecturer Fulbright program, Australia, 1956. Consultant Organization of European Economic Cooperation, Paris, 1959.
Chairman Conference Board Mathematics Sciences, Washington, 1961-1962. Member President Committee on National Medal Science, Washington, 1962-1966. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president 1957, 66), New York Academy of Sciences, American Academy Arts & Sciences.
Member American Mathematics Society (trustee 1964-1968), Mathematics Association American (president 1961-1962, award for distinguished service to mathematics 1968), Canada Mathematics Society (seminary lecturer 1953, 57), Australian Mathematics Society, Mathematics Programming Society (chairman 1976-1978).
Married Alice Judson Curtiss, December 17, 1938 (divorced 1960). Children: Alan C., Thomas W., Barbara J. Married Mary Frances Shaw, February 27, 1964.