Background
JOHN, Fritz was born in 1910 in 14 June., Berlin, Germany. Son of Hetman Jacobsohn and Hedwig (Burgel) JacobsohnJohn.
JOHN, Fritz was born in 1910 in 14 June., Berlin, Germany. Son of Hetman Jacobsohn and Hedwig (Burgel) JacobsohnJohn.
Gottingen and Cambridge Universities.
Assistant and Association Professor, University of Kentucky 1935-1942. Mathematician, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland 1943-1945. Association Professor, New York University 1946-1951, Professor, of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University since 1951, Richard Courant Professor, New York University 79.
Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor California Institute of Technology 1979. Director of Research, Institute of Numerical Analysis 1950-1951. Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, London, MacArthur Fellow' 1984-1989.
N.A.S., Deutsche Akademie Naturforscher Leopoldina.
Married Charlotte Woellmer John in 1933.