Background

Curry, Haskell Brooks was born on September 12, 1900 in Millis, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Samuel S. and Anna (Baright) Curry.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1920, A.M., 1924. Postgraduate Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1920-1922. Doctor of Philosophy, University Göttingen (Germany), 1930.

National Research Council fellow University of Chicago, 1931-1932. Doctor of Science (honorary), Curry College, 1966.

Career

Research assistant in physics Harvard, 1922-1923, instructor, 1926-1927. Instructor Princeton, 1928-1929. Assistant professor Pennsylvania State University, 1929-1933, associate professor, 1933-1941, professor, 1941-1960, Evan Pugh research professor, 1960-1966, emeritus, 1966-1982.

Professor, director Institute Foundational Research, U. Amsterdam, 1966-1970, emeritus, 1970-1982. Visiting Andrew Mellon professor of University Pittsburgh, 1971-1972.

Membership

Member Institute Advanced Study, Princeton, 1938-1939. Member Conference Board Mathematics Sciences, 1958-1963. Served as private Harvard unit SATC, 1918.

Member Association Symbolic Logic (president 1938-1940), American Association for the Advancement of Science (council 1937), American Mathematics Society (council 1945-1947), American Philosophical Association, Mathematics Association American, American Ornithologists Union, National Geography Society, Academie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences (assessaur 1961-1965, vice president 1965-1969), Nederlandse Ornithologische Unie, Wiskundig Genootschap to Amsterdam, Sigma Xi, Pi Mu Epsilon, Sigma Pi Sigma.

Connections

Married Mary Virginia Wheatley, July 3, 1928. Children: Anne Wright (Mistress Richard Shaner Piper), Robert Wheatley.

Father:

Samuel S. Curry

Mother:

Anna (Baright) Curry

Spouse:

Mary Virginia Wheatley

child:

Robert Wheatley Curry

child:

Anne Wright Curry (Mistress Richard Shaner Piper)