Background
Chako, Nicholas was born on November 11, 1910 in Hotova, Epirus, Albania. Came to the United States, 1929, naturalized, 1935. Son of Kyriacus (Qako) Demetrius and Victoria John (Tako) Chako.
educator mathematician physicist
Chako, Nicholas was born on November 11, 1910 in Hotova, Epirus, Albania. Came to the United States, 1929, naturalized, 1935. Son of Kyriacus (Qako) Demetrius and Victoria John (Tako) Chako.
Doctor of Medicine Anatolia College, 1925-1928; Doctor of Medicine Faculty of Science and Engineering, Paris and Marseille, 1928-1929; Bachelor of Science and Dr.ès Science, Sorbonne, Paris, 1966; Doctor of Philisophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1934; postgraduate, Harvard University, 1933-1934, 35-36.
Postdoctoral fellow University Michigan, Ann Arbor, summer 1933. Career professor, head departments mathematics and physics State Gymnasium, Scutari, Albania, 1936-1937. Member staff Cruft Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1938-1940.
Member staff spectroscopic laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1940-1941. Lecturer electrical engineering Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, 1941-1942. Fellow by courtesy University Chicago, 1941-1943.
Advanced fellow, lecturer Brown University, Providence, summers 1944, 45. Associate professor Kansas State College, 1946-1947, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1947-1949. Fulbright professor University Utrecht, Netherlands, 1950-1951.
Guest professor Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1951-1952. Special lecturer University Lund, Sweden, spring 1952. Research associate Institute of Mathematics Sciences, New York University, New York City, 1953-1956.
Professor physics Adelphia College, 1955-1956. Member faculty Queens College, Flushing, New York, 1956-1981. Retired, 1981
Technical advisor Signal Corps 6th Service Command, Chicago, 1942.
Consultant Office of Strategic Services, Washington, 1942-1945. Mathematician, research engineer Russell Electric Company, Chicago, 1942-1946. Visiting professor Institute Space Studies, New York City, summer 1961.
Invited lecturer Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw and University Athens, Greece, summer 1965. Guest lecturer French Atomic Energy Commission and exchange professor University Paris, 1965-1966. Lecturer University Laval, Quebec, Canada, winter 1968.
Fellow Institute of Mathematics and Applications (United Kingdom). Member American Mathematics Society, American Physical Society.
Married Bernadine van Looy, July 16, 1952. 1 child, Alexander Constantine.