Background
JACOBSON, Nathan was born on September 8, 1910 in Warsaw, Poland. Son of Charles Jacobson and Pauline Ida Rosenberg, married Florence Dorfman 1942.
JACOBSON, Nathan was born on September 8, 1910 in Warsaw, Poland. Son of Charles Jacobson and Pauline Ida Rosenberg, married Florence Dorfman 1942.
Bachelor of Arts, Univercity Alabama, 1930; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1934; Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Chicago, 1972.
Assistant Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 1933-1934, Lecturer Bryn Mawr College 1935-1936. National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Chicago 1936-1937. Instructor University of North Carolina 1937-1938, Assistant Professor 1938-1940, Association Professor 1940-1943.
Association Ground School Instructor, Navy Preflight School 1942-1943.
Association Professor Johns Hopkins University 1943-1947. Association Professor Vale University 1947-1949, Professor 1949-1981, Professor Emeritus since 1981, Henry Ford II Professor, of Maths since 1964.
Visiting Professor University of Calif, at Berkeley and at Los Angeles, University of Chicago, Tata Institute, Bombay, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich. Honorary Professor University of Alabama 1981.
Guggenheim Fellow 1951-1952, Fulbright Fellow 52.
Visiting Lecturer Japan, Italy, Israel, Australia, Taiwan, People"s Republic of China. President American Mathematical Society 1971-1973. Vice-President Institute Mathematical Union 1972-1974.
Served with United States Navy, 1942-1943. Member National Academy of Sciences, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Mathematics Society (president 1971-1973), International Mathematics Union (vice president 1972-1974), London Mathematics Society (honorary).
Married August 25, 1942. Children– Michael Sidney, Pauline Ida.