Background
Pollak, Henry Otto was born on December 13, 1927 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Ludwig and Olga (Weil) Pollak. came to the United States, 1940, naturalized, 1945.
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Pollak, Henry Otto was born on December 13, 1927 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Ludwig and Olga (Weil) Pollak. came to the United States, 1940, naturalized, 1945.
Bachelor, Yale, 1947. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1951.
Doctor of Science, Rose Polytechnic Institute, 1964. Doctor of Science (honorary), Monmouth College, 1975. Doctor of Science (honorary), Bowdoin College, 1977.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Technological University, Eindhoven, 1981. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Montclair State College, 1984. Doctor of Science (honorary), Laval University, Quebec, 1992.
With, Bell Telephone laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1951-1983;
member technical staff, Bell Telephone laboratories, 1951-1959;
head department communications fundamentals II, Bell Telephone laboratories, 1959-1961;
acting director mathematics and mechanics research center, Bell Telephone laboratories, 1961-1962;
director mathematics and statistics research center, Bell Telephone laboratories, 1962-1983;
assistant vice president mathematics, communications, computer science research, Bell Communications Research, Morristown, New Jersey, 1984-1986. Member school mathematics study group, commission on undergraduate program in mathematics International Commision on Mathematics Instruction, 1970-1974, 82-86, member of advisory board Unified Science and Mathematics for Elementary Schools, 1969-1977. Member of advisory committee for science education National Science Foundation, 1977-1980, 85-89, chairman, 1978-1980.
Program chairman 4th International Congress Mathematics education, 1980. Board directors Mathematics Institute Woodrow Wilson Foundation;visiting professor Teachers College, Columbia University, since 1987.
Trustee North Carolina School for Science and Math, Durham, 1979-1989. Board trustees Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications, 1987-1996. Member American Mathematics Society, Mathematics Association American (president 1975-1976, Yueh-Gin Gung & Doctor Charles Y. Hu award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics 1993), National Council Teachers of Mathematics, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Ida Jeanne Tobias, May 7, 1949. Children: Katherine, James.