Background
Nathan Court was born on 22 January 1881, in Warsaw, Poland.
Nathan Court was born on 22 January 1881, in Warsaw, Poland.
He attended the University of Uege and the University of Ghent in Belgium where he received his Doctorate.Sc in 1911.
Soon after he came to the United States, he studied and taught at Columbia University. Doctor Court taught at the University of Washington and the University of Colorado before coming to the University of Oklahoma in 1918. In 1919, he became a United States. citizen and changed his last name to Court, keeping Altshiller as a middle name.
He became a full Professor at the University of Oklahoma in 1935 and retired in 1951.
He died in Norman 20 July 1968.