Background
Infeld was born in a family of Polish Jews, in Krakow which at that time was located in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to rejoin independent Poland in 1918.
fiction writer physicist university professor
Infeld was born in a family of Polish Jews, in Krakow which at that time was located in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to rejoin independent Poland in 1918.
He studied physics at the Jagiellonian University and since 1920 in Berlin, where he engaged the help of Albert Einstein to gain admission to the University.
U. Lwow, Poland, 1929-1934. Fellow Rockefeller Foundation at Cambridge, England, 1934-1935. Research Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1936-1938.
Professor applied mathematics, U. Toronto., Canada, 1939-1950.
Now at U. Warsaw in Poland.
German Academy of Sciences at Berlin]
He was a Rockefeller fellow at Cambridge University (1933–1934) and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Married Helen Schlauch, April. Children: Eric South., Joan M. Lecturer.