Background
Corbeiller, Philippe Le was born on January 11, 1891 in Paris. Came to the United States, 1941, naturalized, 1944. Son of Maurice and Marguerite (Dreux) Le Corbeiller.
engineer mathematician physicist
Corbeiller, Philippe Le was born on January 11, 1891 in Paris. Came to the United States, 1941, naturalized, 1944. Son of Maurice and Marguerite (Dreux) Le Corbeiller.
Graduate, Polytechnic School, Paris, 1913. Doctor Mathematics Sorbonne, 1926. License philosophy, Sorbonne, 1938.
Master of Arts (honorary), Harvard, 1949.
He was trained as an engineer at the École Polytechnique (entering class of 1910), served in the French Signal Corps during World War I, worked on telegraph and radio systems, and in 1926 received a doctorate in mathematics from the Sorbonne, having written a thesis on indefinite quadratic forms under the supervision of Charles Émile Picard. In 1941 he fled the German occupation of France during World World War II and became a lecturer in electronics at Harvard University. He eventually became a United States citizen and a professor of applied physics and general education at Harvard.
He returned to Europe in 1968 and lived the rest of his life in the Netherlands.
His intellectual interests were quite varied, spanning several branches of pure and applied mathematics, as well as electronics, acoustics, control theory, economics, and the history and philosophy of science. At Harvard he had a major influence on the work of economic theorist Richard M. Goodwin.
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He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Acoustical Society of America, as well as a member of the American Physical Society and the Econometric Society.
Married Dorothy Leeming, April 3, 1924. 1 son, Jean; married Pietronetta Posthuma, May 7, 1964.