Background
Noll, Walter was born on January 7, 1925 in Berlin. Son of Franz and Martha (Janssen) Noll. came to the United States, 1955, naturalized, 1961.
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German scholars, against odds now not only forgotten but also hard to imagine, were striving to revivify the life of the mind which the mental and physical barbarity preached and practised by the -isms and -acies of 1933-1946 had all but eradicated. Thinking that among the disciples of these elders, restorers rather than progressives, I might find a student or two who would wish to master new mathematics but grasp it and use it with the wholeness of earlier times, in 1952 I wrote to Mr. HAMEL, one of the few then remaining mathematicians from the classical mould, to ask him to name some young men fit to study for the doc torate in The Graduate Institute for Applied Mathematics at Indiana University, flourishing at that time though soon to be destroyed by the jealous ambition of the local, stereotyped pure. Having just retired from the Technische Universitat in Charlottenburg, he passed my inquiry on to Mr. SZABO, in whose institute there NOLL was then an assistant. Although Mr.
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mathematician university professor
Noll, Walter was born on January 7, 1925 in Berlin. Son of Franz and Martha (Janssen) Noll. came to the United States, 1955, naturalized, 1961.
Diplom-Ingenieur, Technische University Berlin, 1951. Lincencié ès Sciences, University Paris, 1950. Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana University, 1954.
He is best known for developing mathematical tools of classical mechanics and thermodynamics. Born in Berlin, Germany, Noll had his school education in a suburb of Berlin. His thesis "On the Continuity of the Solid and Fluid States" was published both in Journal of Rational Mechanics and Analysis and in one of Truesdell"s books
Noll thanks Jerald Ericksen for his critical input to the thesis.
Noll has served as a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Karlsruhe, the Israel Institute of Technology, the École Polytechnique in Nancy, the University of Pisa, the University of Pavia, and the University of Oxford. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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Member Society for Natural Philosophy (founding, president 1973-1975), American Mathematics Society, Mathematics Association American.
Married Helga I. Schönberg, April 1, 1955 (deceased January 1976). Children: Virginia, Peter. Married Mary T. Strauss, January 4, 1979 (deceased November 1999).
Married Marilyn Smith Marsh, December 30, 2000.