Box 2
Container
Contains 22 Results:
[Correspondence], 1927 February 9-1931 March 2
File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
Content Description
From the Collection:
More than 200 letters, many of them in German, written to Eric Riessner (1913-1996), a German-born mathematician. Correspondents include Reissner's father, Hans, a prominent German aeronatuical engineer whose avocation was mathematical physics; Bernhard Hermann Neumann, a German-born British-Australian mathematician who was a leading figure in group theory; William Prager, a German expert in the fields of vibrations, plasticity and the theory of structures; and many other prominent...
Dates:
1927 February 9-1931 March 2
Zentralblatt fuer Geophysik, Meteorologie und Geodaesie (Berlin), ca. 1937
File — Box: 2, Folder: 21
Content Description
From the Collection:
More than 200 letters, many of them in German, written to Eric Riessner (1913-1996), a German-born mathematician. Correspondents include Reissner's father, Hans, a prominent German aeronatuical engineer whose avocation was mathematical physics; Bernhard Hermann Neumann, a German-born British-Australian mathematician who was a leading figure in group theory; William Prager, a German expert in the fields of vibrations, plasticity and the theory of structures; and many other prominent...
Dates:
ca. 1937
[Miscellaneous ephemera], ca. 1936-1938
File — Box: 2, Folder: 22
Content Description
From the Collection:
More than 200 letters, many of them in German, written to Eric Riessner (1913-1996), a German-born mathematician. Correspondents include Reissner's father, Hans, a prominent German aeronatuical engineer whose avocation was mathematical physics; Bernhard Hermann Neumann, a German-born British-Australian mathematician who was a leading figure in group theory; William Prager, a German expert in the fields of vibrations, plasticity and the theory of structures; and many other prominent...
Dates:
ca. 1936-1938
[Correspondence], undated
File — Box: 2, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
Assorted undated correspondence, predominantly from Reissner's family.
Dates:
undated
[Correspondence with the National Student Federation of the U.S.A.], 1936 December 11-1937 June 3
File — Box: 2, Folder: 16
Content Description
From the Collection:
More than 200 letters, many of them in German, written to Eric Riessner (1913-1996), a German-born mathematician. Correspondents include Reissner's father, Hans, a prominent German aeronatuical engineer whose avocation was mathematical physics; Bernhard Hermann Neumann, a German-born British-Australian mathematician who was a leading figure in group theory; William Prager, a German expert in the fields of vibrations, plasticity and the theory of structures; and many other prominent...
Dates:
1936 December 11-1937 June 3
[Correspondence with the Harvard Graduate School of Engineering], 1937 February 19-1937 April 10
File — Box: 2, Folder: 17
Content Description
From the Collection:
More than 200 letters, many of them in German, written to Eric Riessner (1913-1996), a German-born mathematician. Correspondents include Reissner's father, Hans, a prominent German aeronatuical engineer whose avocation was mathematical physics; Bernhard Hermann Neumann, a German-born British-Australian mathematician who was a leading figure in group theory; William Prager, a German expert in the fields of vibrations, plasticity and the theory of structures; and many other prominent...
Dates:
1937 February 19-1937 April 10
[Correspondence with the American Committee for Christian German Refugees], 1937 August 20-1938 July 19
File — Box: 2, Folder: 18
Content Description
From the Collection:
More than 200 letters, many of them in German, written to Eric Riessner (1913-1996), a German-born mathematician. Correspondents include Reissner's father, Hans, a prominent German aeronatuical engineer whose avocation was mathematical physics; Bernhard Hermann Neumann, a German-born British-Australian mathematician who was a leading figure in group theory; William Prager, a German expert in the fields of vibrations, plasticity and the theory of structures; and many other prominent...
Dates:
1937 August 20-1938 July 19
[Correspondence with the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences Inc.], 1938 May 11-1938 October 5
File — Box: 2, Folder: 19
Content Description
From the Collection:
More than 200 letters, many of them in German, written to Eric Riessner (1913-1996), a German-born mathematician. Correspondents include Reissner's father, Hans, a prominent German aeronatuical engineer whose avocation was mathematical physics; Bernhard Hermann Neumann, a German-born British-Australian mathematician who was a leading figure in group theory; William Prager, a German expert in the fields of vibrations, plasticity and the theory of structures; and many other prominent...
Dates:
1938 May 11-1938 October 5
[Correspondence with Sylvain Fleischer], 1938 August 21
File — Box: 2, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with scientist Sylvain Fleischer of Cottbus, who sent a letter and an accompanying curriculum vitae appealing for help from the Reissners; he is now listed in the JewishGen Necrology database as a holocaust martyr.
Dates:
1938 August 21
[Correspondence with Rolf Landshoff], 1936 November 17-1938 January 3
File — Box: 2, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Rolf Landshoff, who contacted Reissner for support as he worked to stay in the U.S. He was able to find his way to the University of Minnesota through a Jewish student organization, and eventually was one of the scientists at the nuclear testing site at Los Alamos, later working in applied physics.
Dates:
1936 November 17-1938 January 3