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PROF. NORBERT WIENER, professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has accepted an invitation to join the faculty of the National Tsing Hua University in Peiping, China, as research professor of mathematics for the next academic year. Prof. Wiener expects to sail for China next July. Dr. Wiener's outstanding contributions in the field of higher mathematics have brought him wide recognition. Last April he was elected to membership of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and in 1933 he was a joint recipient of the Bocher prize given by the American Mathematical Society for notable work in mathematical analysis. He is a member of the London Mathematical Society, and in 1931-32 served as lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He has carried on advanced studies at Cornell, Columbia, and the Universities of Cambridge, Gottingen and Copenhagen. He joined the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1919 and in 1932 was appointed to full professorship. The National Tsing Hua University is maintained by indemnity funds following the Boxer rebellion, which were returned to China for educational purposes by the United States. From time to time the University entertains men eminent in various academic fields as visiting members of its staff. Among them have been Prof. George D. Birkhoff of the mathematics department at Harvard, the Indian poet and philosopher, Rabindranath Tagore, Bertrand Russell, the French mathematician, Hadamard, and the French physicist, Langevin.
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Prof. Norbert Wiener. Nature 135, 423 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135423c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135423c0