Fritz Noether
Fritz Noether | |
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| Born | 7 October 1884 |
| Died | 10 September 1941 (aged 56) Oryol, Russian SFSR |
| Alma mater | University of Munich |
| Spouse(s) | Regine (died 1935)[1] |
| Children | Gottfried, Hermann[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Über rollende Bewegung einer Kugel auf Rotationsflächen (1909) |
| Doctoral advisor | Aurel Voss |
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Fritz Alexander Ernst Noether (7 October 1884 – 10 September 1941) was a famous German mathematician who emigrated from Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union. He was later executed by the Stalinist NKVD.[2]
Biography[]
Fritz Noether's father Max Noether was a mathematician and professor in Erlangen. The notable mathematician Emmy Noether was his elder sister. He had two sons, Herman D. Noether and Gottfried E. Noether. His eldest son Herman was a chemist. Gottfried was an American statistician and educator, and wrote a brief biography of his father.
Fritz Noether was also an able mathematician. Not allowed to work in Nazi Germany for being a Jew, he moved to the Soviet Union, where he was appointed to a professorship at the Tomsk State University.
In November 1937, during the Great Purge, he was arrested at his home in Tomsk by the NKVD. On 23 October 1938, Noether was sentenced to 25 years of imprisonment on charges of espionage and sabotage. He served time in different prisons. On 8 September 1941 the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court sentenced Professor F. Noether to death on the accusation of "anti-Soviet propaganda". He was shot in Orel (Oryol) on 10 September 1941. His burial place is unknown, but there is a memorial plaque in the Gengenbach Cemetery, Germany, at the site of his wife's grave.
On 22 Dec 1988, the Plenum of the USSR Supreme Court ruled that Professor Fritz M. Noether had been convicted on groundless charges and voided his sentence, thus fully rehabilitating him.
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References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Tollmien, Dr. Cordula (13 June 2006) [1990]. "Lebensdaten" [Lifetime dates]. Lebensläufe Emmy Noethers (in German). Mathematischen Institut der Universität Göttingen.
- ^ Misha, Shifman (2017-01-16). Standing Together In Troubled Times: Unpublished Letters Of Pauli, Einstein, Franck And Others. World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-320-103-3.
- Noether, Gottfried E. (September 1985). "Fritz Noether (1884–194?)". Integral Equations and Operator Theory. 8 (5): 573–576. doi:10.1007/BF01201702. S2CID 119721244.
- Parastaev, Andrei (March 1990). "Letter to the editor". Integral Equations and Operator Theory. 13 (2): 303–305. doi:10.1007/BF01193762. S2CID 189877218.
- Segal, Sanford L. (2003). Mathematicians under the Nazis. Princeton University Press. p. 60. ISBN 9780691164632.
External links[]
Media related to Fritz Noether (mathematician) at Wikimedia Commons
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