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Holbrook Mann MacNeille (Rhodes 1928)

Mathematician. Swarthmore College. Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University. Harvard University. Phi Beta Kappa

1964 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science council.

1962 to 1963 - Associate editor Sigma Xi Mathematics Magazine.

1962 to 1963 - Chairman of the Mathematics Association of America committee on Educational Media.

1961 to 1964 - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics council.[2]

From 1961 - Professor at Case Institute of Technology (later part of Case Western Reserve University).[2]

1954 to 1961 - Professor of Mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis[2]

1949 to 1954 - Executive Director of American Mathematical Society.[2]

1948 - President’s Certificate of Merit, President Harry S. Truman (Freemason).

Post WW2 - 1946 to 1948 - Science Director at the U.S. Office of Naval Research, London office

WW2 - Spent more than a year as chief of the fundamental research branch of the Atomic Energy Commission.[2]

WW2 - 1938 to 1947 - Associate Professor and Professor at Kenyon College. During several of those years he was on leave as scientific liaison officer in the Office of Scientific Research and Development in London, 1933 to 1946, and scientific director in 1946 to 1948.[2]

1936 to 1938 - Benjamin Peirce Instructor in Mathematics, Harvard University.[2]

1936 to 1936 - John William Sterling Research Fellowship, Yale University.

1935 - Ph.D. in Mathematics, Havard University. A generalization of the construction of real numbers from the ordered set of rationals by Dedekind cuts.

From 1928 - Rhodes Scholar, Balliol College.

Died 30 Sep 1973, from Not Known. Age 64.

[1] - Rhodes Database

[2] - A history of the second fifty years, American Mathematical Society 1939-88 By Everett Pitcher - Biography

[3] - FYI - Wiki - Holbrook Mann MacNeille

[4] - Partially Ordered Sets

[5] - Extension of a distributive lattice to a Boolean ring

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