Harry Schmidt (mathematician)


Harry Schmidt was a German mathematician. Core areas of his research were experimental physics, as well as the theory of boundary layers and wings in aerodynamics.

Biography

In 1913 Schmidt began his study of physics, chemistry, mathematics, and philosophy at the University of Leipzig. There he received in 1919 his Ph.D. in theoretical physics with dissertation Über die Möglichkeit und Stabilität von Gleichgewichtszuständen ruhender sowie rotierender Elektronengruppen innerhalb einer im allgemeinen nichtäquivalenten Kugel von homogener positiver Elektrizität. In 1926 he received his Habilitation at the University of Leipzig. In 1932 in Zurich he was an Invited Speaker of the ICM, with talk Zur Statistik und Dynamik elastischer Platten. From 1937 to 1945 he was a research associate of the in Berlin-Adlershof. In 1945 Schmidt was appointed a professor ordinarius of applied mathematics at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, and later became there the director of the Institute for Applied Mathematics. After two years of severe illness, Schmidt died in September 1951 from pulmonary tuberculosis.

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