Paul Nemenyi

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Paul Felix Nemenyi was a Hungarian physicist specializing in fluid dynamics. He obtained the D.Sc. in Berlin in 1922 and lectured on engineering at the Technical University of Berlin.[1] Sacked when the Nazis came to power, he found work for a time in Copenhagen.

He arrived in the USA around the outbreak of World War II, where he briefly held a number of teaching positions in succession and took part in hydraulic research at the State University of Iowa.[2]. In 1941 he was appointed instructor at the University of Colorado, and in 1944 at the State College of Washington.[3]

During World War II he was also employed on the Manhattan Project. In 1947 he was appointed physicist with the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Maryland.[4]

He died on March 1, 1952, at the age of 56.

He has been described as having “extreme[ly] versatile interests and erudition”.[5]

He was identified in a 2002 story in The Philadelphia Inquirer as the likely biological father of chess champion Bobby Fischer.[6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Arnold Dresden, “The Migration of Mathematicians”, American Mathematical Monthly 49:7 (1942), p. 422. Available on Jstor to subscribers.
  2. ^ Published as ‘An Annotated Bibliography of Fishways’, Bulletin 23 of the State University of Iowa (1941) and A.M. McLeod and Paul Nemenyi, ‘An Investigation of Fishways’, Bulletin 24 of the State University of Iowa (1941).
  3. ^ American Mathematical Monthly 51:2 (1944), p. 108. Available through JSTOR for subscribers.
  4. ^ American Mathematical Monthly 54:6 (1947), p. 361. Available through JSTOR to subscribers.
  5. ^ Gleb K. Mikhailov, ‘Development of Studies in the History of Elasticity Theory and Structrual Mechanics’, in Essays on the History of Mechanics: In Memory of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell, edited by Antonio Becchi et al. (Basel, Boston and Belin: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2003), p. 30. Available through Google books. Accessed 27 Dec. 2007.
  6. ^ See the "Early years" section of the Fischer article for more details on this issue.

[edit] Select list of publications

  • Adolf Ludin and Paul Nemenyi, Die nordischen Wasserkräfte: Ausbau und wirtschaftliche Ausnutzung. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1930.
  • Paul Nemenyi, Wasserbauliche Strömungslehre. Barth Verlag, 1933.
  • Paul Nemenyi and Bennie N. Netser, ‘Relation of the Statstical Theory of Turbulence to Hydraulics’, Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers 66 (1940), pp. 967-979.
  • Paul Nemenyi, ‘The Main Concepts and Ideas of Fluid Dynamics in their Historical Development’, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 2 (1962), pp. 52-86. Posthumous publication, edited by Clifford Truesdell.

[edit] Obituaries

  • Science, 29 August 1952, Vol. 116. no. 3009, pp. 215 - 216
  • Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 1953, 43, pp. 62-63

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