Max Mason

• B.Litt., 1898, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Göttingen, 1903.
  • Dissertation: "Randwertaufgaben bei gewöhnlichen Differentialgleichungen" (Boundary value functions with ordinary differential equations)
  • Advisor: Hilbert

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1903–1904, Instructor of Mathematics.
• Yale University, 1904–1908, Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
• University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1908–1909, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Associate Professor of Mathematics.
• University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1909–1925, Professor of Physics.
  • National Research Council, 1917–1919, Submarine Committee. (Invented a submarine detection device, which was the basis for sonar detectors used in World War II.)
• University of Chicago, 1925–1928, President.
• Rockefeller Foundation, 1928–1929, Director, Natural Sciences Division.
• Rockefeller Foundation, 1929–1936, President.
• Palomar Observatory (California), 1936–1949, Chairman of the team directing the construction of the observatory.

On May 2, 1945, he appeared on Edgar Bergen's radio show to chat about the new observatory and trade jokes with Charlie McCarthy.[4]

• Mathematicians: Charles Max Mason from the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
• Max Mason at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Max Mason from the University of Chicago
• Guide to the Max Mason Papers 1882-1961 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
• Guide to the University of Chicago Office of the President, Mason Administration Records 1910-1929 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
• National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir