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Herman March

1878 – 1953

American mathematician and physicist

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Lived 1878 – 1953 (aged 74–75). Herman March was an American mathematician and physicist.

Herman William March (1878 – 1953) was a mathematician and physicist.

March studied physics and mathematics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München under Wilhelm Röntgen and Arnold Sommerfeld. He received his doctorate in 1911. He had a position at the University of Wisconsin–Madison no later than circa 1920. He died in 1953.

Partial literature 1917: Calculus. Herman W. March and Henry C. Wolff. McGraw-Hill, New York. 1925: The Deflection of a Rectangular Plate Fixed at the Edges, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 27(3): 307–317 1927: The Heaviside Operational Calculus, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 33: 311–8. 1928: (with Warren Weaver) The Diffusion Problem for a Solid in Contact with a Stirred Liquid, Physical Review 31: 1072 - 1082. 1936: Bending of a Centrally Loaded Rectangular Strip of Plywood, Journal of Applied Physics 7(1): 32–41. 1953: The Field of a Magnetic Dipole in the Presence of a Conducting Sphere, Geophysics 18(3): 671–684.

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1878
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Died
1953
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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Herman William March

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American mathematician and physicist

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Herman March was born in 1878.

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Herman March died in 1953.

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Herman March was a mathematician and physicist.

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· Wikidata: Q5740028

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