Maximilian Herzberger

Maximilian Jacob Herzberger (7 or 17 Mar 1899, Berlin, Germany — 9 Apr 1982, New Orleans, United States) He studied mathematics and physics at the Berlin University, where Albert Einstein was one of his professors, and later became a friend and advisor. In 1925, he married Edith Kaufmann (10 Oct 1901, Stuttgart — 16 Feb 2001, Carlsbad (California) or New Orleans); they had three children, born in Jena, viz. Ruth (born 1928), Ursula Bellugi (1931), and Hans (6 Aug 1932, spouse of Radhika Herzberger). No later than Sep 1930, he was assistant of Hans Boegehold,(de) the chief of calculation office at Carl Zeiss Jena. After the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, he emigrated with his family to Rochester (NY), where he became head of Eastman Kodak's optical research laboratories, arranged by Einstein. in 1959, he was part of the inaugural class of Fellows of the Optical Society of America. In 1962, he was awarded the Frederic Ives Medal of the Optical Society of America. In 1965, he retired from his position at Kodak, and helped building a graduate institute for optics in Switzerland, and a "superachromatic objective". He died on 9 April 1982.

Publications Ueber Systeme hyperkomplexer Grössen , Max Herzberger, Berlin, 1923, Ebering. Untersuchungen über die Eigenschaften erster Ordnung von reellen Strahlensystemen, Jan 1928, De Gruyter, Untersuchungen über die Eigenschaften erster Ordnung von reellen Strahlensystemen, in: Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, Vol.159, p. 36-49, 1928 Über die geometrische Bedeutung des Rotationswinkels in der Strahlengeometrie, Jan 1928, De Gruyter, Über die geometrische Bedeutung des Rotationswinkels in der Strahlengeometrie, in: Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, Vol.160, p. 33-37, 1929 Gullstrand, Allvar, Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 2008 M. Herzberger, Allvar Gullstrand, in Optica Acta, Vol.3 (1960), p. 237–241