1. Werner Fenchel was born on 3 May 1905 in Berlin, Germany, his younger brother was the Israeli film director and architect Heinz Werner Fenchel.
11 Facts About Werner Fenchel
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Werner Fenchel studied mathematics and physics at the University of Berlin between 1923 and 1928.
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Werner Fenchel wrote his doctorate thesis in geometry under Ludwig Bieberbach.
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From 1928 to 1933, Fenchel was Professor E Landau's Assistant at the University of Gottingen.
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Werner Fenchel taught at Gottingen until 1933, when the Nazi discrimination laws led to mass-firings of Jews.
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Werner Fenchel emigrated to Denmark somewhere between April and September 1933, ultimately obtaining a position at the University of Copenhagen.
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In December 1933, Werner Fenchel married fellow German refugee mathematician Kate Sperling.
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In 1946, Werner Fenchel was elected a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
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On leave between 1949 and 1951, Werner Fenchel taught in the US at the University of Southern California, Stanford University, and Princeton University.
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From 1952 to 1956 Werner Fenchel was the professor in mechanics at the Polytechnic in Copenhagen.
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Werner Fenchel lectured on "Convex Sets, Cones, and Functions" at Princeton University in the early 1950s.