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Felix Behrend was Associate Professor in Mathematics at the University of Melbourne 1954-1962. He introduced modern general topology to the university.Full description
Felix Adalbert Behrend (1911-1962), mathematician, was born on 23 April 1911 at Charlottenburg, Berlin, eldest of four children of Felix Wilhelm Behrend, schoolteacher, and his wife Maria Sophie, née...
Born Berlin, 23 April 1911. Died Richmond, Victoria, 27 May 1962. Educated University of Berlin (PhD 1933). ScD, Charles University of Prague 1938. Pursued mathematical research at Cambridge, Zurich, Prague and finally in London, where he was detained at the outbreak of war and sent to Australia; period of internment at Hay, Orange and Tatura; tutor, Mathematics Department, University of Melbourne 1942-43, lecturer 1943-48, senior lecturer 1948-54, associate professor 1954-62. Commemorated by the Behrend memorial lecture in mathematics, established at the University of Melbourne in 1963 with funds provided by his widow.
Educated in Germany, Behrend pursued mathematical research at Cambridge, Zurich, Prague and finally in London, where he was detained at the outbreak of war and sent to Australia. After a period of internment at Tatura, he was appointed to tha Mathematical Department as a tutor in 1942. He became Associate Professor in 1954 and died in 1962.
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- AU-ANU:ADBO : A130180
- Handle : 11343/60558
- AU-VU:EOAS : www.eoas.info/biogs/P000218b.htm
- AU-ANU:ADBO : adb.anu.edu.au/biography/behrend-felix-adalbert-9475
- NLA : nla.party-1465105
