Category:Howard Percy Robertson (mathematician)

**Howard P. Robertson**
	American mathematician and physicist
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Date of birth	27 January 1903; Hoquiam; Howard Percy Robertson
Date of death	26 August 1961; Pasadena
Manner of death	accidental death (traffic collision);
Place of burial	Rose Hills Memorial Park (Sec. 3 Lot 1417, 34°0′52.409″N 118°2′6.99″W);
Pseudonym	Bob Robertson;
Country of citizenship	United States of America;
Educated at	California Institute of Technology (1923–1925); University of Washington (1918–1923); University of Göttingen (1925–1927);
Doctoral advisor	Harry Bateman; Paul Sophus Epstein;
Doctoral student	Abraham H. Taub (1935); Eugene Parker;
Occupation	mathematician; physicist; university teacher;
Employer	Princeton University (1931–1947); California Institute of Technology (1927–1931); National Defense Research Committee (1940–1943); Office of Scientific Research and Development (1943–1945); California Institute of Technology (1947–1961);
Member of	National Academy of Sciences; American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
Position held	special adviser (Supreme Allied Commander Europe, 1954–1956); director (Weapons Systems Evaluation Group, 1950–1952); member (President's Science Advisory Committee, 1957–1959);
Notable work	Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric; Poynting–Robertson effect; Schrödinger-Robertson relation; Friedmann universe;
Award received	Medal for Merit (1946);
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	Q1356879; ISNI: 0000000110683421; VIAF ID: 66550161; GND ID: 142304263; Library of Congress authority ID: n90619460; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 12395684j; IdRef ID: 166455334; NL CR AUT ID: stk2009493373; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 148302998; NUKAT ID: n02046551; U.S. National Archives Identifier: 10570928; National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007402240705171; Open Library ID: OL5143353A; Mathematics Genealogy Project ID: 10384
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