Selig Brodetsky

Selig Brodetsky

Selig Brodetsky (10 February 1888, Olviopol, Russia-18 May 1954) was a British Professor of Mathematics.

Education

* Jews' Free School, London (where there is now a Brodetsky House in his honour)
* Central Foundation School, London
* Trinity College, Cambridge (senior wrangler, 1908)
* Leipzig University (PhD)

Career

* Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, University of Bristol, 1914-1919
* Reader, 1920-1924; Professor, 1924-1948 then Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds
* President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Chairman of its Executive Council, 1949-1951

Other posts

* Member of the Executive, Zionist World Organisation and Jewish Agency for Palestine
* Honorary President, Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland
* Honorary President, World Maccabi Union
* President, Board of Deputies of British Jews

He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, Royal Aeronautical Society and Institute of Physics.

His sister Rachel married Rabbi Solomon Mestel; their son is Leon Mestel.

References

* Who was Who
* Dictionary of National Biography


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