Charles Lambert Manneback

Charles Lambert Marie Joseph Manneback (born 9 March 1894 in Etterbeek, Belgium; died 15 December 1975 in Etterbeek) was a Belgian physicist, mining engineer, and mathematician.[2]

Charles Lambert Marie Joseph Manneback
Charles Manneback at the International Conference on Physics, London 1934
Born(1894-03-06)March 6, 1894
Etterbeek
DiedDecember 15, 1975(1975-12-15) (aged 81)
Etterbeek
CitizenshipBelgium
Alma materCatholic University of Leuven
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, Mining, Mathematics
InstitutionsM.I.T., CU Leuven
ThesisAn Integral Equation for Skin-Effect in Parallel Conductors (1922)
Doctoral advisorV. Bush
Doctoral studentsVitold Belevitch[1]

After serving in the Belgian army during World War I, he obtained a civil engineering diploma from the Catholic University of Leuven in 1920.

He then left to the United States as an exchange fellow, where he obtained an M.A. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 1922 a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering. His dissertation was advised by V. Bush and had a subject from the theory of electromagnetic waves and the skin effect.[3]:371–372[4]

He was a professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, and a member of the Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium.[2]

References
  1. Charles Lambert Manneback at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. Record at bestor.be
  3. Maurice A. Biot, "Charles Manneback 1894–1975", in Florilège des Sciences en Belgique, vol. 2, Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Sciences, 1980, pp. 371–377
  4. Charles Manneback (Apr 1922). "An Integral Equation for Skin-Effect in Parallel Conductors". Journ. Math. and Phys. (M.I.T.). 1: 123–146. doi:10.1002/sapm192213123.
  • Patricia Radelet, "Charles Manneback 9 mars 1894 – 15 décembre 1975, les débuts de la mécanique ondulatoire,", in Revue des Questions Scientifiques, t. 161, 1990, pp. 289–308
  • Geert Vanpaemel, "La révolution darwinienne", in Histoire des sciences en Belgique, 1815–2000 sous la dir. De Robert Halleux, vol. 1, Bruxelles, Dexia/La Renaissance du Livre, 2001 p. 142

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