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Paul Bernays


(* October 17th 1888 in London, † September 18th 1977 in Zurich)


Life

Bernays was appointed extraordinary professor. When the Nazi regime made its directive against Jews in 1933, Bernays lost his post at Göttingen. Hilbert kept him on as his private assistant for several months but soon he was forced to leave Germany. He was still a Swiss citizen so a move to Zurich was not too difficult.

In Zurich he worked at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (EHT: the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in a temporary post from 1934. He visited Princeton in session 1935-36. He obtained a half-time post at the EHT from 1945 and there has been criticism of the EHT for not treating a distinguished academic like Bernays in a more honourable way. However Bernays never saw it that way and he was extremely grateful to the EHT for coming to his rescue at a time of great difficulty.


Sources

St.Andrews

Wikipedia