Charles Lambert Manneback

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Charles Lambert Marie Joseph Manneback
Born(1894-03-06)6 March 1894
Etterbeek, Belgium
Died15 December 1975(1975-12-15) (aged 81)
Etterbeek, Belgium
Alma mater Catholic University of Leuven
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientific career
Fields Physics, Mining, Mathematics
Institutions MIT
CU Leuven
Thesis An Integral Equation for Skin-Effect in Parallel Conductors (1922)
Doctoral advisor Vannevar Bush
Doctoral students Vitold Belevitch [1]

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]

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 Vannevar Bush [1] 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]

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References

  1. 1 2 Charles Lambert Manneback at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. 1 2 Record Archived 2019-01-29 at the Wayback Machine 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". J. Math. Phys. 1 (3): 123–146. doi:10.1002/sapm192213123.

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