John von Neumann
| John von Neumann (Janos Lajos) was a jewish Hungarian-American mathematician and scientist, who played a role in the Manhattan Project with Edward Teller. He participated in the Macy conferences on cybernetics with Margaret Mead (Tavistock), Gregory Bateson (MK Ultra), Kurt Lewin (Frankfurt School, Tavistock), Norbert Wiener,.. Like John Forbes Nash, he was associated with RAND Corporation. He was a member of the US Atomic Energy Commission under Dwight Eisenhower. John: the heart. Neumann=new man (Uebermensch). |  |
He was educated at Fasori Evangelikus Gymnazium in Budapest like Dennis Gabor (Nobel Prize in Physics) and Leo Szilard (letter to Albert Einstein as start of Manhattan Project) and at University of Göttingen under David Hilbert, where he met Howard Robinson, Norbert Wiener, Werner Heisenberg,...
He was a member of fraternity Sigma Chi (founded at Cornell) like Jack Parsons, Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Enrico Fermi, Linus Pauling, Francis Crick, Edgar Mitchell, Blake Van Leer (Georgia Tech), Jennifer Doudna (CRISPR gene editing), Marie Skodak Crissey (APA), James McMahon, Al Gore, Theodore Hesburgh, Adam Savage, William Carey (AAAS),..
In 1932 he published Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics.
From 1939 he started working at the Institute for Advanced Studies of Abraham Flexner at Princeton New Jersey and worked with Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Pauli, Benoit Mandelbrot and Herman Weyl (American Philosophical Society, National Academy of Sciences).
Like Mandelbrot he worked for IBM. With Oskar Morgenstern he founded the mathematical field of game theory. He made innovations in set theory and lattice theory.
Luis Avarez was a member of the Bohemian Club (Hungary, Bohemian king Frederick V). Sydney Gottlieb (MK Ultra) was also Hungarian.
He died at Walter Reed Army Medical Center of Project Bluebird.
Franz Neumann was a member of the Frankfurt School.
born 12/28/1903.
died 2/8/1957.
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