Werner Romberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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mathematician
Date of Birth: 16-May-1909
Place of Birth: Berlin
Date of Death: 05-Feb-2003
Profession: physicist, mathematician, university teacher
Nationality: Norway, Germany
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Werner Romberg
- Werner Romberg (born 16 May 1909 in Berlin; died 5 February 2003 in Heidelberg) was a German mathematician and physicist. Romberg studied mathematics and physics form 1928 in Heidelberg and Munich and completed his doctorate in 1933 at Munich University under the supervision of Arnold Sommerfeld; his thesis was entitled "Zur Polarisation des Kanalstrahllichtes" ["On the polarisation of channel light beams"].
- In Munich he studied mathematics under, among others, Oskar Perron and Constantin Carathéodory.
- In 1933, as a so-called "half-Jew" in the terminology of the new National Socialist government of Germany, he sought to emigrate to the Soviet Union.
- From 1934 to 1937 he worked as a theoretical physicist in the University of Dnipro (then Dnipropetrovsk).
- In 1938 he went, via the Institute for Astrophysics in Prague, to Norway, where he became an assistant to Egil Hylleraas at the University of Oslo.
- He also briefly worked at the Technical University of Trondheim with Johan Holtsmark, who was building a Van de Graaff generator there.
- With the German occupation of Norway he fled to Uppsala in Sweden.
- In 1941 the Nazi German state stripped him of his German citizenship, and in 1943 recognition of his doctorate was revoked.
- He became a Norwegian citizen in 1947.After the Second World War, from 1949 to 1968, he was a Professor in Trondheim; from 1960 he was head of the applied mathematics department.
- In Norway he built up his research group in numerical analysis, and part of the introduction of digital computers, such as GIER, the first computer at Trondheim.
- From 1968 he held the Chair for Mathematical Methods in Natural Sciences and Numerics at Heidelberg University.
- However, he retained his Norwegian citizenship.
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