Heilbronn

Hans Arnold Heilbronn

Born: 8 Oct 1908 in Berlin, Germany
Died: 28 April 1975 in Toronto, Canada

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Hans Heilbronn became assistant to Landau at Göttingen in 1930 where he obtained his doctorate in 1933. Forced to flee by Hitler's rise to power in 1933 he emigrated to England where he was supported as a refugee in Bristol.

During this time he proved a conjecture of Gauss on imaginary quadratic number fields. This was generalised by Siegel and Brauer. Then he collaborated with Davenport from 1935. He was interned in 1940 as an enemy alien but then served with the British forces with the Signals Corps and Military Intelligence.

He returned to Bristol in 1946 but resigned in 1964 and moved to Canada. While at Bristol he worked on the Euclidean algorithm in a general setting. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1951.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. J W Cassels and A Fröhlich, Hans Arnold Heilbronn, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society of London 22 (1976), 119-135.
  3. J W Cassels and A Fröhlich, Hans Arnold Heilbronn, Bull. London Math. Soc. 9 (1977), 219-232. 
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