Fritz Noether

Fritz Alexander Ernst Noether (7 October 1884 – 10 September 1941) was a Jewish German mathematician who emigrated from Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union. He was later executed by the NKVD. His father was the mathematician Max Noether and his elder sister was the mathematician Emmy Noether. Biography Fritz Noether's father Max Noether was professor of mathematics at the University of Erlangen. Starting in 1904, Fritz studied mathematics in Erlangen and then in Munich, where he obtained his doctorate in 1909 with a dissertation about rolling movements of a sphere on surfaces of rotation. He obtained his habilitation in 1911 at the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe. He married in 1911 and had two children: Herman D. Noether, born 1912 who became a chemist, and Gottfried E. Noether, born 1915 who became an American statistician and educator, and later wrote a brief biography of his father.