Curriculum Vitae Prof. Magnus R. Hestenes
1906 February 13 born in Bricelyn, Minnesota
1927 BA from St. Olaf College
1928 MA from the University of Wisconsin
1932 PhD from the University of Chicago
1932 - 1937 instructor at various universities
1937 assistant professor University of Chicago, later associate professor
1947-73 full professor at the University of California at Los Angeles
1948-52 consultant at the Rand Corporation
1949-54 consultant at the National Bureau of Standards
1950 to 1958 chairman of the UCLA mathematics department
1961 to 1963 director of the university's computing facility
1961-62 consultant at the Institute for Defense Analyses
1973-74 consultant at the IBM Watson Research Laboratory
1973 professor emeritus
1991 May 31, death
At various times a Guggenheim fellow, a Fulbright scholar, and a vice president of the American Mathematical Society
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Similarly to Stiefel Hestenes had a brilliant university career combined with many activities outside academic institutions. He worked at INA from 1949 until 1954.