He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich in Switzerland and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University carrying on as Stanford Professor Emeritus the rest of his life and career.

Bloomfield was Instructor in German at the University of Cincinnati, 1909 – 1910 ; Instructor in German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1910 – 1913 ; Assistant Professor of Comparative Philology and German, also University of Illinois, 1913 – 1921 ; Professor of German and Linguistics at the Ohio State University, 1921 – 1927 ; Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Chicago, 1927 – 1940 ; Sterling Professor of Linguistics at Yale University, 1940-1949.

For velocity measurement, Professor Wolman of Dresden created an alternative of his Doppler tracking system in 1940 – 41, which used a ground signal transponded by the A-4 to measure the velocity of the missile.

* Hara P. Misra ( born 1940 ), an American biochemist and Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Sciences and Pathology at Virginia Tech

Maxine Hong Kingston (; born October 27, 1940 ) is a Chinese American author and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962.

He received his PhD in 1940 from University College, London ( UCL ) working in the Department of Psychology under the supervision of Professor Sir Cyril Burt, with whom he had a tumultuous professional relationship throughout his working life.

Richard Siegmund Lindzen ( born February 8, 1940 ) is an American atmospheric physicist and Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

George Arthur Akerlof ( born June 17, 1940 ) is an American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Reich worked in internal medicine at the city's University Hospital, and studied neuropsychiatry from 1922-1924 at the hospital's neurological and psychiatric clinic under Professor Julius Wagner von Jauregg ( 1857 – 1940 ), who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1927.

Henderson became a Professor at the Royal Academy of Music in 1940.

Ali Ahmad Jalali ( born 1940 ) is an Afghan American and a Distinguished Professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies of the United States ' National Defense University.

When Igor Stravinsky was Norton Professor at Harvard in 1940, Shapero showed Stravinsky his Nine-Minute Overture.

Jacques Rancière ( born Algiers, 1940 ) is a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris ( St. Denis ) who came to prominence when he co-authored Reading Capital ( 1968 ), with the structural Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser.

The first political position given to Professor Skancke was that of Minister of Labour in Vidkun Quisling April 1940 " coup " government, the latter's attempt at seizing power in Norway following the German invasion of 9 April.

In mid-June 1940, the German Aeronautic Research Institute ( DVL ) set up a special group under the direction of Professor von Handel and found out that the signals originated from radar installations on the coast of the English Channel.

Then in 1940 he was appointed Professor of Experimental Chemistry and Chemical Technology at the University of Cologne and Director of the Institute of Chemistry there.

He was Instructor of Mathematics at Harvard University, 1930 – 31, 1933 – 35 ; NRC Fellow, Mathematics, 1931 – 33 ; Assistant Professor, 1935 – 40 ; Associate Professor, 1940 – 46, Professor, 1946 – 52 ; Professor Instructor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, 1952 – 77 ; Professor Emeritus, 1977 – 89 ; Chairman of the Mathematics Panel, National Science Foundation, 1953 – 56 ; Exchange Professor, Collège de France, 1957 ; Memorial Committee, Support of Research in Mathematical Sciences, National Research Council, 1966 – 67 ; President, International Commission of Mathematical Instruction, 1979 – 82 ; Research Mathematicians, National Defense Research Committee, 1943 – 45 ; Construction of the School of Mathematics.

* Carl Kaysen, 1940, director of the Institute for Advanced Study, MIT professor, and University Trustee Emeritus

Their two daughters, Laurence ( 1864 – 1940 ) and Anna ( 1867 – 1943 ), both had artistic leanings: the former in literature, the latter in art.

Milland appeared in the film " Irene " in 1940 opposite Anna Neagle.

For example, the remake of a pre-code film dealing with prostitution, Anna Christie was cancelled by MGM in 1940 and 1946 because the character of Anna was not allowed to be portrayed as a prostitute.

He married Denmark-born Anna Andersen, and was his father's literary executor after his mother died in 1940.

Anna Karina ( born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer ; 22 September 1940 ) is a Danish, now French citizen, film actress, director, and screenwriter who has spent most of her working life in France.

* Haebich, Anna, For Their Own Good: Aborigines and Government in the South West of Western Australia 1900 – 1940, Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1992.

The operetta was filmed twice, in 1933 in black-and-white ( in Britain, with Anna Neagle and Fernand Gravet in the leading roles ) and in 1940 in Technicolor by MGM, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.

* Maria Anna, Archduchess of Austria-Teschen ( 1882 – 1940 ), married Elias, Duke of Parma

Some of his other movies include If I Had A Million ( 1932 ; an episodic ensemble film in which he plays a forger hiding from police, suddenly given a million dollars with no place to cash the check ), Bolero ( 1934 ; in a rare role as a dancer rather than a gangster ), Limehouse Blues ( 1934 ; with Anna May Wong ), a brutal and fast-paced adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key ( 1935 ; remade in 1942 with Alan Ladd in Raft's role as a result of the success of the remake of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon ), Souls at Sea ( 1937 ; with Gary Cooper ), Spawn of the North ( 1938 ; with Raft garnering top billing over Henry Fonda and John Barrymore ), two with Humphrey Bogart: Invisible Stripes ( 1939 ) and They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), with Bogart in supporting roles, Each Dawn I Die ( 1939 ; with James Cagney and Raft as convicts in prison ), and Manpower ( 1941 ; with Edward G. Robinson and Marlene Dietrich ).

This same show was made into a film in 1926, then remade in 1940 with Anna Neagle and Ray Milland, and again for the stage in 1973 with Debbie Reynolds.

Anna Maria Quaini, ( Mazzini ; 25 March 1940 ), known as Mina, is an Italian pop singer.

Page appeared in only 16 films during her career, including Heart of the North ( 1938 ), You Can't Get Away with Murder ( 1939 ), Naughty but Nice ( 1939 ), Indianapolis Speedway ( 1939 ), A Child is Born ( 1939 ), They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), Knute Rockne, All American ( 1940 ), The Time of Your Life ( 1948 ) and Anna Lucasta ( 1949 ).

Eventually there were seventeen national touring companies, and it was filmed twice, first as a 1926 silent movie with Colleen Moore and again in 1940 with Anna Neagle.

Irene was adapted for a 1926 silent film starring Colleen Moore, a June 1936 Lux Radio Theatre production with Jeanette MacDonald and Regis Toomey, and a 1940 film remake starring Anna Neagle and Ray Milland.

Among the movies Cromwell directed are Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1936 ) starring Freddie Bartholomew and Dolores Costello ; The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ) starring Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll, with Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, David Niven, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr .; Algiers ( 1938 ) starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr ; Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( 1940 ) starring Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, and Ruth Gordon ; Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake ( 1942 ) starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney ; Since You Went Away ( 1944 ) starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Robert Walker, and Monty Woolley, with Hattie McDaniel, Agnes Moorehead, Alla Nazimova, Lionel Barrymore and Keenan Wynn ; Anna and the King of Siam ( 1946 ) starring Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb, and Gale Sondergaard ; Dead Reckoning ( 1947 ) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott ; the women's prison drama Caged ( 1950 ) and the noir crime / drama The Racket ( 1951 ) starring Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, and Robert Ryan, which Cromwell had appeared in onstage in New York and on tour.

What with Filosofov and sister Anna deaths ( in 1940 and 1942 respectively ) she found herself almost literally alone in the world and, as some sources suggest, was ever contemplating suicide for a while.

After her death in 1937 he married, secondly, Anna Orrok Stronach Sheila Forbes, on 21 December 1940.

Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari was born in Choti Zareen, a village of Dera Ghazi Khan District, Punjab on May 29, 1940 during the British Raj and died on October 20, 2010 due to a cardiac arrest.

Ahmed Suhrawardy died from pneumonia whilst he was a student in London in 1940.

* Shamim Jehan ( died in Karachi in 2005 ), married in 1940 to Ehtesham Ahmed, who died in Azamgarh in 1982.

Barrister Moudud Ahmed ( born May 24, 1940 ) is a Bangladeshi politician.

The contributions of Kurt Gödel in 1940 and Paul Cohen in 1963 showed that the hypothesis can neither be disproved nor be proved using the axioms of Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory, the standard foundation of modern mathematics, provided ZF set theory is consistent.

To this end, administrator Oswald Pohl set up the Deutsche Wirtschaftsbetriebe ( German Economic Enterprise ) in 1940.

Hans Rudolf " Ruedi " Giger (; born February 5, 1940 ) is a Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, and set designer.

This regulation is set out under Section 205 ( b ) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, which limits performance fees to so-called " fulcrum fees ".

Ernst Krenek set Emmet Lavery's libretto Tarquin ( 1940 ), a version in a contemporary setting.

The Bell Telephone Laboratories made a producible version from the magnetron delivered to America by the Tizard Mission, and before the end of 1940, the Radiation Laboratory had been set up on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop various types of radar using the magnetron.

George Washington, the first president, set an unofficial precedent of serving only two terms, which subsequent presidents followed until 1940.

The Court's judicial output in 1940 consisted entirely of a set of orders, completed in a meeting between 19 and 26 February, due to an international situation which left the Court with " uncertain prospects for the future ".

Brazzaville hereby became the capital of the so-called Free French in Africa, ruled in theory by a Conseil de défense de l ' Empire set up by De Gaulle on 27 October 1940.

The 1940 animated film Fantasia, which is eight different animation sequences set to music, can be considered a silent film, with only one short scene involving dialogue.

After losing to President Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 US election, Republican candidate Wendell Willkie set out to travel the world in service to the US.

In an account set down in 1940 ( though not intended for publication ), Löwith recalled that Heidegger wore a swastika pin to their meeting, though Heidegger knew that Löwith was Jewish.

During World War II, Slough experienced a series of air raids, mostly in October 1940 ( the largest number of people, five, dying as a result of one on the 13th ), and an emergency hospital treating casualties from London was set up in Slough.

In a message sent to all officers in early 1940, Raeder exclaimed: " The great aim of the Führer has set forth for the German nation requires the utmost exertion in all places ... A navy which undertakes daring actions against the enemy and suffers losses through this will be reborn on an even larger scale.

Ackermann went on to construct consistency proofs for set theory ( 1937 ), full arithmetic ( 1940 ), type-free logic ( 1952 ), and a new axiomatization of set theory ( 1956 ).

In 1940 a shadow factory was set up at Weston-super-Mare for the production of Beaufighters.

In 1940 Whistler was commemorated on a United States postage stamp when the U. S. Post Office issued a set of 35 stamps commemorating America's famous Authors, Poets, Educators, Scientists, Composers, Artists, and Inventors: the ' Famous Americans Series '.

The Kinross family picnic scene, set during the Battle of Britain in 1940, was filmed on location on the Dunstable Downs in Bedfordshire.

In July 1940, after the defeat of the French armies and the consequent armistice with Germany, the British prime minister, Winston Churchill, asked the Free French government-in-exile ( headed by General Charles de Gaulle ) to set up a secret service agency in occupied France to counter the threat of a German operation code-named Operation Sea Lion, the expected cross-channel invasion of Britain.

1940 BC, Ishbi-Erra, an official of Ibbi-Sin, the last king of the Ur III Dynasty, relocated to Isin and set up a government which purported to be the successor to the Ur III dynasty.

The chief themes of Irving's German speeches were that the Allies and Axis states were equally culpable for war crimes, that the decision of Neville Chamberlain to declare war on Germany in 1939, and that of Winston Churchill to continue the war in 1940, had been great mistakes that set Britain on a path of decline, and the Holocaust was just a " propaganda exercise ".

On 7 September 1940 on the first day of the London Blitz, the deal yards of Surrey Docks were set ablaze.

As Robin, Dick Grayson made regular appearances in Batman related comic books and other DC Comics publications from 1940 through the early 1980s until the character set aside the Robin identity and became the independent superhero Nightwing.