Dirk J. Struik (1894-2000). Born in Rotterdam in
the Netherlands. Studied mathematics and physics at the University
of Leiden with Lorentz and de Sitter. Received his doctorate in
1922. Then worked with Schouten at the University of Delft and,
with a Rockefeller International Education Fellowship, moved to
Rome and Göttingen. After a collaboration with Wiener, in 1926 he
received a lectureship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) in Cambridge, Ma. where he became full professor in
1940. He stayed on the MIT mathematics faculty until 1960. As a
professed Marxist he was suspended from teaching duties during the
McCarthy period but was reinstated in 1956. In 1972, he became an
honorary research associate in the History of Science Department of
Harvard University.