Herman William March (1878 – 1953) was a

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. March studied physics and mathematics at the

University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich, LMU or LMU Munich; ) is a public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke ...

under

Wilhelm Röntgen Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (; 27 March 1845 – 10 February 1923), sometimes Transliteration, transliterated as Roentgen ( ), was a German physicist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays. As ...

and

Arnold Sommerfeld Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (; 5 December 1868 – 26 April 1951) was a German Theoretical physics, theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in Atomic physics, atomic and Quantum mechanics, quantum physics, and also educated and ...

. He received his doctorate in 1911. He had a position at the

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no later than circa 1920. He died in 1953.H. W. March (Deceased) ''The Field of a Magnetic Dipole in the Presence of a Conducting Sphere'', ''Geophysics'', Volume 18, Issue 3, pp. 671-684 (July 1953), University of Wisconsin–Madison, Wisconsin, (Received April 9, 1953)

Partial literature

* 1917
''Calculus''
Herman W. March and Henry C. Wolff. McGraw-Hill, New York. * 1925
The Deflection of a Rectangular Plate Fixed at the Edges
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'', 27(3): 307–317 * 1927
The Heaviside Operational Calculus
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'' 33: 311–8. * 1928: (with Warren Weaver) ''The Diffusion Problem for a Solid in Contact with a Stirred Liquid'', ''

Physical Review ''Physical Review'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal. The journal was established in 1893 by Edward Nichols. It publishes original research as well as scientific and literature reviews on all aspects of physics. It is published by the Ame ...

'' 31: 1072 - 1082. * 1936: ''Bending of a Centrally Loaded Rectangular Strip of Plywood'', '' Journal of Applied Physics'' 7(1): 32–41. * 1953: ''The Field of a Magnetic Dipole in the Presence of a Conducting Sphere'', ''

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'' 18(3): 671–684.

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