Elizabeth Jacob Collection 1759-1997

The bulk of this collection documents the emigration of Hermann Jakob and his mother Pauline Hermann from Ludwigshafen am Rhein to Chicago in 1940. There are also miscellaneous materials relating to Max Jakob, his wife Anna, and his children Elizabeth and Karl; various documents relating to the work of Max Jakob as physicist including laudatios, official diplomas, lectures; family trees; family correspondence and official correspondence relating to the emigration of Pauline and Hermann Jakob to Chicago from Ludwigshafen.Hermann Jakob (later Jacob as a United States citizen) was a salesman.His cousin Max Jacob (1879-1955) was one of the world's foremost authorities on the physics of heat transfer. He was a professor and experimental researcher at the Physikalisch-technische Reichsanstalt (Imperial Physical and Technical Facility) in Berlin-Charlottenburg from 1910 until he was forced to emigrate in 1934. Upon settling in the United States, he obtained in 1936 a professorship at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago where he continued his work, eventually publishing an authoritative book, 'Heat Transfer.' The Max Jakob Memorial Award is named after him.digitize