Erwin Biser Erwin Biser

Fulltime: 1947-1948


  • Picture From: KCU Yearbook 1946-1947
  • Friend and Correspondent of Albert Einstein.

  • During and After KCU: Went to Rutgers University, and wrote papers in the Philosophy of Science, including one in 1948 ["The Validity of Unique Mathematical Models in Science", Philosophy of Science, Vol. 15 (1), pp. 11-24] with Eugen Altschul of the KCU Department of Economics.

    [From On the Other Hand: Part I of the History of the Department of Economics, by Eugene Wagner, 1999: "Among the members of the faculty in those years [early 1950's] [was] Eugen Altschul ... one of many European exile scholars who immigrated to the United States... The Department of Economics' refugee scholar in residence ... had been a banker and a professor in Germany. Trained in the new mathematics and statistics of economics, including 'input-output analysis'..."]
  • Later, Chief Avionics Scientist at the U.S. Army base at Fort Monmouth, NJ for over 20 years.