Portrait of a scientist Prof. Alexander Dinghas (1908-1974) (6)

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Black and white portrait Prof. Alexander Dinghas, Berlin 1956. Sitting a knee, front view. His left arm rests on the chair, his left hand includes the right. He looks directly at the viewer. The middle-aged man has dark-grey-meated undulating hair. His eyes are dark, his nose wide. He is dressed with a gray suit, striped tie and white shirt. It sits on a broad, upholstered wooden chair; a dark curtain can be seen in the background on the left in the picture; to the right you can see a part of the wooden floor with floor bar. Alexander Dinghas was a Greek mathematician. In 1949 he was a full professor at the FU Berlin, at times as director of the mathematical institute. In 1951 he became an honorary professor at the TU Berlin. OK