Herman March

{{short description|German American mathematician}}

Herman William March (1878 – 1953) was a mathematician and physicist.

March studied physics and mathematics at the University of Munich under Wilhelm Röntgen and Arnold Sommerfeld. He received his doctorate in 1911.[https://www.mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=7957 March] – Mathematics Genealogy Project. 1911 Dissertation title: Über die Ausbreitung der Wellen der drahtlosen Telegraphie auf der Erdkugel. Advisor 1: Wilhelm Röntgen. Advisor 2: Arnold Sommerfeld.[http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~Sommerfeld/PersDat/M.html Sommerfeld] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050213210726/http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~Sommerfeld/PersDat/M.html |date=2005-02-13 }} - Personal data. He had a position at the University of Wisconsin–Madison no later than circa 1920.[https://www.mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=7957 March] – Mathematics Genealogy Project[http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=7949 Fredrick Wood] – Mathematics Genealogy Project. Fredrick Wood, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1923 Dissertation: Group Velocity and the Propagation of Disturbances in Dispersive Media. Advisor: Herman William March. 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)