Jesse DOUGLAS
born July 3, 1897, New York City
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Did important work of the Plateau problem which is concerned with finding minimal surfaces connecting and determined by some fixed boundary.
Reproduced from
Albers, Donald J.; Alexanderson, G. L.; Reid, Constance:
International mathematical congresses. An illustrated history 1893 - 1986
Rev. ed. including ICM 1986. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1986
with friendly permission from Springer Verlag
