Howard Hawks Mitchell

Howard Hawks Mitchell was an American mathematician who worked on group theory and number theory and who introduced Mitchell's group. He was born on 13 January 1885 in Marietta, Ohio. In 1910 he received his doctorate from Princeton University as Oswald Veblen's first doctoral student. He was an instructor at Yale University during the academic year 1910 to 1911, then an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1911 to 1914, and a professor there until his death in 1943 at the age of 58. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1925. Among his doctoral students was Leonard Carlitz, who went on to a long career at Duke University.