Helen Infeld

Her 1933 PhD dissertation, written under Virgil Snyder's supervision, concerned algebraic geometry titled, On the Normal Rational N-Ic.

During a 1938 meeting of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), she met Professor Leopold Infeld, a Polish-born theoretical physicist, who had taught for eight years in Jewish secondary schools in Poland after receiving his PhD in 1921 from the University of Krakow.

According to Green, "When [Leopold] met Helen Adams he had just published The Evolution of Physics with Albert Einstein and was about to go to Canada to teach at the University of Toronto on the applied mathematics faculty.

[1] After World War II and the attack on Hiroshima, Helen's husband, Leopold, protested against the armament race (echoing the beliefs of his collaborator, Albert Eistein, who was a "convinced pacifist"[5]).

[1] In 1951, Helen's sister, Margaret Schlauch, who was a faculty member at New York University, left the United States to join the Infeld family in Poland, "saying she wished to avoid persecution for pro-Communist views.

[3][4] Years later, the hostilities between the Infelds and the University of Toronto cooled and, according to a 1971 obituary, they received "assurance from the Secretary of State that citizenship would be restored to Eric and Joan should they wish to take up residence in Canada.