Max August Zorn

He published his findings in Abhandlungen aus dem Mathematischen Seminar der Universität Hamburg.

Few people knew why, because he only told the story after significant prodding, but he talked that way because pro-Hitler thugs who objected to his politics, had battered his throat in a 1933 street fight.

Zorn's lemma is an alternative expression of the axiom of choice, and thus a subject of interest in axiomatic set theory.

Jens (born June 19, 1931) is an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Michigan and an accomplished sculptor.

Max's great grandson, Alexander Wolken Zorn, received a PhD in mathematics from the University of California Berkeley in 2018.