Editing Norbert Wiener (section)

===After the war===
[[File:MIT Building 10 and the Great Dome, Cambridge MA.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Norbert Wiener was regarded as a semi-legendary figure at MIT.]]
[[File:Wiener Zurich1932.tif|thumb|200px|Norbert (standing) and Margaret Wiener (sitting) at the [[International Congress of Mathematicians]], Zurich 1932]]
Wiener was unable to secure a permanent position at Harvard, a situation he attributed largely to [[anti-Semitism]] at the university and in particular the antipathy of Harvard mathematician [[George David Birkhoff|G. D. Birkhoff]].<ref>{{harvnb|Conway|Siegelman|2005|pp=40, 45}}</ref> He was also rejected for a position at the [[University of Melbourne]]. At [[William Fogg Osgood|W. F. Osgood's]] suggestion, Wiener was hired as an instructor of mathematics at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], where, after his promotion to professor, he spent the remainder of his career. For many years his photograph was prominently displayed in the [[Infinite Corridor]] and often used in giving directions, but by 2017 it had been removed.<ref>{{cite web |title=Does the infinite corridor still have a poster of Norbert Wiener and cybernetics? |url=https://www.quora.com/Does-the-infinite-corridor-still-have-a-poster-of-Norbert-Wiener-and-cybernetics |access-date=2019-10-27}}</ref>

In 1926, Wiener returned to Europe as a [[Guggenheim scholar]]. He spent most of his time at Göttingen and with Hardy at Cambridge, working on [[Brownian motion]], the [[Fourier integral]], [[Dirichlet's problem]], harmonic analysis, and the [[Tauberian theorems]].

In 1926, Wiener's parents arranged his marriage to a German immigrant, Margaret Engemann; they had two daughters. His sister, Constance (1898–1973), married mathematician [[Philip Franklin]]. Their daughter, Janet, Wiener's niece, married mathematician [[Václav E. Beneš]].<ref>[http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Franklin.html Franklin biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713153354/http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Franklin.html |date=2018-07-13 }}. History.mcs.st-and.ac.uk. Retrieved on 2013-11-02.</ref> Norbert Wiener's sister, Bertha (1902–1995), married the botanist [[Carroll William Dodge]].

Many tales, perhaps apocryphal, were told of Norbert Wiener at MIT, especially concerning his absent-mindedness.  It was said that he returned home once to find his house empty. He inquired of a neighborhood girl the reason, and she said that the family had moved elsewhere that day. He thanked her for the information and she replied, "It's ok, Daddy, Mommy sent me to get you".<ref>{{cite book |first1=Colin |last1=Adams |first2=Joel |last2=Hass |first3=Abigail |last3=Thompson |year=1998 |title=How to Ace Calculus: The streetwise guide |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=9780716731603 |page=8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MD96Vp60mLYC&pg=PA8 }}</ref>
Asked about the story, Wiener's daughter reportedly asserted that "he never forgot who his children were! The rest of it, however, was pretty close to what actually happened&nbsp;..."<ref>{{cite web |first=Richard |last=Harter |title=Weiner |website=richardhartersworld.com |date=December 8, 2020 |url=https://richardhartersworld.com/weiner/ }}</ref>

In the run-up to [[World War II]] (1939–45) Wiener became a member of the [[China Aid Society]] and the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars.<ref>{{cite book |last=Masani|first=Pesi R. |date=2012-12-06 |title=Norbert Wiener 1894–1964|page=167|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=anD0BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA167 |url-status=live |access-date=2016-03-20 |publisher=Birkhäuser |isbn=978-3-0348-9252-0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222172541/https://books.google.com/books?id=anD0BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA167 |archive-date=2017-02-22 }}</ref> He was interested in placing scholars such as [[Yuk-Wing Lee]] and [[Antoni Zygmund]] who had lost their positions.<ref>{{cite report |last=McCavitt |first=Mary Jane |date=2 September 2009 |title=Guide to the Papers of Norbert Wiener|page=15 |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries |url=https://libraries.mit.edu/archives/research/collections/collections-mc/pdf/mc22.pdf |url-status=dead |access-date=2016-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151112055149/http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/research/collections/collections-mc/pdf/mc22.pdf |archive-date=November 12, 2015 }}</ref>