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Phillip Forman was a United States federal judge who served on both the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He is best known for presiding over the naturalization of Albert Einstein in 1940 and for granting citizenship to the mathematician Kurt Godel.
Forman granted Albert Einstein United States citizenship in 1940. Einstein, a German physicist, was naturalized before Forman in New Jersey.
Forman received two federal nominations. President Herbert Hoover nominated him to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey on the 11th of June 1932. President Dwight D. Eisenhower later nominated him to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on the 9th of February 1959.
Forman served as Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey from 1951 to 1959. He also sat on the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1957 to 1959.
Yes. Forman presided over the naturalization of both Albert Einstein in 1940 and the mathematician Kurt Godel, though the source does not specify the date of Godel's citizenship ceremony.
Phillip Forman died on the 17th of August 1978, at a hospital in Trenton, New Jersey. He was 82 years old.