Albert E. Green

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Albert Edward Green (born November 11, 1912 in London , † August 12, 1999 ) was a British applied mathematician and mechanical engineer.

Life

Green graduated from Cambridge University , where he attended lectures by Sydney Goldstein , Arthur Eddington and GI Taylor . In 1932 he finished first in the first part of the Tripos mathematics exams, and in 1934 he became Wrangler in the second part. After his first promising publications, he became a fellow of Jesus College in 1936, received the Smith Prize in 1936, and received his doctorate in 1937 under Taylor. With Taylor he published a series of papers on stress distribution in anisotropic plates in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1939 he became a lecturer at the University of Durham and was then from 1948 Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (then King's College of the University of Durham). In Newcastle he first headed the mathematics faculty with Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski and after his retirement in 1959 alone. 1959 to 1962 he was also dean of the Faculty of Science. Green was Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Oxford University from 1968 (where the elasticity theorist Augustus Edward Hough Love was one of his predecessors). In 1977 he retired.

1955/56 and 1963/64 he was visiting professor at Brown University (with Ronald S. Rivlin ). As a frequent visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley , he worked with Paul M. Naghdi .

Green was one of the leading British scientists in his day, who dealt with linear and, after the Second World War, increasingly with non-linear elasticity theory. He also worked with Wolfgang Zerna , who was in Newcastle on an academic exchange with Germany in 1948/49 (later he was a professor in Hanover). With Rivlin he was one of the first to study the mechanics of materials with memory. From the mid-1960s onwards he dealt mainly with thermodynamics in continua, the theory of elastic-plastic continua (with Naghdi) and various hydrodynamic problems (such as jets from ideal liquids).

In 1943 he received a Sc. D. from Cambridge University, 1968 a D. Sc. from Oxford University, Durham University in 1969 and National University of Ireland in 1977. In 1958 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1974 he received the Tymoshenko Medal and in 1983 the Von Karman Medal .

He had been married since 1939.

Fonts

  • with Wolfgang Zerna: Theoretical Elasticity , Clarendon Press, Oxford 1954, 2nd edition 1968
  • with JE Adkins: Large elastic deformations and nonlinear continuum mechanics , Clarendon Press, Oxford 1960, 2nd edition 1970

literature

  • P. Chadwick Albert Edward Green , Biographical Memoirs Fellows Royal Society, 2001
  • Paul M. Naghdi, AJM Spencer, AH England (Editor) Nonlinear elasticity and theoretical mechanics. In Honor of AE Green , Oxford University Press 1994
  • Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The history of the theory of structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 760f and p. 1001f (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ His dissertation consisted of two parts: Gliding problems in seaplane theory , The equilibrium and stability of a thin twisted strip . Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Green, Albert E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Green, Albert Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mechanical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1999