Bruno A. Boley
Bruno Adrian Boley (born May 13, 1924 in Gorizia ; † February 11, 2017 ) was an American engineer .
Boley graduated from City College of New York with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1943 and received his PhD in aeronautical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1946 . From 1943 to 1948 he was assistant professor of aerospace engineering and from 1948 to 1950 he was at Goodyear Aircraft. In 1950 he became an associate professor of aircraft engineering at Ohio State University and in 1952 professor of civil engineering at Columbia University . 1968 to 1972 he was professor and head of the department of theoretical and applied mechanics at Cornell University and was then professor at Northwestern University , where he was dean of the Technology Institute and was retired in 1986.
He published on dynamics, elastic stability, thermal stresses, heat conduction in solids and phase transitions and applied mathematics.
In 1964/65 he was visiting professor at the Polytechnic in Milan and in 1972 at Imperial College London. In 1996 he gave the Lagrange Lecture at the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome and in 2001 he received the Daniel C. Drucker Medal .
In 1991 he received the Von Karman Medal and he received the Worcester-Reed-Warner Medal from the ASME. In 1982 he received an honorary doctorate from the City College of New York. He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and President of the American Academy of Mechanics, of which he was a fellow. He was a Fellow of ASME, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . He served on the US National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
Fonts
- with Jerome H. Weiner: Theory of Thermal Stresses, Wiley 1960, Krieger 1985, Dover 1997
- Wondering Through Europe: The Story of European Geographical Names, 2008
Web links
- BRUNO A. BOLEY: BIOGRAPHY. In: Journal of Thermal Stresses. 15, 1992, pp. V-v, doi : 10.1080 / 01495739208946113 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Amanda Morris: Former Dean Bruno Boley Passes Away. Northwestern McCormick School of Engineering, February 13, 2017, accessed February 14, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boley, Bruno A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boley, Bruno Adrian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gorizia |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 2017 |