James R. Rice

James Robert Rice (born December 3, 1940 in Frederick (Maryland) ) is an American engineer for theoretical mechanics and geophysicist . He is a professor at Harvard University .

Rice studied at Lehigh University with a bachelor's degree in engineering in 1962, a master's degree in 1963 and a doctorate in applied mechanics with Ferdinand Beer in 1964. He was then assistant professor and from 1970 professor at Brown University and from 1981 professor at Harvard . Today he is Mallinckrodt Professor of Engineering Science and Geophysics there .

He is particularly concerned with hydrodynamics and solid mechanics with applications in geophysics and geotechnics , especially stress, deformation, fracture formation and flows in connection with earthquakes and mechanics of ice and glaciers , landslides , tsunamis and hydrology .

He was visiting professor and visiting scholar at the Isaac Newton Institute , at the École normal supérieure (Blaise Pascal Professor), in Stanford , Cambridge and at Caltech (as a Fairchild Scholar ).

In 1994 he received the Timoshenko Medal and he received the William Prager Medal in 1988 , the Louis Néel Medal in 2012 , the Von Karman Medal in 2014 and the Walter H. Bucher Medal in 2012 and the Raymond D. Mindlin Medal in 2018 . He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering . He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh , the Académie des sciences (1996), a member of the Spanish Engineering Academy of Madrid (Academia de Ingenieros) and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union . He has six honorary doctorates ( Grenoble , Technion , Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris, Lehigh , Northwestern , Brown ).

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1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
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