Richard D. James (engineer)

Richard D. James (born November 8, 1952 ) is an American applied mathematician , materials scientist and engineering scientist .

Life

James graduated from Brown University with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1974, specializing in biomedical engineering, and received his PhD in mechanics from Johns Hopkins University in 1979 with Jerald Ericksen . As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of Minnesota and from 1981 Assistant Professor at Brown University. In 1985 he became Associate Professor and 1991 Professor at the University of Minnesota, where he became Distinguished McKnight University Professor in 1998 and Russell J. Penrose Professor in 2001 .

He was visiting professor at Heriot Watt University, the International Center for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh, Rothschild Professor in Cambridge, at Cornell University, in Ferrara and at the Technical University of Munich (John von Neumann Professor). In 1993/94 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study .

He was concerned with the search for new materials and phase transitions in them, especially those that have two or all three properties of shape memory, ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity. This also has applications to new methods of energy conversion. He also deals with biological materials and their structural changes on small scales, for example in viruses and bacteriophages. Many of these materials are composed of similar components together with the potential for self-assembly ( called Objective Structures by James ).

Since 1999 he has been editor of the Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis with John M. Ball .

In 2008 he received the William Prager Medal , in 2008 the Warner T. Koiter Medal and in 2014 the Theodore von Kármán Prize . In 2006 he received a Humboldt Research Award and in 1997 he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Richard D. James in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)