Stephen H. Crandall

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Stephen Harry Crandall (* 2. December 1920 in Cebu , Philippines ; † 29. October 2013 in Needham , Massachusetts ) was an American civil engineer and engineering scientists of Mechanics. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Crandall studied engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology with a Masters degree (ME) in 1942. During the Second World War he was at the Radiation Laboratory at MIT (1944-1946 as an instructor in mathematics); In 1946 he received his doctorate at MIT with Jacob P. Den Hartog . In 1947 he became an assistant professor and later professor at MIT (Radiation Laboratory). From 1958 he was Professor of Applied Mechanics at MIT, which he headed from 1957 to 1959 and 1961 to 1967. From 1968 to 1971 he headed the Mechanics and Mathematics department. From 1975 he was Ford Professor of Engineering . In 1991 he retired. Among other things, he was visiting professor at Imperial College in London (1949, as a Fulbright Fellow), in Marseille (1960), 1964/65 in Berkeley, 1971/72 in Harvard, at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (1967) and in 1987 at the Technion ( Lady Davis Visiting Professor).

In 1984 he received the Von Karman Medal and in 1990 the Tymoshenko Medal . In 1971 he received the Worcester Reed Warner Medal and in 1991 the Den Hartog Award. In 1989 he received the Alexander von Humboldt Senior US Scientist Award. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the National Academy of Engineering , the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1961).

He has been married since 1949 and has a son and a daughter.

Fonts

  • Editor with Norman C. Dahl An introduction to mechanics of solids , McGraw Hill 1959
  • with William D. Mark Random Vibration in Mechanical Systems , Academic Press 1963
  • Engineering analysis. A survey of numerical procedures , McGraw Hill 1956
  • Editor Dynamics of mechanical and electromechanical systems , McGraw Hill 1968

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Stephen H. Crandall, professor emeritus in MechE, dies at 92 , accessed December 6, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Crandall, Stephen H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crandall, Stephen Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mechanical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Cebu , Philippines
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 2013
Place of death Needham , Massachusetts