Stepan Tymoshenko

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Stepan Tymoshenko

Stepan Prokopowytsch Tymoshenko (English transcription Stephen Timoshenko , born December 23, 1878 in Schpotowka , Chernigov Gouvernement , Russian Empire ; † May 29, 1972 in Wuppertal - Elberfeld ) was a Ukrainian - Russian and American physicist, pioneer of applied mechanics ( technical Mechanics ).

Life

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Степан Прокопович Тимошенко
Transl. : Stepan Prokopovyč Tymošenko
Transcr. : Stepan Prokopovich Tymoshenko
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Степан Прокоповьевич Тимошенко
Transl .: Stepan Prokopjevič Timošenko
Transcr .: Stepan Prokopoyevich Tymoshenko

After studying engineering (1896 to 1901 in Saint Petersburg and 1904 to 1906 at the University of Göttingen ), two years of military service in 1901/02 and a lectureship in Saint Petersburg (1903/04 at the Polytechnic Institute), he worked from 1906 to 1911 as a professor at the Civil Engineering Faculty of the Polytechnic Institute in Kiev . He was released there for political reasons. Thereupon he took the position of Alexei Nikolajewitsch Krylov (professor of technical mechanics) at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute in 1913 . One of his students was Kiriak Sawriewi . In 1916 he became professor at the Polytechnic Institute in Kiev and founder (and director) of the Research Institute for Mechanics at the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine , which had been newly established. In 1918 he became a member of the academy. He taught briefly in Zagreb (1921–1922) and then went to the USA . He worked here first at Westinghouse and then became a professor at the University of Michigan (1928-1935), then from 1936 at Stanford University (near San Francisco ), with a broad field of activity. In 1939 Tymoshenko was elected to the American Philosophical Society and the Académie des Sciences and in 1940 to the National Academy of Sciences . In 1944 he was at Stanford emeritus . In 1947 he received the James Watt Medal .

Tymoshenko wrote memoirs in which he describes the structure of the sciences in the Tsarist and German Reich, in the USSR and in the USA after his experiences as a physicist in the "Age of Extremes" ( Hobsbawm ). The book is a rare example of the autobiographies of an engineer, a personality in whose life technology and contemporary history were closely linked.

Tymoshenko is known for his work on elasticity theory and developed, among other things, equations in beam theory . He also dealt with the history of elasticity theory.

In 1964 he moved to Wuppertal , where he died in 1972. His remains were interred in Palo Alto .

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) awards a prestigious award every year, the Tymoshenko Medal .

See also

Fonts

  • Vibration problems in engineering , Van Nostrand 1928 (5th edition, with W. Weaver, DH Young, John Wiley & Sons , 1990)
  • Strength theory , Springer-Verlag , 1928
  • Strength of Materials , Van Nostrand, 1930 (3rd edition: 1955/56)
  • Vibration problems in technology , Springer, 1932
  • with DHYoung: Engineering mechanics: Statics , McGraw Hill, 1937
  • Theory of Plates and Shells , McGraw Hill, 1940
  • with DHYoung: Theory of Structures , McGraw Hill 1945
  • Collected papers , McGraw-Hill , 1953
  • Engineering education in Russia , McGraw Hill, 1959
  • Theory of elastic stability , McGraw Hill, 1936 (2nd edition 1961)
  • Memories ( As I remember , van Nostrand 1968) Dt. Übers. Albert Duda, Berlin: Ernst & Sohn , 2006, ISBN 3-433-01816-2
  • with James N. Goodier : Theory of Elasticity , 3rd edition 1969
  • with James Gere: Mechanics of Materials , Van Nostrand, 1972
  • History of strength of materials , Dover 1983

literature

  • Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 5, p. 51, p. 104, p. 186, p. 188, p. 308, p. 387, p. 471, p. 522, p. 541, p 584, p. 702, p. 819 and p. 1068f (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9 .

Web links

Commons : Stepan Tymoshenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ( Memento of the original dated November 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Member website of Stepan Prokopowytsch Tymoshenko, accessed on November 29, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nas.gov.ua
  2. ↑ Member History: Stephen P. Timoshenko. American Philosophical Society, accessed November 13, 2018 .
  3. ^ List of former members since 1666: Letter T. Académie des sciences, accessed on March 7, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Tymoshenko, Stepan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tymoshenko, Stepan Prokopovich; Тимошенко, Степан Прокопович (Ukrainian); Tymošenko, Stepan Prokopovyč (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian pioneer of applied mechanics
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Schpotiwka near Poltava , Ukraine , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1972
Place of death Wuppertal - Elberfeld