William Prager
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William Prager was a German-born US applied mathematician
.
He was a lecturer at Darmstadt
, a deputy director at University of Göttingen, professor at Karlsruhe, University of Istanbul, the University of California, San Diego
and Brown University
, where he advised Bernard Budiansky
.
The Society of Engineering Science has awarded the Wiliam Prager Medal in Solid Mechanics since 1983 in his honor.
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
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He was a lecturer at Darmstadt
Darmstadt
Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any larger settlement from developing, until the city became the seat...
, a deputy director at University of Göttingen, professor at Karlsruhe, University of Istanbul, the University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...
and Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
, where he advised Bernard Budiansky
Bernard Budiansky
Bernard Budiansky was a renowned scholar in the field of applied mechanics, and made seminal contributions to the mechanics of structures and mechanics of materials. He was a recipient of the Timoshenko Medal.-Biography:...
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The Society of Engineering Science has awarded the Wiliam Prager Medal in Solid Mechanics since 1983 in his honor.
Works
- Beitrag zur Kinematik des Raumfachwerks, 1926, dissertation
- "Dynamik der Stabwerke" (with K. Hohenemser), 1933
- "Mechanique des solides isotropes", 1937
- "Theory of perfectly plastic solids" (with P. G. Hodge), 1951