Authority control databases
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Eli Sternberg | |
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| Born | 13 November 1917[2] Vienna, Austria |
| Died | 8 October 1988 (aged 70) Pasadena, California |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | elasticity |
| Institutions | Illinois Institute of Technology Brown University Caltech |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Sadowsky |
| Doctoral students | Morton Gurtin[1] |
Eli Sternberg (13 November 1917 – 8 October 1988) was a researcher in solid mechanics and was considered to be the "nation's leading elastician" at the time of his death.[2] He earned his doctorate in 1945 under Michael Sadowsky at the Illinois Institute of Technology with a dissertation entitled Non-Linear Theory of Elasticity and Applications. He made contributions widely in elasticity, especially in mathematical analysis, the theory of stress concentrations, thermo-elasticity, and visco-elasticity.[1]
He was in 1956 a Fulbright Fellow at the Delft Institute of Technology and for the academic year 1963–1964 a Guggenheim Fellow at the Keiō University in Tokyo. For the academic year 1970-1971 he was a visiting professor in Chile and in 1968 at the University of Glasgow.
Sternberg became in 1951 a full professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in 1957 a professor of applied mathematics at Brown University, and in 1964 a professor of mechanics at Caltech, where he retired as professor emeritus in 1988.
