Eli Sternberg
Born13 November 1917[1]
Vienna, Austria
Died8 October 1988 (1988-10-09) (aged 70)
Pasadena, California
Scientific career
Fieldselasticity
InstitutionsIllinois Institute of Technology
Brown University
Caltech
Doctoral advisorMichael Sadowsky
Doctoral studentsMorton Gurtin[2]

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.[1] 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.[2]

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.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Budiansky, Bernard; Knowles, James (1992). Eli Sternberg: Obituary. National Academy of Engineering. doi:10.17226/1966. ISBN 978-0-309-04689-3. Retrieved 4 February 2016. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  2. 1 2 JK Knowles (1989) In Memorium: Eli Sternberg, Journal of Applied Mechanics, 56, 239.


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