William Prager
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William Prager (May 23, 1903, Karlsruhe - 1980) 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. For a more extensive discussion of William Prager's exile in Turkey and his saga in coming to the US from Turkey see TURKEY'S MODERNIZATION: Refugees from Nazism and Ataturk's Vision by Arnold Reisman
The Society of Engineering Science has awarded the Wiliam Prager Medal in Solid Mechanics since 1983 in his honor[1].
According to the mathematics genealogy project[2], he is known to have supervised at least 15 students while at Brown University.
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[edit] Works
- "Dynamik der Stabwerke" (with K. Hohenemser), 1933
- "Mechanique des solides isotropes", 1937
- "Theory of perfectly plastic solids" (with P. G. Hodge), 1951
- Beitrag zur Kinematik des Raumfachwerks, 1926, dissertation [2]
[edit] Doctoral degree
- 1926, Technische Universität Darmstadt
- Title of thesis: Beitrag zur Kinematik des Raumfachwerks.
- Advisor: Unknown
[edit] Students
- Frances Bauer (Brand), Brown University, 1948
- David Beckwith, Brown University, 1957
- Bernard Budiansky, PhD, Brown University, 1950
- Herbert Greenberg, Brown University, 1946
- George Handelman, Brown University, 1946
- Philip Hodge, Brown University, 1949
- Jean Kestens, Brown University, 1955
- Anthony Kooharian, Brown University, 1956
- Robert Meacham, Brown University, 1949
- Simon Ostrach, Brown University, 1950
- Carl Pearson, Brown University, 1949
- Edward Ross, Brown University, 1954
- Deonisie Trifan, Brown University, 1948
- Eric Varley, Brown University, 1961
- George White, Jr., Brown University, 1950
[edit] External links
- William Prager - Encyclopedia Brunoniana - Brown University
- References for William Prager
- Mac Tutor Bio for William Prager
Turkey's Modernization: [[1]]
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