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

Turkey's Modernization: [[1]]

[edit] References

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