William Prager
German American mathematician
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William Prager, before 1940 Willy Prager (23 May 1903 – 17 March 1980), was a German-born American applied mathematician. In the field of mechanics he is well known for the Drucker–Prager yield criterion.
- Timoshenko Medal (1966)
- Theodore von Karman Medal (1960)
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1957)
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Biography
Willy Prager was born on 23 May 1903 in Karlsruhe. He studied civil engineering at the Technische Universität Darmstadt and received his diploma in 1925.[1] He received his doctorate in 1926 and worked as a research assistant in the field of mechanics from 1925 to 1929.[1] From 1927 to 1929 he habilitated.[1] He was 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. Prager was also on a sabbatical at IBM's research lab in Zürich.[2]
He died on 17 March 1980 in Zürich.
The Society of Engineering Science has awarded the William Prager Medal in Solid Mechanics since 1983 in his honor.[3] In 1957, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.[4]
Works
- Beitrag zur Kinematik des Raumfachwerks, 1926, dissertation
- Dynamik der Stabwerke (with K. Hohenemser), 1933
- Mechanique des solides isotropes, 1937
- Prager, William; Hodge, Philip G. Jr. (1951). Theory of Perfectly Plastic Solids. John Wiley & Sons. LCCN 51-012695.
- Prager, William (1961). Introduction to Mechanics of Continua. Ginn and Company.