William Prager

Dates

May 23, 1903 – March 16, 1980

Authorized Form of Name

Prager, William, 1903-1980

Additional Forms of Names

Prager, V., 1903-1980

Prager, W. (William), 1903-1980

Biography

Abstract

William Prager was Emeritus Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics at Brown University (1973-1980). Other institutional affiliations included University of California, San Diego, International Business Machines (IBM) and the University of Istanbul. His research interests included variational principles for stability, stress-strain relations in the plastic range inluding the effects of temperature, the theorems of limit analysis and design, minimum weight structures, geometric representation of the slip-line field in the stress plane and hodograph plane, solutions with stress discontinuities, dynamic plasticity, and the models of material behavior as kinematic hardeing and ideal locking.

Important Dates

May 23, 1903Birth, Karlsruhe (Germany).

1925Obtained Dipl. Ing., Darmstadt Technical University, Darmstadt (Germany).

1926Obtained Dr. Ing., Darmstadt Technical University, Darmstadt (Germany).

1927 – 1929Privatdozent, Darmstadt Technical University.

1929 – 1933Privatdozent, University of Göttingen.

1933Professor and Director, Institute of Mechanics, Karlsruhe Technical University.

1933 – 1941Professor of Theoretical Mechanics, University of Istanbul, Istanbul (Turkey).

1941 – 1963Professor of Applied Mechanics, Brown University, Providence (R.I.).

1943 – 1965Managing Editor, Quarterly of Applied Mathematics.

1963 – 1965Resident Consultant, Zurich Research Laboratory, International Business Machines (IBM).

1965 – 1973Professor of Applied Mechanics (1965-1968) and University Professor (1968-1973), University of California, San Diego, La Jolla (San Diego, Calif.).

1968Member, National Academy of Sciences.

1973 – 1980Emeritus Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics, Brown University.

March 16, 1980Death, Zurich (Switzerland).