Bernard budiansky biography

Bernard Budiansky (; 8 March – 23 January ) was an American scholar in the field of applied mechanics, and made seminal contributions to the mechanics of structures and mechanics of materials.^[1][2] He was a recipient of the Timoshenko Medal.

Biography

Budiansky^[3] was born in New York City on March 8, , to Russian immigrant parents, Louis and Rose (Chaplick) Budiansky. Upon obtaining a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree from City College of New York in when he was barely over 19, he became an aeronautical research scientist at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, forerunner to NASA) at Langley Field, Virginia.

Bernard budiansky biography

He took an educational leave from NACA to enroll in in the graduate program in applied mathematics at Brown University, completing his Ph.D. in with a dissertation entitled Fundamental Theorems and Consequences of the Slip Theory of Plasticity.

He returned to Langley in and, in , was appointed H