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Timoshenko: Engineering Pioneer

Stephen Timoshenko was a renowned Ukrainian-American mechanical engineer and academic. He was considered one of the world's leading authorities on applied mechanics. He developed the Timoshenko beam theory and authored numerous textbooks. He fled Ukraine after being fired for criticizing the government and later immigrated to the United States, where he had a distinguished career as a professor of engineering at the University of Michigan and Stanford University. He received many honors for his contributions to mechanics, including having the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Timoshenko Medal named after him.

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Timoshenko: Engineering Pioneer

Stephen Timoshenko was a renowned Ukrainian-American mechanical engineer and academic. He was considered one of the world's leading authorities on applied mechanics. He developed the Timoshenko beam theory and authored numerous textbooks. He fled Ukraine after being fired for criticizing the government and later immigrated to the United States, where he had a distinguished career as a professor of engineering at the University of Michigan and Stanford University. He received many honors for his contributions to mechanics, including having the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Timoshenko Medal named after him.

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Stephen Timoshenko

AKA Stepan Prokofyevich Timoshenko Born: 23-Dec-1878 Birthplace: Shpotivka, Ukraine Died: 29-May-1972 Location of death: Wuppertal, Germany Cause of death: Kidney failure Remains: Cremated, Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, CA Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Engineer Nationality: United States Executive summary: Mechanical engineering professor at Stanford Military service: Russian Army (1901-02); White Army (1919) Stephen Timoshenko was considered one of the world's leading authorities on theoretical and applied mechanics. In 1911 he was fired from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute for criticizing a government official, in 1920 he fled to Yugoslavia, and in 1922 he came to America where he worked for Westinghouse before resuming his career in academia. He developed the Timoshenko beam theory, and studied buckling, elasticity, torsion, thrust and pivot vibration, and was the author of numerous textbooks and co-founder of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He is the namesake and first recipient of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Timoshenko Medal, awarded annually for distinguished contributions in applied mechanics. Brother: Vladimir Timoshenko (professor of economics) Wife: Alexandra Archangelskaya (physician, m. 1902, d. early 1950s) Daughter: Anna Timoshenko Hetzelt Son: Gregory S. Timoshenko (professor of engineering) Daughter: Marina Timoshenko Goodier High School: Technical Realschule, Romny, Ukraine University: BA Engineering, St. Petersburg Institute of the Railways (1901) University: PhD Engineering, Kiev Polytechnic Institute (1907) Teacher: Engineering, St. Petersburg Institute of the Railways (1901-03) Teacher: Engineering, St. Petersburg Polytechnical Institute (1903-05) Teacher: Engineering, University of Gttingen (1905-06) Professor: Materials Enginering, Kiev Polytechnic Institute (1907-11, 17-19) Teacher: Engineering, St. Petersburg Institute of the Railways (1911-14)

Professor: St. Petersburg Institute of the Railways (1914-17) Professor: Materials Engineering, Zagreb Polytechnic Institute (1920-22) Professor: Applied Mechanics, University of Michigan (1927-36) Professor: Engineering, Stanford University (1936-64) Cresson Medal 1958 James Ewing Medal 1963 Levy Medal 1944 Timoshenko Medal 1957 Accademia dei Lincei American Association for the Advancement of Science American Geophysical Union American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics American Mathematical Society American Philosophical Society American Society of Mechanical Engineers French Academy of Sciences Foreign Member National Academy of Sciences 1941 Royal Society 1944 Society of Automotive Engineers Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Russian Academy of Sciences 1928 Westinghouse Engineer (1923-27) Vibration Specialty Company Engineer (1922-23) Naturalized US Citizen Ukrainian Ancestry Author of books: Applied Elasticity (1925, with J. M. Lessells) Vibration Problems in Engineering (1928) Strength of Materials (1930, two volumes) Theory of Elasticity (1934, with J. N. Goodier) Elements of Strength of Materials (1935) Theory of Elastic Stability (1936) Theory of Plates and Shells (1940, with S. Woinosky-Krieger) Engineering Mechanics (1937, with D. H. Young) Theory of Structures (1940, with D. H. Young) Advanced Dynamics (1948, with D. H. Young) The History of the Resistance of Materials from Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo to the Present Day (1953) Engineering Education in Russia (1959) As I Remember (1963, memoir) Mechanics of Materials (1972, with J. M. Gere) Appears on postage stamps: ukraine, (20k, portrait, issued 1998)

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