Information from Johns Hopkins University

This information transcribes information from the pages on Rational Mechanics and Clifford A. Truesdell, III maintained by the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The transcription of some of the accented letters may be wrong.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Mathematics, Princeton University, 1943
  
• Certificate in Mechanics, Brown University, 1942
  
• M.S., Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, 1942
  
• B.S., Mathematics and Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1941

EXPERIENCE

• Professor Emeritus of Rational Mechanics, The Johns Hopkins University, 1989-present
• Professor of Rational Mechanics, The Johns Hopkins University,1961-1989
• Professor, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University, 1950-1961
• Head, Theoretical Mechanics Section, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Washington, D.C., 1948-1951
• Chief, Theoretical Mechanics Subdivision, U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Maryland, 1946-1948
• Staff Member, Radiation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1944-1946

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Dott. mat.h.c., 600th Anniversary of the University of Ferrara, 1992
• Senior U.S. Scientist Award (Humboldtpreis), West Germany, 1985
• Fil. D. h.c., Physics, Uppsala University, 1979
• Dr. Phil. h.c., Sciences, University of Basel, 1979
• Birkhoff Prize (Applied Mathematics), American Mathematical Society and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1978
• Ordine del Cherubino, University of Pisa, 1978
• D.Sc., Engineering, Tulane University, 1976
• Membre Titulaire de l'Acad‚mie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences, Bruxelles, 1974-present
• Socio Straniero dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei Rome, 1972-present
• Accademico Corrispondente Straniero dell'Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna, 1971-present
• Socio Corrispondente Straniero dell'Instituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 1969-present
• Membro Straniero dell'Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, 1968-present
• Gold Medal and International Prize "Modesto Panetti" (Applied Mechanics), Accademia di Scienze di Torino, 1967
• Membre de l'Acadámie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences,Paris, 1961-present
• Socio Onorario dell'Accademia Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Modena, 1960-present

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991
• Membrum Ordinarium, Regia Societas Scientiarum Upsaliensis, 1987
• Honorary Foreign Member, Polish Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 1985
• Membro Corrispondente Academia Brasileira de Cièncias, 1981
• Socio Straniero dell'Accademia delle Scienze, Torino, 1978
• Founder and Editor, Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy, 1962-1966; Co-editor, 1967-1978; Editor, 1979-present
• Founder and Editor, Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 1960-present
• Founder and Editor, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis,1957-1967; Co-editor, 1967-1985; Editor, 1985-1989
• Co-founder and Co-editor, Journal of Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 1952-1956

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

• Truesdell, C.A., III. A First Course in Rational Continuum Mechanics, Part I, 2nd ed., Corrected, Revised and Enlarged.Boston: Academic Press, 1991.
• Truesdell, C.A., III. "Foreword." An Introduction to the History of Structural Mechanics, 2 volumes. New York: Springer-Verlag,1991.
• Truesdell, C.A., III. "Preface." Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Continua, (Papers dedicated to B.D. Coleman on his Sixtieth Birthday), Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1991.
• Truesdell, C.A., III. Great Scientists of Old as Heretics in "The Scientific Method." Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press, 1987.
• Truesdell, C.A., III. An Idiot's Fugitive Essays on Science:Methods, Criticism, Training, Circumstances. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1984.
• Truesdell, C.A., III. Rational Thermodynamics, A Course of Lectures on Selected Topics, 2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1984. (1stedition, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969)
• Truesdell, C.A., III. The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822-1854. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1980.
• Truesdell, C.A., III and R.G. Muncaster. Fundamentals of Maxwell's Kinetic Theory of a Simple Monatomic Gas, Treated as a Branch of Rational Mechanics. New York: Academic Press, 1980.
• Truesdell, C.A., III. A First Course in Rational Continuum Mechanics, Part I. New York: Academic Press, 1977.
• Truesdell, C.A., III and S. Bharatha. The Concepts and Logic of Classical Thermodynamics as a Theory of Heat Engines, Rigorously Constructed Upon the Foundation Laid by S. Carnot and F. Reech. NewYork: Springer-Verlag, 1977.
• Truesdell, C.A., III. Introduction à la Mécanique Rationnelle des Milieux Continus, translated by D. Euvrard. Paris: Masson, 1974.
• Wang, C-C. and C.A. Truesdell, III. Introduction to Rational Elasticity. Leyden: Wolters-Noordhoff, 1973.
• Truesdell, C.A., III. Essays in the History of Mechanics. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1968.
• Truesdell, C.A., III. The Elements of Continuum Mechanics. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1966.
• Truesdell, C.A., III. Six Lectures on Modern Natural Philosophy. NewYork: Springer-Verlag, 1966.
• Truesdell, C.A., III. The Mechanical Foundations of Elasticity and Fluid Dynamics. New York: Gordon & Breach, 1966. (First published as a Journal Article, 1952.)
• Truesdell, C.A., III and W. Noll. "The non-linear field theories of mechanics." In Flügge's Handbuch der Physik, vol. 3, part 3. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1965. 2nd ed., corrected, 1992.
• Truesdell, C.A., III. The Rational Mechanics of Flexible or Elastic Bodies, 1638-1788, L. Euleri Opera Omnia, series II, vol. II, part 2. Zurich: Fussli, 1960.
• Truesdell, C.A., III. The Kinematics of Vorticity, Indiana University Science Series, no. 19, 1954.
• Truesdell, C.A., III. Vorticity and the Thermodynamic State in a Gas Flow, Mémorial des Sciences Mathématiques, no. 119. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1952
• Truesdell, C.A., III. An Essay Toward a Unified Theory of Special Functions, Based on a Functional Equation, Annals of Mathematics Studies, no. 18. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1948.

BOOK CHAPTER

• Truesdell, C.A., III and R. Toupin. "The classical field theories."In Flügge's Handbuch der Physik, vol. 3, part 1, 226-793. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1960.