Contributions to the Mechanics of Solids

Abstract

EMINENT scientific workers are frequently the recipients of special awards and public or professional honours, but it is rare to find the ceremony of presentation displaying these features that transformed the annual dinner of the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in December last, into a function wholly and variously devised to honour Prof. S. Timoshenko, who then completed his sixtieth year. The most impressive event in a programme of appreciative items and speeches was undoubtedly the presentation to Prof. Timoshenko of a commemorative volume to which twenty-nine engineers and men of science of international “reputation contributed original papers. This volume has now been published and is a striking and unusual tribute to one who, on the subject range covered by the papers, is an outstanding authority. It is seldom that a teacher and investigator receives such a demonstration of regard while still actively engaged in his work; but the range and power of Prof. Timoshenko's studies, the importance of his contributions to scientific engineering and his great reputation as a teacher, have rightly won for him this notable and spontaneous tribute.

Contributions to the Mechanics of Solids

Dedicated to Stephen Timoshenko by his Friends on the occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday Anniversary. Pp. viii + 277. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938.) 22s. net.