{{distinguish|Elli Stenberg}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Eli Sternberg | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = 13 November 1917<ref name="nae_1992">{{cite book|last1=Budiansky|author-link=Bernard Budiansky|first1=Bernard|last2=Knowles|first2=James|title=Eli Sternberg: Obituary|url=http://www.nap.edu/read/1966/chapter/55|website=Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, Volume 5 (1992)|publisher=National Academy of Engineering|accessdate=4 February 2016|doi=10.17226/1966|year=1992|isbn=978-0-309-04689-3}}</ref> | birth_place = Vienna, Austria | death_date = {{d-da|8 October 1988|13 November 1917}} | death_place = Pasadena, California | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = elasticity | workplaces = Illinois Institute of Technology<br>Brown University<br>Caltech | alma_mater = | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = Michael Sadowsky | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = Morton Gurtin<ref name = "jam_1989">JK Knowles (1989) ''In Memorium: Eli Sternberg'', Journal of Applied Mechanics, 56, 239.</ref> | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = | spouse = | children = }} '''Eli Sternberg''' (13 November 1917 – 8 October 1988) was a researcher in solid mechanics and was considered to be the "nation's leading elastician" at the time of his death.<ref name = "nae_1992"/> He earned his doctorate in 1945 under Michael Sadowsky at the Illinois Institute of Technology with a dissertation entitled ''Non-Linear Theory of Elasticity and Applications''. He made contributions widely in elasticity, especially in mathematical analysis, the theory of stress concentrations, thermo-elasticity, and visco-elasticity.<ref name = "jam_1989"/>
He was in 1956 a Fulbright Fellow at the Delft Institute of Technology and for the academic year 1963–1964 a Guggenheim Fellow at the Keiō University in Tokyo. For the academic year 1970-1971 he was a visiting professor in Chile and in 1968 at the University of Glasgow.
Sternberg became in 1951 a full professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in 1957 a professor of applied mathematics at Brown University, and in 1964 a professor of mechanics at Caltech, where he retired as professor emeritus in 1988.
==Honors and awards== *National Academy of Engineering<ref name = "nae_1992"/> *National Academy of Sciences<ref name = "nae_1992"/> *Timoshenko Medal<ref name = "nae_1992"/>
==Selected publications== * with M. A. Sadowsky: {{cite journal|title=Stress concentration around an ellipsoidal cavity in an infinite body under arbitrary plane stress perpendicular of the axis of revolution of cavity|journal=Journal of Applied Mechanics|volume=14|year=1947|pages=191–201}} * with M. A. Sadowsky: {{cite journal|title=Stress concentration around a triaxial ellipsoidal cavity|journal=Journal of Applied Mechanics|volume=16|year=1949|pages=149–157|doi=10.1115/1.4009928|bibcode=1949JAM....16..149S|last1=Sadowsky|first1=M. A.|last2=Sternberg|first2=E.|issue=2}} * with M. A. Sadowsky: {{cite journal|title=Elliptic integral representation of axially symmetric flows|journal=Quarterly of Applied Mathematics|volume=8|issue=2|year=1950|pages=113–126|mr=37425|doi=10.1090/qam/37425|last1=<!-- -->|first1=<!-- -->|last2=<!-- -->|first2=<!-- -->|doi-access=free}} * with R. A. Eubanks: {{cite journal|title=On the method of inversion in the two-dimensional theory of elasticity|journal=Quarterly of Applied Mathematics|volume=8|issue=4|year=1951|pages=392–395|mr=39485|doi=10.1090/qam/39485|last1=<!-- -->|first1=<!-- -->|last2=<!-- -->|first2=<!-- -->|doi-access=free}} * with F. Rosenthal: {{cite journal|title=The elastic sphere under concentrated loads|journal=Journal of Applied Mechanics|volume= 19|year=1952|pages=413–421|doi=10.1115/1.4010536|bibcode=1952JAM....19..413S|last1=Sternberg|first1=E.|last2=Rosenthal|first2=F.|issue=4}} * {{cite journal|title=On Saint-Venant´s principle|journal=Quarterly of Applied Mathematics|volume=11|issue=4|year=1954|pages=393–402|mr=58414|doi=10.1090/qam/58414|last1=<!-- -->|first1=<!-- -->|doi-access=free}} * with R. A. Eubanks: {{cite journal|title=On the Completeness of the Boussinesq-Papkovich Stress Functions|journal=Journal of Rational Mechanics and Analysis|volume=5|issue=5|year=1956|pages=735–746|jstor=24900202|last1=<!-- -->|first1=<!-- -->|last2=<!-- -->|first2=<!-- -->}} * with R. A. Eubanks: {{cite journal|title=On stress functions for elastokinetics and the integration of the repeated wave equation|journal=Quarterly of Applied Mathematics|volume=15|issue=2|year=1957|pages=149–153|mr=91657|doi=10.1090/qam/91657|last1=<!-- -->|first1=<!-- -->|last2=<!-- -->|first2=<!-- -->|doi-access=free}} * with E. L. McDowell: {{cite journal|title=On the steady-state thermoelastic problem for the half-space|journal=Quarterly of Applied Mathematics|volume=14|issue=4|year=1957|pages=381–398|mr=87367|doi=10.1090/qam/87367|last1=<!-- -->|first1=<!-- -->|last2=<!-- -->|first2=<!-- -->|doi-access=free}} * with J. G. Chakravorty: {{cite journal|title=Thermal shock in an elastic body with a spherical cavity|journal=Quarterly of Applied Mathematics|volume=17|issue=2|year=1959|pages=205–218|mr=107424|doi=10.1090/qam/107424|last1=<!-- -->|first1=<!-- -->|last2=<!-- -->|first2=<!-- -->|doi-access=free}} * {{cite book|chapter=On some recent developments in the linear theory of elasticity|title=Structural Mechanics |series=Proceedings of the First Symposium Naval Structural Mechanics |publisher=Pergamon Press|year=1960}} * {{cite journal|title=On the integration of the equations of motion in classical elasticity|journal=Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis|volume=6|year=1960|pages=34–50|doi=10.1007/BF00276152|s2cid=122667920}} * with M. E. Gurtin: {{cite journal|title=A note on uniqueness in classical elastodynamics|journal=Quarterly of Applied Mathematics|volume=19|issue=2|year=1961|pages=169–171|mr=129226|doi=10.1090/qam/129226|last1=<!-- -->|first1=<!-- -->|last2=<!-- -->|first2=<!-- -->|doi-access=free}} * with Rokurō Muki: {{cite journal|title=Note on an asymptotic property of solutions to a class of Fredholm integral equations|journal=Quarterly of Applied Mathematics|volume=28|issue=2|year=1970|pages=277–281|mr=264346|doi=10.1090/qam/264346|last1=<!-- -->|first1=<!-- -->|last2=<!-- -->|first2=<!-- -->|doi-access=free}}
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==External links== *{{MathGenealogy|id=13680}} *[http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/about/history/dea/ NC State Univ. Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award (Eli Sternberg 1987)] *[http://www.nae.edu/28503.aspx National Academy of Engineering membership listing]
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