Michael A. Sadowsky (1902 – December 31, 1967)
was a researcher in solid mechanics, particularly the mathematical theory of elasticity and materials science. Born in the
Russian Empire
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, he earned his doctorate in 1927 under the applied mathematician
Georg Hamel at
Technische Hochschule Berlin-Charlottenburg with a dissertation entitled ''Spatially periodic solutions in the theory of elasticity'' (in German). He made contributions in the use of
potential functions in elasticity and force transfer mechanisms in composites. Many of his early papers were written in
German
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[Hinz DF and Fried E (2014) ''Translation of Michael Sadowsky’s Paper "An Elementary Proof for the Existence of a Developable Möbius Band and the Attribution of the Geometric Problem to a Variational Problem"'', ]Journal of Elasticity
''Journal of Elasticity: The Physical and Mathematical Science of Solids'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of elasticity. It is published seven times a year by Springer Science+Business Media. The editor-in-chief is Roge ...
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Selected publications
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Technische Universität Berlin alumni
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Germany
1902 births
1967 deaths
20th-century German mathematicians
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