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Hans Reissner

Who

Hans Reissner · Science & Medicine

What

Continuum mechanics

When

1874, Berlin, Germany — 1967

Where

Germany · United States

Biography

Hans Reissner is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Continuum mechanics

How & why

Reissner was a German-born engineer, mathematician and physicist who made foundational contributions to applied mechanics, aeroelasticity and early aviation — collaborating with Hugo Junkers on the tail-first all-metal 'Ente' aircraft — and gave his name to the Reissner-Nordström solution in general relativity. A Jewish scholar, he was forced from his work under the Nazis and emigrated in 1938, teaching at the Illinois Institute of Technology and the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics — Solid Mechanics & Rheology

Contributions & Sources

Continuum mechanics

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics — Solid Mechanics & Rheology