Leonid Slepyan
Leonid Slepyan · Science & Medicine
Continuum mechanics
1929, Soviet Union
Soviet Union · Israel
Leonid Slepyan is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Continuum mechanics
Slepyan is a mechanician known for foundational work in dynamic fracture, especially his analysis of moving cracks in elastic lattices, which opened new directions in the mathematical modeling of how solids and structured media break. Trained as a naval engineer in Leningrad, he later became a professor at Tel Aviv University. He is a Soviet-born Jewish scientist who emigrated to Israel in 1992.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics — Solid Mechanics & Rheology
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Continuum mechanics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics — Solid Mechanics & Rheology
