Mario Salvadori
Mario Salvadori · Science & Medicine
Continuum mechanics
1907, Rome, Italy — 1997, New York City, USA
Italy · United States
Mario Salvadori is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Continuum mechanics
Mario Salvadori was an Italian-American structural engineer and Columbia University professor renowned for thin concrete-shell design and for the structural system of the CBS Building in Manhattan; he also became a celebrated teacher and popularizer of how buildings stand and fall. His mother belonged to a Jewish family, and being part Jewish he left Fascist Italy for the United States in 1939.
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Continuum mechanics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics — Solid Mechanics & Rheology
