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Melvin Baron

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Melvin Baron · Science & Medicine

What

Continuum mechanics

When

1927, United States — 1997, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Melvin Baron is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Continuum mechanics

How & why

Baron was an American engineer and applied mechanician, a partner at Weidlinger Associates and adjunct professor at Columbia University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978 for contributions to structural mechanics, numerical analysis, ground shock and the response of buried structures. The specialist index of Jewish figures in continuum mechanics that lists him records him among Jewish scholars; detailed personal biography is limited.

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

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Contributions & Sources

Continuum mechanics

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