Zvi Hashin
Zvi Hashin · Science & Medicine
Continuum mechanics
1929, Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) — 2017, Haifa, Israel
Israel · United States
Zvi Hashin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Continuum mechanics
Hashin was, for five decades, the world's leading authority on the micromechanics of composite materials; with Shmuel Shtrikman he derived the celebrated 'Hashin–Shtrikman bounds' on composite properties, and he won the Israel Prize (2007) and the Benjamin Franklin Medal (2012). Born to a Jewish family in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk), he built his career in Israel, founding the solid mechanics department at Tel Aviv University. He died in Haifa.
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Continuum mechanics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics — Solid Mechanics & Rheology
