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Ali H. Nayfeh
Palestinian-Jordanian mathematician · United States · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1933 to 2017 · aged 83
Ali Hasan Nayfeh was a Palestinian-Jordanian mathematician, mechanical engineer and physicist. He is regarded as the most influential scholar and scientist in the area of applied nonlinear dynamics in mechanics and engineering.
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About this person
He was the inaugural winner of the Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award, and was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal in mechanical engineering. His pioneering work in nonlinear dynamics has been influential in the construction and maintenance of machines and structures that are common in daily life, such as ships, cranes, bridges, buildings, skyscrapers, jet engines, rocket engines, aircraft and spacecraft.
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The same award as Ali
Richard E. StearnsBoth received Distinguished Professor
Jerrold E. MarsdenBoth received Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award
Thomas J.R. HughesBoth received Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Philip HolmesBoth received Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award
Jan D. AchenbachBoth received Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical EngineersJohn A. SwansonBoth received Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers