Albert E. Green

Albert Edward Green ( born November 11, 1912 in London, † August 12, 1999 ) was a British Applied mathematical and engineering science of mechanics.

Life

Green studied at Cambridge University, where he attended lectures by Sydney Goldstein, Arthur Eddington and GI Taylor. In 1932, he was first in the first part of the Tripos examinations in mathematics and in 1934 he was Wrangler in the second part. He was named after first promising Publications 1936 Fellow of Jesus College, received the 1936 Smith Prize, received his doctorate in 1937 at Taylor. With Taylor, he published in the 1930s and 1940s, a series of works on stress distribution in anisotropic plates. In 1939 he was a lecturer at the University of Durham and was then in 1948 Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (then King's College, University of Durham ). In Newcastle, he initially headed the mathematics faculty with Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski and after his retirement in 1959 alone. 1959 to 1962 he was also Dean of the Faculty of Science. Green was from 1968 Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Oxford University (where the elasticity theorist Augustus Edward Hough Love was one of its precursors ). In 1977 he retired.

1955/56 and 1963/64, he was a visiting professor at Brown University (with Ronald S. Rivlin ). As a frequent guest professor at the University of California, Berkeley, he worked with Paul M. Naghdi.

Green was in his time one of the UK's leading scientists, who are increasingly concerned with linear and after the Second World War, with non-linear elasticity theory. He also worked with Wolfgang Zerna, who was in academic exchanges with Germany in Newcastle 1948/49, (later he was a professor in Hannover). With Rivlin he addressed one of the first with the mechanics of materials with memory. From the mid- 1960s, he dealt primarily with thermodynamics in continuum, the theory of elastic-plastic continua ( with Naghdi ) and various hydrodynamic problems ( such as jets of ideal fluids).

In 1943 he received a Sc. D. of the University of Cambridge, 1968 a D. Sc. Oxford University, the University of Durham in 1969 and 1977, the National University of Ireland. In 1958 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1974 he received the Timoshenko Medal and 1983 the Von Karman medal.

He was married since 1939.

Writings

• Wolfgang Zerna: Theoretical Elasticity, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1954, 2nd edition 1968
• With JE Adkins: Large elastic deformation and nonlinear continuum mechanics, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1960, 2nd edition 1970