Name Henry Eddy | Died 1921 | |
Books Concrete‑steel Construction, The Theory of the Flexure a, Researches in Graphical | ||
Henry Turner Eddy (born Stoughton, Massachusetts, 9 June 1844; died 11 December 1921) was a United States science and engineering educator. He was president of the University of Cincinnati and the Rose Polytechnic Institute.
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Biography
He was educated at Yale and later took a further scientific course in Berlin and Paris. In 1872, Turner received the first Ph.D. awarded by Cornell University. After holding a professorship in mathematics, astronomy and civil engineering at the University of Cincinnati 1874-90, and acting as dean of the academic faculty of that institution (1874–77, 1884–89), he became its president in 1890. He was also president of the Rose Polytechnic Institute at Terre Haute, Indiana, from 1891 to 1894, when he accepted the chair of engineering and mechanics at the University of Minnesota. He became dean of the graduate school of the University of Minnesota in 1906, and professor and dean emeritus in 1912.
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He wrote numerous scientific and technical papers. In 1893 in Chicago, he read a paper Modern Graphical Developments at the International Mathematical Congress held in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition.