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Alma mater
  
Education
  
Name
  
Nicholas Hoff

Awards
  
Role
  
Engineer


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Institutions
  
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Stanford University

Doctoral students
  
A. Cemal Eringen, Bruno A. Boley

Known for
  
Elastic stability of aerospace structures

Notable awards
  
Died
  
1997, Stanford, California, United States

Books
  
The Analysis of Structures, Based on the Minimal Principles and the Principle of Virtual Displacements

Similar People
  
Stephen Timoshenko, James N Goodier, A Cemal Eringen

Doctoral advisor
  

Nicholas J. Hoff, (January 3, 1906, Magyaróvár, Hungary – August 4, 1997) was an award-winning engineer specializing in aeronautics and astronautics, which he taught at Stanford University.

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Biography

Hoff spent his adolescence in Budapest, where he went to the same high school that had been attended by Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, and John von Neumann. After high school, he enrolled at ETH Zurich, where he studied under Aurel Stodola. He graduated with an engineering degree in 1928.

In 1938, Hoff moved to America, in order to study solid mechanics under Stephen Timoshenko, receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1942. His plans to return to Hungary were interrupted by the onset of the Second World War. In 1940, Hoff joined the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn as an instructor in aeronautical engineering, eventually becoming full professor in 1946 and head of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 1950. He subsequently joined the faculty of Stanford University in the fall of 1957.

He served as the chair of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division (1955).

Awards and honors

  • Worcester Reed Warner Medal, 1967
  • Theodore von Karman Medal, 1972
  • ASME Medal, 1974
  • Daniel Guggenheim Medal, 1983
  • Elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering
  • References

    Nicholas J. Hoff Wikipedia


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