Walter Noll | |
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Born | |
Died | June 6, 2017 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. | (aged 92)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Indiana University Bloomington |
Known for | Principle of material objectivity Rational thermodynamics |
Awards | American Mathematical Society Fellow (2012) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Applied mathematics, classical mechanics, thermodynamics, continuum mechanics |
Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
Thesis | On the Continuity of the Solid and Fluid States (1954) |
Doctoral advisor | Clifford Truesdell |
Website | http://www.math.cmu.edu/~wn0g/ |
Walter Noll (January 7, 1925 – June 6, 2017) was a mathematician, and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. He is best known for developing mathematical tools of classical mechanics, thermodynamics, and continuum mechanics.[1]