Paul M. Naghdi

Paul M. Naghdi (March 29, 1924-July 9, 1994) was a professor of mechanical engineering at University of California, Berkeley.

He died of lung cancer.

Awards

• George Westinghouse Award of the American Society of Engineering Education (1962)
• Honorary doctorate, National University of Ireland (1987)
• Honorary doctorate, Université catholique de Louvain (1992)
• Berkeley Citation (1994)
• Timoshenko Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1980
• member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1984

See also

Plasticity

References

• Paul M. Naghdi, Acceptance Speech upon Receipt of the Timoshenko Medal

  Paul M. Naghdi (1924-1994), in Theoretical, Experimental, and Numerical Contributions to the Mechanics of Fluids and Solids-A Collection of Papers in Honor of Paul M. Naghdi, edited by James Casey and Marcel J. Crochet, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics (ZAMP), Volume 46 Specoial Issue, 1995, pp. S3-S47.