Aristoteles Iraklis Philippidis (known as Aris Phillips, 1915–1985) was a scholar in the field of

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, and made contributions to the

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, especially to the theory of

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. He was born in Smyrna. He graduated from the Praktikon Lykeum Athens in 1932 and got Diploma Engineering degree from the National Technical University of Athens. He went to the Technische Hochschule in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1938 and made his doctoral study under the supervision of Prof. Georg Hamel. In 1939, he got his doctor degree. He then conducted post-doctoral research at University of Munich in 1940 and at Technische Hochschule München from 1940 to 1945. In 1947, he went to United States and taught at the California Institute of Technology and at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

. Later he became a professor at Yale University, until his death. He was the founder and co-editor of ''

Acta Mechanica ''Acta Mechanica'' is a peer-reviewed English, scientific journal publishing articles in the field of theoretical and applied mechanics, specifically in solid mechanics and fluid mechanics, published by Springer. The editor-in-chief is Hans Irsc ...

''.

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