Charles Richard Steele (August 15, 1933 – December 9, 2021) was an American Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of Mechanical Engineering at

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. Steele was known for his work analyzing stresses and deformation of beams, membranes, and shells, and for modeling and analyzing the mechanics of the

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(on which he has published over 50 scientific papers). In 1995, he was elected to the

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, "For contributions to the theory of thin shells, to understanding of human hearing, and to bioengineering." He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from

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in 1956, and Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics under

Wilhelm Flügge Gottfried Wilhelm Flügge (March 18, 1904 – March 19, 1990) was a German engineer, and Professor of Applied Mechanics at Stanford University.J.J. O'Connor and E.F. Robertson.Gottfried Wilhelm Flügge" at ''history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk.'' School of M ...

at Stanford in 1960.

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Profile at Stanford University
1933 births 2021 deaths American mechanical engineers Auditory scientists {{US-engineer-stub