James Norman Goodier (October 17, 1905 – November 5, 1969) was professor of

applied mechanics Applied mechanics is the branch of science concerned with the motion of any substance that can be experienced or perceived by humans without the help of instruments. In short, when mechanics concepts surpass being theoretical and are applied and e ...

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known for his work in

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and

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.Obituary (1970) ''Mechanical Engineering'' 92, 111. He was born in

Preston, Lancashire Preston () is a city on the north bank of the River Ribble in Lancashire, England. The city is the administrative centre of the county of Lancashire and the wider City of Preston local government district. Preston and its surrounding distri ...

, England and studied engineering at

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. He was awarded a

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which enabled him to continue his studies at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

where he earned his doctorate in 1931 under the direction of

Stephen Timoshenko Stepan Prokofyevich Timoshenko (russian: Степан Прокофьевич Тимошенко, p=sʲtʲɪˈpan prɐˈkofʲjɪvʲɪtɕ tʲɪmɐˈʂɛnkə; uk, Степан Прокопович Тимошенко, Stepan Prokopovych Tymoshenko; ...

with a dissertation titled ''Compression of Rectangular Blocks, and the Bending of Beams by Nonlinear Distributions of Bending Forces''. Timoshenko moved to

in 1936 and Goodier eventually succeeded him there.Gillmor CS (2004) ''Fred Terman at Stanford: Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley'', Stanford University Press. He was co-author of two classic books in this field: "Theory of Elasticity," with Timoshenko, 1951; and "Elasticity and Plasticity," with P. G. Hodge, Jr., 1958 and was awarded the

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by the

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in 1961. He was chairman of the

Applied Mechanics Division The Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) is a division in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The AMD was founded in 1927, with Stephen Timoshenko being the first chair. The current AMD membership is over 5000, out of about 90,000 me ...

of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers from 1945 to 1946, and was elected Fellow of that Society in 1964. He had more than fifty doctoral students, two of whom were

George F. Carrier George Francis Carrier (May 4, 1918 – March 8, 2002) was an engineer and physicist, and the T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Applied Mathematics Emeritus of Harvard University. He was particularly noted for his ability to intuitively model a ...

and Nils Otto Myklestad.

References

External links

*
J. N. Goodier Papers
* Stanford Daily News, November 7, 1969. http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=d&d=stanford19691107-01.2.11 Retrieved March 8, 2015. {{DEFAULTSORT:Goodier, James N. 1905 births 1969 deaths Stanford University School of Engineering faculty English mechanical engineers Engineers from Preston, Lancashire Alumni of the University of Cambridge University of Michigan alumni