Michael A. Sadowsky (1902 – December 31, 1967) was a researcher in solid mechanics, particularly the mathematical theory of elasticity and materials science. Born in the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

, he earned his doctorate in 1927 under the applied mathematician

Georg Hamel Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel (12 September 1877 – 4 October 1954) was a German mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory. Biography Hamel was born in Düren, Rhenish Prussia. He studied at Aa ...

at the

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with a dissertation entitled ''Spatially periodic solutions in the theory of elasticity'' (in German). He made contributions in the use of potential functions in elasticity and force transfer mechanisms in composites. Many of his early papers were written in

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and are now being translated.Hinz DF and Fried E (2014) ''Translation of Michael Sadowsky’s Paper "An Elementary Proof for the Existence of a Developable Möbius Band and the Attribution of the Geometric Problem to a Variational Problem"'',

Journal of Elasticity ''Journal of Elasticity: The Physical and Mathematical Science of Solids'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of elasticity. It is published seven times a year by Springer Science+Business Media. The editor-in-chief is Ro ...

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* Technical University of Berlin alumni Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Germany 1902 births 1967 deaths 20th-century German mathematicians {{mathematician-stub