William Prager, before 1940 Willy Prager (23 May 1903 – 17 March 1980), was a German-born American applied mathematician. In the field of mechanics he is well known for the Drucker–Prager yield criterion.
Biography Willy Prager was born on 23 May 1903 in Karlsruhe. He studied civil engineering at the Technische Universität Darmstadt and received his diploma in 1925. He received his doctorate in 1926 and worked as a research assistant in the field of mechanics from 1925 to 1929. From 1927 to 1929 he habilitated. He was a deputy director at University of Göttingen, professor at Karlsruhe, University of Istanbul, the University of California, San Diego and Brown University, where he advised Bernard Budiansky. Prager was also on a sabbatical at IBM's research lab in Zürich.
He died on 17 March 1980 in Zürich.
The Society of Engineering Science has awarded the William Prager Medal in Solid Mechanics since 1983 in his honor.William Prager Medal In 1957, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Works , 1926, dissertation (with K. Hohenemser), 1933 , 1937
Prager, William (1961). Introduction to Mechanics of Continua. Ginn and Company.
See also Plastic limit theorems
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