Background
MANSFIELD, Eric was born on May 24, 1923 in Croydon, Surrey. Son of Harold and Grace Pfundt Mansfield.
MANSFIELD, Eric was born on May 24, 1923 in Croydon, Surrey. Son of Harold and Grace Pfundt Mansfield.
He attended Saint Lawrence College, Ramsgate, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
He read Mechanical Sciences at University, graduating in 1943, an earlier intention to read Mathematics being overruled by wartime necessities. Directed to do applied mathematical research on aircraft structures at the Royal Aircraft (later Aerospace) Establishment at Farnborough, he stayed until retiring as Chief Scientific Officer. This was followed by six years as Visiting Professor at Surrey University where he took as interest in biological and other aspects of surface tension.
He has been an Elector to the Professorships of Engineering at Cambridge, and has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics and the International Journal of Mechanical Sciences.
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He has also been a Member of the General Assembly of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
Married 1st Mary O. P. Douglas in 1947 (dissolved in 1973), 2nd Eunice Shuttleworth-Parker in 1974.