Background
He was born in Preston, Lancashire, England and studied engineering at Cambridge University.
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James Norman
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Education
University of Michigan. University of Cambridge.
Career
He was awarded a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship which enabled him to continue his studies at the University of Michigan where he earned his doctorate in 1931 under the direction of Stephen Timoshenko with a dissertation titled Compression of Rectangular Blocks, and the Bending of Beams by Nonlinear Distributions of Bending Forces. Timoshenko moved to Stanford University in 1936 and Goodier eventually succeeded him there. He was chairman of the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1945-1946, and was elected Fellow of that Society in 1964.
He had more than fifty doctoral students, one of whom was George F. Carrier.
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November 5, 1969 (aged 64)
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Timoshenko Medal Timoshenko Medal
The Timoshenko Medal is an award given annually by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) to an individual 'in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics'.The Timoshenko Medal is an award given annually by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) to an individual 'in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics'.