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John H. Argyris 1913-2004
John H. Argyris 1913-2004
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His father was a direct descendant of a greek independence War hero, while his mother came from an old Byzantine family of politicians, poets, and scientists, which included the famous mathematician Constantine Karatheodori, professor at the University of Munich. Volos, as it was during his childhood, remained very much alive in his memory, especially the house he grew up in.
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Just after graduation he was employed by a private consulting organization working on the leading-edge technical design of highly complex structures. one of these early engineering accomplishments was that of designing a 320m high radio transmitter mast with a heavy mass concentrated at the top.
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However, the real breakthrough in his way of thinking and approach to technical problems of solid mechanics was achieved when the first electromechanical computing devices emerged in 1944 in Britain at the National Physical laboratory and in the United states at Harvard University. in those days aeronautical engineers were trying to build the first combat jet aircraft whose speed required swept-back wings.
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after becoming an emeritus professor at the University of stuttgart, he continued to work until the age of 88 with the same vigor, writing books and scientific papers with a compelling vitality and creative thinking. in 1956 John addressed the problem of stress analysis of aircraft fuselages with many cut-outs, openings, and severe irregularities.
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In addition to these writings, he published over 500 extended scientific articles in major international journals and lectured extensively both within europe and abroad. His textbooks and extensive journal publications are essential reading material for students, practicing engineers, and researchers around the world and have become benchmarks for later treatises on computational mechanics.
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, the Timoshenko Medal from asMe, the laskowitz gold Medal from the academy of science of New york for "the invention of the Finite Element Method," the Prince Philip gold Medal of the royal academy of engineering, the grand cross of Merit of the federal republic of germany, and the einstein award from the einstein foundation for his "momentous work on the Finite Element Method and Chaos Theory." He was also a fellow of the royal society of london, honorary member of the executive council of iacM, and honorary president of gacM. John was blessed with many talents, making him a true modern renaissance man; he was a scholar, a thinker, a teacher, a visionary, an orator, an elegant writer, a linguist.
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His geometrical spirit, the elegance of his writings, his deep appreciation and understanding of classical ideas, his creativity, and his epochal vision of the future initiated and defined the modern era of engineering analysis and set us all on life's path of discovery. our computational mechanics community has lost the most eminent member and for many of us a devoted friend.
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