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Maurice Anthony Biot
Pages 30-35

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... By the time of his cleath, he tract built a clistinguishec3 career of research, teaching, and consulting that spanned a broad range of science and technology centered in classical mechanics. His work extenclect from the most highly theoretical and mathematical problems through experimental studies to practical applications and patented inventions.
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From page 32...
... ~ first met Tony Biot more than fifty years ago during a summer session at the University of Michigan, where he tract stopped on his way from Caltech to Harvarcl. In those clays, young engineering teachers of his age from all over the United States converged on the Ann Arbor campus each summer, where they were taught the theory and applications of solicl mechanics by Stephen Timoshenko anti, occasionally, by H
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... Tony Biot's initial work on thermal stresses developed into a major advance in irreversible thermodynamics. His conceptions of generalizecl free energy and entropy displacement vectors macle it possible to establish variational principles on which he based his new methods for the solution of problems in heat conduction, diffusion, thermoelasticity, thermoviscoelasticity, and chemical reactions.
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... In 1983 he became the seventh recipient of the Acoustical Society of America's honorary fellowship. In celebration of his seventy-fifth birthday, the Indian Institute of Technology cleclicated the fourteenth volume of its Journal of Mathematical and Physical Sciences to him, listing his reports, patents, and research publications as well as his three books: Mathematical Methods of Engineering, coauthored!
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