Walter Noll
Walter Noll | |
|---|---|
 Professor Walter Noll | |
| Born | January 7, 1925 |
| Died | June 6, 2017 (aged 92) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Indiana University Bloomington |
| Known for | Principle of material objectivity Rational thermodynamics |
| Awards | American Mathematical Society Fellow (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Applied mathematics, classical mechanics, thermodynamics, continuum mechanics |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Thesis | On the Continuity of the Solid and Fluid States (1954) |
| Doctoral advisor | Clifford Truesdell |
| Website | http://www.math.cmu.edu/~wn0g/ |
Walter Noll (January 7, 1925 – June 6, 2017) was a mathematician, and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. He is best known for developing mathematical tools of classical mechanics, thermodynamics, and continuum mechanics.[1]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Born in Berlin, Weimar Germany, Noll had his school education in a suburb of Berlin. In 1954, Noll earned a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Indiana University Bloomington in 1954 under Clifford Truesdell.[2]
His thesis "On the Continuity of the Solid and Fluid States" was published both in Journal of Rational Mechanics and Analysis and in one of Truesdell's books.[3] Noll thanks Jerald Ericksen for his critical input to the thesis.
Noll has served as a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Karlsruhe, the Israel Institute of Technology, the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine in Nancy, the University of Pisa, the University of Pavia, and the University of Oxford.[2]
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4] Noll died on June 6, 2017, at the age of 92.[5]
Principle of material objectivity
[edit | edit source]In continuum mechanics, Noll introduced the so-called principle of material objectivity,[6] which states that the constitutive laws governing the internal conditions of a physical system and the interactions between its parts should not depend on whatever external frame of reference is used to describe them.
"Principle of material objectivity" is now an obsolete term that has been replaced by principle of material frame-indifference.[7]
Books
[edit | edit source]- Noll, Walter and Truesdell, Clifford (1965) The Non-Linear Field Theories of Mechanics. Springer-Verlag, New York. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Noll, Walter; Coleman, B. D.; and Markovitz, H. (1966) Viscometric Flows of Non-Newtonian Fluids, Theory and Experiment. Springer-Verlag, New York. ASIN B0006BN90G.
- Noll, Walter (1974) Foundations of Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Selected Papers. Springer-Verlag, New York. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Noll, Walter (1987) Finite-Dimensional Spaces: Algebra, Geometry, and Analysis, Volume I. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. A corrected version (2006) is published on Professor Noll's website.
- Noll, Walter (2004) Five Contributions to Natural Philosophy. Published on Professor Noll's website
References
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- ^ Continuum Mechanics II: The Rational Mechanics of Materials, pages 65–81, (1965) Gordon and Breach
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-02-24.
- ^ post-gazette.com
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- ^ Miroslav Šilhavý, The Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Continuous Media, Springer, 1997: "The Principle of Material Frame Indifference".
External links
[edit | edit source]- Walter Noll at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Professor Noll's Carnegie Mellon home page Archived 2007-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
- Professor Noll's website
- Obituary: Walter Noll, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 11, 2017
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- 2017 deaths
- 1925 births
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Carnegie Mellon University faculty
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- German emigrants to the United States
- Indiana University Bloomington alumni
- Johns Hopkins University faculty
- Academic staff of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Mathematicians from Berlin
- Academic staff of the University of Pavia
- Academic staff of the University of Pisa