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Today a technical engineering report crossed my desk that referenced "von Mises stresses" in a critical part of a big machine.
I had to look it up.
Yes, it turns out the economist Ludwig von Mises of the Austrian school had a little brother just 18 months younger named Richard who made fundamental discoveries in the physical science of materials.
From Wikipedia:
Richard Edler von Mises ( 19 April 1883, Lviv – 14 July 1953, Boston, Massachusetts) was a scientist and mathematician who worked on solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeronautics, statistics and probability theory. He held the position of Gordon-McKay Professor of Aerodynamics and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. He described his work in his own words shortly before his death as being on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Mises
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I had to look it up.
Yes, it turns out the economist Ludwig von Mises of the Austrian school had a little brother just 18 months younger named Richard who made fundamental discoveries in the physical science of materials.
From Wikipedia:
Richard Edler von Mises ( 19 April 1883, Lviv – 14 July 1953, Boston, Massachusetts) was a scientist and mathematician who worked on solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeronautics, statistics and probability theory. He held the position of Gordon-McKay Professor of Aerodynamics and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. He described his work in his own words shortly before his death as being on
- "... practical analysis, integral and differential equations, mechanics, hydrodynamics and aerodynamics, constructive geometry, probability calculus, statistics and philosophy."[citation needed]
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