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词条 Henry Turner Eddy
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  1. Biography

  2. Works

  3. Notes

  4. References

Henry Turner Eddy (born Stoughton, Massachusetts, 9 June 1844; died 11 December 1921[1]) was a United States science and engineering educator. He was president of the University of Cincinnati and the Rose Polytechnic Institute.

Biography

He was educated at Yale and later took a further scientific course in Berlin and Paris. In 1872, Turner received the first Ph.D. awarded by Cornell University. After holding a professorship in mathematics, astronomy and civil engineering at the University of Cincinnati 1874-90, and acting as dean of the academic faculty of that institution (1874–77, 1884–89), he became its president in 1890. He was also president of the Rose Polytechnic Institute at Terre Haute, Indiana, from 1891 to 1894, when he accepted the chair of engineering and mechanics at the University of Minnesota. He became dean of the graduate school of the University of Minnesota in 1906, and professor and dean emeritus in 1912.

Works

  • Analytical Geometry (1874)
  • Researches in Graphical Statics (1878)
  • Thermodynamics (1879)
  • Neue Constructionen aus der graphischen Statik (1880)
  • Maximum Stresses under Concentrated Loads (1890)
  • Theory of the Flexure and Strength of Rectangular Flat Plates Applied to Reinforced Concrete Floor Slabs (1913)
  • Concrete-Steel Construction (1914)

He wrote numerous scientific and technical papers. In 1893 in Chicago, he read a paper Modern Graphical Developments at the International Mathematical Congress held in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition.[2]

Notes

1. ^{{Cite DAB|title=Subjects of Biographies|volume=Comprehensive Index|year=1990}}
2. ^{{cite book|chapter=Modern Graphical Developments by Henry T. Eddy|title=Mathematical papers read at the International Mathematical Congress held in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition|year=1896|pages=58–71|location=NY|publisher=Macmillan as publisher for the AMS|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3841648;view=1up;seq=80}}

References

  • {{Cite Americana|wstitle=Eddy, Henry Turner}}
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8 : 1844 births|1921 deaths|University of Cincinnati faculty|Presidents of the University of Cincinnati|Yale University alumni|Cornell University alumni|University of Minnesota faculty|People from Stoughton, Massachusetts

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