William Prager

William Prager (May 23, 1903, Karlsruhe – March 16, 1980, Zurich) was a German-born US applied mathematician. In the field of mechanics he is well known for the Drucker–Prager yield criterion.

He was a lecturer at Darmstadt, a deputy director at University of Göttingen, professor at Karlsruhe, University of Istanbul, the University of California, San Diego and Brown University, where he advised Bernard Budiansky. Prager was also on a sabbatical at IBM's research lab in Zurich.[1]

The Society of Engineering Science has awarded the William Prager Medal in Solid Mechanics since 1983 in his honor.[2]

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  1. Speiser, Ambros (1988). "IBM Research Laboratory Zurich: The Early Years". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 20.
  2. William Prager Medal


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