Ahmed Cemal Eringen

Ahmet Cemal Eringen, listed here as Ahmed Cemal Eringen, was a Turkish engineering scientist who lived from 1921 to 2009 and spent his later career at American universities. Born in Kayseri, he graduated from Istanbul Technical University in 1943, worked for the Turkish Aircraft Company and trained at the Glenn L. Martin Company, then took his doctorate in applied mechanics at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1948 under Nicholas J. Hoff. He taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology and at Purdue University before joining Princeton University in 1966 as professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering; he later held a professorship in continuum mechanics there and retired in 1991 as dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. His work dealt with continuum mechanics, the electrodynamics of continua and material theories, and he wrote books such as Mechanics of Continua and Nonlocal Continuum Field Theories. He founded the Society of Engineering Science and served as its president from 1963 to 1973, and its A. C. Eringen Medal is named in his honor. The University of Glasgow gave him an honorary doctorate in 1981.