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Date of Birth
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1934
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Place of Birth
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Jersey City
(Hudson County, New Jersey, United States of America, Area code 551, Area code 201, Area codes 201 and 551)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Morton E. Gurtin
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Profession
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Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer
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Morton E. Gurtin is a mechanical engineer who became a mathematician and de facto mathematical physicist. He is an emeritus professor of mathematical sciences at Carnegie-Mellon University, where for many years he held an endowed chair as the Alumni Professor of Mathematical Science. His main work is in materials science, in the form of the mathematical, rational mechanics of non-linear continuum mechanics and thermodynamics, in the style of Clifford Truesdell and Walter Noll, a field also known under the combined name of continuum thermomechanics. He has published over 250 papers, many among them in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, as well as a number of books.
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