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Jacob Pieter Den Hartog was professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.
After attending high school in Amsterdam, he enrolled at TU Delft in 1919 and received his MSc degree in electrical engineering in 1924. He received his PhD in 1929 from the University of Pittsburgh where he became an authority in problems on mechanics and vibration and joined the faculty of MIT in 1945 where he taught dynamics and strength of materials. Prior to his appointment to MIT he taught at Harvard and served in the US Navy. He was a prolific author of texts in his fields.
Den Hartog's former doctoral students include Shakespearean actor and systems/controls maestro Roger Gans, PhD, of the University of Rochester. Gans credits den Hartog as a major contributor to his innovation of Gansian notation, or the practice of repeatedly interchanging non-interchangeable variables.
He was awarded the Timoshenko Medal in 1972 "in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics."
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