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Call Number: SC0641
Creator:
Timoshenko, Stephen, 1878-1972
Title: Stephen Timoshenko papers
Dates: 1907-1996
Bulk Dates: 1921-1970
Physical Description:
8 Linear feet
Summary: Correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, galleys, notes,
reprints, photographs, passports, awards, and other items; some materials are in Russian
or German. Correspondents include Dr. L. Prandtl, Cyril O. Rhys, Gunhard Orovas, Elena
Zagustin, and William F. Durand.. His typescript articles are largely on mechanical
stresses and date from ca. 1907 to 1940, with some in Russian; there is also a
typescript biographical essay on James Victor Uspensky, ca. 1947. Other items of note
include a scrapbook (in Russian) with some photographs possibly from a trip to Russia in
1958; his report to Westinghouse on visits to European laboratories, 1934; and Esther
Kaletzky's remarks at the First International Conference of Women Engineers and
Scientists, June 1964. Additional papers added in 2009 pertain to the Timoshenko book
collection in Stanford's Engineering Library but also include copies of Gregory
Timoshenko's "Letters to My Grandchildren," 1983-90, which include information on his
father, Stephen Timoshenko.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Administrative transfer from Engineering Library, 1998-2009.
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is
given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Stephen Timoshenko Papers (SC0641). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Stephen Prokofievitch Timoshenko, a world-renowned authority on theoretical and applied
mechanics, was educated at the Munich Polytechnic Institute and at the University of
Gottingen. He taught at the Polytechnic Institute of Kiev (1907-11) and the Polytechnic
Institute of St. Petersburg (1912-17), before fleeing Russia for Yugoslavia. He taught
at the University of Zagreb from 1920 to 1922, and then moved to the United States. He
was a research engineer at Westinghouse and taught at the University of Michigan before
joining the Stanford faculty in 1936. Although he officially retired in 1944 he
continued to teach and write. His best known works include STRENGTH OF MATERIALS, THEORY
OF ELASTICITY, and ENGINEERING MECHANICS.
Correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, galleys, notes, reprints, photographs,
passports, awards, and other items; some materials are in Russian or German.
Correspondents include Dr. L. Prandtl, Cyril O. Rhys, Gunhard Orovas, Elena Zagustin,
and William F. Durand.. His typescript articles are largely on mechanical stresses and
date from ca. 1907 to 1940, with some in Russian; there is also a typescript
biographical essay on James Victor Uspensky, ca. 1947. Other items of note include a
scrapbook (in Russian) with some photographs possibly from a trip to Russia in 1958; his
report to Westinghouse on visits to European laboratories, 1934; and Esther Kaletzky's
remarks at the First International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists, June
1964. Additional papers added in 2009 pertain to the Timoshenko book collection in
Stanford's Engineering Library but also include copies of Gregory Timoshenko's "Letters
to My Grandchildren," 1983-90, which include information on his father, Stephen
Timoshenko.
Durand, William Frederick, 1859-1958
Kaletzky, Esther.
Prandtl, Ludwig, 1875-1953.
Stanford University--Faculty.
Timoshenko, Gregory.
Timoshenko, Stephen, 1878-1972
Zagustin, Elena.
Mechanics, Applied.
Structural analysis (Engineering).