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Daniel C. Drucker
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<h2 id="biography">Biography</h2> <h3>Youth and education</h3> <p>Drucker was born in <a href="/facts/New_York_City/YlyvFmVC">New York City</a>. His father Moses Abraham Drucker was a civil engineer, and Drucker wanted to follow in his footsteps.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p><p>Drucker studied at the <a href="/facts/Columbia_University/Hlf1gw53">Columbia University</a>, where he obtained his BSc in <a href="/facts/Civil_engineering/avh5kEq2">civil engineering</a> in 1938. Next, in 1940 he obtained his PhD in mechanical engineering under <a href="/facts/Raymond_D._Mindlin/hd2X8yja">Raymond D. Mindlin</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> <h3>Career, honours and awards</h3> <p>Between 1940 and 1943, Drucker taught at <a href="/facts/Cornell_University/FGyXuXeI">Cornell University</a>, later joining the <a href="/facts/Armour_Research_Foundation/cDgFNgpK">Armour Research Foundation</a>. After his U.S. Army Air Corps service, he briefly returned to the <a href="/facts/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology/0ndIXaKQ">Illinois Institute of Technology</a>, then he taught at <a href="/facts/Brown_University/o9MRu4jx">Brown University</a> from 1946 until 1968 when he joined the <a href="/facts/University_of_Illinois/gusw7HoS">University of Illinois</a> as Dean of Engineering.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> In 1984 he left Illinois to become a graduate research professor at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Florida/zGg0HXXs">University of Florida</a> until his retirement in 1994. </p><p>He received the <a href="/facts/William_M._Murray_(engineer)/zBF57Iz4">Murray</a> Lecture and Award in 1967,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> title the seventh Honorary Member in 1969,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> <a href="/facts/Max_M._Frocht/wAKze1UJ">Frocht</a> Award in 1971<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> and title of <a href="/facts/List_of_Fellows_of_the_Society_for_Experimental_Mechanics/9cexsyPY">Fellow</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> from the Society for Strain Analysis (SESA), now known as the <a href="/facts/Society_for_Experimental_Mechanics/6IgR2XT1">Society for Experimental</a> Mechanics (SEM). In 1988, Drucker was awarded the <a href="/facts/National_Medal_of_Science/2N3FDKNS">National Medal of Science</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> He was a member of the <a href="/facts/National_Academy_of_Engineering/6RCqfvXM">National Academy of Engineering</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> and of the <a href="/facts/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences/KptWYgz4">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>. The <a href="/facts/Drucker_Medal/CJo63Sfd">Drucker Medal</a> is named in his honor.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> He was also awarded the <a href="/facts/Timoshenko_Medal/CDSudf4b">Timoshenko Medal</a> in 1983. </p> <h2 id="daniel-c-drucker-medal">Daniel C. Drucker Medal</h2> <p class="note">Main article: <a href="/facts/Drucker_Medal/CJo63Sfd">Drucker Medal</a></p> <p>The Daniel C. Drucker Medal, awarded by the <a href="/facts/American_Society_of_Mechanical_Engineers/gpM3UR6G">American Society of Mechanical Engineers</a>, was named in his honor in 1998.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> Drucker was the first recipient of this annual award. </p> <ul><li>1998 Daniel C. Drucker</li> <li>1999 <a href="/facts/Ascher_H._Shapiro/pMAPSVDU">Ascher H. Shapiro</a></li> <li>2000 <a href="/facts/Philip_G._Hodge/YYLWuu87">Philip G. Hodge</a></li> <li>2001 <a href="/facts/Bruno_A._Boley/IBml4rl6">Bruno A. Boley</a></li> <li>2002 George J. Dvorak</li> <li>2003 <a href="/facts/Leon_M._Keer/D1yR54kX">Leon M. Keer</a></li> <li>2004 <a href="/facts/Frank_A._McClintock/Y4rzaf30">Frank A. McClintock</a></li> <li>2005 Robert L. Taylor</li> <li>2006 <a href="/facts/Alan_Needleman/aXUN8UEj">Alan Needleman</a></li> <li>2007 <a href="/facts/Albert_S._Kobayashi/o2ucuXFy">Albert S. Kobayashi</a></li> <li>2008 Thomas C. T. Ting</li> <li>2009 James R. Barber</li> <li>2010 <a href="/facts/Rohan_Abeyaratne/FL661EcP">Rohan Abeyaratne</a></li> <li>2011 <a href="/facts/John_W._Rudnicki/2zJ3zM6g">John W. Rudnicki</a></li> <li>2012 <a href="/facts/James_W._Dally/Bl7vrSWQ">James W. Dally</a></li> <li>2013 <a href="/facts/Yonggang_Huang/XE9MSkSs">Yonggang Huang</a></li> <li>2014 <a href="/facts/Lallit_Anand/rBCKXtIf">Lallit Anand</a></li> <li>2015 Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar</li> <li>2016 Kyung-Suk Kim</li> <li>2017 David Parks</li> <li>2018 David M. Barnett</li> <li>2019 John Bassani<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a></li> <li>2020 Glaucio H. Paulino</li> <li>2021 <a href="/facts/Markus_J._Buehler/gwHFrfYE">Markus J. Buehler</a></li></ul> <h2 id="death">Death</h2> <p>Drucker died from <a href="/facts/Leukemia/WpEfW0Qh">leukemia</a> on September 1, 2001.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="selected-publications">Selected publications</h2> <ul><li>An evaluation of current knowledge of the mechanics of brittle fracture</li> <li>Constitutive relations for finite deformation of polycrystalline metals : proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium, held in Beijing, China, July 22–25, 1991</li> <li>Fracture of solids : proceedings of an international conference sponsored by the Institute of Metals Division, American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Maple Valley, Washington, August 21–24, 1962</li> <li>Introduction to mechanics of deformable solids</li> <li>Macroscopic fundamentals in brittle fracture, 1967:</li> <li>Mechanics of material behavior, 1983:</li> <li>On fitting mathematical theories of plasticity to experimental results</li> <li>Plastic design methods - advantages and limitations</li> <li>Stress analysis by three-dimensional photoclastic methods</li> <li>Stress-strain relations in the plastic range : a survey of theory and experiment</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.nap.edu/read/21785/chapter/20">Daniel C. Drucker</a>, NAP, Memorial Tributes</li> <li><a href="https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=14373">Daniel C. Drucker</a> at the <a href="/facts/Mathematics_Genealogy_Project/J7AFo1Do">Mathematics Genealogy Project</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"The Old and New…: A Narrative on the History of the Society for Experimental Mechanics". IEEE. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved 2021-12-21. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211221190043/https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8345204" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20211221190043/https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8345204</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Charles E. Taylor. "DR. DANIEL C. DRUCKER 1918-2001: AAM President 1981-82 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine," at coewww.rutgers.edu. Accessed 2017-09-23. <a href="http://coewww.rutgers.edu/aam/obituary/drucker.html" target="_blank">http://coewww.rutgers.edu/aam/obituary/drucker.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>G.J. Dvorak, R.T. Shield. Mechanics of Material Behavior: The Daniel C. Drucker Anniversary Volume, 2016. p. 1 <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>G.J. Dvorak, R.T. Shield. Mechanics of Material Behavior: The Daniel C. Drucker Anniversary Volume, 2016. p. 1 <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"DANIEL C. DRUCKER 1918–2001". NAE Website. Retrieved 2021-12-21. <a href="https://nae.edu/190386/DANIEL-C-DRUCKER-19182001" target="_blank">https://nae.edu/190386/DANIEL-C-DRUCKER-19182001</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"Society for Experimental Mechanics". sem.org. Retrieved 2021-12-21. <a href="https://sem.org/awardsmurray" target="_blank">https://sem.org/awardsmurray</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Society for Experimental Mechanics". sem.org. Retrieved 2021-12-21. <a href="https://sem.org/awardshonorary" target="_blank">https://sem.org/awardshonorary</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"Society for Experimental Mechanics". sem.org. Retrieved 2021-12-21. <a href="https://sem.org/awardsfrocht" target="_blank">https://sem.org/awardsfrocht</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>"Society for Experimental Mechanics". sem.org. Retrieved 2021-12-21. <a href="https://sem.org/awardsfellow" target="_blank">https://sem.org/awardsfellow</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>National Science Foundation - The President's National Medal of Science <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/recip_details.cfm?recip_id=112" target="_blank">https://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/recip_details.cfm?recip_id=112</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>"Dr. Daniel C. Drucker". NAE Website. Retrieved 2021-12-21. <a href="https://nae.edu/29464/Dr-Daniel-C-Drucker" target="_blank">https://nae.edu/29464/Dr-Daniel-C-Drucker</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>"Daniel C. Drucker Medal". www.asme.org. Retrieved 2021-12-21. <a href="https://www.asme.org/About-ASME/Honors-Awards/Achievement-Awards/Daniel-C-Drucker-Medal" target="_blank">https://www.asme.org/About-ASME/Honors-Awards/Achievement-Awards/Daniel-C-Drucker-Medal</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>Offizielle Webseite <a href="http://www.asme.org/about-asme/honors-awards/achievement-awards/daniel-c--drucker-medal" target="_blank">http://www.asme.org/about-asme/honors-awards/achievement-awards/daniel-c--drucker-medal</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>"2019 Daniel C. Drucker Medal - Professor John Bassani". imechanica.org. 2019-07-07. Retrieved 2019-07-07. <a href="https://imechanica.org/node/23418" target="_blank">https://imechanica.org/node/23418</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>"American Academy of Mechanics Obituary". Archived from the original on 2016-10-26. Retrieved 2008-01-09. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161026024434/http://www.aamech.org/obituary/drucker.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20161026024434/http://www.aamech.org/obituary/drucker.html</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>