Prof. Dr. Kumbakonam Rajagopal
On March 21, 2025 Kumbakonam Rajagopal passed away. He was Forsyth Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, where he worked on the entire spectrum of mechanical engineering disciplines. H
He also worked on the interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics and was a member of ISIMM for a very long time.
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Prof. Dr. Gianfranco Capriz
On Monday, Oct. 10th, 2022, morning, Gianfranco Capriz passed away. He was a scholar in mathematical physics, a National Fellow of the Accademia dei Lincei, a fellow of the Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti and of the European Academy of Sciences, a professor emeritus of the University of Pisa, a former student of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.
Professor Capriz served as president of ISIMM from 1996 til 2000.
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Prof. Dr. Philippe Boulanger
Philippe Boulanger, formerly Professor of Mécanique at the Département de Mathématique, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) passed away on January 02, 2017.
Philippe was a founder member of ISIMM and has been an elected member of its Executive Committee.
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Prof. Dr. Michael A. Hayes
Michael A. Hayes, Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University College Dublin and formerly Head of the Department of Mathematical Physics, University College Dublin, passed away in Dublin on January 01, 2017.
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Prof. Dr. Gérard A. Maugin
Géard A. Maugin born at Angers (France) on December 2, 1944, married to Eleni Zachariadou in 1978, passed away in Villejuif (FR) on September 22, 2016, 7 p.m. He had retired from the University of Paris VI since 2010.
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Prof. Dr. Malgorzata Seredyńska
Ma lgorzata Seredynska, a member of the ISIMM, passed away at the age of 65 in Warsaw on Jan. 10, 2016.
She was a very gifted scientist and a warm, friendly and modest human
being. Her papers brought new mathematical insights in mechanics of affinely rigid bodies and in continuum mechanics.
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Prof. Dr. Jean Jacques Moreau
Jean Jacques Moreau passed away in Montpellier at the age of 90, in the night between the 7 and 8 January 2014. During the last three years, although he was needing important medical care and having many difficulties to move, he was always friendly for his visitors, with his well-known and attentive courtesy.
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Prof. Dr. Christof Eck
Christof Eck studied mathematics at the Universities of Konstanz and Stuttgart. Then he joined the research group of Wolfgang Wendland in Stuttgart, where he received his doctoral degree in 1996 with a thesis on contact problems with friction.
He died on the 14th September 2011 after a long cancer disease.
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