biography
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Timoshenko, Step(h)an Prokofyevich
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| male
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| lived:
| (1878–1972)
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| biography:
| Civil engineer and educator, born in St Petersburg, Russia. He worked as a railway engineer, and in 1906 began as a lecturer at Kiev University. He fled the Soviet Union, emigrating to the USA in 1922. He taught structural engineering at Stanford (1936–54) and contributed to theoretical and applied mechanics. |
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