Jacob Pieter Den Hartog

Mechanical Engineer, Author

1901 – 1989

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Who was Jacob Pieter Den Hartog?

Jacob Pieter Den Hartog was professor of mechanical engineering at MIT.

After attending high school in Amsterdam, he enrolled at Delft University of Technology in 1919 and received his MSc degree in electrical engineering in 1924. Den Hartog received his PhD in 1929 at the University of Pittsburgh where he became an authority in problems on mechanics and vibration and joined the faculty at MIT in 1945 where he taught dynamics and strength of materials. Prior to his MIT appointment 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. 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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Born
Jul 23, 1901
Ambarawa
Also known as
  • Ден-Гартог, Якоб
Profession
Education
  • Delft University of Technology
  • University of Pittsburgh
Employment
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Died
Mar 17, 1989

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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