Knowles, James Kenyon (∗April 14th, 1931 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA; †November 1th, 2009 in Sierra Madre, California, USA) was a distinguished applied scientist in the field of continuum mechanics. He made lasting contributions to a broad range of problems in the linear and nonlinear theories of elasticity.
James K. Knowles (1931–2009)
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At 15, James K. Knowles beseeched his mother to buy him a calculus book. He quickly completed working through the book and that set his life course. It was 2 years after his family moved to Phoenix, AZ, from Lakewood, OH, where he was born. Phoenix in 1945 was a small city on the edge of a vast desert where a boy could have a horse and work at a stable.
Skipping 8th grade, he went to North Phoenix High School where he developed leadership skills among a wide circle of friends and as president of a boys’ association. There he added to his love of baseball and horses, with a love of music, art, and the outdoors.
He continued those interests – except...
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Abeyaratne, R., Silling, S. (2019). Knowles, James Kenyon. In: Altenbach, H., Öchsner, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Continuum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53605-6_300-1
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