of material frame-indifference.) Awards Bingham Medal of the Society of Rheology, 1963; Birkhoff Prize of the American Mathematical Society and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1978; Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science at Uppsala University, Sweden 1979; Theodore von Karman Medal, 1996. Selected writings [https://books.google.com/books/about/An_Essay_Toward_a_Unified_Theory_of_Spec.html?id=p1X4KKyU6kEC An Essay towards a Unified Theory of Special Functions], Princeton University Press, 1948. A First Course in Rational Continuum Mechanics, Academic Press, 1977. Vorticity and the Thermodynamic State in a Gas Flow, Gauthier-Villars, 1952. The Kinematics of Vorticity, Indiana University Press, 1954. Rational fluid mechanics, 1687–1765, Orell Füssil, 1954. Rational Thermodynamics, McGraw-Hill, 1969. The Elements of Continuum Mechanics, Springer-Verlag. The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822-1854. . see and another by I. Grattan-Guinness. Great Scientists of Old As Heretics in "the Scientific Method", University of Virginia Press, 1987. . Classical Field Theories of Mechanics, with Toupin, vol. III/1 of Handbuch der Physik edited by Siegfried Flügge. "Non-linear Field Theories of Mechanics", with Walter Noll, volume III/3 of Handbuch der Physik edited by Siegfried Flügge. An Introduction to the Mechanics of Fluids, with K. R. Rajagopal, Birkhauser, Boston, 1999. Essays in the History of Mechanics'', Springer-Verlag, 1968. References Further reading . . External links 1919 births 2000 deaths 20th-century American mathematicians 20th-century American physicists American historians of mathematics Historians of science Johns Hopkins University faculty Rheologists Fluid dynamicists 20th-century American historians