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Truesdell, Clifford Ambrose III

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Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III (February 18th, 1919 in Los Angeles, CA, USA; †January 14th, 2000 in Baltimore, MD, USA) was a mathematician, natural philosopher, and historian of science.

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Altenbach, H., Bruhns, O.T. (2019). Truesdell, Clifford Ambrose III. In: Altenbach, H., Öchsner, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Continuum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53605-6_129-1

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