Drucker, Daniel Charles

Daniel Charles Drucker (^∗June 3, 1918 in New York, USA; †September 1, 2001 in Gainesville, Florida, USA) was a civil and mechanical engineer and academic, who served as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1973–1974 and as president of the American Academy of Mechanics in 1981–1982

Daniel Charles Drucker

Education

Daniel C. Drucker started his engineering career as a student at Columbia University since his father Moses Abraham Drucker was a civil engineer. His ambition was to design bridges, and he obtained his BSc in civil engineering in 1938. As a student he met Raymond D. Mindlin who was later a founding member and president of the Society for Experimental Stress Analysis (now known as the Society for Experimental Mechanics). Mindlin offered Drucker to prepare a PhD thesis under his supervision. In 1940 he submitted the thesis “Stress analysis by three-dimensional photoelastic methods" and was graduated in mechanical engineering at Columbia...