![]() At Columbia he was exposed to fundamental applied physics, rather than just elements of structural engineering, and with his advisor, Raymond Mindlin, wrote his first paper, “Dispersion of Flexural Waves in an Elastic, Circular Cylinder,” a classical subject of applied dynamics. He came to the United States and obtained an MS degree in engineering mechanics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and went on to Columbia University where he received his PhD in wave propagation in solids in 1959. He studied first at National Chiao Tung University in Shanghai for two years and, after the Chinese Civil War, finished his studies at National Taiwan University in Taipei in 1952 with a BS in civil engineering. He was born January 19, 1930, in Nanking, China. YIH-HSING PAO, a mechanical engineer whose research interest was in the dynamics of solid materials, especially wave propagation and ultrasonics, died June 18, 2013, at age 83. MOON, KOLUMBAN HUTTER, AND WOLFGANG SACHSE “For contributions of basic significance and for stimulating innovative applications in the field of wave propagation in elastic solids.” BY FRANCIS C.
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