Morton Edward Gurtin (Jersey City, ) é um engenheiro mecânico que se tornou matemático e, de facto, um físico matemático.
Prêmios e distinções National Defense Fellow (1959-61), Brown University Guggenheim Fellow e Senior Fulbright-Hays Research Fellow (1974), Universidade de Pisa, Itália Honorary Fellow (1981-1982) da Universidade de Wisconsin-Madison. Mathematics Research Center, Madison Ordway Professor (1990), Universidade de Minnesota, Minneapolis Medalha Timoshenko, em 2004 Cataldo e Angiola Agostinelli Prize (prêmio anual de matemática pura e aplicada e de física matemática), Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Itália (2001) Mellon College of Science's Richard A. Moore Award for Lifetime Education Contributions, Carnegie Mellon University (1999) Dottore Honoris Causa, Civil Engineering, Universidade de Roma Distinguished Graduate School Alumnus Award, Universidade Brown
Publicações selecionadas Fundamentos da termodinâmica do contínuo Geometric Measure Theory and the Axioms of Continuum Thermodynamics, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 1985 (with W. Williams and W. Ziemer) Thermodynamics and Stability, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 59, 1975 An Axiomatic Foundation for Continuum Thermodynamics, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 26, 1967 (with W. Williams)
Livros e artigos enciclopédicos Configurational Forces as Basic Concepts in Continuum Physics, SpringerVerlag (2000) Thermomechanics of Evolving Phase Boundaries in the Plane, Oxford University Press (1993) An Introduction to Continuum Mechanics, Academic Press (1982) Topics in Finite Elasticity, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (1981) The Linear Theory of Elasticity, Handbuch der Physik,Vol. VIa/2, SpringerVerlag (1972) Wave Propagation in Dissipative Materials (with B.D. Coleman, I. Herrera, and C. Truesdell), Springer-Verlag (1965)
Artigos selecionados A gradient theory of single crystal viscoplasticity that accounts for geometrically necessary dislocations, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 50, 5-32 (2002) On the characterization of geometrically necessary dislocations in finite plasticity (with P. Cermelli) Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 49, 1539–1568 (2001) On the plasticity of single crystals: free energy, microforces, plastic-strain gradients, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 48, 898–1036 (2000) Configurational forces and a constitutive theory for crack propagation that allows for curving and kinking (with P. Podio- Guidugli), Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 46, 1343–1378 (1998) Dynamical theories of electromagnetism and superconductivity based on gauge invariance and energy, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 137, 49–97 (1997) Generalized Ginzburg-Landau and Cahn-Hilliard equations based on a microforce balance, Physica D 92, 178–192 (1996) On the nature of configurational forces, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 131, 67–100 (1995) The dynamics of solid-solid phase transitions. 1. Coherent interfaces, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 123, 305–335 (1993). Addendum: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 126, 387-394 (1994) The continuum mechanics of coherent two-phase elastic solids with mass transport (with P. W. Voorhees) Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A440, 323–343 (1993) On the two-phase Stefan problem with interfacial energy and entropy. Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 96, 199–241 (1986) Nonlinear age-dependent population dynamics (with R.C. MacCamy), Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 54, 281–300 (1974) An axiomatic foundation for continuum thermodynamics (with Williams), Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 1963
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