16 Facts About Jerald Ericksen

Jerald LaVerne Ericksen was an American mathematician specializing in continuum mechanics.

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Jerald Ericksen was trained as an officer, first at University of Idaho, Pocatello, and then was transferred to NROTC at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Jerald Ericksen married Marion on February 24,1946 and resigned from the service that summer.

Jerald Ericksen was a mathematics major and had a minor in Naval Science.

Jerald Ericksen went on to Indiana University Bloomington seeking to find applications, besides teaching, for his mathematical skill.

Jerald Ericksen began to partake in the Society of Rheology and acted as a consultant to a polymer group in the National Bureau of Standards.

Jerald Ericksen explained that HUAC officials interrogated him about communist sympathizers in the era of McCarthyism.

In 1957 Jerald Ericksen received an offer from the Mechanical Engineering department of Johns Hopkins University.

Jerald Ericksen became interested in anisotropic liquids and began to develop a "properly invariant theory of a fluid with a single preferred direction".

In 1982 Jerald Ericksen moved to University of Minnesota where he took a joint appointment in the School of Mathematics and the Aerospace and Mechanics Department.

Further, Jerald Ericksen taught a course in Thermodynamics of Solids, which he developed into a textbook published in 1998.

Jerald Ericksen was instrumental in the year- long program in continuum physics and partial differential equations held by the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications where Millard Beatty was a visitor.

Jerald Ericksen received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in July 1988.

Jerald Ericksen retired at age 65 and moved with Marion to Florence, Oregon.

Jerald Ericksen died on June 11,2021 at the age of 96.