Ali H. Nayfeh
| Ali Hasan Nayfeh | |
|---|---|
| Born |
21 December 1933 West Bank town of Tulkarm in Palestine |
| Died | 27 March 2017 (aged 83) |
| Fields | Aerodynamics, structural dynamics, perturbation methods, nonlinear dynamics, aeroelasticity, nonlinear control, MEMS, NEMS, and chaos theory |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Thesis | Generalized Method for Treating Singular Perturbation Problems (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | Milton Van Dyke |
| Notable awards | Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering (2014) |
Ali Hasan Nayfeh (21 December 1933 in the West Bank suburb of Shuwaikah / Tulkarm in occupied Palestine - 27 March 2017) was the inaugural winner of the Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award.
Nayfeh received his B.S. with great distinction in engineering science (1962) and his M.S. (1963) and PhD (1964) in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University. He was a University Distinguished Professor of engineering at Virginia Tech since 1976. He was a volunteer at the University of Jordan. He was the editor-in-chief of Nonlinear Dynamics. He was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Vibration and Control from 1995 until his resignation in May 2014, shortly after he had uncovered a fraudulent peer-review ring.
He held honorary doctorates from Marine Technical University (Russia), Technical University of Munich (Germany), and Politechnika Szczecińska (Poland).
Nayfeh was a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Society of Design and Process Science, and the American Academy of Mechanics.
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