Richard M. Christensen

Richard M. Christensen was an American academic writer and professor of engineering.

Biography Richard Monson Christensen was born July 3, 1932, in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at the University of Utah in 1955, and went on to earn his master’s in engineering at Yale University in 1956.

Christensen completed his D.Eng. from Yale University in 1961.

Christensen began his career at the University of California, Berkeley.

In 1988, he joined UC Davis and served as a professor until July 1994, when he became a professor research emeritus at Stanford University.

In 2013, he received the Timoshenko Medal.

His book, The Theory of Materials Failure has been reviewed by Contemporary Physics.

Awards Worcester Reed Warner Gold Medal (1988) William Prager Medal Timoshenko Medal (2013) The Theory of Materials Failure (2013)