This article is prepared on the occasion of awarding Professor A.N. Guz the ICCES Lifetime Achievement Medal and was read as a lecture at the International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering and Sciences (ICCES-12), Greece, Crete, April 30–May 4, 2012. Four important mile-stones in the scientific life of A. N. Guz are shown and discussed: defense of doctor of sciences dissertation, forming of new scientific areas and scientific school, directorship at the S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics, preparation of many monographs, which can be classified as the first ones in the world’s scientific literature
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* Read at the Symposium “Nonlinear and Linearized Problems of Solid Mechanics, Fracture Mechanics and Related Topics” in Honor of Professor Alexander Guz, on the Occasion of his receiving the ICCES Lifetime Achievement Medal at the ICCES-12 International Scientific Conference (Greece, Crete, April 30–May 4, 2012).
Published in Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 5–13, July–August 2013.
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Rushchitsky, J.J. On Some Mile-Stones in Scientific Life of Professor Alexander N. Guz*. Int Appl Mech 49, 381–387 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10778-013-0577-7
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