Portrait of Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz
Date
1979
Sitter
Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz (1921 - 2009, British) , Mathematician
Creator
Godfrey Argent (1937 - 2006, British) , Photographer
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Dimensions
height (print): 200mm
width (print): 150mm
width (print): 150mm
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Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz posed with shoulder square on with head turned to the left and looking off to the distance. He has a goatee-style beard and is dressed in mid-tone plaid suit jacket, shite shirt and silk tie with floral motif.
Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz (1921-2009) Polish-born British mathematician and civil engineer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1979. He was awarded the Royal Medal in 1990 in recognition of his pioneering development of the finite element method as a general procedure of solving problems of engineering physics and for demonstrating its success in applications to stress analysis, fluid mechanics, electromagnetics and many other situations.
Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz (1921-2009) Polish-born British mathematician and civil engineer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1979. He was awarded the Royal Medal in 1990 in recognition of his pioneering development of the finite element method as a general procedure of solving problems of engineering physics and for demonstrating its success in applications to stress analysis, fluid mechanics, electromagnetics and many other situations.
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