Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz CBE FREng FRS (18 May 1921 – 2 January 2009) was a British academic of Polish descent mathematician and civil engineer. He was born in Caterham England. He was one of the early pioneers of the finite element method. Since his first paper in 1947 dealing with numerical approximation to the stress analysis of dams he published nearly 600 papers and wrote or edited more than 25 books.
award
Institution of Structural Engineers
birth date
1921-05-18
birth place
Caterham
death date
2009-01-02
death place
Swansea
discipline
Structural engineer, Civil engineer
education
Imperial College London
institution
Institution of Structural Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers
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