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Tytus Maksymilian Huber

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Tytus Maksymilian Huber (also known as Maksymilian Tytus Huber, 1872-1950) was a world renowned Polish mechanical engineer and scientist. Important member of the pre-war Polish scientific foundation, Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego. Professor of Lviv Polytechnic since 1908, its rector from 1922-1923. Since late 1920s professor and department chair of Warsaw University of Technology, after the Second World War helped organize the Gdańsk University of Technology. Finally since 1949, department chair at AGH University of Science and Technology.

He has formulated the tensile stress theorem, an important equation in studies of tension known also as Huber's equation.


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