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Correspondence of Marcel Riesz with Swedes. Part II. file: Riesz1.tex

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0.17. FOLKE ODQVIST 47<br />

0.17 Folke Odqvist<br />

Remark 1 The letter was signed Folke, so from the onset it was not all<br />

clear who its author might be. So I sent a quaery to Utskicket. To this I got<br />

an email from Anders Martin-Löf at SU, suggesting that it might be Folke<br />

Odqvist. So I looked it up in [162], and lo and behold! it was him. Let us<br />

quote:<br />

• En studieresa till USA som Svenska Amerika stiftelsens stipendiat 1925-<br />

1926 ägnades bla. åt experimentella strömstudier vid MIT i Cambridge.<br />

Translation:<br />

He went to the US <strong>with</strong> a grant from the Swedish American Foundation in 1925-<br />

1926, devoting himself, among other things, to experimental study <strong>of</strong> flows at the MIT in<br />

Cambridge.<br />

For a long time, we thougt that addressee was undoubtedly Folke Odqvist’s<br />

own carnal brother, not a spiritual one, but this turned to be manifestly wrong.<br />

For one thing, Odqvist had no brother. We now believe that instead it is<br />

Håkan Prawitz.<br />

0.17.1 Letter from Folke Odqvist, Cambridge, Mass.<br />

to Håkan Prawitz. Dec 16, 1925<br />

17 Dana Str., Cambridge, Mass.<br />

16. dec. 1925<br />

Broder Håkan,<br />

Landsflyktig i barbarernas land, skriver jag till dig i rent egoistiskt syfte.<br />

Jag har nämligen vid undersökning av ett 2-dimension/ellt hydrodynamiskt<br />

30 Folke Odqvist (1899–1984), theoretician <strong>of</strong> Solid Mechanics, pr<strong>of</strong>essor at KTH<br />

1936–66, prorector 1943–66. With a backgrund as a technician and a hydrodynamist, O.<br />

developed theories for plastic deformation <strong>of</strong> metals, creep deformation and creep break,<br />

leading to international recognition. His text-book ”Hållfasthetslära” (Solid Mechanics,<br />

1948, 3 editions)had a great importanxe also as a hand-book. O., who was the President <strong>of</strong><br />

the International Union <strong>of</strong> Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 1950, was also a promineny<br />

figure <strong>with</strong>in Solid Mechanics. [114].

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