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Stephen Harry Crandall (∗December 2, 1920 in Cebu, Philippines – † October 29, 2013 was a in Needham, MA, USA) was a civil engineer and professor of mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Elishakoff, I. (2020). Crandall, Stephen Harry. In: Altenbach, H., Öchsner, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Continuum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53605-6_355-2

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