NEUBER, Heinz (1906-1989)
| 1955-1975 | Chair holder and head of the ´Materialprüfamt |
| 1962 | Honorary doctorate (Dr. rer. nat. h.c.) of the Montanakademie Freiberg; External member of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic; Full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences |
| 1955 | Material tests for third-party under the ministerially enacted name 'Staatliches Materialprüfamt für den Maschinenbau' (MPA, State Material Testing Laboratory for Mechanical Engineering) |
| 1957 | Setting up of the laboratory sections 'Photoelasticity' and 'Testing of Polymers' |
Outstanding contributions to research
- Fundamental contributions to elasticity, especially on stress concentration problems, e.g., the famous monograph ´Kerbspannungslehre = theory of notch stress concentration´ (1st ed. 1937), theory of micro- and macrobacking (´Neuber rule´)
- Innovations and improvements of the stress optical methods
- Contributions to the scale effect on fatigue strength