Richard von Mises (1883–1953), Mathematician.

Born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (in today's Ukraine), Richard von Mises received his education in mathematics, physics and engineering at the Vienna University of Technology. Von Mises held high-ranking positions at the Technische Hochschule in Dresden and at the University of Berlin before moving to Istanbul in 1933 due to the rise of the Nazis. He came to the United States in 1939, where he served as the Gordon McKay Professor of Aerodynamics and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. Von Mises made substantial contributions in the field of aerodynamics and developed the distortion energy theory of stress, an important concept in the calculation of material strength in engineering. Richard von Mises was the brother of the famed economist Ludwig von Mises (Austrian School of Economics).