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Walter Noll (January 7, 1925 June 6, 2017) was a mathematician, and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. He is best known for developing mathematical tools of classical mechanics, thermodynamics, and continuum mechanics.
His thesis "On the Continuity of the Solid and Fluid States" was published both in Journal of Rational Mechanics and Analysis and in one of Truesdell's books. Continuum Mechanics II: The Rational Mechanics of Materials, pages 65–81, (1965) Gordon and Breach Noll thanks Jerald Ericksen for his critical input to the thesis.
Noll has served as a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Karlsruhe, the Israel Institute of Technology, the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine in Nancy, the University of Pisa, the University of Pavia, and the University of Oxford.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-02-24. Noll died on June 6, 2017, at the age of 92. post-gazette.com
"Principle of material objectivity" is now an obsolete term that has been replaced by principle of material frame-indifference.Miroslav Šilhavý, The Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Continuous Media, Springer, 1997: "The Principle of Material Frame Indifference".
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