San Francisco Chronicle (CA) - January 19, 1989
Deceased Name: Henry Otten Fuchs
A memorial service will be held tomorrow for Henry Otten Fuchs, professor emeritus in mechanical engineering at Stanford University and an expert in metal fatigue. Mr. Fuchs died Tuesday at Stanford University Hospital at the age of 81.
Mr. Fuchs held 24 patents dealing with metal fatigue - especially in automobiles - and was a world authority in "shot peening," a process to increase the life of metals.
He wrote nearly 100 articles on metal fatigue and was co-author of a book in 1980 titled, "Metal Fatigue in Engineering."
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers selected him for two prestigious awards, the Leonardo da Vinci Award, for contributions to design, and a machine design award.
Mr. Fuchs was born in Strassburg, Germany (now Strasbourg, France), and earned his doctorate in engineering at the University of Karlsruhe. He came to the United States in 1933 and went to work for General Motors Corp. in Detroit as a senior design engineer.
Mr. Fuchs worked for two other engineering firms in the Los Angeles area before coming to Stanford in 1964. Besides teaching at Stanford, he also was a guest lecturer at the University of Detroit, at UCLA, at USC and at UC Berkeley.
He is survived by his wife, Tamara, of Stanford; a daughter, Eva Menkin of Santa Barbara; a sister, Ylse Brieger of Berkeley, four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
The memorial service tomorrow will be at noon at Annenberg Auditorium in the Cummings Art Building at Stanford. Burial will be in Hills of Eternity Memorial Park Jewish Cemetery, Colma.
Donations are preferred to the Stanford Hillel Foundation, Box Y, Stanford 94309.