Ali Hasan Nayfeh (Arabic: علي نايفة) (21 December 1933 – 27 March 2017)[1] was a Palestinian-Jordanian mathematician, mechanical engineer and physicist.
Ali Hasan Nayfeh was born on 21 December 1933, in the neighborhood of Shweikeh in Tulkarem city, in Mandatory Palestine.
He worked as a mathematics teacher at towns and villages in Jordan for ten years, up until he won a scholarship at the age of 26 to study at Stanford University in the United States.
[2] His contributions in nonlinear dynamics have had an impact on numerous practical applications, including devices, structures and systems that are common in daily life.
His pioneering work in nonlinear dynamics, mainly focused on finding stability and predictability in what may appear to be chaos, has been influential and widely adopted by various industries for the construction and maintenance of safe, reliable machines and structures, such as ships, cranes, bridges, buildings, skyscrapers, jet engines, rocket engines, aircraft and spacecraft.