Tytus Maksymilian Huber (also known as Maksymilian Tytus Huber; 4 January 1872 in Krościenko nad Dunajcem – 9 December 1950) was a Polish mechanical engineer, educator, and scientist. He was a member of the pre-war Polish scientific foundation, Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego.
His career began as a professor at Lwów Polytechnic (now known as the Lviv Polytechnic) in 1908, later serving as rector from 1922 to 1923. In the late 1920s, he was a professor and department chair of Warsaw University of Technology. After the Second World War, he helped organize the Gdańsk University of Technology.
In 1949, he was named department chair at AGH University of Science and Technology, serving until his death the following year, at the age of 78.
Tensile Stress Theorem
He formulated the tensile stress theorem, an important equation in the study of tension, also known as Huber's equation.
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- (in Polish) PROFESOR HUBER -naukowiec, społecznik, ostatni prezes Kasy im. Mianowskiego, retrieved 2008-05-31. Archived 2008-02-10 at the Wayback Machine
- (in Polish) Sylwetka profesora Tytusa Maksymiliana Hubera. Archived 2008-02-03 at the Wayback Machine