Augustus Edward Hough Love
(1863-1940)

Augustus Edward Hough Love was an outstanding English elastician who taught at Oxford University. His many important investigations included the analysis of seismic surface waves, now called Love waves by geophysicists.

From Mechanics of Materials, 4th Ed., by J.M. Gere and S.P. Timoshenko, PWS Publishing, 1997, pp. 835-42.