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The authors reflect the life and career of Iosif Izrailevich-Girshevich Vorovich, a Russian and Soviet mechanist and mathematician. The authors say that Vorovich was born on June 21, 1920 in Bryansk, Soviet Union. The authors mention that he studied at Moscow State University (MSU) and became a military student at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy (ZAFEA). Moreover, Vorovich also worked at Rostov State University (RSU).

The authors reflect on the modelling phase transitions (PT) in deformable solids. They mention that PT in deformable solids is one of the significant problems of continuum mechanics, mechanics of materials, and physics of solids due to the fact that materials in modern engineering went on PT during manufacturing. They also state that PT are the ancestry of mechanisms of shape memory effect and pseudoelasticity also known as superelasticity of shape memory of polymers and alloys.