Theodore von Karman Medal
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The Theodore von Karman Medal in Engineering Mechanics is awarded annually to an individual in recognition of his distinguished achievement in engineering mechanics, applicable to any branch of civil engineering
. This award was established and endowed in 1960 in honor of Theodore von Kármán
by the Engineering Mechanics Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers
.
Civil engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...
. This award was established and endowed in 1960 in honor of Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Karman
Theodore von Kármán was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics. He is responsible for many key advances in aerodynamics, notably his work on supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization...
by the Engineering Mechanics Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers
American Society of Civil Engineers
The American Society of Civil Engineers is a professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide. It is the oldest national engineering society in the United States. ASCE's vision is to have engineers positioned as global leaders who strive toward...
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List of recipients
- 1960 William PragerWilliam PragerWilliam Prager was a German-born US applied mathematician.He was a lecturer at Darmstadt, a deputy director at University of Göttingen, professor at Karlsruhe, University of Istanbul, the University of California, San Diego and Brown University, where he advised Bernard Budiansky.The Society of...
- 1961 Raymond D. MindlinRaymond D. MindlinRaymond David Mindlin was a mechanician who made seminal contributions to many branches of applied mechanics, applied physics, and engineering sciences.-Education:...
- 1962 Nathan M. NewmarkNathan M. NewmarkNathan Mortimore Newmark was an American structural engineer and academic. He was awarded the National Medal of Science for engineering.-Early life:...
- 1963 Hunter RouseHunter RouseHunter Rouse was a hydraulician known for his research on the mechanics of fluid turbulence.Rouse was a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, from 1929 until 1933, when he moved to Columbia University...
- 1964 Eric Reissner
- 1965 Warner T. KoiterWarner T. KoiterWarner Tjardus Koiter was an influential mechanical engineer and the Professor of Applied Mechanics at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands from 1949 to 1979.-Life and education:...
- 1966 Daniel C. DruckerDaniel C. DruckerDaniel Charles Drucker was an authority on the theory of plasticity in the field of applied mechanics. He was awarded the Timoshenko Medal in 1983. He taught at Brown University from 1946 until 1968 when he joined the University of Illinois as Dean of Engineering...
- 1967 Maurice A. BiotMaurice Anthony BiotMaurice Anthony Biot was a Belgian-American physicist and the founder of the theory of poroelasticity.Born in Antwerp, Belgium, Biot studied at Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium where he received a bachelor's degrees in philosophy , mining engineering and electrical engineering , and...
- 1968 Lloyd H. Donnell
- 1969 Sir Geoffrey Ingram TaylorGeoffrey Ingram TaylorSir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM was a British physicist, mathematician and expert on fluid dynamics and wave theory. His biographer and one-time student, George Batchelor, described him as "one of the most notable scientists of this century".-Biography:Taylor was born in St. John's Wood, London...
- 1970 Wilhelm M. Flugge
- 1971 Alfred M. Freudenthal
- 1972 Nicholas J. Hoff
- 1973 Hans H. Bleich
- 1974 George W. HousnerGeorge W. HousnerGeorge W. Housner was an eminent authority on earthquake engineering and National Medal of Science laureate. Housner received his Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan where he was influenced by Stephen Timoshenko...
- 1975 John H. Argyris
- 1976 Yuan-Cheng B. Fung
- 1977 George Francis CarrierGeorge F. CarrierGeorge Francis Carrier was a mathematician and the T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Applied Mathematics Emeritus of Harvard University. He was particularly noted for his ability to intuitively model a physical system and then deduce an analytical solution...
- 1978 Rodney HillRodney HillRodney Hill FRS was an applied mathematician and a former Professor of Mechanics of Solids at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge....
- 1979 Henry L. Langhaar
- 1980 George Herrmann
- 1981 Chia-Shun YihChia-Shun YihChia-Shun Yih was the Stephen P. Timoshenko Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. He made many significant contributions to fluid mechanics.-Biography:...
- 1982 Bernard BudianskyBernard BudianskyBernard Budiansky was a renowned scholar in the field of applied mechanics, and made seminal contributions to the mechanics of structures and mechanics of materials. He was a recipient of the Timoshenko Medal.-Biography:...
- 1983 Albert E. Green
- 1984 Stephen H. CrandallStephen H. CrandallStephen Harry Crandall is professor emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He joined the faculty of MIT in 1946 where he taught dynamics and strength of materials until his retirement in 1991 . He was a prolific author of texts in solid mechanics, numerical methods, and random vibration. ...
- 1985 Philip G. Hodge
- 1986 Stanley CorrsinStanley CorrsinStanley Corrsin was an American physicist, fluid dynamicist, and Theophilus Halley Smoot Professor of Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University. He was known for his contributions in the field of fluid dynamics in general and turbulence in particular. He was a recipient of Fluid Dynamics Prize...
- 1987 Richard SkalakRichard SkalakRichard Skalak was a pioneer in biomedical engineering. He is known for his groundbreaking work in the mechanics of blood flow, bone growth, white blood cell response to infections, and biological implications and responses to implants...
- 1988 Tung-Hua Lin
- 1989 Egor P. PopovEgor PopovEgor P. Popov was a structural and seismic engineer who helped to transform the design of buildings, structures, and civil engineering marvels around earthquake-prone regions. Popov was born in Kiev, Ukraine, and after moving to America in 1927, he eventually earned a B.S...
- 1990 John Dundurs
- 1991 Bruno A. Boley
- 1992 John Tinsley OdenJ. Tinsley OdenJ. Tinsley Oden is the Associate Vice President for Research, the Director of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, the Cockrell Family Regents' Chair in Engineering #2, the Peter O'Donnell Jr...
- 1993 Ronald S. RivlinRonald RivlinRonald Samuel Rivlin was a British-American physicist, mathematician, rheologist and a noted expert on rubber.-Life:Rivlin was born in London in 1915. He studied physics and mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge, being awarded a BA in 1937 and a ScD in 1952...
- 1994 Masanobu ShinozukaMasanobu ShinozukaMasanobu Shinozuka is a Japanese applied mechanics expert in earthquake and structural engineering and Distinguished Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at University of California, Irvine. He is also the university's chair of research committee for the Multidisciplinary Center for...
- 1995 Ray W. CloughRay W. CloughRay William Clough, , was Byron L. and Elvira E. Nishkian Professor of Structural Engineering in the department of Civil Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and one the founders of the Finite Element Method . His article in 1956 was one of the first applications of this...
- 1996 Clifford A. TruesdellClifford TruesdellClifford Ambrose Truesdell III was an American mathematician, natural philosopher, historian of science, and polemicist.-Life:...
- 1998 Y. K. Lin
- 1999 Ted BelytschkoTed BelytschkoTed Bohdan Belytschko is an American mechanical engineer. He is Walter P. Murphy Professor and McCormick Professor of Computational Mechanics at Northwestern University. He works in field of computational solid mechanics and is known for development of methods like element-free Galerkin methods...
- 2000 Robert H. ScanlanRobert H. ScanlanRobert H. Scanlan was a civil and aeronautical engineer who came to be widely recognized as a leader in the analysis of wind effects on large structures. Scanlan created the concept of flutter derivatives to aid in the representation of self-excited forces in theoretical models...
- 2001 Anestis S. Veletsos
- 2002 Thomas K. Caughey
- 2003 Pol D. Spanos
- 2004 Theodore Yao-tsu WuTheodore Y. WuTheodore Yaotsu Wu is a Professor Emeritus of Engineering Science at the California Institute of Technology. His research contribution includes compressible fluid flow, free-streamline theory of cavities, jets and wakes, water waves and free-surface flows, mechanics of fish swimming and...
- 2005 Zdenek P. Bazant
- 2006 George J. Dvorak
- 2007 Chiang C. MeiChiang C. MeiChiang Chung "CC" Mei is Ford Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known for his contributions in fluid mechanics with applications to civil, environmental, and coastal engineering.He has been an...
- 2008 Sia Nemat-Nassar
- 2009 Thomas J. R. Hughes
- 2010 Jan D. AchenbachJan D. Achenbach-External links:...
- 2011 Ernst Krogager