Memorial Tributes: Volume 19 (2015)
Chapter: Front Matter
Memorial Tributes
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Memorial Tributes
Volume 19
THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS
WASHINGTON, DC 2015
International Standard Book Number-13: 978-0-309-37720-1
International Standard Book Number-10: 0-309-37720-X
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CONTENTS
by Joseph F. Malina Jr. and Randall J. Chareneau
Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary
Reproduced with the permission of the Office of General Faculty and Faculty Council at the University of Texas at Austin
by Leslie G. Smith and James A. Hutchinson
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by Vitelmo V. Bertero, Joseph Penzien, Karl S. Pister, and Egor P. Popov
Reprinted with the permission of the University of California Academic Senate
by Eduardo Wolf
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by Wolcott Dunham
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by Michael V. Ciminera
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by Burtron H. Davis and Hayward B. Oblad
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by Anil K. Chopra and Karl S. Pister
Reprinted with the permission of the University of California Academic Senate
by Leonard J. Bond
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by Anita Brown
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by Michael D. Rich
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Reprinted with the permission of the University of California Academic Senate
by Stephen R. Connors
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by R. Allan Freeze, Iraj Javandel, and Shlomo P. Neuman
Reproduced with permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
THIS IS THE NINETEENTH VOLUME in the Memorial Tributes series compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achievements of its members and foreign members. These volumes are intended to stand as an enduring record of the many contributions of engineers and engineering to the benefit of humankind. In most cases, the authors of the tributes are contemporaries or colleagues who had personal knowledge of the interests and the engineering accomplishments of the deceased.
Through its members and foreign members,* the Academy carries out the responsibilities for which it was established in 1964. Under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering was formed as a parallel organization of outstanding engineers. Members are elected by their peers on the basis of significant contributions to engineering theory and practice and to the literature of engineering or on the basis of demonstrated exceptional accomplishments in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine share a responsibility to advise the federal
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* Until May 2014 foreign members were known as foreign associates.
government on matters of science and technology. The expertise and credibility that the National Academy of Engineering brings to that task stem directly from the abilities, interests, and achievements of our members and foreign members, our colleagues and friends, whose special gifts we remember in these pages.
Thomas F. Budinger
Home Secretary
