This is the fifteenth volume in the series of Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achievements of its members and foreign associates. 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.


Table of Contents


Front Matter
Memorial Tributes
William D. Alexander 1911-2003
Lew Allen, JR. 1925-2010
Neal R. Amundson 1926-2011
John H. Argyris 1913-2004
Holt Ashley 1923-2006
Kermit Earl Brown 1923-2009
Praveen Chaudhari 1937-2010
Aaron Cohen 1931-2010
Charles Concordia 1908-2003
Alfred John Eggers, JR. 1922-2006
Leopold B. Felsen 1924-2005
Evanescent Professors
Iain Finnie 1928-2009
John A. Focht, JR. 1923-2010
George A. Fox 1920-2001
Ferdinand Freudenstein 1926-2006
Robert A. Fuhrman 1925-2009
Haren S. Gandhi 1941-2010
Joseph G. Gavin, JR. 1920-2010
Leslie A. Geddes 1921-2009
Paul Germain 1920-2009
Robert R. Gilruth 1913-2000
Lawrence R. Glosten 1918-2010
Wallace D. Hayes 1918-2001
Ira Grant Hedrick 1913-2008
David R. Heebner 1927-2003
Allan F. Henry 1925-2001
George Herrmann 1921-2007
Walter Herrmann 1930-2000
Walter R. Hibbard, JR. 1918-2010
John Hill 19921-2008
David Clarence Hogg 1921-2009
George W. Housner 1910-2008
W.J. "Jack" Howard 1922-2010
Frederick Jelinek 1932-2010
Amos E. Joel, JR. 1918-2008
Roy G. Johnston 1914-2008
James C. Keck 1924-2010
Edwin E. Kintner 1920-2010
Herbert J. C. Kouts 1919-2008
Thomas R. Kuesel 1926-2010
Joseph Talbot Kummer 1919-1997
(Michael) James Lighthill 1924-1998
Henry R. Linden 1922-2009
A. L. London 1913-2008
John (Jack) P. Longwell 1918-2004
Fred E. Luborsky 1923-2010
Alan G. Macdiarmid 1927-2007
John H. McElroy 1936-2007
Henry L. Michel 1924-2001
Walter Shepard Owen 1920-2007
William H. Phillips 1918-2009
Thomas H. Pigford 1922-2010
Brian H. Rowe 1931-2007
Rustum Roy 1924-2010
George S. Schairer 1913-2004
Manfred Robert Schroeder 1926-2009
Glenn A. Schurman 1922-2010
L. E. (Skip) Scriven 1931-2007
Joanne Simpson 1923-2010
Robert J. Spinrad 1932-2009
H. Guyford Stever 1916-2010
Martin Summerfield 1916-1996
Milton D. Van Dyke 1922-2010
William L. Wearly 1915-2010
John V. Wehausen 1913-2005
Max T. Weiss 1922-2006
Richard T. Whitcomb 1921-2009
Maurice V. Wilkes 1913-2010
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