This is the 20th Volume in the series 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. Through its members and foreign associates, 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 on the basis of significant contributions to engineering theory and practice and to the literature of engineering or on the basis of demonstrated unusual accomplishments in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology. The National Academies share a responsibility to advise the federal 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 associates, our colleagues and friends, whose special gifts we remember in this book.


Table of Contents


Front Matter
WILLIAM F. ALLEN JR.
CHARLES A. AMANN
FREDERICK T. ANDREWS
ALBERT L. BABB
JAMES E. BAILEY
RICHARD H. BATTIN
TED B. BELYTSCHKO
ARTHUR E. BERGLES
J. ROBERT BEYSTER
HENDRIK B.G. CASIMIR
SUBRATA K. CHAKRABARTI
ESTHER M. CONWELL
EUGENE C. FIGG JR.
VLADIMIR HAENSEL
R. RICHARD HEPPE
PHILIP G. HODGE
JOHN C. HOUBOLT
THOMAS P. HUGHES
CHARLES V. JAKOWATZ JR.
H. RICHARD JOHNSON
HOWARD H. KEHRL
ANTHONY KELLY
THEODORE C. KENNEDY
GLENN F. KNOLL
RIKI KOBAYASHI
CHARLES C. LADD
FREDERICK F. LING
ROBIN MILNER
JOHN B. MOONEY JR.
RICHARD K. MOORE
MARK V. MORKOVIN
TOSHIO MURA
THOMAS J. MURRIN
YURI A. OSSIPYAN
LAWRENCE T. PAPAY
NORBERT PETERS
ROBERT PRICE
ALLEN E. PUCKETT
DENNIS M. RITCHIE
HERBERT B. ROTHMAN
ANDREW P. SAGE
THORNDIKE SAVILLE JR.
ROBERT S. SCHECHTER
REINHARDT SCHUHMANN JR.
HARRIS M. SCHURMEIER
ASCHER H. SHAPIRO
JOHN A. SIMPSON
ERNEST T. SMERDON
THOR L. SMITH
ELIAS SNITZER
S. DONALD STOOKEY
G. RUSSELL SUTHERLAND
JOHN J. TAYLOR
GARETH THOMAS
PAUL E. TORGERSEN
WALTER K. VICTOR
JOHN J. VITHAYATHIL
MILTON E. WADSWORTH
ALBERT D. WHEELON
ROBERT M. WHITE
MAX L. WILLIAMS JR.
ALEJANDRO ZAFFARONI
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