Memorial Tributes
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Memorial Tributes
Volume 18
THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS
WASHINGTON, DC 2014
International Standard Book Number-13: 978-0-309-31291-2
International Standard Book Number-10: 0-309-31291-4
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CONTENTS
JOHN E. ANDERSON
by Ray Roberge and Sho Kobayashi
Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary
DAVID H. ARCHER
by Nadine Aubry
RICHARD E. BALZHISER
by Kurt Yeager
Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary
JEFFREY S. BECK
by José G. Santiesteban and Michael P. Ramage
MICHEL BOUDART
by Andrew Myers
printed with the permission of the
Stanford University School of Engineering
Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary
HARRY E. BOVAY JR.
by Ronald R. Kline
Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary
ROBERT A. CHARPIE
by David V. Ragone
Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary
BERNARD L. COHEN
by Gerald D. Holder
Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary
W. GENE CORLEY
by Mete Sozen
DALE R. CORSON
by Frank H.T. Rhodes and J. Robert Cooke
Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary
THOMAS M. COVER
by Robert M. Gray Thomas
CHARLES A. DESOER
by Sanjit K. Mitra
ANTHONY G. EVANS
by Robert M. McMeeking
SHELDON K. FRIEDLANDER
by Harold G. Monbouquette
Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary
E. MONTFORD FUCIK
by Alan Krause
Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary
TASUKU FUWA
by Merton Flemings
ALAN N. GENT
by Stephen Z.D. Cheng and Donald R. Paul
DONALD W. GENTRY
by Thomas J. O’Neil
NORMAN A. GJOSTEIN
by W. Dale Compton
JAMES N. GRAY
by David Dewitt, Ed Lazowska, and Mike Stonebraker
WILSON GREATBATCH
by Curt Holmes
Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary
WILLIAM A. GROSS
by Ernest S. Kuh, Frank E. Talke,
Tamara Williams, and Sharon P. Gross
ANDREW R. HILEMAN
by Lionel O. Barthold
JAN KACZMAREK
Adapted from a memorial written by Kazimierz E. Oczoś
Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary
CHARLES H. KAMAN
by Ken Rosen
STANLEY KAPLAN
by B. John Garrick
JAMES R. KATZER
by James Wei
HELMUT KRAWINKLER
by Gregory G. Deierlein
BENSON J. LAMP
by Carl W. Hall
JAMES F. LARDNER
by Ron Leonard
YAO TZU LI
by Jennifer Chu
Courtesy of MIT News
Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary
HANS W. LIEPMANN
by Hans Hornung and Anatol Roshko
JOHN LOWE III
by Ingo Fox
Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary
BRUCE T. LUNDIN
by Robert S. Arrighi
Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary
LUCIEN C. MALAVARD
by Pierre C. Perrier
WILLIAM McGUIRE
by Steven J. Fenves
HAROLD L. MICHAEL
by Kumares C. Sinha
HAROLD SOMERS MICKLEY
by Kenneth A. Smith
YASUO MORI
by Arthur E. Bergles
RICHARD B. NEAL
by Gregory Loew
Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary
DAVID OKRENT
by William E. Kastenberg, George E. Apostolakis,
and Donald G. Browne
CHARLES R. O’MELIA
by Menachem Elimelech
ROBERT J. PARKS
by John L. Mason
PAUL E. QUENEAU
by Elsa Garmire
IRVING S. REED
by Solomon W. Golomb
GEORGE A. ROBERTS
by Robert Mehrabian
WARREN M. ROHSENOW
by Arthur E. Bergles
CARL H. SAVIT
by Norman Neidell
Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary
A. RICHARD SEEBASS
by George H. Born
MICHAEL R. SFAT
by Michael Shuler
JOSEF SINGER
by Daniel Weihs
SIGURD A. SJOBERG
by Richard H. Truly
LAWRENCE H. SKROMME
by Cherlyn Skromme Granrose, Inga Skromme Hill,
and Karen Skromme Sequino
Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary
WILLIAM E. SPLINTER
by Ron Yoder
Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary
ARTHUR M. SQUIRES
Reprinted with the permission of
the Department of Chemical Engineering,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary
WILLEM P.C. STEMMER
by Lori Giver and Frances Arnold
JOHN AVERY TILLINGHAST
by James J. Markowsky
CHARLES E. TREANOR
by Paul Marrone
Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary
BERNARD A. VALLERGA
by Fred Finn and Carl Monismith
CHARLES M. VEST
by James J. Duderstadt and Paul E. Gray
IVAN M. VIEST
by John W. Fisher
HENNING E. VON GIERKE
by Kenneth M. Eldred and William W. Lang
JOSEPH E. WARREN
by R. Lyndon Arscott
MICHAEL YACHNIS
by Angelica Lower and Anthony Yachnis
Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary
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THIS IS THE EIGHTEENTH 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 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 members, our colleagues and friends, whose special gifts we remember in these pages.
Thomas F. Budinger
Home Secretary