Timoshenko Medal
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The Timoshenko Medal is an award given annually by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
(ASME) to an individual
"in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics
."
The Timoshenko Medal, widely regarded as the highest international award in the field of applied mechanics
, was established in 1957 in honor of Stephen Timoshenko
, world-renowned authority in the field. The Medal "commemorates his contributions as author and teacher."
The actual award is a bronze medal and honorarium.
The first award was given in 1957 to Stephen Prokofyevich Timoshenko.
International Applied Mechanics Division
(AMD), and the five recent past chairs of the AMD. See the list of current members of the Committee
Upon receiving recommendations from the international community of applied mechanics, the Committee nominates a single medalist every year. This nomination is subsequently approved by the ASME; no case has been reported that the ASME has ever overruled a nomination of the Timoshenko Medal Committee.
, as well as capsules of the lives of extraordinary individuals. A project has been initiated to post all Timoshenko Medal Lectures online.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers is a professional body, specifically an engineering society, focused on mechanical engineering....
(ASME) to an individual
"in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics
Applied mechanics
Applied mechanics is a branch of the physical sciences and the practical application of mechanics. Applied mechanics examines the response of bodies or systems of bodies to external forces...
."
The Timoshenko Medal, widely regarded as the highest international award in the field of applied mechanics
Applied mechanics
Applied mechanics is a branch of the physical sciences and the practical application of mechanics. Applied mechanics examines the response of bodies or systems of bodies to external forces...
, was established in 1957 in honor of Stephen Timoshenko
Stephen Timoshenko
Stanford University:* Bergman, E. O., * Kurzweil, A. C., * , * Huang, Y. S., * Wang, T. K., * Weber, H. S., * , * , * , -Publications:...
, world-renowned authority in the field. The Medal "commemorates his contributions as author and teacher."
The actual award is a bronze medal and honorarium.
The first award was given in 1957 to Stephen Prokofyevich Timoshenko.
Nomination procedure
The Timoshenko Medal Committee consists of the five recent Timoshenko Medalists, the five members of the executive committee of the ASMEAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers is a professional body, specifically an engineering society, focused on mechanical engineering....
International Applied Mechanics Division
Applied Mechanics Division
The Applied Mechanics Division is a division in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers . The AMD was founded in 1927, with Stephen Timoshenko being the first chair. The current AMD membership is over 5000, out of about 90,000 members of the ASME...
(AMD), and the five recent past chairs of the AMD. See the list of current members of the Committee
Upon receiving recommendations from the international community of applied mechanics, the Committee nominates a single medalist every year. This nomination is subsequently approved by the ASME; no case has been reported that the ASME has ever overruled a nomination of the Timoshenko Medal Committee.
Acceptance speech
Every year, at the Applied Mechanics Dinner at the ASME winter annual meeting, the Timoshenko Medalist of the year delivers a lecture. Taken as a whole, these lectures provide a long perspective of the field of applied mechanicsApplied mechanics
Applied mechanics is a branch of the physical sciences and the practical application of mechanics. Applied mechanics examines the response of bodies or systems of bodies to external forces...
, as well as capsules of the lives of extraordinary individuals. A project has been initiated to post all Timoshenko Medal Lectures online.
Timoshenko Medal recipients
- 2011 – Alan NeedlemanAlan NeedlemanAlan Needleman was born in 1944 in Philadelphia, PA and is currently the Florence Pirce Grant University Professor of Mechanics of Solids and Structures at Brown University in Providence, RI. Professor Needleman received his B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, a M.S. and Ph.D. from...
, The University of North Texas (USA) - 2010 – Wolfgang Knauss, Caltech (USA)
- 2009 – Zdenek P. BazantZdenek BažantZdeněk Pavel Bažant is McCormick School Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil Engineering and Materials Science in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University's Robert R...
, Northwestern UniversityNorthwestern UniversityNorthwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
(USA) - 2008 – Sia Nemat-Nasser, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San DiegoUniversity of California, San DiegoThe University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...
(USA) - 2007 – Thomas J. R. Hughes, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas at AustinUniversity of Texas at AustinThe University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
(USA) - 2006 – Kenneth L. JohnsonKenneth L. JohnsonKenneth Langstreth Johnson is a British engineer.He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1982 and won their Royal Medal in 2003 "In recognition of his outstanding work in the field of contact mechanics"He was also awarded the 2006 Timoshenko Medal....
, The University of Cambridge (United KingdomUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
) - 2005 – Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt, Department of Mathematics, University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
(USA) - 2004 – Morton E. GurtinMorton GurtinMorton E. Gurtin is a mechanical engineer who became a mathematician and de facto mathematical physicist. He is an emeritus professor of mathematical sciences at Carnegie-Mellon University, where for many years he held an endowed chair as the Alumni Professor of Mathematical Science...
, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
(USA) - 2003 – L. Ben Freund Brown UniversityBrown UniversityBrown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
(USA) - 2002 – John W. HutchinsonJohn W. HutchinsonJohn W. Hutchinson is a renowned scholar in the field of applied mechanics, and has made seminal contributions to the mechanics of structures and mechanics of materials. He is a recipient of the Timoshenko Medal...
, Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
(USA) - 2001 – 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...
, Northwestern UniversityNorthwestern UniversityNorthwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees.... - 2000 – Rodney J. Clifton
- 1999 – Anatol RoshkoAnatol RoshkoAnatol Roshko is the Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.Dr. Roshko is known for his contributions to gas dynamics. He along with H. W. Liepmann is the co-author of the widely used textbook "Elements of Gasdynamics"...
- 1998 – Olgierd C. ZienkiewiczOlgierd ZienkiewiczOlgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz, CBE, FREng, FRS was a British academic, mathematician, and civil engineer. He was born in Caterham, England. He was one of the early pioneers of the finite element method...
, Imperial College LondonImperial College LondonImperial College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, specialising in science, engineering, business and medicine...
, Institute for Numerical Methods in Engineering at the University of WalesUniversity of WalesThe University of Wales was a confederal university founded in 1893. It had accredited institutions throughout Wales, and formerly accredited courses in Britain and abroad, with over 100,000 students, but in October 2011, after a number of scandals, it withdrew all accreditation, and it was...
(United KingdomUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
) - 1997 – John R. Willis
- 1996 – J. 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...
, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas at AustinUniversity of Texas at AustinThe University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
(USA) - 1995 – Daniel D. JosephDaniel D. JosephDaniel Donald Joseph was an American mechanical engineer. He was the Regents Professor Emeritus and Russell J. Penrose Professor Emeritus of Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota...
- 1994 – James R. RiceJames R. RiceJames Robert Rice is a mechanician who has made fundamental contributions to various aspects of solid mechanics. Two of his early contributions are the concept of the J-integral and an explanation of how plastic deformations localize in a narrow band. In recent years, Rice has focused on the...
, Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
(USA) - 1993 – John L. LumleyJohn L. LumleyJohn Leask Lumley is a Professor Emeritus, Graduate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. He is widely known for his research in turbulence and is the coauthor of A First Course in Turbulence along with Hendrik Tennekes.-Academic career:Lumley received...
, Cornell UniversityCornell UniversityCornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
(USA) - 1992 – Jan D. AchenbachJan D. Achenbach-External links:...
, Northwestern UniversityNorthwestern UniversityNorthwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
(USA) - 1991 – Yuan-Cheng FungYuan-Cheng FungYuan-Cheng "Bert" Fung is a scientist regarded as a founding figure of bioengineering, tissue engineering, and the "Founder of Modern Biomechanics".-Biography:Fung was born in Jiangsu Province, China in 1919...
, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San DiegoUniversity of California, San DiegoThe University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...
(USA) - 1990 – 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. ...
, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
(USA) - 1989 – 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:...
, Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
(USA) - 1988 – George K. BatchelorGeorge BatchelorGeorge Keith Batchelor FRS was an Australian applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist. He was for many years the Professor of Applied Mathematics in the University of Cambridge, and was founding head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics...
- 1987 – Ronald S. Rivlin
- 1986 – George Rankine IrwinGeorge Rankine IrwinDr. George Rankin Irwin FRS was an American scientist in the field of fracture mechanics and strength of materials. He was internationally known for his study of fracture of materials.-Early life and education:...
- 1985 – Eli Sternberg
- 1984 – Joseph B. Keller
- 1983 – 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...
- 1982 – John W. MilesJohn W. MilesJohn Wilder Miles was a research professor emeritus of applied mechanics and geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego...
- 1981 – John H. Argyris, Imperial College LondonImperial College LondonImperial College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, specialising in science, engineering, business and medicine...
(UK), University of StuttgartUniversity of StuttgartThe University of Stuttgart is a university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized in 10 faculties....
(GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
) - 1980 – Paul M. Naghdi
- 1979 – Jerald L. EricksenJerald EricksenJerald LaVerne Ericksen is an American mathematician specializing in continuum mechanics.Jerald was born 20 December 1924 in Portland, Oregon. His father Adolf worked at a Portland creamery and became adept at judging the quality of butter. Later his father acquired a small creamery in Vancouver,...
- 1978 – George F. 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...
, Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
(USA) - 1977 – John D. EshelbyJohn D. EshelbyJohn Douglas Eshelby was a scientist in micromechanics. His work has shaped the fields of defect mechanics and micromechanics of inhomogeneous solids for fifty years and provided the basis for the quantitative analysis of the controlling mechanisms of plastic deformation and fracture.Eshelby was...
- 1976 – Erastus H. Lee
- 1975 – Chia-Chiao LinChia-Chiao LinChia-Chiao Lin is an American applied mathematician and Institute Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.-Biography:...
- 1974 – Albert E. Green
- 1973 – Eric Reissner
- 1972 – Jacob P. Den HartogJ. P. Den HartogJacob Pieter Den Hartog was professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He enrolled at TU Delft in 1919 and received his MSc degree in electrical engineering in 1924...
- 1971 – Howard W. Emmons, Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
(USA) - 1970 – James J. StokerJames J. StokerJames Johnston Stoker was an American applied mathematician and engineer. He was director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and is considered one of the founders of the institute, Courant and Friedrichs being the others. Stoker is known for his work in differential geometry and...
- 1969 – Jakob AckeretJakob AckeretJakob Ackeret was a Swiss aeronautical engineer. He is widely viewed as one of the foremost aeronautics experts of 20th century.- Birth and education :...
- 1968 – 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:...
- 1967 – Hillel Poritsky
- 1966 – 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...
- 1965 – Sydney GoldsteinSydney GoldsteinSydney Goldstein FRS was a British mathematician noted for his contribution to fluid dynamics. He is described as:...
- 1964 – 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:...
, Columbia UniversityColumbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
(USA) - 1963 – Michael James LighthillJames LighthillSir Michael James Lighthill, FRS was a British applied mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of aeroacoustics.-Biography:...
- 1962 – 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...
- 1961 – James N. GoodierJames N. GoodierJames Norman Goodier was professor of applied mechanics at Stanford University. He was co-author of two classic books in this field:...
- 1960 – Cornelius B. Biezeno
- Richard Grammel
- 1959 – Sir Richard SouthwellRichard V. SouthwellSir Richard Vynne Southwell MA, LLD, FRS was a British mathematician who specialized in applied mechanics as an engineering science academic.- Education and career :...
, University of CambridgeUniversity of CambridgeThe University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
, Imperial College LondonImperial College LondonImperial College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, specialising in science, engineering, business and medicine...
(UK) - 1958 – Arpad L. Nadai
- Sir Geoffrey 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...
- Theodore von KarmanTheodore von KarmanTheodore 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...
- Sir Geoffrey Taylor
- 1957 – Stephen P. TimoshenkoStephen TimoshenkoStanford University:* Bergman, E. O., * Kurzweil, A. C., * , * Huang, Y. S., * Wang, T. K., * Weber, H. S., * , * , * , -Publications:...
See also
- Applied Mechanics DivisionApplied Mechanics DivisionThe Applied Mechanics Division is a division in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers . The AMD was founded in 1927, with Stephen Timoshenko being the first chair. The current AMD membership is over 5000, out of about 90,000 members of the ASME...
- American Society of Mechanical EngineersAmerican Society of Mechanical EngineersThe American Society of Mechanical Engineers is a professional body, specifically an engineering society, focused on mechanical engineering....
- Applied mechanicsApplied mechanicsApplied mechanics is a branch of the physical sciences and the practical application of mechanics. Applied mechanics examines the response of bodies or systems of bodies to external forces...
- Mechanicians
External links
- Information for nomination
- Honors & Awards - Timoshenko Medal, ASMEAmerican Society of Mechanical EngineersThe American Society of Mechanical Engineers is a professional body, specifically an engineering society, focused on mechanical engineering....
official page, where forms for nomination can be obtained. - Homepage of the ASME International Applied Mechanics Division