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THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS This PDF is available at http://nap.edu/24773 SHARE Memorial Tributes: Volume 21 DETAILS 406 pages | 6 x 9 | HARDBACK ISBN 978-0-309-45928-0 | DOI 10.17226/24773 CONTRIBUTORS GET THIS BOOK National Academy of Engineering FIND RELATED TITLES Visit the National Academies Press at NAP.edu and login or register to get: – Access to free PDF downloads of thousands of scientific reports – 10% off the price of print titles – Email or social media notifications of new titles related to your interests – Special offers and discounts Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the National Academies Press. (Request Permission) Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 21 Memorial Tributes NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 21 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 21 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Memorial Tributes Volume 21 THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS WASHINGTON, DC 2017 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 21 International Standard Book Number-13: 978-0-309-45928-0 International Standard Book Number-10: 0-309-45928-1 Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.17226/24773 Additional copies of this publication are available from: The National Academies Press 500 Fifth Street NW, Keck 360 Washington, DC 20001 (800) 624-6242 or (202) 334-3313 www.nap.edu Copyright 2017 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 21 CONTENTS FOREWORD, xiii HAROLD M. AGNEW, 3 by Ricardo B. Schwarz HARL P. ALDRICH, JR., 9 by Harl P. Aldrich III WM. HOWARD ARNOLD, 15 by Howard Bruschi DAVID ATLAS, 23 by Robert J. Serafin and Richard E. Carbone HOWARD K. BIRNBAUM, 31 by Ian M. Robertson Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary JOHN A. BLUME, 37 by Anne Kiremidjian, James Gere, Helmut Krawinkler, and Haresh Shah Reprinted with the permission of the John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center, Stanford University v Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 21 vi CONTENTS STUART W. CHURCHILL, 43 by Warren D. Seider Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary WESLEY A. CLARK, 49 by Ivan E. Sutherland, Mary Allen Wilkes, Severo M. Ornstein, and Jerome R. Cox WILLIAM A. CLEVENGER, 57 by Rudolph Bonaparte THOMAS B. COOK, JR., 61 by John C. Crawford Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary J. BARRY COOKE, 69 by Nelson L. de S. Pinto ALAN COTTRELL, 75 by Peter B. Hirsch JOHN P. CRAVEN, 85 by Nicholas Johnson Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary CHARLES CRUSSARD, 91 by Jean Philibert Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary ROBERT G. DEAN, 95 by Robert A. Dalrymple THOMAS F. DONOHUE, 101 by Jan Schilling BRIAN L. EYRE, 105 by Colin Windsor and Ron Bullough Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 21 CONTENTS vii JAMES L. FLANAGAN, 109 by Bishnu S. Atal and Lawrence R. Rabiner ROBERT L. FLEISCHER, 119 by James D. Livingston and Elizabeth L. Fleischer RENATO FUCHS, 127 by Stephen W. Drew JOHN H. (JACK) GIBBONS, 133 by Sam Baldwin, Rosina Bierbaum, John Holdren, and Maxine Savitz ANDREW S. GROVE, 141 by Eugene S. Meieran GEORGE H. HEILMEIER, 149 by Nim Cheung and Jack Howell DAVID G. HOAG, 157 by Norman Sears Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary JOHN H. HORLOCK, 163 by Daniel Weinbren Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary RIK HUISKES, 169 by Van C. Mow and Bert van Rietbergen JAMES D. IDOL, JR., 173 by Floyd T. Neth Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary DONALD G. ISELIN, 179 by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Staff Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 21 viii CONTENTS J. DONOVAN JACOBS, 183 by William W. Edgerton Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary MUJID S. KAZIMI, 189 by Michael Corradini and Neil Todreas DORIS KUHLMANN-WILSDORF, 193 by Bhatka B. Rath and Edgar A. Starke, Jr. WALTER B. LABERGE, 197 by Malcolm Ross O’Neill WILLIAM J. LEMESSURIER, 205 by Richard A. Henige, Jr. Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary THOMAS M. LEPS, 211 by Nelson L. de S. Pinto JOHN L. LUMLEY, 217 by Sidney Leibovich DOUGLAS C. MACMILLAN, 223 by Allen Chin Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary CHARLES E. MASSONNET, 227 by Steven J. Fenves HUDSON MATLOCK, 233 by David K. Matlock and Richard L. Tucker WALTER G. MAY, 239 by Richard Alkire JAMES W. MAYER, 245 by Thomas E. Everhart Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 21 CONTENTS ix BRAMLETTE MCCLELLAND, 249 by Alan G.Young Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary EDWARD J. MCCLUSKEY, 255 by Jeffrey D. Ullman DOUGLAS C. MOORHOUSE, 259 by Rudolph Bonaparte JOHN W. MORRIS, 265 by Henry Hatch and Hans Van Winkle GEORGE E. MUELLER, 271 by Robert L. Crippen HAYDN H. MURRAY, 277 by Jessica Elzea Kogel Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary GERALD NADLER, 283 by Stan Settles F. ROBERT NAKA, 287 by Curt H. Davis Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary GERALD T. ORLOB, 293 by Daniel P. Loucks and William W-G. Yeh YIH-HSING PAO, 299 by Francis C. Moon, Kolumban Hutter, and Wolfgang Sachse EUGENE J. PELTIER, 305 by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Staff Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 21 x CONTENTS COURTLAND D. PERKINS, 311 by Irvin Glassman, Sau-Hai (Harvey) Lam, Robert G. Jahn, and Robert M. White EGOR P. POPOV, 317 by Robin K. McGuire WILLIAM N. POUNDSTONE, 325 by Stan Suboleski SIMON RAMO, 331 by Ronald D. Sugar NORMAN C. RASMUSSEN, 337 by Kent F. Hansen This tribute is slightly adapted from a memoir that originally appeared in Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences V. 86 (2005) and is reprinted with permission. EUGENE M. RASMUSSON, 349 Submitted by Margaret A. Lemone, Sumant Nigam, and John M. Wallace DENIS ROOKE, 357 by David Wallace Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary STEVEN B. SAMPLE, 365 by C. L. Max Nikias ROGER A. SCHMITZ, 371 by Joan F. Brennecke OLEG D. SHERBY, 375 by Jeffrey Wadsworth and William D. Nix JOEL S. SPIRA, 383 by Stephen Director and Joel Moses Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 21 CONTENTS xi JIN WU, 387 by Marshall P. Tulin APPENDIX, 391 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 21 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 21 FOREWORD THIS IS THE TWENTY-FIRST VOLUME in the Memorial Tributes series compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achieve- ments of its members and foreign members. These volumes are intended to stand as an enduring record of the many contribu- tions 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 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 par- allel organization of outstanding engineers. Members are elected by their peers on the basis of significant contributions to engineering theory, practice, and literature or for excep- tional accomplishments in the pioneering of new and develop- ing fields of technology. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 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 abili- ties, interests, and achievements of our members and foreign members—our colleagues and friends—whose special gifts we remember in these pages. Julia M. Phillips Home Secretary xiii Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 21 Memorial Tributes NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 21 Memorial Tributes NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 21 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 21 HAROLD M. AGNEW 1921–2013 Elected in 1976 “Pioneering contributions in weapons engineering and combining science and engineering into effective technology.” BY RICARDO B. SCHWARZ HAROLD MELVIN AGNEW, a scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project that gave the United States its first atomic bomb and who later became the third director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, died September 29, 2013, at his home in Solana Beach, California. He was 92. He was born March 28, 1921, in Denver, the only child of a stonecutter father and homemaker mother. He attended South Denver High School and the University of Denver, where he majored in chemistry. After the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II, Agnew and his girlfriend, Beverly Jackson, attempted to join the US Army Air Corps together. But Joyce Stearns, head of the Physics Department at the University of Denver, persuaded them to instead join him at the University of Chicago, where Stearns became deputy head of the Metallurgical Laboratory. In Chicago, Harold worked with Enrico Fermi and others on the construction of Chicago Pile-1, the first graphite- moderated nuclear reactor.
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