THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS This PDF is available at http://nap.edu/1966 SHARE Memorial Tributes: Volume 5 DETAILS 305 pages | 6 x 9 | HARDBACK ISBN 978-0-309-04689-3 | DOI 10.17226/1966 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 5 i Memorial Tributes National Academy of Engineering Copyright National Academy of Sciences. 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TA139.N34 1979 620'.0092'2 [B] 79-21053 ISBN 0-309-02889-2 (v. 1) ISBN 0-309-03482-5 (v. 2) ISBN 0-309-03939-8 (v. 3) ISBN 0-309-04349-2 (v. 4) ISBN 0-309-04689-0 (v. 5) Additional copies of this publication are available from: National Academy Press 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20418 S359 Printed in the United States of America Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 5 CONTENTS v Contents Foreword xi Herbert Allen 3 by Virginia D. Bedford, Marjorie Oakes, Ronald L. Geer, Marvin R. Jones, and Albert E. Woefel Luis W. Alvarez 7 by Richard L. Garwin Arsham Amirikian 15 by Eugene J. Peltier James Bliss Austin 19 by Harold W. Paxton Roy Bainer 23 Written by Robert A. Kepner and Henry E. Studer Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary William B. Bergen 27 by Rene H. Miller James Boyd 33 by Harvey A. Wagner and Walker L. Cisler Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 5 CONTENTS vi Roy W. Carlson 37 by Wallace L. Chadwick Leo Casagrande 41 by Anton Tedesko and Ralph B. Peck Carl Covalt Chambers 47 Written by S. Reid Warren, Jr. Submitted by the NAE Home Secre- tary Arthur A. Collins 51 by J. S. Kilby Thomas W. Dakin 57 by Lee A. Kilgore Richard W. Damon 61 Edited by Paul Damon, Robert Halstead, Timothy Huemiller, and Robert Price Duncan S. Davies 69 Written by Anthony Challis Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary Richard D. Delauer 75 by Ruben F. Mettler Jacob Pieter Den Hartog 81 by Robert Cannon and Stephen Crandall Joseph K. Dillard 87 by Edwin L. Harder Charles W. Elston 93 by Charles E. Holley Mars G. Fontana 99 by Robert A. Rapp Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 5 CONTENTS vii Michael L. Haider 105 by Walker L. Cisler Paul D. Haney 109 by Dwight F. Metzler Raymond J. Hodge 115 by Wilson V. Binger George Edward Holbrook 119 by Edward G. Jefferson J. Herbert Hollomon 123 by Donald N. Frey Raymond W. Ketchledge 129 by Amos E. Joel, Jr. Garbis Hvannes Keulegan 133 by John F. Kennedy James R. Killian, Jr. 139 by Paul E. Gray with the Assistance of Walter L. Milne August Uno Lamm 145 by William R. Gould Helmut E. Landsberg 153 Written by Ferdinand Baer Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary Lester Lees 159 by Frank E. Marble Benjamin G. Levich 165 by Andreas Acrivos Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 5 CONTENTS viii W. Bennett Lewis 171 by Floyd L. Culler Ray K. Linsley 175 by Robert L. Smith John A. Logan 181 by Abe Silverstein Bernard D. Loughlin 185 by Harold A. Wheeler Yi-Sheng Mao 191 by Steven J. Fenves Sachio Matoba 195 by Merton C. Flemings Stewart E. Miller 201 by C. Chapin Cutler and John R. Whinnery Richard Stetson Morse 205 by Courtland D. Perkins Gerald L. Pearson 211 by john G. Linvill Kendall Perkins 215 Written by Frederick H. Roever Submitted by the NAE Home Sec- retary Dean F. Peterson 221 by Robert L. Smith Samuel Cochran Phillips 225 by George E. Mueller Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 5 CONTENTS ix Jan A. Rajchman 229 by William C. Hittinger William Bradford Whitehill Rand 233 by Elmer P. Wheaton Philip C. Rutledge 237 by James P. Gould Warren F. Savage 243 by Merton C. Flemings with the Assistance of William D. Manly and Nathan E. Promisel Harry Bolton Seed 247 by James K. Mitchell Fred N. Severud 253 by Anton Tedesko William Pence Slichter 257 by David W. McCall Eugene C. Starr 263 by Thomas H. Lee and Ralph S. Gens Charles W. Stephens 267 by J. R. Burnett Eli Sternberg 271 by Bernard Budiansky and James K. Knowles Aldert Van Der Ziel 277 by William G. Shepherd, C. M. Van Vliet, and P. H. Handel Eugene W. Weber 281 by Robert L. Smith Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 5 CONTENTS x Abel Wolman 285 by Gilbert F. White and Daniel A. Okun Appendix 291 Acknowledgments For The Photographs 293 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 5 FOREWORD xi Foreword This is the fifth volume in the series of Memorial Tributes issued periodically by the National Academy of Engineering to honor the deceased members and foreign associates of the Academy and to recognize their achievements. It is intended that these volumes will stand as an enduring record of the many contributions of engineers and engineering to the benefit of humankind. In all cases, the authors of the tributes are contemporaries or colleagues who had personal knowledge of the interests and the engineering accomplishments of the deceased members and foreign associates. The National Academy of Engineering is a private organization established in 1964 to share in the responsibility given the National Academy of Sciences under its congressional charter signed by President Lincoln in 1863 to examine and report on questions of science and engineering at the request of the federal government. Individuals are elected to the National Academy of Engineering on the basis of significant contributions to engineering theory and practice and to the literature of engineering or demonstrated unusual accomplishments in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology. ALEXANDER H. FLAX HOME SECRETARY Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 5 FOREWORD xii Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 5 1 Memorial Tributes National Academy of Engineering Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 5 HERBERT ALLEN 2 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 5 HERBERT ALLEN 3 Herbert Allen 1907–1990 By Virginia D. Bedford, Marjorie E. Oakes, Ronald L. Geer, Marvin R. Jones, and Albert E. Woefel Herbert Allen, National Academy of Engineering member, died June 12, 1990, in Houston, Texas. During his eighty-three years, he demonstrated that opportunity awaits Americans with vision, with imagination, with a talent for motivating associates, and with energy for using these talents. Born in an east Texas sawmill camp to parents of limited means, Allen planned from early youth to educate himself, both formally and informally. Friends, teachers, and business and community peers provided him opportunities for exchange of thought and information all throughout life. Such supplements to his formal education, he was a mechanical engineering graduate of The William Marsh Rice Institute, gave him an unusually broad and rounded education. During his fifty-five plus years with Cameron Iron Works, Inc. of Houston, Allen held positions ranging from design engineer to president and chairman of the board of directors. At the same time, he served as a director of Big Three Industries, Inc., Texas Commerce Bank, Fenneco, and Spring Branch Bank. On retirement from Cameron, he formed and managed the Hallen Company. In other nonengineering activities, he also served as chairman of the board of governors of The William Marsh Rice University, trustee of Texas Tech University, trustee of Southwest Research Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 5 HERBERT ALLEN 4 Institute, director of The Houston Symphony Society, and director of The Houston Chamber of Commerce. At least 389 U.S. and foreign patents listing Allen as sole or joint inventor have been issued. At the time of his death, he had some fifty-six applications pending. A number of these patents were issued from applications against which patent examiners applied few or no prior art references, requiring in consequence little or no reduction in the scope or subject matter originally claimed. Such patents evidence substantial originality. In 1964 the American Society of Mechanical Engineers elected Allen a fellow of the Society, in 1972 a life fellow, and in 1973 elevated him to the grade of honorary member. The Texas Society of Professional Engineers in 1961 elected Allen ''Engineer of the Year.'' Rice University named him "R" Man of the Year in 1969, gave him its "Outstanding Engineer" award in 1975, and in 1978 presented him its "Distinguished Alumnus" award.