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This is the thirteenth volume in the series of 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.
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Table of contents
- FrontMatter
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- M. ROBERT AARON
- MALCOLM J. ABZUG
- LAURENCE J. ADAMS
- OLIVER C. BOILEAU
- WILLIAM M. BROWN
- SIR ARTHUR CHARLES CLARKE
- STEVEN F. CLIFFORD
- C. ALLIN CORNELL
- JACOB HENRICK DOUMA
- PETER ELIAS
- LLOYD EDWIN ELKINS, S R .
- FREDERICK J. ELLERT
- BEN C. GERWICK, J R.
- GENE H. GOLUB
- CHARLES DAVID GRESKOVICH
- ABRAHAM HERTZBERG
- C. LESTER HOGAN
- JOHN K. HULM
- F. KENNETH IVERSON
- DAVID N. KENNEDY
- PHILIP E. LAMOREAUX, SR.
- WILLIAM S. LEE
- TUNG-YEN LIN
- ARTHUR SCOTT LODGE
- CHARLES SEDWICK MATTHEWS
- DWIGHT FOX METZLER
- HARRY O. MONSON
- JOSEPH B. MOORE
- JAMES HENRY MULLIGAN, J R.
- FRANK REGINALD NUNES NABARRO
- DANIEL A. OKUN
- RUSSELL RICHARD O’NEILL
- ANTONI K. OPPENHEIM
- JOHN R. PIERCE
- EBERHARDT RECHTIN
- CHARLES E. REED
- ROBERT CLARK REID
- KENNETH J. RICHARDS
- JOSEPH G. RICHARDSON
- HUNTER ROUSE
- MARIO G. SALVADORI
- WOLFGANG SCHMIDT
- ALEXANDER C. SCORDELIS
- RONALD FRASER SCOTT
- ROBERT C. SEAMANS, JR.
- HERMAN E. SHEETS
- JOHN B. SKILLING
- J. EDWARD SNYDER, J R.
- GEORGE F. SOWERS
- PETER STAUDHAMMER
- JAN VAN SCHILFGAARDE
- MACELWYN VAN VALKENBURG
- ROY F. WESTON
- FUMITAKE YOSHIDA
- APPENDIX
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