This is the 18th quantity within the sequence Memorial Tributes compiled by way of the nationwide Academy of Engineering as a private remembrance of the lives and remarkable achievements of its individuals and international affiliates. those volumes are meant to face as an everlasting list of the various contributions of engineers and engineering to the advantage of humankind. ordinarily, the authors of the tributes are contemporaries or colleagues who had own wisdom of the pursuits and the engineering accomplishments of the deceased. via its contributors and international affiliates, the Academy includes out the tasks for which it used to be verified in 1964.

Under the constitution of the nationwide Academy of Sciences, the nationwide Academy of Engineering used to be shaped as a parallel association of remarkable engineers. participants are elected at the foundation of vital contributions to engineering thought and perform and to the literature of engineering or at the foundation of established strange accomplishments within the pioneering of recent and constructing fields of expertise. The nationwide Academies proportion a accountability to propose the government on concerns of technology and know-how. The services and credibility that the nationwide Academy of Engineering brings to that activity stem at once from the talents, pursuits, and achievements of our contributors and overseas affiliates, our colleagues and buddies, whose distinctive presents we bear in mind during this book.