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 Applied mechanics is the branch of science concerned with the motion of any substance that can be experienced or perceived by humans without the help of instruments. In short, when mechanics concepts surpass being theoretical and are applied and e ...

." The Timoshenko Medal, widely regarded as the highest international award in the field of

, was established in 1957 in honor of

Stephen Timoshenko Stepan Prokofyevich Timoshenko (russian: Степан Прокофьевич Тимошенко, p=sʲtʲɪˈpan prɐˈkofʲjɪvʲɪtɕ tʲɪmɐˈʂɛnkə; uk, Степан Прокопович Тимошенко, Stepan Prokopovych Tymoshenko; ...

, 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

ASME The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an American professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via "continuing ...

International

Applied Mechanics Division The Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) is a division in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). 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 mem ...

(AMD), and the five recent past chairs of the AMD. See the list of curren
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

, 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

*2022 – Michael A. Sutton, University of South Carolina, USA. *2021 –

Huajian Gao Huajian Gao (, born December 7, 1963) is a Chinese-American mechanician who is widely known for his contributions to the field of solid mechanics, particularly on the micro- and nanomechanics of thin films, hierarchically structured materials, ...

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, Singapore. *2020 – Mary Cunningham Boyce,

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

, USA. *2019 – J. N. Reddy,

Texas A&M University Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System in 1948. As of late 2021, T ...

, USA. *2018 –

Ares J. Rosakis Ares J. Rosakis, Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Caltech, California Institute of Technology. He was also the fifth Director of the GALCIT, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, known as (G ...

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, USA. *2017 –

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*2016 –

Raymond Ogden Raymond William Ogden (born 19 September 1943) is a British applied mathematician. He is the George Sinclair Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Glasgow. Education Ogden earned his B ...

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, Scotland, UK. *2015 – Michael Ortiz,

, USA. *2014 – Robert McMeeking,

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, USA. *2013 – Richard M. Christensen,

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, USA. *2012 – Subra Suresh, National Science Foundation (NSF) *2011 –

Alan Needleman Alan Needleman (born September 2, 1944) is a professor of materials science & engineering at Texas A&M University. Prior to 2009, he was Florence Pirce Grant University Professor of Mechanics of Solids and Structures at Brown University in Pro ...

The University of North Texas The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public research university in Denton, Texas. It was founded as a nonsectarian, coeducational, private teachers college in 1890 and was formally adopted by the state 11 years later."Denton Normal School," ...

(United States) *2010 –

Wolfgang Knauss Wolfgang Gustav Knauss (born December 12, 1933, in Mandel near Bad Kreuznach) is a German-born American engineer. He was Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Applied Mechanics at Caltech . Education Knauss grew up in Siegen durin ...

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(United States) *2009 – Zdenek P. Bazant,

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(United States) *2008 –

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, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,

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(United States) *2007 – Thomas J. R. Hughes, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences,

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(United States) *2006 – Kenneth L. Johnson,

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(United Kingdom) *2005 –

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, Department of Mathematics,

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(United States) *2004 – Morton E. Gurtin, Department of Mathematical Sciences,

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

(United States) *2003 – L. Ben Freund

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

(United States) *2002 –

John W. Hutchinson John W. Hutchinson (born April 10, 1939) is the Abbott and James Lawrence Research Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He works in the field of solid mechanics concerned with a broad ...

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(United States) *2001 –

Ted Belytschko Ted Bohdan Belytschko (January 13, 1943 – September 15, 2014) was an American mechanical engineer. He was Walter P. Murphy Professor and McCormick Professor of Computational Mechanics at Northwestern University. He worked in the field of comput ...

*2000 –

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*1999 –

Anatol Roshko __NOTOC__ Anatol Roshko (15 July 1923 – 23 January 2017) was a Canadian-born physicist and engineer. He was the Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. Roshko is know ...

*1998 – Olgierd C. Zienkiewicz,

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, Institute for Numerical Methods in Engineering at the

University of Wales The University of Wales (Welsh language, Welsh: ''Prifysgol Cymru'') is a confederal university based in Cardiff, Wales. Founded by royal charter in 1893 as a federal university with three constituent colleges – Aberystwyth, Bangor and Cardiff � ...

(United Kingdom) *1997 – John R. Willis *1996 – J. Tinsley Oden, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences,

(United States) *1995 – Daniel D. Joseph,

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(United States) *1994 – James R. Rice,

(United States) *1993 –

John L. Lumley John Leask Lumley (4 November 1930 in Detroit, Michigan – 30 May 2015 in Ithaca, New York) was an American fluid dynamicist and a professor at Cornell University. He is widely known for his research in turbulence and is the coauthor of ''A First ...

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(United States) *1992 – Jan D. Achenbach,

(United States) *1991 –

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, Department of Bioengineering,

(United States) *1990 –

Stephen H. Crandall Stephen Harry Crandall (December 2, 1920 – October 29, 2013) was a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. He earned his master's degree in engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey and his Ph.D. from MIT. He ...

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(United States) *1989 –

Bernard Budiansky Bernard Budiansky (8 March 1925 – 23 January 1999) was an American 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. ...

(United States) *1988 – George K. Batchelor *1987 – Ronald S. Rivlin *1986 –

George Rankine Irwin George Rankin Irwin (February 26, 1907 – October 9, 1998) 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 Eli Sternberg (13 November 1917 – 8 October 1988) was a researcher in solid mechanics and was considered to be the "nation's leading elastician" at the time of his death. He earned his doctorate in 1945 under Michael Sadowsky at the Illinois Ins ...

*1984 –

Joseph B. Keller Joseph Bishop Keller (July 31, 1923 – September 7, 2016) was an American mathematician who specialized in applied mathematics. He was best known for his work on the "geometrical theory of diffraction" (GTD). Early life and education Born i ...

*1983 –

Daniel C. Drucker Daniel Charles Drucker (June 3, 1918 – September 1, 2001) was American civil and mechanical engineer and academic, who served as president of the Society for Experimental Stress Analysis (now Society for Experimental Mechanics) in 1960–1961, ...

*1982 – John W. Miles *1981 – John H. Argyris,

(UK),

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(Germany) *1980 – Paul M. Naghdi *1979 – Jerald L. Ericksen *1978 – George F. Carrier,

(United States) *1977 – John D. Eshelby *1976 –

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*1975 –

Chia-Chiao Lin Chia-Chiao Lin (; 7 July 1916 – 13 January 2013) was a Chinese-born American applied mathematician and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lin made major contributions to the theory of hydrodynamic stabilit ...

*1974 –

Albert E. Green Albert Edward Green (11 November 1912, London – 12 August 1999) was a British applied mathematician and research scientist in theoretical and applied mechanics. Biography Green studied mathematics at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he attended ...

*1973 –

Eric Reissner Max Erich (Eric) Reissner (January 5, 1913 – November 1, 1996) was a German-American civil engineer and mathematician, and Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was recipient of the Theodore von Karman Medal ...

*1972 – Jacob P. Den Hartog *1971 – Howard W. Emmons,

(United States) *1970 –

James J. Stoker James Johnston Stoker (March 2, 1905 – October 19, 1992) 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, Richard C ...

*1969 –

Jakob Ackeret Jakob Ackeret, FRAeS (17 March 1898 – 27 March 1981) was a Swiss aeronautical engineer. He is widely viewed as one of the foremost aeronautics experts of the 20th century. Birth and education Jakob Ackeret was born in 1898 in Switzerland. He ...

*1968 –

Warner T. Koiter Warner Tjardus Koiter (Amsterdam, June 16, 1914 – Delft, September 2, 1997) 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 educa ...

*1967 –

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*1966 –

William Prager William Prager, (before 1940) Willy Prager, (May 23, 1903 in Karlsruhe – March 17, 1980 in Zurich) was a German-born US applied mathematician. In the field of mechanics he is well known for the Drucker–Prager yield criterion. Willy Prager st ...

*1965 –

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*1964 –

Raymond D. Mindlin Raymond David Mindlin (New York City, 17 September 1906 – 22 November 1987) was an American mechanical engineer, Professor of Applied Science at Columbia University, and recipient of the 1946 Presidential Medal for Merit and many other awards an ...

(United States) *1963 –

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*1962 – Maurice A. Biot *1961 – James N. Goodier *1960 – Cornelius B. Biezeno *: – Richard Grammel *1959 – Sir Richard Southwell,

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(UK) *1958 – Arpad L. Nadai *: – Sir Geoffrey Taylor *: –

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*1957 – Stephen P. Timoshenko

Footnotes

Timoshenko Lectures
A project has started to make the Timoshenko Medalist Lectures available on-line

External links

Information for nominationHonors & Awards - Timoshenko Medal

official page, where forms for nomination can be obtained.
Homepage of the ASME International Applied Mechanics Division
{{ASME Mechanical engineering awards Awards established in 1957

Nomination procedure

Acceptance speech

Timoshenko Medal recipients

See also

Footnotes

External links