Timoshenko Lectures

Listed in this post are the speeches given upon receiving the Timoshenko Medal.  Every November, at the Annual Applied Mechanics Dinner, the medalist of the year delivers a speech. Taken together, these speeches provide a long perspective of our field, as well as capsules of the lives of extraordinary individuals.

iMechanica is attempting to post the speeches of all medalists. If you have the text of a speech that is missing from the list, please send an email to Zhigang Suo (suo [at] seas.harvard.edu).

• 2018 – Ares Rosakis
• 2017 – Viggo Tvergaard
• 2016 – Ray Ogden
• 2015 – Michael Ortiz
• 2014 – Robert M. McMeeking
• 2013 – Richard M. Christensen
• 2012 – Subra Suresh  
• 2011 – Alan Needleman
• 2010 – Wolfgang Knauss
• 2009 – Zdeněk P. Bažant
• 2008 – Sia Nemat-Nasser
• 2007 – Thomas J.R. Hughes
• 2006 – Kenneth L. Johnson
• 2005 – Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt
• 2004 – Morton E. Gurtin
• 2003 – Lambert B. Freund
• 2002 – John W. Hutchinson
• 2001 – Ted Belytschko
• 2000 – Rodney J. Clifton
• 1999 – Anatol Roshko
• 1998 – Olgierd C. Zienkiewicz
• 1997 – John R. Willis
• 1996 – J. Tinsley Oden
• 1995 – Daniel D. Joseph
• 1994 – James R. Rice
• 1993 – John L. Lumley
• 1992 – Jan D. Achenbach
• 1991 – Yuan-Cheng B. Fung
• 1990 – Stephen H. Crandall
• 1989 – Bernard Budiansky
• 1988 – George K. Batchelor
• 1987 – Ronald S. Rivlin (unavailable)
• 1986 – George R. Irwin
• 1985 – Eli Sternberg
• 1984 – Joseph B. Keller (unavailable)
• 1983 – Daniel C. Drucker (unavailable)
• 1982 – John W. Miles (unavailable)
• 1981 – John H. Argyris (unavailable)
• 1980 – Paul M. Naghdi
• 1979 – Jerald L. Ericksen
• 1978 – George F. Carrier (unavailable)
• 1977 – John D. Eshelby (unavailable)
• 1976 – Erastus H. Lee (unavailable)
• 1975 – Chia-Chiao Lin (unavailable)
• 1974 – Albert E. Green
• 1973 – Eric Reissner (unavailable)
• 1972 – Jacob P. Den Hartog (unavailable)
• 1971 – Howard W. Emmons (unavailable)
• 1970 – James J. Stoker (unavailable)
• 1969 – Jakob Ackeret (unavailable)
• 1968 – Warner T. Koiter (unavailable)
• 1967 – Hillel Poritsky (unavailable)
• 1966 – William Prager (unavailable)
• 1965 – Sydney Goldstein (unavailable)
• 1964 – Raymond D. Mindlin (unavailable)
• 1963 – Michael James Lighthill (unavailable)
• 1962 – Maurice A. Biot
• 1961 – James N. Goodier (unavailable)
• 1960 – Cornelius B. Biezeno (unavailable)
• 1960 – Richard Grammel (unavailable)
• 1959 – Sir Richard Southwell (unavailable)
• 1958 – Theodore von Karman (unavailable)
• 1958 – Arpad L. Nadai (unavailable)
• 1958 – Sir Geoffrey Taylor (unavailable)
• 1957 – Stephen P. Timoshenko (unavailable)