William Prager Medal Explained

The William Prager Medal is an award given annually by the Society of Engineering Science (SES) to an individual for "outstanding research contributions in either theoretical or experimental Solid Mechanics or both".^[1] This medal was established in 1983. The actual award is a medal with William Prager's likeness on one side and an honorarium of US$2000.

William Prager Medal recipients

• 1983  - Daniel C. Drucker
• 1986  - Rodney J. Clifton
• 1988  - James R. Rice
• 1989  - Richard M. Christensen
• 1991  - John W. Hutchinson
• 1994  - George J. Dvorak
• 1996  - Zdenek P. Bazant
• 1998  - John R. Willis
• 1999  - Kenneth L. Johnson
• 2000  - L. Ben Freund
• 2001  - Jan D. Achenbach
• 2002  - Siavouche Nemat-Nasser
• 2004  - Salvatore Torquato
• 2006  - Alan Needleman
• 2007  - Graeme Walter Milton, University of Utah,^[2] Expertise: Composites, Metamaterials
• 2008  - Richard D. James, University of Minnesota,^[3] Expertise: Quasicontinuum theory, Ferroelectric materials, Phase transformations
• 2009  - Alan Wineman, University of Michigan Ann Arbor,^[4] Expertise: Viscoelasticity, Polymers
• 2010  - Raymond W. Ogden, University of Glasgow,^[5] Expertise: Nonlinear elasticity, Elastomers
• 2011  - Ted Belytschko, Northwestern University,^[6] Expertise: Computational mechanics, Finite element method
• 2012  - Zhigang Suo, Harvard University,^[7] Expertise: Fracture mechanics, Electroactive polymers
• 2013  - George J. Weng, Rutgers University,^[8] Expertise: Micromechanics, Composites, Phase field models, Nanocomposites
• 2014  - Robert M. McMeeking, University of California, Santa Barbara^[9]
• 2015  - Huajian Gao, Brown University^[10]
• 2018  - Lallit Anand, MIT^[11]
• 2019  - Horacio Espinosa, Northwestern University
• 2020  - K. Ravi-Chandar, The University of Texas at Austin
• 2021  - Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Graz University of Technology^[12] and Norwegian University of Science and Technology,^[13] Expertise: Biomechanics, Constitutive equation, Mechanobiology
• 2022  - Vikram Deshpande, University of Cambridge^[14] Expertise: Micro-architected solids, Plasticity, Mechanobiology
• 2023  - Norman Fleck,

See also

• List of mechanical engineering awards
• Mechanician

External links

• [Society of Engineering Science <ref>{{Cite web |title=Engineering Science |url=http://ses.egr.uh.edu/ |website=ses.egr.uh.edu |access-date=2016-04-19 |archive-date=2017-08-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170807235911/http://ses.egr.uh.edu/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>]

Notes and References

1. Web site: SES Medalists Society of Engineering Science Inc.. ses.egr.uh.edu. 2019-10-15. 2017-08-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20170807235222/http://ses.egr.uh.edu/honors-awards/ses-medalists. dead.
2. Web site: Home Page of Graeme Milton . 2024-01-30 . www.math.utah.edu.
3. Web site: James Bio . umn.edu.
4. Web site: Wineman Bio . engin.umich.edu.
5. Web site: Ogden Bio . 2024-01-30 . www.maths.gla.ac.uk.
6. Web site: Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Graduate Program Northwestern Engineering . 2024-01-30 . www.mccormick.northwestern.edu.
7. Web site: Directory Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Directory Harvard SEAS . 2024-01-30 . seas.harvard.edu.
8. Web site: Weng . George . 1995 . Weng . ecs.rutgers.edu.
9. Web site: Affairs . UCSB Office of Public . 2014-01-22 . UCSB Engineering Professor Robert McMeeking Receives Prager Medal UCSB . 2024-01-30 . Noozhawk . en-US.
10. Web site: Gao . engin.brown.edu.
11. Web site: Lallit Anand Society of Engineering Science Inc.. ses.egr.uh.edu. 2019-10-15.
12. Web site: Gerhard A. Holzapfel - Institute of Biomechanics, Graz University of Technology . 2024-01-30 . www.biomech.tugraz.at.
13. Web site: Gerhard Holzapfel . ntnu.edu.
14. Web site: 2013-11-12 . vsd20 . 2024-01-30 . Department of Engineering . en.