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Professor Zhigang Suo to Receive the William Prager Medal from SES

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Professor Zhigang Suo of Harvard University will receive the the William Prager Medal from the Society of Engineering Science  (SES). The award is made in recognition of his outstanding research contributions in Solid Mechanics. Professor Suo will receive his award during the 49th Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science to be held at Georgia Institute of Technology from October 9-12, 2012.

Bo Li

My heartiest congratulations to Zhigang!

 

Bo Li
Ph.D.student
School of Mechanical Engineering
28 West Xianing Road
Xian Jiaotong University
Xian, Shaanxi, 710049
Email: blancolee [at] gmail.com boli.xjtu [at] stu.xjtu.edu.cn

Wed, 01/25/2012 - 13:20 Permalink
Zhigang Suo

Thank you so much for your kindness. I'm deeply touched that fellow mechanicians think well enough of me and take the effort to nominate me for the award. What a great list of Prager Medalists! I'm humbled.

A while back Kyung-Suk Kim, in his usual way of telling unusual facts, pointed out that Hutchinson's students are linked--through Prager--to Gauss.  I quote again the conversation with Alan Needleman who was with Kyung-Suk and me and was also a student of Hutchinson.

“We are not disappointed in our ancestors,” I said.

“But they might be disappointed in us,” said Alan.

Sat, 01/21/2012 - 13:51 Permalink