William Prager Medal
{{Short description|Mechanical engineering award}}
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".{{Cite web|url=http://ses.egr.uh.edu/honors-awards/ses-medalists|title=SES Medalists {{!}} Society of Engineering Science Inc.|website=ses.egr.uh.edu|access-date=2019-10-15|archive-date=2017-08-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170807235222/http://ses.egr.uh.edu/honors-awards/ses-medalists|url-status=dead}} 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,{{Cite web |title=Home Page of Graeme Milton |url=http://www.math.utah.edu/~milton/ |access-date=2024-01-30 |website=www.math.utah.edu}} Expertise: Composites, Metamaterials
- 2008 – Richard D. James, University of Minnesota,{{Cite web |title=James Bio |url=http://www.aem.umn.edu/people/faculty/bio/james.shtml |website=umn.edu}} Expertise: Quasicontinuum theory, Ferroelectric materials, Phase transformations
- 2009 – Alan Wineman, University of Michigan Ann Arbor,{{Cite web |title=Wineman Bio |url=https://me-web2.engin.umich.edu/pub/directory/bio?uniqname=lardan |website=engin.umich.edu}} Expertise: Viscoelasticity, Polymers
- 2010 – Raymond W. Ogden, University of Glasgow,{{Cite web |title=Ogden Bio |url=http://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/missing2.html |access-date=2024-01-30 |website=www.maths.gla.ac.uk}} Expertise: Nonlinear elasticity, Elastomers
- 2011 – Ted Belytschko, Northwestern University,{{Cite web |title=Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Graduate Program {{!}} Northwestern Engineering |url=https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/theoretical-applied-mechanics/ |access-date=2024-01-30 |website=www.mccormick.northwestern.edu}} Expertise: Computational mechanics, Finite element method
- 2012 – Zhigang Suo, Harvard University,{{Cite web |title=Directory {{!}} Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Directory {{!}} Harvard SEAS |url=https://seas.harvard.edu/about-us/directory?search=%22Zhigang%20Suo%22 |access-date=2024-01-30 |website=seas.harvard.edu}} Expertise: Fracture mechanics, Electroactive polymers
- 2013 – George J. Weng, Rutgers University,{{Cite web |last=Weng |first=George |date=1995 |title=Weng |url=https://ecs.rutgers.edu/~weng/ |website=ecs.rutgers.edu}} Expertise: Micromechanics, Composites, Nanocomposites
- 2014 – Robert M. McMeeking, University of California, Santa Barbara{{Cite web |last=Affairs |first=UCSB Office of Public |date=2014-01-22 |title=UCSB Engineering Professor Robert McMeeking Receives Prager Medal {{!}} UCSB |url=http://www.noozhawk.com/ucsb_engineering_professor_receives_prager_medal_20140122/ |access-date=2024-01-30 |website=Noozhawk |language=en-US}}
- 2015 – Huajian Gao, Brown University{{Cite web |title=Gao |url=http://www.engin.brown.edu/Faculty/gao/gaogroup/ |website=engin.brown.edu}}
- 2018 – Lallit Anand, MIT{{Cite web|url=http://ses.egr.uh.edu/member-spotlight/lallit-anand|title=Lallit Anand {{!}} Society of Engineering Science Inc.|website=ses.egr.uh.edu|access-date=2019-10-15}}
- 2019 – Horacio Espinosa, Northwestern University
- 2020 – K. Ravi-Chandar, The University of Texas at Austin
- 2021 – Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Graz University of Technology{{Cite web |title=Gerhard A. Holzapfel - Institute of Biomechanics, Graz University of Technology |url=https://www.biomech.tugraz.at/people/gerhard_holzapfel |access-date=2024-01-30 |website=www.biomech.tugraz.at}} and Norwegian University of Science and Technology,{{Cite web |title=Gerhard Holzapfel |url=https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/gerhard.holzapfel |website=ntnu.edu}} Expertise: Biomechanics, Constitutive equation, Mechanobiology
- 2022 – Vikram Deshpande, University of Cambridge{{Cite web |date=2013-11-12 |title=vsd20 |url=http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/vsd20 |access-date=2024-01-30 |website=Department of Engineering |language=en}} Expertise: Micro-architected solids, Plasticity, Mechanobiology
- 2023 – Norman Fleck,
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External links
- [Society of Engineering Science {{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 }}]