Honorary doctorate from TU Wien received by Prof Zdenek Bazant
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Published: 2005-12-15 10:56:47
Zdenek P. Bazant, McCormick Institute Professor and W.P. Murphy Professor of Civil Engineering and Materials Science at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and a member of NAE and NAS, received an honorary doctorate (Dr.h.c.) from the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien). This is his sixth honorary doctorate, after those from the Czech Technical University in Prague; University of Colorado, Boulder; Karlsruhe University, Germany; Milan Polytechnic, Italy; and INSA Lyon, France. Previous Americans who received this honor from TU Wien were president Hoover, Arthur Casagrande and Richard Gallagher.
Furthermore, in 2005, ASCE awarded him the Theodore von Kármán Medal, which is given "in recognition of distinguished achievement in engineering mechanics". He was cited ``for extensive and substantive contributions to the understanding and solution of multitude of problems in engineering mechanics involving structural stability, behavior of concrete, and uncertainty and scale effects in materials and structures".