Emilio Rosenblueth (engineer)
Emilio Rosenblueth (born April 8, 1926 in Mexico City ; † January 11, 1994 ) was a Mexican civil engineer who dealt with earthquake risks and earthquake-friendly construction. He was a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico .
His father Emilio Rosenblueth was born in Mexico, worked first in the family clothing store, then for a long time in the brewing industry and was a well-known painter; his mother Charlotte Deutsch came from Hungary. Rosenblueth studied civil engineering at the National University of Mexico and received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Nathan M. Newmark . The dissertation dealt with probabilistic analyzes for the earthquake behavior of buildings. In 1951 he was back in Mexico, where he founded an engineering office (Diseño Racional, DIRAC). With the office, he was involved in buildings for the 1968 Olympic Games . He was also a professor at the National University of Mexico, where he headed the Engineering Institute from 1959 to 1966 and was then coordinator for science. 1972 to 1981 he was on the board of directors of the university. From 1977 to 1982 he was Undersecretary of State for Education Planning of the Mexican Government.
In 1974 he received the Mexican National Prize for Science, 1973 the Premio Luis Elizondo, the Alfred M. Freudenthal Medal of the ASCE in 1976 , the Bernardo A. Houssay Prize in 1988, the Nathan M. Newmark Medal in 1987 and the Mexican National Engineer's Prize in 1992. In 1985 he received the Prince of Asturias Prize . From 1963 to 1965 he was President of the Academia de la Investigación Científica and in 1972 he became a member of the El Colegio Nacional. He has received multiple honorary doctorates (University of Waterloo, National University of Mexico, Carnegie Mellon University). In 1970 he was admitted to the National Academy of Sciences and in 1976 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
He had been married since 1954 and had three sons and a daughter. In his spare time he played classical music on the piano. He died of an aneurysm in his stomach.
Fonts
- with Nathan Newmark: Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering, Prentice-Hall 1971
- with Daniel Reséndiz, Enrique Mendoza: Diseño sísmico de presas de tierra y enrocamiento: estado del arte, Mexico, Comisión Federal de Electricidad, Centro Editorial de la Dirección General 1978
- Published in: Design of earthquake resistant structures, 1980
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| SURNAME | Rosenblueth, Emilio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico city |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1994 |