George Winter
George Winter (born April 1, 1907 in Vienna , † November 3, 1982 in Ithaca (New York) ) was an American civil engineer.
Winter studied civil engineering in Vienna, Stuttgart and at the Technical University of Munich , where he received his diploma in 1930. Then he worked in Vienna on the first skyscraper built there. In 1931 he married and in 1932 went to the Soviet Union, where he worked as an engineer and taught at the Sverdlovsk Mining Institute. Due to the tense situation in the Soviet Union, he returned to Vienna in 1938, but immediately went on to the USA, where he studied steel construction at Cornell University and received his doctorate in 1940. He became a faculty member at Cornell University and published the first edition of the American Iron and Steel Institute's regulations on cold-formed steel construction in 1946.
He was also an expert on reinforced concrete and co-author of the standard work Design of Concrete Structures and worked on concrete standards in the USA.
In 1963 he became Class of 1912 Professor of Engineering . From 1948 to 1970 he was head of the structural engineering department . In 1975 he retired.
He was visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley , Liège and at Caltech .
He was a music lover (chairman of Friends of Music at Cornell) and interested in archeology (participating in a Smithsonian expedition to Egypt in 1966). He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering . He was an honorary member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Concrete Institute . In 1948 he received the Moiseef Award from the ASCE and in 1961 the Croes Medal. In 1982 he received the International Award of Merit in Structural Engineering . He was a Guggenheim Fellow and an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Munich.
Fonts
- with Arthur H. Nilson: Design of concrete structures, McGraw Hill, 11th edition 1991
- Chapter 4 in William McGuire: Steel Structures, Prentice-Hall 1968
Web links
- Obituary in the New York Times ,
- Anton Tedesco, George Winter , Memorial Tributes National Academy of Engineering
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Winter, George |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Winter, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd November 1982 |
| Place of death | Ithaca (New York) |