Leon M. Keer
Leon M. Keer (born September 13, 1934 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American engineering scientist .
Keer studied at Caltech with a bachelor's degree in 1956 and a master's degree in 1958, was with Hughes Aircraft from 1956 to 1959 and received his doctorate in mechanics from the University of Minnesota with Lawrence E. Goodman in 1962 ( The contact stress problem for elastically identical spheres ). 1963/64 he was a Preceptor at Columbia University . In 1964 he became Assistant Professor and 1970 Professor at Northwestern University , since 1994 as Walter P. Morphy Professor of Civil Engineering.
Among other things, he dealt with contact mechanics and friction. In 1972/73 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the University of Glasgow . He was also visiting professor in Newcastle (1962/63 as a NATO Fellow ), Cardiff, Cambridge, Calgary and at Tōhoku University .
In 2003 he received the Daniel C. Drucker Medal and in 2011 the Raymond D. Mindlin Medal . He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers , the American Society of Civil Engineers , the Acoustical Society of America , the National Academy of Engineering (1997) and the American Academy of Mechanics , of which he was President from 1988 to 1989. In 1986 he became a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science .
Fonts
- with HS Cheng: Solid contact and lubrication, ASME Special Publications 1980
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keer, Leon M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles , California |