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". 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, Expertise: Composites, Metamaterials 2008 – Richard D. James, University of Minnesota, Expertise: Quasicontinuum theory, Ferroelectric materials, Phase transformations 2009 – Alan Wineman, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Expertise: Viscoelasticity, Polymers 2010 – Raymond W. Ogden, University of Glasgow, Expertise: Nonlinear elasticity, Elastomers 2011 – Ted Belytschko, Northwestern University, Expertise: Computational mechanics, Finite element method 2012 – Zhigang Suo, Harvard University, Expertise: Fracture mechanics, Electroactive polymers 2013 – George J. Weng, Rutgers University, Expertise: Micromechanics, Composites, Nanocomposites 2014 – Robert M. McMeeking, University of California, Santa Barbara 2015 – Huajian Gao, Brown University 2018 – Lallit Anand, MIT 2019 – Horacio Espinosa, Northwestern University 2020 – K. Ravi-Chandar, The University of Texas at Austin 2021 – Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Graz University of Technology and Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Expertise: Biomechanics, Constitutive equation, Mechanobiology 2022 – Vikram Deshpande, University of Cambridge Expertise: Micro-architected solids, Plasticity, Mechanobiology 2023 – Norman Fleck, Cambridge 2024 – Pierre Suquet, French Academy of Sciences 2025 – John Bassani, University of Pennsylvania 2026 – Samuel Forest, Mines Paris, French Academy of Sciences
See also List of mechanical engineering awards Mechanician
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External links [Society of Engineering Science ]