"Special Sessions: To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth in 1906 of Raymond D. Mindlin

Recounts the life and professional achievements of Raymond D. Mindlin (1906-1987). He was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1958), of the ASME (1962), and of the Accoustical Society of America (1963); member of the National Academy of Engineering (1966) and of the National Academy of Sciences (1973); and Honorary Member of the ASME (1969). He received the Research Prize (1958) and the von Karman Medal (1961) of the ASCE; the Timoshenko Medal (1964) and the ASME Medal (1976) from the ASME; the Trent-Crede A ward of the Acoustical Society of America (1971); the Frocht Award of the SESA (1974); the Great Teacher Award (1960) and the Egleston Medal (1971) from Columbia University; and an Honorary D.Sc. degree from Northwestern University (1975); also, a Naval Ordnance Development Award (1945) and the C.B. Sawyer Award of the Army Electronics Command (1967). Remarkably, prestigious as these are, all but one were sandwiched between his most noteworthy honors, both bestowed by the US Government: the Presidential Medal for Merit (1946), as noted earlier the highest civilian decoration of the second World War, and his ultimate accolade, the National Medal of Science, which he received in 1979.