Howard Kent Birnbaum

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Howard Kent Birnbaum (18 October 1932 Brooklyn, New York – 23 January 2005 Urbana, Illinois) was an American

plastic deformation
of materials.

He received his BS in 1953 and MS in 1955 from

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
. In 1958 he started teaching at the University of Chicago and joined University of Illinois in 1961.

Awards

  • Guggenheim Fellowship - 1967[1]
  • Robert Franklin Mehl Gold Medal - The Metallurgical Society, American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers - 1986[2]
  • Von Hippel Award - Materials Research Society - 2002[3]

Footnotes

  1. ^ "List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1967". The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 19 August 2012. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  2. ^ "Recipients of the Robert Franklin Mehl Award". The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  3. ^ "Howard K. Birnbaum - 2002 Von Hippel Award Recipient". Materials Research Society. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 April 2012.

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