The Timoshenko Medal is an award given annually by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) to an individual "in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics."

The Timoshenko Medal, widely regarded as the highest international award in the field of applied mechanics, was established in 1957 in honor of Stephen Timoshenko, an authority in the field. The Medal "commemorates his contributions as author and teacher."

The actual award is a bronze medal and honorarium. The first award was given in 1957 to Stephen Prokofyevich Timoshenko.

Nomination procedure

The Timoshenko Medal Committee consists of the five recent Timoshenko Medalists, the five members of the executive committee of the ASME International Applied Mechanics Division (AMD), and the five recent past chairs of the AMD. See the list of current members of the Committee Upon receiving recommendations from the international community of applied mechanics, the Committee nominates a single medalist every year. This nomination is subsequently approved by the ASME; no case has been reported that the ASME has ever overruled a nomination of the Timoshenko Medal Committee.

Acceptance speech

Every year, at the Applied Mechanics Dinner at the ASME winter annual meeting, the Timoshenko Medalist of the year delivers a lecture. Taken as a whole, these lectures provide a long perspective of the field of applied mechanics, as well as capsules of the lives of extraordinary individuals. A project has been initiated to post all Timoshenko Medal Lectures online.

Timoshenko Medal recipients

• 2026 Nancy Sottos, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA.

• 2025 Norman Fleck, University of Cambridge, UK.

• 2024 Pierre Suquet, French National Centre for Scientific Research, France.

• 2023 Guruswami Ravichandran, California Institute of Technology, USA.

• 2022 Michael A. Sutton, University of South Carolina, USA.

• 2021 Huajian Gao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

• 2020 Mary Cunningham Boyce, Columbia University, USA.

• 2019 J. N. Reddy, Texas A&M University, USA.

• 2018 Ares J. Rosakis, California Institute of Technology, USA.

• 2017 Viggo Tvergaard, Technical University of Denmark

• 2016 Raymond Ogden, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

• 2015 Michael Ortiz, California Institute of Technology, USA.

• 2014 Robert McMeeking, UC Santa Barbara, USA.

• 2013 Richard M. Christensen, Stanford University, USA.

• 2012 Subra Suresh, National Science Foundation (NSF)

• 2011 Alan Needleman, The University of North Texas (United States)

• 2010 Wolfgang Knauss, Caltech (United States)

• 2009 Zdenek P. Bazant, Northwestern University (United States)

• 2008 Sia Nemat-Nasser, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego (United States)

• 2007 Thomas J. R. Hughes, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin (United States)

• 2006 Kenneth L. Johnson, The University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

• 2005 Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley (United States)

• 2004 Morton E. Gurtin, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University (United States)

• 2003 L. Ben Freund Brown University (United States)

• 2002 John W. Hutchinson, Harvard University (United States)

• 2001 Ted Belytschko, Northwestern University

• 2000 Rodney J. Clifton

• 1999 Anatol Roshko, California Institute of Technology, USA.

• 1998 Olgierd C. Zienkiewicz, Imperial College London, Institute for Numerical Methods in Engineering at the University of Wales (United Kingdom)

• 1997 John R. Willis, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

• 1996 J. Tinsley Oden, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin (United States)

• 1995 Daniel D. Joseph, University of Minnesota (United States)

• 1994 James R. Rice, Harvard University (United States)

• 1993 John L. Lumley, Cornell University (United States)

• 1992 Jan D. Achenbach, Northwestern University (United States)

• 1991 Yuan-Cheng Fung, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego (United States)

• 1990 Stephen H. Crandall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States)

• 1989 Bernard Budiansky, Harvard University (United States)

• 1988 George K. Batchelor

• 1987 Ronald S. Rivlin

• 1986 George Rankine Irwin

• 1985 Eli Sternberg

• 1984 Joseph B. Keller

• 1983 Daniel C. Drucker

• 1982 John W. Miles

• 1981 John H. Argyris, Imperial College London (UK), University of Stuttgart (Germany)

• 1980 Paul M. Naghdi

• 1979 Jerald L. Ericksen

• 1978 George F. Carrier, Harvard University (United States)

• 1977 John D. Eshelby

• 1976 Erastus H. Lee

• 1975 Chia-Chiao Lin

• 1974 Albert E. Green

• 1973 Eric Reissner

• 1972 Jacob P. Den Hartog

• 1971 Howard W. Emmons, Harvard University (United States)

• 1970 James J. Stoker

• 1969 Jakob Ackeret

• 1968 Warner T. Koiter

• 1967 Hillel Poritsky

• 1966 William Prager

• 1965 Sydney Goldstein

• 1964 Raymond D. Mindlin, Columbia University (United States)

• 1963 Michael James Lighthill

• 1962 Maurice A. Biot

• 1961 James N. Goodier

• 1960 Cornelius B. Biezeno

  1. Richard Grammel

  1959 Sir Richard Southwell, University of Cambridge, Imperial College London (UK)

• 1958 Arpad L. Nadai

  1. Sir Geoffrey Taylor

  2. Theodore von Kármán, California Institute of Technology, USA

  1957 Stephen P. Timoshenko

See also

• List of engineering awards

• List of mechanical engineering awards

• List of awards named after people

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers

• Applied mechanics

• Applied Mechanics Division

• Mechanician

Footnotes

• Timoshenko Lectures: A project has started to make the Timoshenko Medalist Lectures available on-line

External links

• Information for nomination

• Honors & Awards - Timoshenko Medal, ASME official page, where forms for nomination can be obtained.

• Homepage of the ASME International Applied Mechanics Division