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George F. Carrier
George F. Carrier
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An accomplished clarinet and ocarina player, he organized a swing band at Cornell; he also was houseman at a local pool hall. When George contracted tuberculosis and had to spend a year in a sanitarium, he studied books on advanced mathematics.
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He was a good experimenter, but his extraordinary mathematical-modeling and analysis capabilities set him apart. When Emmons proposed him for a faculty position but was overruled by the rather formal Professor Richard von Mises who thought George was "too much of a wise guy," he went off to Brown University, where he quickly set the academic world on fire.
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George was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1967 and to the National Academy of Engineering in 1974. He received the President's Medal of Science in 1990 with the following citation: "For his achievement and leadership in the mathematical modeling of significant problems of engineering science and geophysics and their solution by the application of innovative and powerful analytical techniques." He also received many other awards and honors, including the Dryden Medal of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Fluid Dynamics Prize of the American Physical Society, Timoshenko Medal and Silver Centennial Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, National Academy of Sciences Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis, Von Karman Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Von Karman Prize of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and Von Neumann Lectureship of the Mathematics Societies.
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He loved gardening and building things at his home in Wayland, playing catch with his sons, and dancing with his wife in the living room to a Benny Goodman record. His work habits included watching Perry Mason on TV.
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died on July 5, 2006. She and George were a devoted couple for nearly 60 years of married life.
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