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DONALD E. HUDSON
DONALD E. HUDSON
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His work extended from experimental mechanical engineering, geophysical engineering, vibration engineering, rocketry, and underwater ordnance design during World War II to the development of instrumentation and data processing in earthquake engineering. Don was born on February 25, 1916, in Alma, Michigan.
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He retired from USC in 1985. Hudson's first exposure to earthquake studies, which would later guide him in his pioneering work in earthquake engineering, dated back to his undergraduate and graduate studies at Caltech where he and some of his classmates, who eventually also became leaders in earthquake studies (Walter Munk, Ben Howell, Egor Popov)
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Don Hudson was the first and for many years the only foreign member and until his death the only earthquake engineer from America to be elected a member of this highly selective academy. In 1978 during the world conference on earthquake engineering, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi held a tea party at her house and on behalf of her father thanked Don for his contributions and help with establishing the earthquake engineering program in India.
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for computation of the response spectra from recorded strong-motion accelerograms, but the process was time consuming and the results were not accurate. In retrospect, it is clear and logical that in the mid1960s Hudson decided to gather all important records of strong ground motion and to organize digitization, processing, and dissemination of digital strong-motion data, a conditio sine qua non for all subsequent developments in modern earthquake engineering.
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He had an impressive collection of classical music records and was always willing to share his rare books on Buddhism and Indian art. He loved chamber music and enjoyed travel and archeology in Europe, India, Japan, and South America.
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