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Arthur Thomas Ippen
Pages 127-132

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From page 127...
... After the sudden death of his faculty advisor, Floyd Nagler, he transferred to the California Institute of Technology in December of 1933, where he was to remain the next five years as graduate student, research associate, and instructor. Under California Institute of Technology professors Theodor van Karman and Robert Knapp, Ippen conducted experimental and analytical investigations in the fields of sediment transport and 127
From page 128...
... on the latter topic represented the first American development of the sonic-wave analogy to free-surface flow. Continued research and writing on this subject earned him an award from the American Society of Civil Engineers, and his experimental technique soon found application in the wave tanks supplementing supersonic wind tunnels.
From page 129...
... He also held membership in the following organizations: Tau Beta Pi, Chi Epsilon, and Sigma Xi fraternities; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Academy of Environmental Engineering; American Geophysical Union; American Society for Engineering Education; American Society of Mechanical Engineers; American Water Resources Association; and the Boston Society of Civil Engineers (President, 1960-611. Included among the many honors that he received were doctorates from the University of Toulouse, France, the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and the University of Manchester, England; honorary membership in the Japan Society of Civil Engineers, the International Association for Hydraulic Research, and the Venezuelan Society of Hydraulic Engineers; the Vincent Bendix Award of the American Society for Engineering Education, the Prechtl Medal of the Technical University of Vienna, the Karl Emil Hilgard Prize of the ASCE, the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal of the Department of the Army, the Distinguished Alumnus Award of Caltech; a Ford Prolessorship at MIT; and finally the MIT Institute Professorship.
From page 130...
... In 1955 Ippen married Ruth Calvert of Pasadena, who was to share the remaining two decades of his very productive life. His second heart attack, in 1974, proved fatal.


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