Louis Landweber

Louis Landweber (8 January 1912, New York City – 19 January 1998, Iowa City, Iowa), was a leading ship hydrodynamicist,[1] known for Landweber iteration.

Not to be confused with Lawrence Landweber.

Education and career

Landweber received in 1932 a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the City College of New York. After graduation, he became a physicist at the United States Experimental Model Basin at the Washington Navy Yard. He received a master's degree in physics from George Washington University. Starting in 1940, he led a research group for mine-sweeping and other war-related activities. He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland and was promoted to the head of the hydrodynamics division of the David Taylor Model Basin in Carderock, Maryland, before leaving for a professorship at the University of Iowa. There he was a research engineer at the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research as well as a professor of mechanics and hydraulics at the University of Iowa, where he remained until his retirement in 1982.[1]

... Landweber supervised more than 50 masters and doctoral students and served as author, co-author or editor of approximately 150 technical papers, reports, monographs and books in the fields of hydrodynamics and naval architecture.[1]

Upon his death he was survived by his wife, two sons, and four grandchildren.[1] His elder son is the mathematician Peter Landweber (born 1940) and his younger son is the photographer Victor Landweber (born 1943).[2][3][4]

Awards and honors
  • 1947 — U. S. Navy's Distinguished Meritorious Civilian Service Award
  • 1978 — David W. Taylor Lecturer at the David W. Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center
  • 1978 — Davidson Medal from the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
  • 1979 — special conference organized in his honor, the Third Engineering Mechanics Division Specialty Conference of the American Society of Civil Engineers
  • 1980 — election to the National Academy of Engineers[5]
  • 1993 — Sixth International Conference on Numerical Ship Hydrodynamics held in his honor in Iowa City

References
  1. "UI engineering professor Louis Landweber dies Jan. 19". University of Iowa News Services. 21 January 1998.
  2. Victor Landweber, Joseph Bellows Gallery
  3. Victor Landweber: A photographer responds to a larger world of art, landweber.com
  4. Julia Landweber, Montclair State University; Victor Landweber's daughter Julia is a history professor.
  5. "NAE Website - Dr. Louis Landweber". nae.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
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