Background
Whitman, Robert Van Duyne was born on February 2, 1928 in Pittsburgh. Son of Edwin A. and Elsie (Van Duyne) Whitman.
Whitman, Robert Van Duyne was born on February 2, 1928 in Pittsburgh. Son of Edwin A. and Elsie (Van Duyne) Whitman.
Bachelor of Science, Swarthmore College, 1948; Doctor of Science (honorary), Swarthmore College, 1990; Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1949; Doctor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1951.
Faculty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, since 1953;
professor сivil engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963-1993;
head structural engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970-1974;
head soil mechanics division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970-1972;
professor emeritus, since 1993. Visiting scholar U. Cambridge, England, 1976-1977. Consultant to government and industry, since 1953.
Member of advisory committee for national earthquake hazard reduction program Federal Emergency Management Agency, 1991-1994, member of commission engineering and technical systems National Research Council, 1992-1997.
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Member Town Meeting Lexington, Massachusetts, 1962-1976, 85—, member permanent building committee, 1968-1975, member board appeals, 1979-1981, 84-2000. Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1954-1956. Member National Academy of Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (Research award 1962, Terzaghi Lecture 1981, Terzaghi award 1987, C. Martin Duke Lifeline Earthquake Engineering award 1992, James Croes medal 1994, H. Bolton Seed medal, 2006), Boston Society Civil Engineers (Structural Section prize 1963, Desmond Fitzgerald medal 1973, Ralph W. Horne Fund award 1977), International Society Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineers, Mexico Society Soil Mechanics (honorary, Nabor Carrillo lecturer 2000), Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (director 1978-1981, 84-88, vice president 1979-1981, president 1985-1987, Distinguished lecturer 1994, honorary since 1997, G. W. Housner medal, 2010).
Married Elizabeth Cushman, June 19, 1954. Children: Jill Martyne Whitman Marsee, Martha Allerton (deceased), Gweneth Giles Whitman Kaebnick.