Housner received his bachelor's degree in
civil engineering from the
University of Michigan where he was influenced by
Stephen Timoshenko.[2] He earned his masters' (1934) and doctoral (1941) degrees from the
California Institute of Technology where he had been a professor of earthquake engineering from 1945 to 1981, and Professor Emeritus thereafter. In 2000, he received an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Southern California.[4]
Annually, in recognition of those who made extraordinary contributions to the earthquake safety research, practices and policies,
EERI awards The George W. Housner Medal of the
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.[5] On his death, Housner left a substantial gift to EERI "to advance the objectives of EERI". This gift has been used to train future earthquake engineering policy advocates and thought leaders through the EERI Housner Fellows Program, which has been active since 2011.[6]
Housner died of natural causes November 10, 2008 in Pasadena, California at the age of 97.[7]
Partial list of achievements
Chairman of the earthquake engineering research committee of the National Academy of Sciences[8]
^Housner, George W. (1997).
"George W. Housner"(PDF) (Interview). Connections: The EERI Oal History Series. Interviewed by Stanley Scott. Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. p. 1.
^The Geologic Hazards Advisory Committees for Program and Organization (1967). Earthquake and Geologic Hazards in California. Resources Agency of the State of California.
Housner, G. W. (2002), "Historical view of earthquake engineering", International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology, International Geophysics, vol. 81, pp. 13–18,
doi:
10.1016/S0074-6142(02)80205-4,
ISBN9780124406520
Housner received his bachelor's degree in
civil engineering from the
University of Michigan where he was influenced by
Stephen Timoshenko.[2] He earned his masters' (1934) and doctoral (1941) degrees from the
California Institute of Technology where he had been a professor of earthquake engineering from 1945 to 1981, and Professor Emeritus thereafter. In 2000, he received an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Southern California.[4]
Annually, in recognition of those who made extraordinary contributions to the earthquake safety research, practices and policies,
EERI awards The George W. Housner Medal of the
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.[5] On his death, Housner left a substantial gift to EERI "to advance the objectives of EERI". This gift has been used to train future earthquake engineering policy advocates and thought leaders through the EERI Housner Fellows Program, which has been active since 2011.[6]
Housner died of natural causes November 10, 2008 in Pasadena, California at the age of 97.[7]
Partial list of achievements
Chairman of the earthquake engineering research committee of the National Academy of Sciences[8]
^Housner, George W. (1997).
"George W. Housner"(PDF) (Interview). Connections: The EERI Oal History Series. Interviewed by Stanley Scott. Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. p. 1.
^The Geologic Hazards Advisory Committees for Program and Organization (1967). Earthquake and Geologic Hazards in California. Resources Agency of the State of California.
Housner, G. W. (2002), "Historical view of earthquake engineering", International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology, International Geophysics, vol. 81, pp. 13–18,
doi:
10.1016/S0074-6142(02)80205-4,
ISBN9780124406520